There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

MERCHANT OF VENICE V. I.

N his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth

IN

towards the journeying moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country, and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their a rival.

COLERIDGE.

Soon as the evening shades prevail
The moon takes up the wondrous tale;
And nightly, to the listening earth,
Repeats the story of her birth:

Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets, in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.

ADDISON.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.

'N'

SONN. CXVI.

EVER mind, Sammy,' replied Mr. Weller, 'it'll be a wery agonisin' trial to me at my time of life, but I'm pretty tough, that's vun consolation, as the wery old turkey remarked wen the farmer said he should be obliged to kill him for the London market.'

'What'll be a trial?' inquired Sam.

'To see you married, Sammy-to see you a dilluded wictim, and thinkin' in your innocence that it's all wery capital,' replied Mr. Weller. 'It's a dreadful trial to a father's feelin's, that ere, Sammy.'

DICKENS.

CROWN'D with flowers I saw fair Amaryllis

By Thyrsis sit, hard by a fount of Chrystal, And with her hand more white than snow or lilies,

On sand she wrote My faith shall be immortal: And suddenly a storm of wind and weather Blew all her faith and sand away together. ANON. 1611.

Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught.

A

AS YOU LIKE IT iii. 2.

BOUT six or seven o'clock I walk out into a common that lies hard by the house, where a great many young wenches keep sheep and cows, and sit in the shade singing of ballads. I go to them and compare their voices and beauties to some ancient shepherdesses that I have read of, and find a vast difference there; but trust me, I think these are as innocent as those could be. I talk to them, and find they want nothing to make them the happiest people in the world but the knowledge that they are so. Most commonly, when we are in the midst of our discourse, one looks about her, and spies her cows going into the corn, and then away they all run as if they had wings at their heels.

DOROTHY OSBORNE.

As one who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,
Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe
Among the pleasant villages and farms
Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight;
The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine,
Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound;
If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass,
What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more;
She most, and in her look sums all delight.

MILTON.

Could beauty have better commerce than with honesty? HAMLET iii. 1.

IN

'N Beauty, that of Favour, is more than that of Colour; and that of Decent and Gracious Motion, more than that of Favour. That is the best part of Beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first Sight of the Life. There is no Excellent Beauty, that hath not some Strangeness in the Proportion.

BACON.

BEAUTY, unto me divine,

Makes my honest thoughts incline
Unto better things than that

Which the vulgar aimeth at.

And I vow I grieve to see

Any fair and false to be;

Or when I sweet pleasures find
Match'd with a defilèd mind.

WITHER.

Truth hath a quiet breast.

KING RICHARD II. i. 3.

Ν

IN troubled Water you can scarce see your Face,

or see it very little, till the Water be quiet and

stand still. So in troubled times you can see little Truth; when times are quiet and settled, Truth appears.

SELDEN.

GENTLE times for love are meant ;

Who for parting pleasure strain

Gather roses in the rain,

Wet themselves, and lose their scent.

MARVELL.