MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had. (Said of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy. For that fine madness still he did retain Ibid. The coast was clear.1 When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, Nymphidia. Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, Ideas. An Allusion to the Eaglets. lxi. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593. Comparisons are odious.2 Lust's Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4. I'm armed with more than complete steel, - Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 4 Ibid. Hero and Leander. Come live with me, and be my love; 1 SOMERVILLE: The Night- Walker. 2 See Fortescue, page 7. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. 8 Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, SHAKESPEARE: Henry VI. act iii. sc. 2. 4 The same in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Compare Chapman, page 35. By shallow rivers, to whose falls 1 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love And I will make thee beds of roses Infinite riches in a little room. Ibid. The Jew of Malta. Act i. Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Ibid. Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. When all the world dissolves, Love me little, love me long.3 And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Act i Act iv. Faustus Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Ibid. 0, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Ibid. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,5 That sometime grew within this learnèd man. Ibid. 1 To shallow rivers, to whose falls And a thousand fragrant posies. SHAKESPEARE: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. i. (Sung by Evans). 2 Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. x. 16. SHAKESPEARE: Antony and Cleopatra, act iv. sc. 13. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616. (From the text of Clark and Wright.) I would fain die a dry death. The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. What seest thou else Who having into truth, by telling of it, Ibid. Sc. 2. Ibid. To credit his own lie. Ibid. My library The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life. A very ancient and fish-like smell. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Fer. Here's my hand. Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't. He that dies pays all debts. Of excellent dumb discourse. Sc. 2. Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 1. Sc. 2. A kind Sc. 3. Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Ibid. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, With foreheads villanous low. Act iv. Sc. 1.. Ibid. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. I have no other but a woman's reason: O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, Sc. 2. Sc. 3. Act ii. Sc. 1. As a nose on a man's face,1 or a weathercock on a steeple. She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, Ibid. The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. Sc. 4. He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. Sc. 7. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, Act iii. Sc. 1. Except I be by Sylvia in the night, A man I am, cross'd with adversity. Is she not passing fair? How use doth breed a habit in a man ! But constant, he were perfect. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. Sc. 4. 2 Act v. Sc. 4. Come not within the measure of my wrath. I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. Ibid. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Acti. Sc. 1. All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. Ibid. 1 As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. - BURTON: Anat omy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 3, memb. 4, subsect. 1. 2 Custom is almost second nature. - PLUTARCH: Preservation of Health |