-"his majesty who is the fountain of grace." - Sp., VII. 252.

-"the ready fountain of her continual benignity."

Dis. of Eliz. VII. 156.

"the most sacred fountain of all grace and goodness." — VII. 6.
"the spring-head thereof seemeth to me not to have been visited."

"The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood

Is stopp'd.

Macd. Your royal father 's murder'd." - Macb., Act II. Sc. 3. "The fountain from which my current runs." -Oth., Act IV. Sc. 2. "the fountain of our love.".

· Tro. and Cress., Act III. Sc. 2.

Adv.

"those legions of spectres and worlds of shadows, which we see hovering over all the expanse of the philosophies." — Int. Globe, XII. 155. "With many legions of strange fantasies." - K. John, Act V. Sc. 7. "she hath legions of angels."— Mer. Wives, Act I. Sc. 3. "Methought a legion of foul fiends."

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Richard III., Act I. Sc. 4.

move always and be carried with the motion of your first mover, which is your sovereign."— Sp., VII. 259.

[This "first mover comes from Aristotle, who treats of the Divine Spirit, or absolute cause of all movement, as the “First Mover” (πρωτον χινοῦν).]

"O, thou eternal Mover of the heavens,

Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!"

2 Hen. VI., Act III. Sc. 3.

"I think that all this dust is raised by light rumours and buzzes."— Speech.

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Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.” — Essay, XXXI.

"For I will buzz abroad such prophecies."

3 Henry VI., Act V. Sc. 6.

"Glos. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence, and the king,
In deadly hate the one against the other."

Richard III., Act I. Sc. 1.

-"well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works: divinity or philosophy." — Adv., Spedd., VI. 97.

-"and so by degrees to read in the volumes of his creatures." Int. Nat., Ibid. 36.

-"when the book of hearts shall be opened." — Letter, 1620.

"laying before us two books or volumes to study, if we will be secured from error; first the Scriptures revealing the will of God, and then the creatures expressing his power."— Int. Nat., Ibid. 33.

"I' the world's volume

Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it;

In a great pool, a swan's nest."

"Jul. 0, Nature,-..

Cymb., Act III. Sc. 4.

Was ever book containing such vile matter

So fairly bound?" — Rom. and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 2.

"In Nature's infinite book of secrecy,

A little I can read."

Ant. and Cleo., Act I. Sc. 2.

"Within the book and volume of my brain."

Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5.

it will

"The leaf of barrage hath an excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky melancholy, and so to cure madness; make a sovereign drink for melancholy passions." — Nat. Hist., § 18.

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-"sable colored melancholy." - Love's Labor's Lost, Act I. Sc. 1.
-"and dusky vapours of night." -1 Henry VI., Act II. Sc. 2.
"borne with black vapours."-2 Henry VI., Act II. Sc. 4.

-"the sovereign'st thing on earth

Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise." — 1 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 3.

"Because the partition of sciences are not like several lines that meet in one angle, but rather like branches of trees that meet in one stem."

"As many arrows loos'd several ways
Fly to one mark; ..

As many several ways meet in one town;
fresh streams run in one self-sea;

As many

XVI. n. 4, App.

As many lines close in the dial's centre." - Henry V., Act I. Sc. 2.

"Caius Marius was general of the Romans against the Cimbers, who came with such a sea of multitude upon Italy." -Apoth. 242.

"Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast sea of air?"— Adv.

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnardine,

Making the green one red."- Macb., Act II. Sc. 1 (2).

"But my level is no farther but to do the part of a true friend."

Letter, 1623. "As for all direct or indirect glances or levels at men's persons." -VII. 59. "for the other do level point blank at the inventory of causes and axioms."- Nat. Hist.

[A favorite expression.]

"Everything lies level to our wish.” — Henry IV.
"We steal by line and level."- Tempest.

"And hold their level with thy princely heart.".
Henry IV.
"Can thrust me from a level consideration."-2 Henry IV.
"And therefore level not to hit their lives."— Richard III.
"For that 's the mark I know you level at." — Pericles.

-"no levell'd malice

Infects one comma in the course I hold."- Timon.

"and be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others."- Ess., XXIII.

"Pol...

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To thine own self be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3.

"The poets make fame a monster. They describe her in part elegantly; and in part gravely and sententiously. They say look how many feathers she hath; so many eyes she hath underneath; so many tongues; so many voices; she pricks up so many ears. This is a flourish. There follow excellent parables; as that she gathereth strength in going; that she goeth upon the ground, and yet hideth her head in the clouds: that in the day time she sitteth in a watchtower, and flieth most by night: that she mingleth things done with things not done and that she is a terror to great cities. "But now, if a man can tame this monster,· with the style of the poets."-Essay of Fame.

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But we are infected

"Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.

Rum. Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
I from the Orient to the drooping West,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of Earth:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures:
And of so easy and so plain a stop,

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,

Can play upon it." — 2 Henry IV., Ind.

"And as for Maximilian, upon twenty respects, he could not have been the man.". Hist. Henry VII.

-"so that acts of this nature (if this were one) do more good than twenty bills of grace." — Letter, 1617.

["Twenty" is an habitual expletive of this author.]

"Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows."

Richard II., Act II. Sc. 2.

"And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl.".
"Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns."

Gent. of Ver.

3 Henry VI., Act III. Sc. 2.

-"twenty times his worth."-2 Henry VI., Act III. Sc. 2. -"twenty thousand times.". Ibid., Act III. Sc. 2.

66 twenty times so many faces." — Ibid., Act II. Sc. 4. "twenty times their power."— Ibid., Act II. Sc. 4. "With twenty thousand soul confirming oaths."

Gent. of Ver., Act II. Sc. 6.

"I am yours surer to you than your own life; for as they speak of the turquoise stone in a ring, I will break into twenty pieces before you have the least fall." Letter to Essex, XII. 292.

"Tub. One of them shewed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey.

Shy. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal; it was my turquoise: I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor.". Mer. of Ven., Act II. Sc. 1.

"Yet evermore it must be remembered that the least part of knowledge, passed to man by this so large charter from God, must be subject to that use, for which God hath granted it, which is the benefit and relief of the state and society of man."- Int. of Nat.

Both thanks and use." - Measure for Measure, Act I. Sc. 2.

"With regard to the countenance, be not influenced by the old adage, 'Trust not to a man's face."— De Aug., (Boston), IX. 272.

"There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face."- - Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 4.

"Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; -for as nature has done ill by them, so do they by nature, being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of natures. Certainly there is a consent between the body and the mind, and where nature erreth in the one, she ventureth in the other: . . . . the curse that the Psalm speaketh of, That it shall be like the untimely fruit of a woman, brought forth before it came to perfection. Whosoever hath

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anything fixed in his person, that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn; therefore all deformed persons are extreme bold. . . . . . But because there is in man an election, touching the frame of his mind, and a necessity in the frame of his body, the stars of natural inclination are sometimes obscured by the sun of discipline and virtue." - Ess., I. 46.

-" which had been the spur of this region."— Fel. Q. Eliz., I. 400.

"Glos. For I have often heard my mother say,

I came into the world with my legs forward.
The midwife wondered; and the women cried,
'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'
And so I was; which plainly signified
That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog.
Then, since the Heavens have shap'd my body so,
Let Hell make crook'd my mind to answer it."

3 Henry VI., Act V. Sc. 6.

"Glos. I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time

Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable,
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days."

Richard III., Act I. Sc. 1

"Glos. Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York." — Ibid., Act I. Sc. 1

"I have no spur

Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 7.