EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY M'FARLANE AND ERSKINE (late Schenck & M'Farlane), LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK -Shall speech be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology? The date is out of such prolixity: We'll have no without-book prologue faintly spoke For our entrance: But let them measure us by what they will. Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And what thy memory can not contain Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, Shall profit thec and much enrich thy book. Sonnets, Ixxvii. JANUARY. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you. Since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein. Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 1. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 3. But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Midsummer-Night's Dream, i. 1. January 2d. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. Taming of the Shrew, iv. 1. A well-accomplished youth, Of all that virtue love for virtue loved. Love's Labour Lost, ii. 1. It is thyself, mine own self's better part; |