This is mere madness:

And thus a while the fit will work on him;
Anon, as patient as the female dove,

When that her golden couplets are disclosedt,
His silence will sit drooping.

36-v. 1.

36-iv. 1.

Divided from herself, and her fair judgment; Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts.

She is importunate; indeed, distract;
Her mood will needs be pitied.

36-iv. 5.

She speaks much of her father; says, she hears There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;

Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move

The hearers to collection; they aim at it,

And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts; Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures, yield

them,

Indeed would make one think, there might be thought, Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.

Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can

36-iv. 5.

Her heart inform her tongue: the swan's down

feather,

That stands upon the swell at full of tide,

And neither way inclines.

30-iii. 2.

t
* Hatched.

279.

Mental derelictions.

He was met even now

As mad as the vex'd sea: singing aloud!
Crown'd with rank fumiter, and furrow weeds,
With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds, that grow
In our sustaining corn.

34-iv. 4.

Some strange commotion
Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts;
Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
Then lays his finger on his temple; straight,
Springs out into fast gait; then, stops again,
Strikes his breast hard; and anon, he casts

His eye against the moon; in most strange postures
We have seen him set himself.

25-iii. 2.

The exterior, not the inward man,

Resembles that it was.

36-ii. 2.

Mad let us grant him then; and now remains,
That we find out the cause of this effect;
Or, rather say, the cause of this defect;
For this effect, defective, comes by cause.

36-ii. 2.

Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself;
A madman so long, now a fool: What, think'st
That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain,
Will put thy shirt on warm? Will these moss'd trees,
That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels,

And skip, when thou point'st out? Will the cold brook,

Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste,

To cure thy o'ernight's surfeit? call the creatures,Whose naked natures live in all the spite

Of wreakful heaven; whose bare unhous'd trunks, To the conflicting elements exposed,

Answer mere nature,-bid them flatter thee.

27-iv. 3.

O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword:
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,

The glass of fashion, and the mould" of form,
The observed of all observers! quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth,
Blasted with ecstasy.

Women will love her, that she is a woman,
More worth than any man; men, that she is
The rarest of all women.

36-iii. 1.

13-v. i.

She that was ever fair, and never proud;
Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud;
Never lack'd gold, and yet went never gay;
Fled from her wish, and yet said,—now I may;
She that, being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,
Bade her wrong stay, and her displeasure fly:
She that in wisdom never was so frail,

To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;
She that could think, and ne'er disclose her mind,
See suitors following, and not look behind. 37—ii. 1.

287.

Woman's devotion and humility.

I would not be ambitious in my wish,

To wish myself much better; yet, for you,
I would be trebled twenty times myself;

A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times
More rich;

That only to stand high on your account,
I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
Exceed account: but the full sum of me

Is sum of something; which, to term in gross,
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd:

"The model by whom all endeavoured to form themselves. Alienation of mind.

Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn; and happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Myself, and what is mine, to you, and yours
Is now converted: but now I was the lord
Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now,
This house, these servants, and this same myself,
Are yours, my lord.

I ask, that I might waken reverence,

And bid the cheek be ready with a blush,
Modest as Morning when she coldly eyes
The youthful Phoebus.

By noting of the lady, I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions start
Into her face; a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness, bear away those blushes;
And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,
To burn the errors, that these princes hold
Against her maiden truth.

9-iii. 2.

26-i. 3.

6-iv. 1.

(The handmaids of all women, or, more truly, Woman its pretty self).

- 291.

Constancy.

A loss of her,

That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years,
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre.

31-iii. 4.

25-ii. 2.

292.

Thoughtfulness.

Your constancy

Hath left you unattended.

15-ii. 2.

So much is my poverty of spirit,

So mighty, and so many, my defects,

That I would rather hide me from my greatness,— Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,—

Than in my greatness covet to be hid,

And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. 24—iii. 7.

Show me thy humble heart, and not thy kneey.

295.

Serenity of mind.

17-ii. 3.

Like to the time o' the year between the extremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad, nor merry. 30—i. 5.

296.

Ingenuousness.

He was not born to shame!

Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit;

For 't is a throne where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.

37-iii. 2.

Of whose soft grace, I have her sovereign aid,
And rest myself content.

298.

Graces, natural.

Natural graces, that extinguish art.

299.

1—v. 1.

21-v. 3.

Graces, external and internal.

O Hero! what a Hero hadst thou been,

If half thy outward graces had been placed

About thy thoughts, and counsels of thy heart!

6-iv. 1.

4-i. 5.

"The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and

before honour is humility."-Prov. xx. 33.