A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. But earthlier happy' is the rose distill'd, Act i. Sc. I. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, The jaws of darkness do devour it up. For aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, Act i. Sc. I. The course of true love never did run smooth. Act i. Sc. 1. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Acti. Sc. I. Masters, spread yourselves. Act i. Sc. 2. This is Ercles' vein. Act i. Sc. 2. I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove: I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. Act i. Sc. 2. A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. Act i. Sc. 2. 1 'earthlier happy,' White, Cambridge, Dyce. 'earthly happier,' Singer, Staunton, Knight. Midsummer Night's Dream continued.] And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Act ii. Sc. 1.1 In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Act ii. Sc. 1.1 I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows. Act ii. Sc. 1.1 A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. Act iii. Sc. 1. Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art trans I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. Act iv. Sc. I. Act v. Sc. I. 1 Act ii. Sc. 1, White, Cambridge, Dyce, Staunton. Act ii. Sc. 2, Singer, Knight. [Midsummer Night's Dream continued. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth. The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Act v. Sc. I. That is the true beginning of our end. Act v. Sc. I. The best in this kind are but shadows. Act v. Sc. I. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Act v. Sc. I. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time. Act i. Sc. I. Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Act i. Sc. 1. You have too much respect upon the world: Act i. Sc. 1. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; Merchant of Venice continued.] Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Acti. Sc. 1. There are a sort of men, whose visages Act i. Sc. I. I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! Act i. Sc. I. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Act i. Sc. I. They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. Act i. Sc. 2. God made him, and therefore let him pass for Act i. Sc. 2. a man. Ships are but boards, sailors but men ; there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves. Act i. Sc. 3. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Even there where merchants most do congregate. Act i. Sc. 3. Act i. Sc. 3. Act i. Sc. 3. The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Act i. Sc. 3. In a bondman's key, With 'bated breath, and whisp'ring humbleness. Act i. Sc. 3. It is a wise father that knows his own child. Act ii. Sc. 2. And the vile squeaking of the wry-neck'd fife. Act ii. Sc. 5. All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. Act ii. Sc. 6.1 I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Act iii. Sc. I. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, Thus when I shun Scylla, your into Charybdis, your mother.2 1 Act ii. Sc. 5, Dyce. Act iii. Sc. 2. father, I fall Act iii. Sc. 5. 2 Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim. Philippe Gualtier (about the 13th century), Alexandreis, Book v. line 301. |