Than whom no mortal so magnificent * This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; Sole imperator, and great general Of trotting pirators.†-O my little heart!- And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! SONG. On a day, (alack the day!) Through the velvet leaves the wind, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: * Veiled. † Officers of the spiritual courts. Do not call it sin in me, That I am foresworn for thee; Thou for whom even Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiop were; THE POWER OF LOVE. But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails; Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs: ୯ There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice! Yes, thou must die: Thou art too noble to conserve a life In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,Whose settled visage and deliberate word Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmew, As falcon doth the fowl,-is yet a devil; His filth within being cast, he would appear RESOLUTION. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, THE PRAYERS OF MAIDENS EFFECTUAL. Go to lord Angelo, And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, As they themselves would owe* them. MERCY FREQUENTLY MISTAKEN. Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; MERCY IN GOVERNORS COMMENDED. No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, THE DUTY OF MUTUAL FORGIVENESS. Alas! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; vantage best have took If He, which is the top of judgment, should * Have. There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice! Yes, thou must die: In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy, Whose settled visage and deliberate word Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmew, As falcon doth the fowl,-is yet a devil; His filth within being cast, he would appear |