Hail, virgin, if you be; as thofe cheek-rofes

Proclaim you are no less!

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

VIRTUE.

'Tis not to make me jealous,

To fay, my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of fpeech, fings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

Do you think, I do not know you by your excellent wit? can virtue hide itself?

Much ado about nothing, A. 2, S. 1.

It is most expedient for the wife (if Don Worm, "his confcience, finds no impediment to the contrary) to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myfelf. Much ado about nothing, A. 5, S. 2.

My heart laments, that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.

Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 3.

There is no vice fo fimple, but affumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.
For you,

I would be trebled twenty times myself;

qualities and characters not properly belonging to him; a hypocrite JOHNSON.

I rather believe that by "a made-up villain" we are to understand, a man who is killed or complete in rogueries. Dr. Johnfon confiders made-up in the fenfe of counterfeit, but he is furely wrong. If any one, of bad character, adopts qualities and manners that do not properly belong to him, we cannot fay that he counterfeits the villain, but on the contrary, that he counterfeits the honest man. A. B.

A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times
More rich; that to ftand high in your account,
I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
Exceed account. Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Meafure for Measure, A. 3, S, 1.
If I am

Traduc'd by ignorant tongues,-which neither know
My faculties, nor perfon, yet will be

The chronicles of my doing,-let me fay,

'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue muft go through.

Henry VIII. A. 1, S. 2.

If our virtues

Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
As if we had them not.

Meafure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 1.
Most dangerous

Is that temptation, that doth goad us on

To fin in loving virtue.

Measure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2.

Virtue he had, deferving to command:

His brandifh'd fword did blind men with his beams;
His arms fpread wider than a dragon's wings;
His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
'More dazzled and drove back his enemies,
Than mid-day fun, fierce bent against their faces.

Henry VI. P. 1, A. 1, S. 1. My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers; That love, which virtue begs, and virtue grants. Henry VI. P. 3, A. 3, S. 2.

Myself have often heard him fay, and fwear,-
That this his love was an eternal plant;
Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground,
The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's fun.
Henry VI. P. 3, A. 3, S. 3.
Your

I

Your virtues, gentle master,

Are fanctified and holy traitors to you.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 3.

Of late this duke

Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece;
Grounded upon no other argument,

But that the people praise her for her virtues.

As you like it, A. 1, S. 2.

The only foil of his fair virtue's glofs,

(If virtue's glofs will ftain with any foil)

Is a fharp wit, match'd with too blunt a will."

Love's Labour Loft, A. 2, S. 1,

All his virtues,

Not virtuously on his own part beheld,-
Do, in our eyes, begin to lose their gloss;
Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
Are like to rot untasted.

Troilus and Creffida, A. 2, S.
For the time I ftudy,

Virtue, and that part of philofophy
Will I apply, that treats of happiness
By virtue 'fpecially to be atchiev'd.

3:

Taming of the Shrew, A. 1, S. 1. From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignify'd by the doer's deed: Where great additions fwell, and virtue none, It is a dropfied honour.

All's well that ends well, A. 2,

S. 3.

You are more faucy with lords, and honourable perfonages, than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you commiffion.

All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 3.

Any thing, that's mended, is but patch'd: virtue, that tranfgreffes, is but patch'd with fin; and fin, that amends, is but patch'd with virtue.

Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 5. Ff 2

The

The charieft maid is prodigal enough,
If the unmask her beauty to the moon:
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious ftrokes :
The canker galls the infants of the spring,
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blaftments are moft imminent..

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 3.

Forgive me this my

For, in the fatness of these purfy times,

Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg;

virtue :

Yea, curb, and woo, for leave to do him good.

Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4.

O, throw away the worfer part of it,

And live the purer with the other half.
Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;
Affume a virtue, if you have it not.

Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4.

But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,

Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven;
So luft, though to a radiant angel link'd,

Will fate itself in a celestial bed,

And prey on garbage.

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 5.

Virtue is of fo little regard in these cofter-monger times, that true valour is turn'd bearherd: pregnancy is made a tapfter, and hath his quick wit wafted in giving reckonings.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 2.

STEEVENS.

"Pregnancy" is fomething more than readinefs. It means

1 Pregnancy.] Pregnancy is readiness.

liveliness, great abilities.

A. B.

VOWS.

v O W S.

*It is the purpose that makes ftrong the vow; But vows to every purpofe muft not hold.

Troilus and Creffida, A. 5, S. 3.

'Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth;
But the plain fingle vow, that is vow'd true.
What is not holy, that we fwear not by
But take the highest to witness.

All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 2,
Your vows, to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh; and both as light as tales.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2.

Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd,
The fifter's vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hafty-footed time
For parting us,-O, and is all forgot?

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2. Why should you think that I fhould woo in fcorn? Scorn and derifion never come in tears:

Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows fo born,
In their nativity all truth

appears.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S, 2.

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken;
And he wants wit, that wants refolved will
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 6.

* It is the purpose.] The mad prophetefs speaks here with all the coolness and judgment of a skilful cafuift.

JOHNSON. Dr. Johnson is right. But was he to be told that reafon is frequently found in madness? He might, indeed, have learnt it from our author:

"O matter and impertinency mixt!
"Reason in madness!"

See King Lear.

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A. B.

Let