Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
The under-hangman of the kingdom; and hated
For being preferr'd so well.

550

31-ii. 3.

If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.

27-iv. 3.

551

From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
A dram of worth be drawn.

31-iii. 5.

552

You know no rules of charity,

Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

553

Insulting tyranny begins to jet.

24-i. 2.

24-ii. 4.

554

Thou wast seal'd in thy nativity

The slave of nature and the son of hell!

24-i. 3.

555

Thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost

thou lead!

556

His humour

19-ii. 4.

Was nothing but mutation; ay, and that

From one bad thing to worse.

557

31-iv. 2.

The composition, that your valour and fear makes in you, is a virtue of a good wing.h

11-i. 1.

Dr Johnson says, that "Dryden has quoted two verses of Virgil, to shew how well he could have written satires." Shakspeare has here given a specimen of the same power by a line bitter beyond all bitterness, in which Timon tells Apemantus that he had not virtue enough for the vices which he condemned.

h To fly for safety.

558

From the extremest upward of thy head,
To the descent and dust beneath thy feet,
A most toad-spotted traitor.

559

34-v. 3.

And what may make him blush in being known, He'll stop the course by which it might be known.

33-i. 2.

560

Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,
Loves for his own ends, not for you.

15-iii, 5.

561

A wretch whom nature is ashamed,
Almost to acknowledge hers.

34-i. 1.

562

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making,i worse in mind.

563

14-iv. 2.

Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!

564

I will converse with iron-witted fools,
And unrespective boys; none are for me,
That look into me with considerate eyes.

565

With doubler tongue

23-i. 4.

24-iv. 2.

Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.

[566

7-iii. 2.

There is no more mercy in him, than there is milk

in a male tiger.

28-v. 4.

i Marked by nature with deformity.

567

O villains, vipers,

Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

568

This holy fox,

Or wolf, or both; for he is equal ravenous,
As he is subtle; and as prone to mischief,
As able to perform it.

569

Thou most lying slave,

Whom stripes may move, not kindness.

570

For he is set so only to himself,

17-iii. 2.

25-i. 1.

1-i. 2.

That nothing but himself, which looks like man,

Is friendly with him.

571

Thou art as opposite to every good,

As the antipodes are unto us,

Or as the south to the septentrion.j

O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide!

572

27-v. 2.

23-i. 4.

One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;

A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;

A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff; [mands A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that counterpassages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.

The

573

The heaviness and guilt within my bosom

14-iv. 2.

Takes off my manhood.

574

Thou art reverent

Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.

j The north.

31-v. 2.

21-iii. 1.

575

Never did I know

A creature, that did bear the shape of man,
So keen and greedy to confound a man.

576

A hovering temporizer, that

9-iii. 2.

Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both.

577

13-i. 2.

I never heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect.

578

This outward-sainted deputy,

3-iii. 1.

Whose settled visage and deliberate word
Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmew,
As falcon doth the fowl,-is yet a devil;

His filth within being cast, he would appear
A pond as deep as hell.

5-iii. 1.

FEMALE CHARACTERS.

SUPERIOR.

579

She is beautiful; and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman; therefore to be won.

580

In her youth

There is a prone1 and speechless dialect,

21-v. 3.

Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art, When she will play with reason and discourse,

And well she can persuade.

5-i. 3.

581

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.

582

She did make defect, perfection,

And, breathless, power breathe forth.-
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety.

583

9-iii. 2.

30-ii. 2.

Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself, in thee, fair and admired.

m

584

30-i. 1.

I have those hopes of her good, that her education promises: her dispositions she inherits, which make fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity, they are virtues and traitors too; in her, they are the better for their simpleness;" she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness.

585

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me,

To be ashamed to be my father's child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners.

586

My shame will hang upon my richest robes,
And shew itself, attire me how I can.

587

O constancy, be strong upon my side!

11—i. 1.

9-ii. 3.

22-ii. 4.

Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!

m Qualities of good breeding and condition.

" Her excellencies are the better because they are artless.