at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on; and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war, which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: And what a beard of the general's cut, and a horrid suit of the camp, will do among foaming bottles, and ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on! but you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or else you may be marvellous mistook. 20-iii. 6. 225 He hath much land, and fertile; let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess: 'Tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt. 226 36-v. 2. My credit now stands on such slippery ground, 227 Will you have me, lady? 29-iii. 1. No, my lord, unless I might have another for workingdays; your grace is too costly to wear every day. 228 6-ii. 1. My master is deaf. I am sure he is, to the hearing of any thing good. 19-i. 2. 229 O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus, forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods: and, Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy Caduceus; if ye take not that little little less-than-little wit from them that they have! which short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver a fly from a spider, without drawing their massy irons, and cutting the web. 26-ji. 3. A bird like a jackdaw. The wand of Mercury, which is wreathed with serpents. i. e. Without drawing their swords to cut their webs: they use no means but those of violence. 230 See you those clothes? say, you see them not, and think me still no gentleman born you were best say, these robes are not gentleman born. Give me the lie; do; and try whether I am not now a gentleman born. Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. 13-v. 2. 231 I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,* 232 37-v. 1. Here comes Monsieur Le Beau, with his mouth full of news, which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. 10-i. 2. 233 He was wont to speak plain, and to the purpose, like an honest man, and a soldier; and now is he turned orthographer; his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes. 234 Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness? 235 6-ii. 3. 6-v. 4. I have ere now, sir, been better known to you, when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's moat, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. 11-v. 2. 236 I do remember him, like a man made after a supper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he was so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight were invisible: he was the very genius of famine. 19-iii. 2. *To the quick. 237 It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. 238 Either thou art most ignorant by age, Or thou wert born a fool. 239 19-i. 2. 13-ii. 1. Thy bones are hollow: impiety has made a feast of thee. 240 A rude despiser of good manners, That in civility thou seem'st so empty. 241 5-i. 2. 10-ii. 7. O, he is the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song,* keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the very first house,-of the first and second cause:† Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the hay! 35-ii. 4. 242 Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing, that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 243 19-i. 2. He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under presentation of that, he shoots his wit. 10-v. 4. 244 He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration. * By notes pricked down. 4-iii. 4. † A gentleman of the first rank of the first eminence among duellists, and will tell you of the first cause and the second cause for which a man is to fight Terms of the fencing school. Gibe. 245 O, you are sick of self-love, and taste with a distem pered appetite. 246 4-i. 5. He is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent stomach. 247 A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds On objects, arts, and imitations; Which, out of use, and staled by other men, 6-i. 1. Begin his fashion. 248 29-iv. 1. I cannot tell for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court. 249 13-iv. 2. What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears 250 16-ii. 1. Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single ?* and every part about you blasted with antiquity ?+ and will you yet call yourself young? Fye, fye, fye. 251 19-i. 2. You are rather point-device in your accoutrements; as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other. 10-iii. 2. 252 Ungracious wretch, Fit for the mountains, and the barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd! 4-iv. 1. + Over-exact. 253 He hears merry tales, and smiles not: I fear, he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. 9-i. 2. 254 Thou thread, thou thimble, 255 12-iv. 3. I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard. 256 4-i. 3. For a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually. 11—iv. 3. 257 He will lie with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool; drunkenness is his best virtue; for he will be swine drunk; and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they know his conditions, and lay him in straw. 258 11-iv. 3. He is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so; As asses are. 37-i. 3. 259 11-ii. 1. He his special nothing ever prologues. 260 Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood ;* Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own? 18-i. 3. * Mind, humour. |