POPULARITYAn uncertain possession much dependent on pros- perity requires perpetual exertion to keep it up its value esti- RANK.Its origin its effects its dangerskingly statemits cares not exempt from mortal feelings and failings not to be envied SUSPICION.Its readiness of divination sometimes misleads.sus- picion a vice of old age suspicion easily excited in the jealous VIRTUE Should be active virtue the only true nobility virtue cou- rageous virtue's wide influence virtue confident virtue con- MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTSPeace" Blessed are the peace- SHAKSPERE. ADVERSITY. ITS USES. Duke Senior. (N ow, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? As you like it. Act ii. Scene 1. * It seems that after the superstition of the existence of a jewel in the toad's head had exploded, belief in a charm appertaining to a peculiar knot of bony structure, discovered there by some anatomists, still continued amongst the vulgar. B ITS UNIVERSALITY. Duke Senior. Thou seest, we are not all alone unhappy; This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play. Ibid. Act ii. Scene 7. ITS BENEFITS. K. Hen. V. There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. Besides, they are our outward consciences, King Henry V. Act iv. Scene 1. K. Hen. V. 'Tis good for men to love their present pains, Upon example: so the spirit is eas'd: And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt, Ibid. AS A TRIAL OF CHARACTER. Agamemnon. The ample proposition that hope makes, In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promised largeness: checks and disasters Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain |