I had thought to have held it poor but since my lord

Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra. (Ant. Cl. iii. 11.)

1 Fish. He had a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her birthday. (Per. ii. 1.)

(These, the only mentions of birthdays,' are all of persons born in happier years.)

Folio 836.

26. Ille mihi ante alios fortunatusque laborum.—En. xi. 416. (He, in my judgment, were better than others and fortunate in his labours.)

A thing divine, for nothing natural

I ever saw so noble. . . . I have no ambition

To see a goodlier man. (Temp. i. 2.)

Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off. . . . This my mean task

...

Would be as heavy to me as odious, but

The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead,
And makes my labours pleasant. (Temp. iii. 1.)

27. Egregiusque animi qui ne quid tale videret.

28. Procubuit moriens et humum semel ore momordit. (Virg. Æn. xi. 417, 418.)

(And excellent in soul, who, that he might not see any

such (evil),

Fell dying, and bit the earth.)

The lion, dying, thrusteth forth his paw,

And wounds the earth, if nothing else,

With rage. (Rich. 11. v. 1.)

Why should I play the Roman fool, and die

On mine own sword?....

I will not yield

To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet. (Mac. v. 7.)

29. Fors et virtus miscentur in unum. luck] and valour [virtue] are mixed in one.)

H

(Chance [or

Ant. Say to me, whose fortunes shall rise higher, Cæsar's or mine?

Soothsayer. Cæsar's. . . . If thou dost play with him at any

game

Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck

He beats thee 'gainst the odds, &c. (Ant. Cl. ii. 5, 13, 39.)

Ant. When mine hours were nice and lucky, men did ransom

30. Non ego natura nec sum tam callidus usu rarissima nostro simplicitas. (I am neither by nature nor by practice so crafty. Simplicity most rare in our times.)

Trust not simple Henry nor his oaths. (3 Hen. VI. i. 3.)
The seeming truth which cunning times put on

To entrap the wisest. (Mer. Ven. iii. 2.)

While others fish with craft for great opinion,

I with great truth catch mere simplicity. (Tr. Cr. iv. 5.)
I am no orator, as Brutus is;

But as you know me all, a plain blunt man, &c. (Jul. Cæs. iii. 2.)
I was acquainted

Once with a time, when I enjoyed a playfellow.

When our count was eleven.

I

That know not what nor why, yet do effect

Rare issues, &c. (See Two N. Kin. i. 3.)

31. Viderit utilitas ego cepta (sic) fideliter edam.

32. Prosperum et felix scelus virtus vocatur.

Successful villany is called virtue.

(Quoted De Aug. vi. 3; Sped. iv. 421.)

(Compare the popular estimate of Angelo, Meas. M. i. 1, 26–41; ii. 4, 155–160; of Iago, Oth. ii. 3, 306, 323, 332; iii. 1, 43; iii. 3, 243-252, 470, &c.; of Iachimo, Cymb. i. 7, 22.)

(See f. 916, 451.)

33. Tibi res antiquæ laudis et artis.-Virg. Georg. ii. 174. (For thee a matter of ancient renown and art.)

Here's Nestor instructed by the antiquary times. (Tr. Cr. ii. 1.)

Younger spirits whose apprehensive senses

All but new things disdain. (All's Well, i. 2.)

Et bonum quo antiquius eo melius. (Per. i.: Gower.) (And a good thing, the older it is the better.)

34. Invidiam placare paras virtute relicta ?-Hor. Sat. ii. 3, 13. (Are you setting about to appease envy by abandoning virtue?)

Cor. Why do you wish me milder? Would you have me False to my nature? Rather say, I play

The man I am . . . .

Vol. I would have had you put your power well on Before you had worn it out.

Men. Repent what you have spoke.

Cor. For them I cannot do it to the gods. Must I then do't to them? (See Cor. iii. 2.)

35. Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra.-Hor. Ep. i. 2, 16. (Men sin within the walls of Troy as well as outside of them.)

Dear Palamon, . · yet unhardened in

The crimes of nature; let us leave the city

Thebes, and the temptings in 't, before we further

Sully our gloss of youth. .

This virtue is

Of no respect in Thebes : I spake of Thebes :
How dangerous, if we will keep our honours

It is for our residing where every evil
Hath a good colour, &c. (Two N. Kins. i. 2.)

(F. 916, 449.)

36. Homo sum. A me nil alienum puto (sic).- Terence, Heaut. i. 1, 25. (I am a man. Nought that is man's do I regard as foreign to myself.)

Go to. 'Homo' is a common name to all men. (1 H. IV. ii. 1.) He's opposite to humanity. (Tim. Ath. i. 1.)

Alcib. Is man so hateful to thee, that art thyself a man?
Tim. I am misanthropos, and hate mankind. (Tim. Ath. iv. 3.)
Alc. Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate. (Ib. v. 5.)

Mal. Dispute it like a man?

Macd.

But I must also feel it as a man.

I shall do so,

(Macb. iv. 3.)

Wert thou a man, thou wouldst have mercy on me. (Ant. Cl. v. 2.)

Ariel. If you now beheld them, your affections

Would become tender. . . . Mine would . . . were I human.

(Temp. v. 1.)

37. The grace of God is worth a fayre.

You have the grace of God, and he hath enough. (Mer. Ven. ii. 2.) God give him grace. (L. L. L. iv. 3 ; R. III. ii. 3 ; R. II. i. 3, rep.) The grace of heaven. (2 Hen. IV. iv. 2.)

God mark thee in His grace! (Rom. Jul. i. 3.)

All good grace to grace a gentleman. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. 4.)

I. . . . do curse the grace that with such grace hath graced them.

(Ib. iii. 1.)

The heavens such grace did lend her. (Ib. iv. 2, song.)

(See No. 97.)

38. Black will take no other hue.

All the water in the ocean could never turn the swan's black

legs to white. (Tit. And. iv. 2.)

Coal black is better than another hue. (Tit. And. iv. 2.)

(See f. 1866, 174.)

39. Unum augurium optimum tueri patria (sic). (The best of all auguries is to defend one's native country.)

Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,

To resalute his country . . .

Thou great defender of this Capitol

Stand gracious to the rites that we intend!
Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,

That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile

Ad manes fratum sacrifice his limbs. (Tit. And. i. 2.)
(See f. 20, 377.)

40. Exigua res est ipsa justitia.-Er. Ad. 377. (Justice by itself (without the reputation of being just) is a thing of little consequence.)

Ang. We must not make a scarecrow of the law,

Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,

And let it keep one shape, till custom make it

Their perch, and not their terror.

Just. Lord Angelo is severe.

Escal.

It is but needful:

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so. (M. M. ii. 1.)

(See M. M. ii. 2, 99-104; iii. 2, 262-284.)

He shall have merely justice and his bond. (Mer. Ven. iv. 1.)

41. Dat veniam corvis vexat censura columbas. Juvenal, Sat. ii. 63. (Censure extends pardon to ravens (but) bears hard on doves.)1

Great men may jest with saints, 'tis wit in them,

But in the less foul, profanation;

That in the captain's but a choleric word

Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. (M. M. ii. 3.)

A raven's heart within a dove. (Tw. N. v. 1.)

The dove pursues the griffin. (M. N. D. ii. 2.)

Who will not change a raven for a dove? (Ib. ii. 3.)

Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,

For he's disposed as the hateful raven. (2 Hen. VI. iii. 1.) As an eagle in a dovecote. (Cor. v. 5.)

(See f. 936, 541.)

42. Homo homini deus.-Er. Ad. 47. (Man is man's god.)

A king is a mortal god on earth. (Ess. Of a King.)

A god on earth thou art. (R. II. v. 3.)

Thy gracious self. . . . the god of my idolatry. (Rom. Jul. ii. 2.) Kings are earth's gods. (Per. i. 1.)

This entry and some of the succeeding extracts illustrate Mrs. Cowden Clarke's remark upon the frequent association of two birds in passages in the plays. See 'Shakespeare Key,' p. 725.