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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven. - [Virtue] But we all are men, In our own natures frail; and capable Of our flesh, few are angels. - [Man] But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. - [Flattery] But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it. - [Truth] But yet,-- I do not like but yet, it does allay The good precedence; fye upon but yet; But yet is as a gaoler to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. - [Equivocation] But, soft: behold! lo, where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me.--Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use a voice, Speak to me. - [Ghosts] By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm. - [Instinct] By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. - [Taxes] By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death Will seize the doctor too. - [Death : Doctors] By noting of the lady I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. - [Blushes] By our remembrances of days foregone. - [Retrospection] Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit. - [Cards] Calumny will sear virtue itself; these shrugs, these hums and ha's. - [Calumny] Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness? - [Modesty] Can one desire too much of a good thing? - [Desire] Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, you are he; graces will appear, and there's an end. - [Virtue] Can we outrun the heavens? - [God] Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. - [Medicine] Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart? - [Mind] Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king? - [Sleep] Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. - [Grief] Ceremony was but devis'd at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown. - [Ceremony] Certain drops of salt. - [Tears] Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without Fear or Doubt, To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love. - [Fidelity] Charity, which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. - [Charity] Displaying page 9 of 187 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
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