TALE VI. THE FRANK COURTSHIP. "Father, Yes, faith, it is my cousin's duty to make a curtsy, and say, as it please you;" but for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy, and say, "Father, as it pleases me." Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 1. He cannot flatter, he! An honest mind and plain-he must speak truth. King Lear, Act II. Scene 2. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another; you jig, you amble, you nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true? Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 1. TALE VI. THE FRANK COURTSHIP. GRAVE Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire, Who knew the man, could never cease to know; But with her husband dropp'd her look and tone, He read, and oft would quote the sacred words, How pious husbands of their wives were lords; Sarah called Abraham lord! and who could be, So Jonas thought, a greater man than he? Himself he view'd with undisguised respect, And never pardon'd freedom or neglect. They had one daughter, and this favourite child Had oft the father of his spleen beguiled; Soothed by attention from her early years, Peace in the sober house of Jonas dwelt, Who ever married in the kindred sect: No son or daughter of their order wed A friend to England's king who lost his head; * This appellation is here used not ironically, nor with malignity; but it is taken merely to designate a morosely devout people, with peculiar austerity of manners. |