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This other Eden, demy paradife;

This fortrefs, built by nature for herself,
This happy breed of men, this little world;
This precious ftone fet in the filver fea,
Which ferves it in the office of a wall,
Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it)
Like to a tenement, or pelting farm.

Richard II. A. 2, S. 1.

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Thou elvish-mark'd abortive, roafting hog!
Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
The flave of nature, and the son of hell!
Thon flander of thy mother's heavy womb!
Thou loathed iffue of thy father's loins!
Thou rag of honour!

Richard III. A. 1,

Care not for iffue;

The crown will find an heir: great Alexander
Left his to the worthieft: fo his fucceffor

Was like to be the best.

S. 3

Winter's Tale,

Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 1.

Kings are no less unhappy, their iffue not being gracious, than they are in lofing them, when they have approved their virtues.

Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 1.

JUDGMENT.

For my voice,-I have loft it with hallowing and finging of anthems. To approve my youth further, I will not: the truth is, I am only old in judgment and understanding; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and have at him. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 2.

You all did love him once, not without caufe; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?— O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have loft their reafon !-Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Cæfar,
And I must paufe till it come back to me.

Julius Cæfar, A. 3,

His filver hairs

Will purchase us a good opinion,

And buy men's voices to commend our deeds :
It shall be said, his judgment rul'd our hands,
Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear,
But all be bury'd in his gravity.

S. 2.

Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1.

I charge you by the law,

Whereof you are a well-deferving pillar,

Proceed to judgment. Merchant of Venice, A. 4, S.I.
Under your good correction, I have seen,
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.

Measure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2.
How would you be,

If he, which is the top of judgment, should

But judge you, as you are?

Meafure for Meafure, A. 2, S. 2.

When I that cenfure him do so offend,

Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,

And nothing come in partial.

Meafure for Meafure, A. 2, S. 1.

To promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind of will, or teftament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. Timon of Athens, A. 5, S. 1.

But when we in our viciousness grow hard,
(O mifery on't) the wife gods feal our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Above our errors; laugh at us, while we ftrut

To our confufion. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 3, S. 11.

Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,

Bear

Bear it that the oppofer may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's cenfure, but referve thy judgment.
Hamlet, A. 1, S. 3.

His years but young, but his experience old;
His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 4.

My fallad days'!

When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To fay, as I faid then!-

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 5.
Whether defect of judgment

Tofail in the difpofing of those chances
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,

I My fallad days!

When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,

To fay, as I faid then!] This puzzles Mr. Theobald. He fays, Cleopatra may speak very naturally here with contempt of her judgment at that period: but how truly with regard to the coldness of her blood, may admit fome question. And then employs his learning to prove, that at this cold feafon of her blood, the had feen twenty good years. Shakespeare's best juftification, is restoring his own fenfe, which is done merely by a different pointing:

My fallad days;

When I was green in judgment. Cold in blood!

To fay as I faid then.

Cold in blood is an upbraiding expoftulation to her maid. Thofe, fays fhe, were my fallad days, when I was green in judgment; but your blood is as cold as my judgment, if you have the fame opinion of things now as I had then. WARBURTON.

I would prefer ballad days. What are fallad days? Does fallad give any particular or appropriate idea of youth? or do the editors read fallad, because Cleopatra is here speaking of her green judgment? Green, in this place, however, has not the Imallest reference to colour, it certainly means unripe; and do we fay of fallad that it is unripe? The true reading, I fhould fuppofe, is ballad days, i. e. Days when he was little given to thought or reflection. We now fay, "our dancing days," when we speak of the earliest and livelieft part of our life.

A: B.

Not

Not to be other than one thing, not moving

From the cafque to the cufhion, but commanding

peace

Even with the fame aufterity and garb

As he controll'd the war: but, one of these,
(As he hath spices of them all, not all,

For I dare fo far free him) made him fear'd,
So hated, and fo banish'd: but he has a merit,
To choak it in the utterance 1.

Coriolanus, A. 4,

JUSTICE.

Let us be clear'd

Of being tyrannous, fince we fo openly
Proceed in justice; which shall have due course,
Even to the guilt, or the purgation.-

S. 7°

Winter's Tale, A. 3, S. 2.

See how yon' juftice rails upon yon' fimple thief: Hark, in thine ear: change places; and handydandy, which is the juftice, which is the thief?. Thou haft seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? and the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obey'd Lear, A. 4, S. 6.

in office.

The ufurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes fmall vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate fin with gold,

be has a merit,

To choak it in the utterance.] He has a merit for no other

purpose, than to deftroy it by boafting it.

JOHNSON. Dr. Johnson has mistaken the fenfe. It is not the relative to merit, but to defect::-one of those defects in Coriolanus, which Aufidius had enumerated a little before. Whatever defect he may have (fays Aufidius), he has a merit to countervail it.

A. B.

And

And the strong lance of juftice hurtlefs breaks :
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's ftraw doth pierce it.

Let the great gods,

Lear, A. 4, S. 6.

That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,
Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,
That haft within thee undivulged crimes,

Unwhipt of juftice.

Lear, A. 3, S. 2.

Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep

Over his country's wrongs; and, by this face,
This seeming brow of juftice, did he win

The hearts of all that he did angle for.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 4, S. 3.

Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about,
And left thee but a very prey to time;

Having no more but thought of what thou wert,
To torture thee the more, being what thou art.

Richard III. A. 4, S. 4.

Then the justice;

In fair round belly, with good capon lin❜d,
With eyes fevere, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wife faws and modern instances.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 7.

We hear,

Such goodness of your juftice, that our foul
Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
Fore-running more requital.

Measure for Measure, A. 5, S. 1.

Worthy prince, difhonour not your eye

By throwing it on any other object,

Till you

have heard me in my true complaint,

And give me juftice.

Measure for Measure, A. 5, S. 1.

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