Some of these passages are repeated and extended under the title of Scripture Themes in Shakspeare, but others of them are given only under this order of arrangement. He (Herod) said, Go and search diligently for the young child and when ye have found him, bring me word again that I may come and worship him. Matt. ii. 8. And the younger (son) said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And (he) took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all... He began to be in want. Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused, Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughterHen. V. 3:3. men. Let me have a child to whom The story of the prodigal. II Hen. IV. 2:1. I have received my proportion like the prodigious son. Two Gent. 2:3. Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent that I should stand to such penury? As You Like It I: I |