Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!— K. RICHARD III., A. 5, s. 3. DESTINY WITH AND WITHOUT K. RICHARD. All unavoided is the doom of destiny. Q. ELIZABETH. True, when avoided grace makes destiny: My babes were destin'd to a fairer death, If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life. K. RICHARD III., A. 4, s. 4. DEVELOPMENT OF THE REFLECTIVE POWER. CANTERBURY. The king is full of grace and fair regard. ELY. And a true lover of the holy church. CANT. The courses of his youth promis'd it not. The breath no sooner left his father's body, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him; To envelop and contain celestial spirits. H Never was such a sudden scholar made: With such a heady current, scouring faults ; So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, ELY. We are blessed in the change. CANT. Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire, the king were made a prelate: The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, Any retirement, any sequestration ELY. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, And so the prince obscur'd his contemplation Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. CANT. It must be so; for miracles are ceas'd; And therefore we must needs admit the means, How things are perfected. K. HENRY V., A. 1, s. 1. DINERS OUT. I WILL praise any man that will praise me. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A. 2, s. 6. DISCRETION THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR. FALSTAFF. [Rising slowly.] Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder me, and eat me too, to-morrow. 'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit : To die is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valour is-discretion; in the which better part, I have saved my life. 'Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: How, if he should counterfeit too, and rise? I am afraid, he would prove the better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him sure: yea, and I'll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise, as well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me. K. HENRY IV., PART I., A. 5, s. 4. DISEASE OF THE TONGUE. O DEAR discretion, how his words are suited! MERCHANT OF VENICE, A. 3, s. 5. DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD'S LAWS SOME say he's mad; others, that lesser hate him, When all that is within him does condemn Well, march we on, To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds. MACBETH, A. 5, s. 2. DISTRESSFUL CHANGES OF HUMANITY. Not know my voice! O, time's extremity! COMEDY OF Errors, a. 5, s. 1. DISTRIBUTION OF PROVIDENCE. HERE, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched, And each man have enough. KING LEAR, A. 4, s. 1. DIVINE GRACE THE SOUL OF THE hand that made you fair, hath made you good: the goodness, that is cheap in beauty, |