the queen's death, with the manner how she came to it, (bravely confessed, and lamented by the king.) how attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one side of dolour to another, she did, with an alas! I would fain say, bleed tears; for, I am sure, my heart wept blood. Who was most marble there, changed colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world could have seen it, the woe had been universal. WINTER'S TALE, A. 5, s. 2. MEETING OF THE SYMPATHIES. PORTIA. I pray you, tarry; pause a day or two, Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong, But lest you should not understand me well, How to choose right, but then I am forsworn ; I speak too long; but 'tis to delay the time; To stay you from election. BASSANIO. Let me choose; For, as I am, I live upon the rack. POR. Upon the rack, Bassanio? then confess What treason there is mingled with your love. BASS. None, but that ugly treason of mistrust, Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love: There may as well be amity and life 'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love. POR. Ay, but I fear, you speak upon the rack, Where men enforced do speak anything. BASS. Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth. POR. Well then, confess and live. BASS. Confess and love, Had been the very sum of my confession: If you do love me, you will find me out.— Let musick sound, while he doth make his choice; May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream, And wat'ry death-bed for him: He may win; That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear, And summon him to marriage. With no less presence, but with much more love, Than young Alcides, when he did redeem MERCHANT OF VENICE, A. 3, s. 2. MEN IN HIGH POSITION ARE OBLIGED TO ASSUME MANNERS OFTEN FOREIGN TO THEIR DIS- NORFOLK. All this was order'd by the good Of the right reverend cardinal of York. BUCKINGHAM. The devil speed him! no man's pie is free'd From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce vanities? That such a keech, can with his I wonder, very bulk Take up the rays o'the beneficial sun, And keep it from the earth. Surely, sir, NOR. There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: For, being not propp'd by ancestry, (whose grace Chalks successors their way,) nor call'd upon For high feats done to the crown; neither allied Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note, ABERCORN. I cannot tell What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that; but I can see his pride Peep through each part of him: Whence has he that? If not from hell, the devil is a niggard; Or has given all before, and he begins K. HENRY VIII., A. 1, s. 1. MENTAL ANGUISH. T'is now the very witching time of night; When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: Now could I drink hot blood, And do such business as the bitter day Would quake to look on. Soft; now to my mother. O, heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever I will speak daggers to her, but use none; HAMLET, A. 3, s. 2. MENTAL AGONY. HAD it pleas'd heaven Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes; To point his slow unmoving finger at,- Yet could I bear that too; well, very well: To knot and gender in!-turn thy complexion there! Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin; Ay, there, look grim as hell! OTHELLO, A. 4, s. 2. MERCY NOBILITY'S TRUE BADGE. STAY, Roman brethren;-Gracious conqueror, Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed, A mother's tears in passion for her son: And, if thy sons were ever dear to thee, O, think my son to be as dear to me. Sufficeth not, that we are brought to Rome, To beautify thy triumphs, and return, Captive to thee, and to thy Roman yoke; But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets, For valiant doings in their country's cause? |