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Tit. And., IV: 2. 1222.

THRIFT.-Jacob's, Recommended.

Shy. * Mark what Jacob did.

*

When Laban and himself were compromis'd

That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied

Should fall as Jacob's hire; the ewes, be

ing rank,

In end of autumn turned to the rams:
And when the work of generation was
Between these woolly breeders in the act,
The skilful shepherd pill'd me certain
wands,

And, in the doing of the deed of kind,
He stuck them up before the fulsome
ewes;

Who, then conceiving, did in eaning-time Fall particolour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.

This was a way to thrive, and he was bless'd;

And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.
M. V., I: 3. 365.

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TICKLING.-Trout Caught by.

Mar. ** For here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.

H. V., V: Chorus. 851.

T. N., II: 5. 552.

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be but a se'nnight, Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year.

Orl. Ros. With a priest that lacks Latin, and a rich man that hath not the gout: for the one sleeps easily, because he cannot study; the other lives merrily, because he feels no pain: the one lacking the burthen of lean and wasteful learning; the other knowing no burthen of heavy tedious penury: These Time ambles withal.

Who ambles Time withal?

Orl. Who doth he gallop withal?

Ros. With a thief to the gallows for though he go as softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.

Orl. Who stays it still withal?
Ros.

With lawyers in the vacation: for they sleep between term and term, and then they perceive not how time moves.

-Out of Joint. Ham.

A. Y., III: 2. 423.

The time is out of joint; --O cursed spite! That ever I was born to set it right!

H., I: 5. 1401.

-Its Waste.

Oli.

T. C., III: 3. 1125.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of

-Recompenses Men.

Per. * *

Whereby I see that Time 's the king of men, For he 's their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they

crave.

P., II: 3. 1651.

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Dol. Captain! thou abominable cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called -captain? If captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. You a captain, you slave! for what? * * He a captain! Hang him, rogue! He lives upon mouldy stewed prunes, and dried cakes. A captain! these villains will make the word captain as odious as the word occupy, which was an excellent good word before it was i'l sorted; therefore captains had need look to it.

II. IV., 2 pt., II: 4. 786.

-Bombastic Use of.

Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it; if he were twenty sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.

Slen. In the county of Gloster, justice of peace and coram.

Shal. Ay, cousin Slender, and Custalorum.

Slen. Ay, and ratolorum too; and a gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself armigero; in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, armigero.

Shal. Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three hundred years.

Slen. All his successors, gone before him, have done 't; and all his ancestors, that come after him, may.

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