a king; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that

36-iv. 3.

worm.

462 What need the bridge much broader than the flood ?

6-i. 1. 463 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

11-iv. 3. 464 Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of nature.

10-i, 2. 465 Slander lives upon succession

i For ever housed, where it once gets possession.

14-iii. 1. 466 Every fault's condemn'd, ere it be done.

5ii. 2. 467 'Gainst knave and thief men shut their gate.

4-v. 1. 468

It is not meet That every nice* offence should bear his comment.

29_iv. 3. 469

Not evert
The justice and the truth o' the question carries

The due o' the verdict with it. 25-v. 1. 470

We are not the first, Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.

34-y. 3. 471 To offend and judge, are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

9-1.9. 472 All's not offence that indiscretion finds, And dotage terms so.

34-4. 4. 473

Feasts
In every mess have folly, and the feeders
Digest it with a custom.

13-iv. 3. 474 Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is

oft led by the nose with gold. 13-iv. 3.

475

'Tis safer to Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.

13-i. 2. 476

Men, that make
Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment,
Dare bite the best.

25—7. 2. 477 Pity is the virtue of the law,

And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 27-iii. 5. 478. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it.

15-iv. 1. 479 A good and virtuous nature may recoil, In an imperial charge.*

15-iv. 3. 480

When did friendship take
A breed for barren metalf of his friend ?

9-i. 3. 481 Falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent ; Three things that women highly hold in hate.

2-iii. 2. 482 How much better is it to weep at joy, than to joy at weeping?

6-i. 1. 483

Our very eyes
Are sometimes like our judgments, blind.

31-iv. 2. 484 Foolery does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines every where.

4-iii. 1. 485 Love yourself: and in that love,

Not unconsider'd leave your honour. 25—i. 2. 486 The art of our necessities is strange,

That can make vile things precious. 34-iii. 2. 487

To be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might.

26-iii. 2. 488 We know what we are, but know not what we

36-iv. 5.

may be. I

489

Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth

Finds the down pillow hard. 31-iii. 6. 490 Who cannot be crushed with a plot? 11-iv. 3. 491 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

36-iv. 5. 492

We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

1-iv. 1. 493 What is he for a fool, that betroths himself to unquietness?

6-i. 3. 494 Reputation ;-oft got without merit, and lost without deserving

37-ii. 3. 495

Briefly die their joys,
That place them on the truth of girls and boys.

31-v.5. 496 We are made to be no stronger

Than faults may shake our frames. 5-ii. 4. 497 When good-will is show'd, though it come too

short, The actor may plead pardon. 30-ii. 5. 498 A double blessing is a double grace.

36-i. 3. 499 Where the greater malady is fix’d, The lesser is scarce felt.

34-iii. 4. 500 All difficulties are but easy when they are known.

5-iv. 2. 501 Notes of sorrow, out of tune, are worse

Than priests and fanes that lie. 31-iv. 2. 502 Put armour on thine ears, and on thine eyes.

27-iv. 3. 503 More pity, that the eagle should be mew'd,* . While kites and buzzards prey at liberty,

24-i. 1. * Confined.

504 The sweat of industry would dry, and die, But for the end it works to.

31-iii. 6.

505

Men, that hazard all, Do it in hope of fair advantages. 9-ii. 7. 506 Every present time doth boast itself Above a better, gone.

13-v. 1. 507 Hope to joy, is little less in joy, Than hope enjoy'd.

17-ii. 3. 508 Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou

art
As great as that thou fear'st.

4-v. 1. 509 Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

6-iii. 3. 510 A great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

36-iii, 2. 511 We are born to do benefits.

27-i. 2. 512 Conceit* in weakest bodies strongest works.

36-iii. 4. 513 To show an unfelt sorrow, is an office

Which the false man does easy. 15-ii. 3. 514. What good condition can a treaty find l' the part that is at mercy ?

28-i. 10. 515 Though fortune, visible an enemy,

Should chase us; power no jot

Hath she to change our loves. 13-v. 1. 516 Lovers swear more performance than they are

able, and yet reserve an ability that they never
perform; vowing more than the perfection of
ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of
one.

26-iii. 2.
A tardiness in nature,
Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do.

517

518 The love that follows us, sometimes is our

trouble,
Which still we thank as love.

15-i. 6.

519 Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway.

iv. 1. 520

To the noble mind,
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

36_iii, 1. 521 When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

5_iv. 4. 522 Then we do sin against our own estate, When we may profit meet, and come too late.

27—v, 1. 523 What simple thief brags of his own attaint ?

14-iii. 2. 524 Beggary is valiant.

22-iv. 2. 525 Report is fabulous and false.

21-ii. 3. 526 Things, that are past, are done. 30-i. 2. 527 A little snow, tumbled about, Anon becomes a mountain.

16-iii. 4. 528 Reason and love keep little company together.

7-iii. 1. 529 Fire that is closest kept, burns most of all.

2-i. 2. 530 They do not love, that do not show their love.

2-i. 2. 531 They love least, that let men know their love.

2-. 2. 532 As jewels lose their glory, if neglected, So princes their renown, if not respected.

33mii. 2. 533 Treason is not inherited.

10-i. 3.

534 Love they to live,* that love and honour have.