CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565–1593. Comparisons are odious.1 Lust's Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4. I'm armed with more than complete steel, The justice of my quarrel.2 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?3 Ibid. Hero and Leander. Come live with me, and be my love, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. By shallow rivers, to whose falls Ibid. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. Ibid. Infinite riches in a little room. The Jew of Malta. Ati. Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Act i. Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. Love me little, love me long.* 1 See Appendix, p. 638. 2 See Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 3 Quoted by Shakespeare in As You Like It. man, p. 15. Act ii. Act iv. Page 68. 4 See Appendix, p. 643. When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Faustus. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Ibid. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Ibid. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learnèd man. Ibid. RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. O, withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fallen. Book i. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Sc. 13. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.1 1564-1616. I would fain die a dry death. The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. What seest thou else Who having, into truth, by telling of it, To credit his own lie. Was dukedom large enough. Ibid. Act i. Sc. 2. Ibid. Ibid. My library Ibid. Ibid. And then take hands: The wild waves whist. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Ibid. 1 Text of Clark and Wright. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life. A very ancient and fish-like smell. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1. Act ii. Sc. 2. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Ibid. Fer. Here's my hand. Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't. Act iii. Sc. 1. As I foretold you, were all spirits, and And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, With foreheads villanous low. Deeper than did ever plummet sound, Act iv. Sc. 1. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. I have no other but a woman's reason; And I as rich in having such a jewel Act i. Sc. 2. Act i. Sc. 3. The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. Act ii. Sc. 4. He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. Act ii. Sc. 7. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, Except I be by Sylvia in the night, A man I am, crossed with adversity. How use doth breed a habit in a man! Come not within the measure of my wrath. I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. Act iv. Sc. 4.1 Act v. Sc. 4. Ibid. Act i. Sc. 1. All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. Ibid. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. Ibid. 1 Act iv. Sc. 2, Dyce. |