146

May he live

Longer than I have time to tell his years.
Ever beloved, and loving, may his rule be!
And, when old time shall lead him to his end,

Goodness and he fill up one monument!

147

25-ii. 1.

On whose bright crest Fame with her loudest O yes Cries, This is he.

148

26-iv. 5.

I throw mine eyes to Heaven, Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with. 23-i. 4.

149

A merrier man,

Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal:
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest;
Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor)
Delivers in such apt and gracious words,
That aged years play truant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

150

8-ii. 1.

There appears much joy in him: even so much, that joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness. A kind overflow of kindness: There are no faces truer than those that are so washed.

151

Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
But praying to enrich his watchful soul.

152

6-i. 1.

24-iii. 7.

He is of a noble strain, of approved valour, and 6-i. 1.

confirmed honesty.

153

He did not look far

Into the service of the time, and was

Discipled of the bravest.

154

11-i. 2.

Thou map of honour, thou most beauteous inn,

Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged in thee?

155

Dexterity so obeying appetite,

17-v. 1.

That what he will, he does; and does so much,

That proof is call'd impossibility.

26-v. 5.

156

He hath a daily beauty in his life.

37-v. 1.

157

Do not tempt my misery,

Lest that it make me so unsound a man,

As to upbraid you with those kindnesses
That I have done for you.

158

No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
Or gild again the noble troops, that waited
Upon my smiles.

159

When I know that boasting is an honour,
I shall promulgate.

160

Faster than his tongue Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.

161

My mother,

Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me.

162

4-iii. 4.

25-iii. 2.

37-i. 2.

10-iii. 5.

28-i. 9.

In the managing of quarrels, you may see he is

wise; for either he avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes them with the most Christian-like fear. 6-ii. 3.

163

O good old man; how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed !
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat, but for promotion;
And having that, do choke their service up
Even with the having :* it is not so with thee.

164

10-ii. 3.

I cannot cog, and say, thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in men's apparel, and smell like Buckler'sburyt in simple-time.

165

Look how we can, or sad, or merrily,
Interpretation will misquote our looks.

166

3-iii. 3.

18-v. 2.

My blood begins my safer guides to rule;
And passion, having my best judgment collied,
Assays to lead the way.

167

37-ii. 3.

If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding, it shall become him well: wherein, if he chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.

5-iii. 2.

168

Thus stand my state,

Like to a ship, that, having 'scaped a tempest,
Is straightway calm'd, and boarded with a pirate.

169

I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here;
Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.

170

17-i. 1.

I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad, when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend to no man's business; laugh, when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.

4-i. 3.

Faster than spring-time showers, comes thought on

thought;

And not a thought, but thinks on dignity.

22-iii. 1.

174

There is between my will and all offences

A guard of patience.

26-ν. 2.

175

I'll play the orator,

24-iii. 5.

As if the golden fee, for which I plead,
Were for myself.

176

I have sounded the very base string of humility.

177

18-ii. 4.

His real habitude gave life and grace
To appertainings and to ornament,

*

15-i. 4.

*

Accomplish'd in himself, not in his case:
All aids themselves made fairer by their place;
Came for additions, yet their purposed trim
Pieced not his grace, but were all graced by him.
So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kind of arguments, and question deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep:
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,

He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will;
That he did in the general bosom reign
Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted.

Nature hath framed 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.

180

There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a wilful stillness* entertain,
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit;
As who should say, I am Sir Oracle,
And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark !

9-i. 1.

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