268 A soldier-not fierce and terrible Only in strokes; but with thy grim looks, and Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the world 269 A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown, 270 My crown is in my heart, not on my head; 271 Sundry blessings hang about his throne, 272 When that the general is not like the hive, To whom the foragers shall all repair, 28-i. 4. 17—ii. 1. 23-iii. 1. 15-iv. 3. What honey is expected ?* Degree being vizarded,t The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, The meaning is,-When the general is not to the army, like the hive to the bees, the repository of the stock of every individual, that to which each particular resorts with whatever he has collected for the good of the whole, what honey is expected-what hope of advantage? † Masked. Constancy. Here is more than a hint of the Copernican system. Copernicus died 1543; twenty-one years before the birth of Shakspeare. And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans* check, to good and bad: But, when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny? What raging of the sea? shaking of earth? Commotion in the winds? frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinatef The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture? O, when degree is shaked, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, And the rude son should strike his father dead : And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose * Without. Corporations, companies. Force up by the roots. § Divided. Absolute. Of his superior, grows to an envious fever 273 26-i. 3. While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, Like music. Therefore doth Heaven divide The singing masons, building roofs of gold; The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,— As many several ways meet in one town; 20-i. 2. 274 One would have ling'ring wars with little cost; 21-i. 1. 275 Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war. 23-iv. 8. 276 Mirror of all martial men. 21-i. 4. 277 Were it good, To set the exact wealth of all our states On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? 18-iv. 1. 278 The commonwealth is sick of their own choice, 279 19-i. 3. Omit no happy hour, 280 20-i. 2. This might have been prevented, and made whole, Which now the manage of two kingdoms must With fearful bloody issue arbitrate. 281 Good fortune bids us pause, 16-i. 1. And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks. 23-ii. 6. 282 The fat ribs of peace Must by the hungry now be fed upon. 283 16-iii. 3. God, if thy will be so, Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace, 284 Shall we, upon the footing of our land, Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive? 285 24-v. 4. 16-v. 1. Now join your hands, and, with your hands, your hearts, That no dissension hinder government. 23-iv. 6. Leaving our rankness and irregular course, Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd 288 I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams; 16-v. 4. 289 16-iv. 4. They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know give out Conjectural marriages; making parties strong, |