Makes it take head from all indifferency, This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word, But for because he hath not woo'd me yet: Act 2, Sc. I. Const. Thou ever strong upon the stronger side. Act 3, Sc. I. Const. Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, Act 3, Sc. I. Const. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Act 3, Sc. 4. Lew. Life is as tedious as a twice-told talc, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Act 3, Sc. 4. Pand. When fortune means to men most good, Pand. The hearts Of all his people shall revolt from him, Act 3, Sc. 4. And kiss the lips of unacquainted change.—Act 3, Sc. 4. Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Pem. When workmen strive to do better than well, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. Act 4, Sc. 2. Hub. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, Act 4, Sc. 2. K. John. It is the curse of kings to be attended To understand a law, to know the meaning Act 4, Sc. 2. K. John. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, P. Hen. 'Tis strange, that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death; And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. *-Act 5, Sc. 7. Bast. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.-Act 5, Sc. 7. * This same expression is also to be found in the "Merchant of Venice," Act 3, Sc. 2; and "Othello," Act 5, Sc. 2. The origin of it is in Riley's Ovid, Epistle 7, page 63 : "Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, When the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Mæander." E RICHARD THE SECOND. Duch. Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. Act 1, Sc. 2. Guunt. Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, Act 1, Sc. 3. By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Act 1, Sc. 3. Gaunt. O, but they say the tongues of dying men Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain, Then they whom youth and ease have taught to glose; As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. Gaunt. This precious stone set in the silver sea, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. Act 2, Sc. I. Gaunt. The pleasure, that some fathers feed upon, Is my strict fast, I mean-my children's looks. Act 2, Sc. I. Gaunt. Misery makes sport to mock itself. - Act 2, Sc. I Boling. Eating the bitter bread of banishment.* Act 3, Sc. I. K. Rich. Not all the water in the rough rude sea K. Rich. How some have been depos'd; some slain in war; This line also occurs in Beaumont and Fletcher's Play of "The Lover's Progress," Act 5, Sc. 1: "Lisander. Does she suffer so much for me, For me unworthy, and shall I decline |