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I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
How hard it is for women to keep counsel !

588

For she is wise, if I can judge of her;
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true;
And true she is, as she hath proved herself;

29-ii. 4.

And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant soul.

9-ii. 6.

589

She will outstrip all praise,

And make it halt behind her.

1-iv. 1.

590

All, that life can rate

Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate;°
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, virtue, all
That happiness and prime can happy call.

591

11-ü. 1.

She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, that she holds it a vice in her goodness, not to do more than she is requested

In any honest suit; she's framed as fruitful

As the free elements.

592

Each your doing,

37-ii. 3.

So singular in each particular,

Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,

That all your acts are queen's.

593

13-iv. 3.

She hath all courtly parts more exquisite,
Than lady, ladies, woman;" from every one
The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,
Outsells them all.

31-iii. 5.

i. e. May be counted among the gifts enjoyed by thee. P Than any lady, than all ladies, than all womankind.

594

She's a lady

So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes,
And strokes death to her.

595

For I am sick, and capable of fears;

31-iii. 5.

Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears;
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears;

A woman, naturally born to fears.

596

16—iii. 1.

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacks can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. 30-i. 2.

597

All of her, that is out of door most rich,
If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,

She is alone the Arabian bird."

31-i. 7.

598

Thou look'st

33-v. 1.

Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace
For the crown'd truth to dwell in.

599

A maiden never bold;

Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion

Blush'd at herself.

37-i. 3.

600

Her smoothness,

10-i. 3.

9-iii. 2.

Her very silence, and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her.

601

A maiden hath no tongue but thought.

9 Susceptible.

* The Phoenix.

602

She dwells so securely on the excellency of her honour, that the folly of any soul dares not present itself; she is too bright to be looked against.

603

3-ii. 2.

She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair.

604

Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give

4—ii. 1.

Thee o'er to harshness; her eyes are fierce, but thine Do comfort, and not burn.

34-ii. 4.

605

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth.

34-i. 1.

606

Her voice was ever soft,

Gentle and low; an excellent thing in woman.

607

34-v. 3.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:

If the ill spirit have so fair a house,

Good things will strive to dwell with it.

608

1-i. 2.

O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame,
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
That live in her! when liver, brain, and heart,t
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fill'd
(Her sweet perfections) with one self king!

With Cupid's arrow,

609

She'll not be hit she hath Dian's wit;

A bosom agitated by tender passions.

4-i. 1.

t Liver, brain, and heart, are admitted in poetry as the residence of passions, judgment, and sentiment; these are what Shakspeare calls her sweet perfections.

And, in strong proof of chastity well-arm'd,
From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes,
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.

35-i. I.

FEMALE CHARACTERS.

SUBORDINATE.

610

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
Misprising" what they look on; and her wit
Values itself so highly, that to her
All matter else seems weak.

611

6-iii. 1.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. 10-iv. 1.

612

You have a nimble wit; I think it was made of Atalanta's heels. 10-iii. 2.

613

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! Of so high and plenteous wit and invention! 37-iv. 1.

614

Mistress, know yourself; down on your knees,
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:
For I must tell you friendly in your ear,

Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.

" Undervaluing.

10-iii. 5.

▾ Bar the doors,

615

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd:
She was a vixen when she went to school;
And, though she be but little, she is fierce.

616

'Tis such fools as you,

7-iii. 2.

That make the world full of ill-favour'd children:
'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;
And out of you she sees herself more proper,
Than any of her lineaments can shew her.

617

10-iii. 5.

She is too disdainful;

I know, her spirits are as coy and wild

As haggards of the rock."

618

6-iii. 1.

Your face hath got five hundred pounds a-year;
Yet sell your face for five-pence, and 'tis dear.

619

16—i. 1.

She creeps;

30-iii. 3

Her motion and her station are as one;
She shews a body rather than a life;

A statue, than a breather.

620

I never yet saw man,
How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
But she would spell him backward; if fair-faced,
She'd swear, the gentleman should be her sister;
If black, why nature, drawing of an antic,
Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;
If low, an agate very vilely cut:

If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;
If silent, why a block, moved with none.
So turns she every man the wrong side out;
And never gives to truth and virtue that,
Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.

"A species of hawk.

* Standing.

6-iii. 1.

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