Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
The under-hangman of the kingdom; and hated
For being preferr'd so well.

550

31-ii. 3.

If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.g

551

27-iv. 3.

From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
A dram of worth be drawn.

552

31-iii. 5.

You know no rules of charity,

Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

553

Insulting tyranny begins to jet.

24-i. 2.

24-ii. 4.

554

Thou wast seal'd in thy nativity

The slave of nature and the son of hell!

24-i. 3.

555

Thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost

thou lead!

556

His humour

19-ii. 4.

Was nothing but mutation; ay, and that

From one bad thing to worse.

557

31-iv. 2.

The composition, that your valour and fear makes in you, is a virtue of a good wing.h

11-i. 1.

Dr Johnson says, that "Dryden has quoted two verses of Virgil, to shew how well he could have written satires." Shakspeare has here given a specimen of the same power by a line bitter beyond all bitterness, in which Timon tells Apemantus that he had not virtue enough for the vices which he condemned.

h To fly for safety.

558

From the extremest upward of thy head,
To the descent and dust beneath thy feet,
A most toad-spotted traitor.

559

34-v.3.

And what may make him blush in being known, He'll stop the course by which it might be known.

560

Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,
Loves for his own ends, not for you.

33-i. 2.

15-iii. 5.

561

A wretch whom nature is ashamed,
Almost to acknowledge hers.

34—i. 1.

562

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making,1 worse in mind.

563

14-iv. 2.

Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!

564

I will converse with iron-witted fools,
And unrespective boys; none are for me,
That look into me with considerate eyes.

565

With doubler tongue

23-i. 4.

24-iv. 2.

Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.

(566

7-iii. 2.

There is no more mercy in him, than there is milk

in a male tiger.

28-v. 4.

i Marked by nature with deformity.

567

O villains, vipers,

Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

568

This holy fox,

Or wolf, or both; for he is equal ravenous,
As he is subtle; and as prone to mischief,
As able to perform it.

569

Thou most lying slave,

17-iii. 2.

25-i. 1.

Whom stripes may move, not kindness.

570

For he is set so only to himself,

1-i. 2.

That nothing but himself, which looks like man,

Is friendly with him.

571

27-v. 2.

Or as the south to the septentrion.J

O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide!

572

23-i. 4.

One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;
A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;

A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff; [mands
A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that counter-
The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.

575

Never did I know

A creature, that did bear the shape of man,
So keen and greedy to confound a man.

576

A hovering temporizer, that

9-iii. 2.

Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both.

577

13-i. 2.

I never heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect.

578

This outward-sainted deputy,

Whose settled visage and deliberate word

3-iii. 1.

Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmew,*
As falcon doth the fowl,-is yet a devil;

His filth within being cast, he would appear
A pond as deep as hell.

5-iii. 1.

FEMALE CHARACTERS.

SUPERIOR.

579

She is beautiful; and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman; therefore to be won.

580

In her youth

There is a prone1 and speechless dialect,

21-v. 3.

Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art,
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.

k Shut up.

5-i. 3.

1 Prompt.

581

Happy in this, she is not yet so old,
But she may learn; and happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours, to be directed.

582

She did make defect, perfection,

And, breathless, power breathe forth.-
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety.

583

9-iii. 2.

30-ii. 2.

Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself, in thee, fair and admired.

584

30-i. 1.

I have those hopes of her good, that her education promises: her dispositions she inherits, which make fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities," there commendations go with pity, they are virtues and traitors too; in her, they are the better for their simpleness;" she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness.

585

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me,

To be ashamed to be my father's child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners.

586

My shame will hang upon my richest robes,
And shew itself, attire me how I can.

587

O constancy, be strong upon my side!

11—i. 1.

9-ii. 3.

22-ii. 4.

Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!

m Qualities of good breeding and condition.
Her excellencies are the better because they are artless.