They're loving, well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing, And swelling o'er with arts and exercise; How novelty may move, and parts with person, (Which I beseech you, call a virtuous sin,) A TRUMPETER. Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe: Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek Out-swell the colic of puff'd Aquilon: Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood: Thou blow'st for Hector. DIOMEDES' MANNER OF WALKING. 'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait; He rises on the toe: that spirit of his In aspiration lifts him from the earth. DESCRIPTION OF CRESSIDA. There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks: her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive* of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes, And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. CHARACTER OF TROILUS. The youngest son of Priam, a true knight; Not yet mature, yet matchless: firm of word; Speaking in deeds, and deedless† in his tongue; Not soon provok'd, nor, being provok'd soon calm'd: His heart and hand both open, and both free; For what he has, he gives, what thinks, he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty, Nor dignifies an impair thought with breath Manly as Hector, but more dangerous: For Hector, in his blaze of wrath, subscribes§ + No boaster. Unsuitable to his character § Yields, gives way. * Motion. To tender objects; but he, in heat of action, HECTOR IN BATTLE. I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft, Labouring for destiny, make cruel way, [thee, Through ranks of Greekish youth: and I have seen When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air, Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life! And I have seen thee pause, and take thy breath, When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in, Like an Olympian wrestling. ACHILLES SURVEYING HECTOR. Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body Shall destroy him? whether there, there, or there? That I may give the local wound a name; And make distinct the very breach whereout ACT V. RASH VOWS. The gods are deaf to hot and peevisht vows, They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. HONOUR MORE DEAR THAN LIFE. Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate: Life every man holds dear; but the dear man Holds honour far more precious-dear‡ than life. PITY TO BE DISCARDED IN WAR. For the love of all the gods, Let's leave the hermit pity with our mother; * Fallen. Ages, the seven, a description of 77 25, 212 272 19 Allegiance, firm, described Ambition jealous of a too successful friend clothed in specious humility Ambitious love 164 174 230 Anarchy, the mischiefs of 183 Anger described 160 external effects of 164 Antony, Mark, his vices and virtues 170 victory his despondency his speech to Cleopatra at his return with his reflections on his faded glory 176 ib. 177 1 his address to the corpse of Cesar 232 his speech to the conspirators 233 234 his character of Brutus 243 Aposiopesis, a fine one 70 Appearances, false, described 133 Applause, description of 166 Ariel, songs of Army, routed, description of one Arthur, pathetic speeches of, to Hubert Assignation Astrology ridiculed Aufidius, his hatred to Coriolanus Birth, high Boaster Bolingbroke's public entry into London described Braggart 33 34 118 243 38 14, 26 60 84 246 132 59 154 97 78 199 a cowardly one 62 34 Brutus and Cassius, tent scene between the parting of Buckingham, Duke of, his prayer for the king 238 242 161 68, 70 215 229 13, |