I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms. THE HYPOCRISY OF ANGELO. There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice! Yes, thou must die: In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,— THE TERRORS OF DEATH. Death is a fearful thing. Isab. And shamed life a hateful. Claud. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot: This sensible warm motion to become The weariest and most loathed worldly life, To what we fear of death. VIRTUE AND GOODNESS. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. A BAWD. The evil that thou causest to be done, From their abominable and beastly ches So stinkingly depending? Go, mend, go, mend. ACT IV. SONG. Take, oh take, those lips away, GREATNESS SUBJECT TO CENSURE. O place and greatness, millions of false eyes, Are stuck upon thee! volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings! thousand 'scapes* of wit Make thee the father of their idle,dream, And rack thee in their fancies. SOUND SLEEP. As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labour When it lies starklyf in the traveller's bones. ACT V. CHARACTER OF AN ARCH HYPOCRITE. O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believ'st There is another comfort than this world, That thou neglect me not, with that opinion That I am touch'd with madness: make not impos sible That which but seems unlike: 'Tis not impossible But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground, In all his dressings,* characts, titles, forms, MERCHANT OF VENICE. ACT I. MIRTH AND MELANCHOLY. NOW, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath fram❜d strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper; And other of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. WORLDLINESS. You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it, that do buy it with much care. THE WORLD'S TRUE VALUE. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part. CHEERFULNESS. Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come: And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice By being peevish? Habits and characters of office. AFFECTED. GRAVITY. I tell thee what, Antonio, I love thee, and it is my love that speaks;- LOQUACITY. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice: his reasons 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. MEDIOCRITY. For aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing: It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. SPECULATION MORE EASY THAN PRACTICE. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree; such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. * Obstinate silence. THE JEW'S MALICE. • Bass. This is signior Antonio. Shy. [Aside.] How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him, for he is a Christian: But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him Even there where merchants most do congregate, HYPOCRISY. Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. THE JEW'S EXPOSTULATION. Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, * Interest. |