A Wel

come to Fate

Freedom

Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,
I hear him as he flatter'd.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act I, Sc. 2.

THAT'S gone and what's past help

WHA

W should be past grief.

Winter's Tale. Act III, Sc. 2.

O not please sharp fate

To grace it with your sorrows; bid

that welcome

Which comes to punish us, and we punish it,
Seeming to bear it lightly.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV, Sc. 14.

7ELL, I know not

WE

What counts harsh Fortune casts upon
my face;

But in my bosom shall she never come,
To make my heart her vassal.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act II, Sc. 6.

PART II

THE POET'S MIND

THE OUTSET

MARRIAGE

HE ancient saying is no heresy,
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
The Merchant of Venice. Act II, Sc. 9.

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
But hath his bound; in earth, in sea, in sky,
The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls
Are their males' subjects, and at their controls;
Man, more divine, the master of all these,
Lord of the wide world and wild watery seas,
Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls,
Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,
Are masters to their females, and their lords:
Then let your will attend on their accords.

Comedy of Errors. Act II, Sc. 1.

HangingWiving

Hus

band to Wife

A Sermon

THY

HY husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,

Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for
thee,

And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in
cold,

Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and
safe;

And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince
Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen,

sour,

And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel,
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am asham'd that women are so simple
To offer war when they should kneel for peace:
Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
The Taming of the Shrew. Act V, Sc. 2.