261

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth; he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him.

262

6-iii. 2.

Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice;—
Parts that become thee happily enough,

And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;

But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Something too liberal;-pray thee, take pain

To allay with some cold drops of modesty
Thy skipping spirit.

263

9-ii. 2.

It is a wonderful thing, to see the semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his: (They, by observing him, do hear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like serving-man:) their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese.

264

19-v. 1.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the next block.*

265

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.

266

6-i. 1.

25-i. 4.

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as twoand-fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. 12-i. 2.

267

My good window of lattice, fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee.

*Mould for a hat.

11-ii. 3.

268

He borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and spends what he borrows, kindly in your com

pany.

269

2-ii. 4.

Your words and performances are no kin together. 37-iv. 2.

270

I'll tell thee what, a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour: Dost thou think, I care for a satire, or an epigram? No; if a man will be beaten with brains, he shall wear nothing handsome about him: In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

271

6-v. 4.

A milk-sop, one that never in his life
Felt so much cold as over-shoes in snow?

24-v. 3.

272

Do but see his vice;

'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,

The one as long as the other.

273

37-ii. 3.

You are as a candle, the better part burnt out.

274

19-i. 2.

He does smile his face into more lines, than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies.*

275

4-iii. 2.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

19-i. 2.

* A clear allusion to a map engraved for Linschoten's Voyages, an English translation of which was published in 1598. This map is multilineal in the extreme, and is the first in which the Eastern Islands are included.

276

They'll take suggestion* as a cat laps milk;
They'll tell the clock to any business that
We say befits the hour.

277

1-ii. 1.

He's not yet thorough warm: forcet him with praises; Pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry.

278

26-ii. 3.

Thou idle immaterial skein of sleivet silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou! Ah, how the poor world is pestered with such water-flies; diminutives of nature! 26-v. 1.

279

The melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal !§—I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be every thing, and their intent every where; for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing. 4-ii. 4.

280

I think he is not a pick-purse, nor a horse-stealer; but for his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut.

281

10-iii. 4.

He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical; a great man, I'll warrant; I know, by the picking on's teeth.

282

That's a shealed peascod.**

283

13-iv. 3.

34-i. 4.

Thou half-penny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of

discretion.

*Any hint.

† Stuff.

8-v. 1,

Coarse, unwrought.

A precious stone of all colours.

Intent every where, i. e. inconstant. T An empty goblet. **A mere husk, which contains nothing.

A

284

He would not swear; praised women's modesty: and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words: but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the hundredth Psalm to the tune of Green Sleeves.

3-ii. 1.

285

You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard.

16—ii. 1.

286

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

13-iv. 2.

287

You strike like the blind man; 'twas the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.

288

He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,

6—ii. 1.

With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd ;† Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.

289

11—v. 3.

-His rea

He speaks an infinite deal of nothing.sons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

290

Was this taken

9-i. 1.

By any understanding pate but thine?
For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in
More than the common blocks.

291

13—i. 2.

How oddly he is suited! I think, he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour every where.

9-i. 2.

*Noted.

† Debauched.

292

In his brain,

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit

After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents

In mangled forms.

10-ii. 7.

293

With maids to seem the

'Tis my familiar sin lapwing,* and to jest,

Tongue far from heart.

5-i. 5.

294

A time pleaser; and affectioned† ass, that cons state without book, and utters it by great swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his ground of faith, that all, that look on him, love him.

295

4-ii. 3.

He's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality. 11-iii. 6.

296

He will look upon his boot, and sing; mend the ruff,) and sing; ask questions, and sing; pick his teeth, and sing: I know a man that had this trick of melancholy, sold a goodly manor for a song.

297

11-iii. 2.

He doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe him himself.

298

9-i. 2.

I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration, than thou learn a prayer without a book.

299

26-ii. 1.

Why, is not this a lamentable thing, that we should

*The farther she is from her nest, where her heart is with her young ones, she is the louder, or perhaps all tongue.

† Affected.

The row of grass left by a mower.

§ The folding at the top of the boot.