1289-1292.

O thoughts of men accurst,

Past, and to come seems best; things present, worst.

(See 2 Hen. IV. i. 3, and Tr. Cr. iii. 3, 173-180.)

Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,

Anticipating time with starting courage. (Tr. Cr. iv. 5.)

1298. What our enemies wish for us, &c. (All's Well, iv. 3, 62.) 1308. Excuses make the fault worse. (Lucrece, 1. 267, 1613, 1614.) 1309. What needeth then apologies be made

To set forth that which is so singular. (b. 1. 31, 32.) 1825. That on account of which labours are incurred, good.

1333.

(Ham. iv. 4, 43–56.)
Were I crowned the most imperial monarch,
Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
More than was ever man's, I would not prize them
Without her love. (W. T. iv. 3.)

Life, honour, name, and all that made me happy.

Eminence, wealth, sovereignty,

(Hen. VIII. ii. 1, 116.)

Which, sooth to say, are blessings. (Ib. ii. 3.)

1340. Observe his inclination. (Ham. ii. 1, 71.)

(We) here give up ourselves in the full bent..
To be commanded. (b. ii. 2, 30.)

Is it your own inclining? (Ib. 1. 78; see M. Ado, ii. 3, 225.)

1341. If thou be'st capable of things serious.

(Autolycus contemptuously to the shepherd.-W. T. iv. 3.)

1370. Say that. (Edward III. ii. 1, 217.)

1378. The rather for I think I know your business. (All's W. iii, 5.)

1882. Come we to full points here, and are etceteras nothing?

(2 Hen. IV. ii, 4.)

The magnanimous and most illustrious six or seven times hon-
oured general of the Grecian army, Agamemnon, etcetera.
(Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

With this. (Ven. Ad. 1. 25, 1121.)

1397. Before I know myself, seek not to know me. (Ven. Ad. 1. 525.)

1399. Much may be seen in that. (Oth. iii. 3, 253.)

1422. Remuant, removing.

This romage in the land. (Ham. i. 1, 107.)

1423.

Therefore be merry, Cassio,

For thy solicitor will rather die

Than give thy cause away. (Oth. iii. 1.)

For when the heart's attorney once is mute,

The client breaks, as desperate in his suit. (Ven. Ad. 1. 335.)
I'll undertake to be ... her advocate to the loudest.

Why should calamity be full of words?
Windy attorneys to their client woes.

(W. T. ii. 2.)

(R. III. iv. 4; Edward III. ii. 1, 385.)

1425. A disease that hath certain traces.

I do spy some marks of love in her. (M. Ado, ii. 3.)

Signs of love. (L. L. L. i. 2, 1, 57–64.)

1438. Foul sin gathering head shall break into corruption. (R. II. v. 1.)

1441. Every glory that inclines to sin

The same is treble by the opposite.

These contraries such unity do hold.

(Edward III. ii. 2.)

(Lucrece, 1. 1558.)

1443. O hard-believing love! how strange it seems Not to believe, and yet too credulous !

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes!

Despair and hope make thee ridiculous. (Ven. Ad. 985.)

A settled valour, not tainted with extremes. (Tw. N. Kins. iv. 2.)

1448. For marks descried in man's nativity

Are nature's faults; not their own infamy. (Lucrece.) 1451. The nature of everything is best considered in the seeds. (Compare Win. T. i. 2, 153–160.)

1458. My love is as a fever, longing still

For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain, sickly appetite to please.

My reason, the physician to my love,

Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,

Hath left me. (Sonn. cxlvii.; ib. cxviii. and cxl. l. 7, 8.)

I have a woman's longing,

An appetite that I am sick withal.

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3; Ham. iv. 1, 20-23.)

I must no more believe thee in this point
Than I will trust a sickly appetite
That loathes even as it longs. (Tw. N. K. i. 3.)

1459. Good in things evil. (Lucrece, 1. 528–532.)

1468. Thou usurer, that putt'st forth all to use,

1472.

1474.

And sue a friend, came debtor for my sake;

So him I lose through my unkind abuse. (Sonn. cxxxiv.)

Cam. They that went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a man.

Arch. Would they else be content to die?

Cam. Yes, if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.

(W. T. i. 1; ib. iii. 2, 90-110; Per. i. 1, 48; Rom. Jul. v. 1,68.) Good Camillo,

Your chang'd complexions are to me a mirror

Which shows me mine chang'd to. (W. T. i. 2.)

1478. Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want Of what I was i' the morning. (Ant. Cl. ii. 2.)

1481. Take people as they are.

(Mer. Ven. iii. 2, 149-171; Hen. V. v. 2, 151-170; Ham. i. 2, 87.)

1496, 1590. Red face. (1 Hen. IV. ii. 4, 325–327.)

1497. The mind losing its balance from joys following too thick upon one another. (W. T. v. 2, 43–58.)

Compare of woes. One woe doth tread upon another's heel.

(Ham. iv. 7; ib. iv. 5, 74-95.)

Glo. The king is mad; how stiff is my vile sense,

That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling

Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract;

So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,

And woes by strong imaginations lose

The knowledge of themselves. (Lear, iv. 6, and similar passages.)

1504. Youth, the more it is wasted, the faster it wears.

1507. That may be, must be. What must be, shall be.

(1 Hen. IV. ii. 4.)

(Rom. Jul. iv. 1.)

(Ven. Adon. 1. 1154.)

1508, 1466. (Love) should not fear where it should most mistrust.

1512. (We'll) take upon us the mystery of things

As if we were God's spies. (Lear, v. 3.)
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth,
As I can of those mysteries which heaven

Will not have earth to know. (Cor. iv. 2.)

The gods will have perform'd their secret purposes. (W. T. v. 1.)

1516. Woman ill or well, as she pleases. (Ven. Ad. 1. 463–480.)

1521. (Love) shall be cause of war and dire events,

And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire;

Subject and servile to all discontents,

As dry combustious matter is to fire. (Ven. Ad. 1. 1159.)

1532. Love is wise in folly, foolish-witty. (Ven. Ad. 1. 838.)

O hard-believing love . . .

Despair and hope make thee ridiculous.

(Ib. 1. 988; M. Ado, ii. 3, 7–21.)

1588. Whom thou would'st observe, blow off thy cap. (Tim. Ath. iv. 3.) 1537. Have honey in thy mouth. Thy sugared tongue. (Lucrece, 1. 893.) 1561. Love delights in youth. (2 Hen. IV. ii. 4, 272–277.)

1573. Il n'est pas si fol qu'il en porte l'habit.

He with the Romans was esteemed so,

As silly-jeering idiots are with kings,

For sportive words, and uttering foolish things;

But now he throws that shallow habit by,

Wherein deep policy did him disguise. (Lucrece, 1. 1807-1820.)

APPENDIX L.

A COMPARATIVE TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF 'PROMUS' ENTRIES ALLUDED TO IN THE PLAYS.1

These lists do not include the extra quotations in Appendix K, nor repetitions of expressions or ideas when these occur very close together. Much difficulty has been found in classifying the entries, which often seem to have been used in several different ways-similes drawn from proverbs, turns of expression from classical quotations, &c. The second and third columns include only sentences in English. A far larger number of similes, &c., will be found amongst the entries from Erasmus, which are reckoned amongst Latin quotations in column 5.

In the early plays, the turns of expression are few, but often repeated.

The Comedy of Errors and 2 Henry VI. have no morning and evening salutations, nor any allusions to entries on folios 110 and 111. Hereabouts begin the improvements in 'continuances' noticed at No. 1379.

In this and the following plays there is much more variety in the entries alluded to and far less repetition.