To land his legions all as soon as I : KING JOHN, A. 2, s. 1. MEETING OF THE AFFECTIONS. BUT, O, the noble combat, that, 'twixt joy and sorrow, was fought in Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband; another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: She lifted the princess from the earth; and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin her to her heart, that she might no more be in danger of losing. One of the prettiest touches of all, and that which angled for mine eyes (caught the water, though not the fish,) was, when at the relation of the queen's death, with the manner how she came to it, (bravely confessed, and lamented by the king,) how attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one side of dolour to another, she did, with an alas! I would fain say, bleed tears; for, I am sure, my heart wept blood. Who was most marble there, changed colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world could have seen it, the woe had been universal. WINTER'S TALE, A. 5, s. 2. MEETING OF THE SYMPATHIES. PORTIA. I pray you, tarry; pause a day or two, Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong, you But lest you should not understand me well, I speak too long; but 'tis to delay the time; To stay you from election. BASSANIO. Let me choose; For, as I am, I live upon the rack. POR. Upon the rack, Bassanio? then confess What treason there is mingled with your love. BASS. None, but that ugly treason of mistrust, Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love: There may as well be amity and life 'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love. POR. Ay, but I fear, you speak upon the rack, Where men enforced do speak anything. BASS. Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth. POR. Well then, confess and live. BASS. Confess and love, Had been the very sum of my confession: Doth teach me answers for deliverance! If you do love me, you will find me out.- Let musick sound, while he doth make his choice; May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream, And wat'ry death-bed for him: He may win; That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear, And summon him to marriage. With no less presence, but with much more love, Than young Alcides, when he did redeem MERCHANT OF VENICE, A. 3, s. 2. MEN IN HIGH POSITION ARE OBLIGED TO ASSUME MANNERS OFTEN FOREIGN TO THEIR DISPOSITION. NORFOLK. All this was order'd by the good discretion Of the right reverend cardinal of York. BUCKINGHAM. The devil speed him! no man's From his ambitious finger. What had he Take up the rays o'the beneficial sun, And keep it from the earth. Surely, sir, NOR. There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: For, being not propp'd by ancestry, (whose grace Chalks successors their way,) nor call'd upon For high feats done to the crown; neither allied Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note, ABERCORN. I cannot tell What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that; but I can see his pride Peep through each part of him: Whence has he that? If not from hell, the devil is a niggard; K. HENRY VIII., A. 1, s. 1. MENTAL ANGUISH. T'is now the very witching time of night; When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: Now could I drink hot blood, And do such business as the bitter day Would quake to look on. Soft; now to my mother. O, heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever I will speak daggers to her, but use none; HAMLET, A. 3, s. 2. |