Small time, but in that small, most greatly liv'd

This star of England.

KING HENRY V. V. 2.

LE

ET tyrants fear; I have always so behaved myself, that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects, and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved in the midst and heat of the battle to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdoms, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

WHEN she did well, what did there else amiss? When she did ill, what empires would have pleased?

No other power effecting woe or bliss,

She gave, she took, she wounded, she appeased.

RALEIGH.

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair.

SONN. CXLIV.

L

OVE may be celestial fire before it enters into

the system of mortals. It will then take the character of its place of abode, and we have to look not so much for the pure thing as for the passion.

GEORGE MEREDITH.

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease

And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

Love seeketh only self to please,

To bind another to its delight,

Joys in another's loss of ease,

And builds a hell in heaven's despite.

BLAKE.

I have heard, but not believ'd, the spirits o' the dead

May walk again.

WINTER'S TALE iii. 3.

AND though it is most certain that two lutes

being both strung and tuned to an equal pitch, and then one being played upon, the other that is not touched, being laid upon a table at a fit distance, will, like an echo to a trumpet, warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune; yet many will not believe there is any such thing as a sympathy of souls; and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

IZAAK WALTON.

I LOOK for ghosts: but none will force
Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
That there was ever intercourse
Between the living and the dead :
For surely then I should have sight
Of him I wait for day and night

With love and longings infinite.

WORDSWORTH.

The players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all.

HAMLET iii. 2.

NAY, the nature of this passion is so justly re

presented in a squinting little thief (who is

always in a double action), that do but observe Clarissa next time you see her, and you will find, when her eyes have made their soft tour round the company, she makes no stay on him they say she is to marry, but rests two seconds of a minute on Wildair, who neither looks nor thinks on her or any woman else.

STEELE.

My lyre I tune, my voice I raise;
But with my numbers mix my sighs:
And while I sing Euphelia's praise,
I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes.

Fair Chloe blush'd: Euphelia frown'd:

I sung, and gazed: I play'd, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around

Remark'd, how ill we all dissembled.

PRIOR.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.

I KING HENRY IV. V. 2.

IT
T has been well believed through many ages

that the beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life; that the mind which sees itself blameless may be called dead in trespasses— in trespasses on the love of others, in trespasses on their weakness, in trespasses on all those great claims which are the image of our own need.

GEORGE ELIOT.

GET up, get up, thou leaden man!
Thy track, to endless joy or pain,
Yields but the model of a span :

Yet burns out thy life's lamp in vain!

One minute bounds thy bane or bliss,

Then watch and labour while time is!

CAMPION.