Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair

In that she never studied to be fairer

Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,

Her virtues were so rare.

I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,

Ibid.

All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1.

Lausing a spring of virtues where he shines.

Cornelia. What flowers are these?
Gazetta. The pansy this.

Cor. Oh, that's for lovers' thoughts.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.

1 See Thomas à Kempis, page 7.

Ibid.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Act r. Sc. 1

2 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?-MARLOWE: Hero and Leander.

I saw and loved. GIBBON: Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106.

3 See Heywood, page 13.

4 Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. SHAKESPEARE: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 2.

5 There is pansies, that 's for thoughts. SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, act

iv. sc. 5.

6 Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness

thrust upon 'em. - SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.1 All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her

Is righted even when men grant they err.

Monsieur D'Olive. Act i. Sc. 1.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still."

Let no man value at a little price

A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

Act v. Sc. 1.

The Gentleman Usher. Act iv. Sc. 1.

To put a girdle round about the world."

Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.

His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.

So our lives

In acts exemplary, not only win
Ourselves good names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.*

Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Each natural agent works but to this end,
To render that it works on like itself.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Act iii. Sc. 1.

1 Quoted by Camden as a saying of one Dr. Metcalf. It is now in many peoples' mouths, and likely to pass into a proverb.-RAY: Proverbs (Bohn ed.), p. 145.

2 One fire burns out another's burning,

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2.

I'll put a girdle round about the earth. SHAKESPEARE: Midsummer Night's Dream, act i. sc. 1.

4 Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime.

LONGFELLOW: A Psalm of Life.

Enough's as good as a feast.1

Eastward Ho. Act iii. Sc. 2

Fair words never hurt the tongue.2

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.3

Act iv. Sc. 1.

Ibid.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

Act v. Sc. 1.

Epilogue to Translations.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Museus of Hero and Leander

WILLIAM WARNER. 1558-1609.

With that she dasht her on the lippes,
So dyed double red :

Hard was the heart that gave the blow,

Soft were those lips that bled.

Albion's England. Book viii. chap. xli, stanza 53
We thinke no greater blisse then such
To be as be we would,

When blessed none but such as be

The same as be they should.

Book x. chap. lix, stanza 68.

SIR RICHARD HOLLAND.

O Douglas. O Douglas!

Tendir and trewe.

The Buke of the Howlat.4 Stanza xxxi.

1 Dives and Pauper (1493). GASCOIGNE: Memories (1575). FIELDING: Covent Garden Tragedy, act ii. sc. 6. BICKERSTAFF: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1. See Heywood, page 20.

2 See Heywood, page 12.

8 See Heywood, page 13.

4 The allegorical poem of The Howlat was composed about the middle of the fifteenth century. Of the personal history of the author no kind of in formation has been discovered. Printed by the Bannatyne (lub, 1823.