268 A soldier-not fierce and terrible Only in strokes; but with thy grim looks, and Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the world 269 A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, 270 My crown is in my heart, not on my head; 271 Sundry blessings hang about his throne, 272 When that the general is not like the hive, 28-i. 4. 17-ii. 1. 23-iii. 1. 15-iv. 3. What honey is expected ?" Degree being vizarded, The unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, W Χ Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, u The meaning is,---When the general is not to the army like the hive to the bees, the repository of the stock of every individual, that to which each particular resorts with whatever he has collected for the good of the whole, what honey is expected---what hope of advantage? Constancy. Masked. W Here is more than a hint of the Copernican system. Copernicus died 1543; twenty-one years before the birth of Shakspeare, And posts, like the commandment of a king, What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny? The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture? O, when degree is shaked, And the rude son should strike his father dead: And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose a y Without. Corporations, companies. * Force up by the roots. b Divided. Of his superior, grows to an envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation. 273 While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, 26-i. 3. For government, though high, and low, and lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one concent; Congruing in a full and natural close, Like music. Therefore doth Heaven divide The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,— As many several ways meet in one town; 20-i. 2. 274 One would have ling'ring wars with little cost; 21-i. 1. 275 Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war. 23-iv. 8. 276 Mirror of all martial men. 21-i. 4. 277 Were it good, To set the exact wealth of all our states On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good; for therein should we read 278 18-iv. 1. The commonwealth is sick of their own choice, 279 Omit no happy hour, 19-i. 3. That may give furtherance to our expedition: 280 20-i. 2. This might have been prevented, and made whole, Which now the manage of two kingdoms must With fearful bloody issue arbitrate. 281 Good fortune bids us pause, 16-i. 1. And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks. 23-ii. 6. 282 The fat ribs of peace Must by the hungry now be fed upon. 283 God, if thy will be so, 16-iii. 3. Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace, 284 24-v. 4. Shall we, upon the footing of our land, To arms invasive? 285 16-v. 1. Now join your hands, and, with your hands, your hearts, We will untread the steps of damned flight; Leaving our rankness and irregular course, Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd, And calmly run on in obedience. 288 I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams; 289 16-v. 4. 16-iv. 2. They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know What's done i' the Capitol: who's like to rise, Who thrives, and who declines; side factions, and give out Conjectural marriages; making parties strong, |