JUNE SIXTEENTH In the book of Numbers it is writ, King Henry V, 1. ii. JUNE SEVENTEENTH If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, JUNE EIGHTEENTH Then God forgive the sins of all those souls, Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet JUNE NINETEENTH King John, II. i. The moon shines bright. In such a night as this, Merchant of Venice, v. i. All of us have cause To wail the dimming of our shining star; King Richard III, 11. ii. JUNE TWENTY-FIRST Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, light Do summon us to part and bid good night. JUNE TWENTY-SECOND More water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. JUNE TWENTY-THIRD Titus Andronicus, II. i. Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offence by weight The word of Heaven: on whom it will, it will; On whom it will not, so; yet still 't is just. Measure for Measure, 1. ii. JUNE TWENTY-FOURTH Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be fear'd. JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH King Henry VIII, 1. ii. It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. JUNE TWENTY-SIXTH Much Ado About Nothing, IV. i. Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd? And for one blast of thy minikin mouth, Thy sheep shall take no harm. JUNE TWENTY-SEVENTH King Lear, III. vi. What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'ld have you do it ever; when you sing, I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, That all your acts are queens. [ 51 ] Winter's Tale, iv. iv. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the inMerchant of Venice, III. i. struction. JUNE TWENTY-NINTH Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. Merry Wives of Windsor, 11. ii. JUNE THIRTIETH Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times fasterglide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills: Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. Romeo and Juliet, II. V. JULY JULY FIRST WE E defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. JULY SECOND Under the greenwood tree, Hamlet, v. ii. Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither; Here shall he see No enemy, But winter and rough weather. As You Like It, II. v. JULY THIRD Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul Othello, III. iii. |