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AND OF THE TIMES (AS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY) OF
OUR IMMORTAL BARD,
THESE EXTRACTS FROM HIS WORKS,
ARE
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY THEIR HUMBLE SERVANT,
THE COMPILER.
SPIRIT OF ALBION!
WE, thy histrionic Sons and Daughters, who
" Have strutted our hour upon the stage,
And now are heard no more,"
Being hi the vale of years, implore the aid of thy inspiring name,
to infuse a disposition in the Dramatis Personse of the Great
Theatre of the World, to view us with benevolent consideration,
ere the Great Curtain drop on our last scene.
THE PERIOD WAS,
When, by thy all- directing voice, we
" Were well bestowed
As the brief chronicles of the time ;"
And, by thee were we tutored,
" To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to shew Virtue her own
feature ; Scorn her own image ; and the very age and body of the time its
form and pressure."
Also, under thy all-inspiring auspices, we have practised
the cure of melancholy ; for well thou sayest,
" Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy ;
Therefore it is thought good to hear a play,
And frame the mind to mirth and merriment ;
Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life."
Now we, thy votaries, finding that
" This wide and Universal Theatre
Presents more woful pageants, than the scenes
Wherein we played,"
RETIRE ;
But, ever cheered by the magic of thy name, we live on
" All the fair effects of future hopes."
Thy
EX DRAMATIS PERSONS
OF
D.L. &C.G.
PREFACE.
ALL minds attached to the memory of our immortal
Shakespeare, feel a longing desire, an ardent anxiety,
to know something of his childhood, his adolescence,
and, indeed, of every minute circumstance relating to
him, preluding his arrival in London, where he
appears to have come the child of Nature, the ward
of Providence. There does not exist any record or
traditional account of his having manifested any
distinguished precocity during his youth ; and now
more than two hundred years have rolled away without
any important records having been found to throw
a light upon his early history. It would be most
gratifying to have been furnished with some historical
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traits illustrating the dawn of his mighty genius, and
the progression of his intellectual development : that
gratification is denied us, contemplation, and amaze-
ment, fill the void.
Born in 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, we find him
arrived in London in the year 1586, at the age of
twenty-two, seeking a maintenance through the me-
dium of his talents : and his genius, or his destiny,
appears to have led his first steps towards the theatres
of the metropolis. This early bias seems subsequently
to have attached him permanently to the Drama : he
became a writer for the stage, and evidently a suc-
cessful one for in 1589 he was a joint proprietor with
Burbage in theatrical property. He published his first
poem (Venus and Adonis) in 1593 ; but the first pub-
lication of his plays does not appear to have taken
place until 1597 (when he was thirty-three years of age).
It is not correctly ascertained how many of his plays
were written, and acted, up to this period. He lived
nineteen years afterwards, fifteen of which were appa-
rently passed in the capital, still writing for the theatres,
and superintending his dramatic property. He retired
to his native town, Stratford, about the year 1612,
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where he enjoyed four years of literary leisure, dying
of fever in 1616, at the age of fifty-two.
It was observed by Dryden that, " in Shakespeare,
we find all arts and sciences, all moral and natural
philosophy, without knowing that he ever studied
them." It is evident, however, that he had studied
them ; and it is very manifest, too, that in the forma-
tion of his historical dramas, he imbibed largely from
the Chronicles of Holinshed, which work must have
been very scarce in his day, from whence it may be
fairly presumed that he had free access to the library
of the Earl of Southampton, as it does not appear by
Shakespeare's will, or by tradition, that he possessed
any books himself. That noble earl claims, indeed,
our deepest gratitude, as the foster-friend the princely
patron, of that brightest genius of our land. It is
mortifying that history has left us so little information
relative to the life and literary pursuits of that illus-
trious nobleman, particularly as connected with Shake-
speare. Records inform us, that " he was engaged in
the conspiracy with the Earl of Essex, and with him
imprisoned in the Tower," where, no doubt, the society
of the Bard of Avon formed his chiefest solace.
PREFACE.
As tradition does not furnish us with any instance
of the development of precocious intellect in Shake-
speare's youth, the dawn of his genius must have first
manifested itself during his sojournment in the capital ;
so it is evident that when there, he must have devoted
himself assiduously to various reading, as well as to
universal observation of mankind ; for all his historical
plays, and many of the others, prove extensive reading,
and particularly of the passing events of preceding
generations in his own country. The religious extracts,
which form a material part of this work, shew with
what advantage he had perused the Holy Scriptures.
Every thing relative to his mental acquirements tends
to illustrate a mind signally gifted, pursuing a system
of self-formation, based on the highest fecundity of
genius. It may be presumed that he derived some
stimulus towards self-education from the taunts of his
companion, Ben Jonson ; who evidently prided him-
self upon his scholarship (he being proficient in Greek
and Latin), and probably throwing out, at times, hints
that he (Shakespeare) had not received so classical an
education as himself Jonson having observed of him,
that he possessed " small Latin and less Greek."
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Feelings of mortification, perhaps, generated by
reflections like the above (and sensitively alive to the
necessity which he felt, that he must pursue his dra-
matic labours for his maintenance, while his genius
elevated his mind above the cares of livelihood), seem
to be pourtrayed in the following lines of one of his
poems :
O, for my sake, do thou with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide,
Than public means, which public manners breeds :
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ;
And almost thence my nature is subdu'd,
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand :
Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eysell, 'gainst my strong infection :
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
SONNET cxi.
These lines were probably written under a depression
of spirits, naturally arising from vexation, at the ne-
cessity which he laboured under, of being compelled
(in accordance with the times) to adopt many senti-
ments, and expressions, solely to "please the ears of
the groundlings," and also from the difficulties and
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odium which the members of the drama at that period
had to undergo, from the opposition which was then
made by the Papists, and Puritans, to dramatic repre-
sentations ; and the establishment of playhouses.
Even the Corporation of the City of London was
strongly opposed to the erection of a theatre at Black-
friars, in which Shakespeare had a great interest.
Such vexatious oppositions must have mortified his
soaring spirit, propelled by
The force of heaven-bred poesy.
Two GENTLEMEN OP VERONA, iii. 2.
That he felt the advantages of study as well as its
pleasures, is exemplified in the advice given to
Lucentio upon the subject of study.
Continue your resolve,
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only * * * while we do admire
This virtue, and this moral discipline,
Let 's be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray ;
Or so devote to Aristotle's ethics,
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured.
Talk logic with acquaintance that you have,
And practise rhetoric in your common talk,
Music and poesy, use to quicken you ;
The mathematics and the metaphysics,
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Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you :
No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta'en :
In brief, Sir, study what you most affect.
TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 1 .
In the foregoing lines his attachment to the higher
branches of philosophy are most manifest, but although
his mental powers were capable of embracing every
thing within the span of human intellect, it is clear
he felt that his early education, and his station in
life, had not led him into the school of Aristotle,
but that the decree of Providence had placed him
upon Mount Parnassus, and had wedded him to the
Muses.
However, we cannot omit to notice the incidents
wherein we find him philosophizing, viz. when,
during a violent storm, he says:
First let me talk with this philosopher :
What is the cause of thunder ?
KING LEAR, iii. 4.
Then again, his observation of the distinct locality
of the polar star of which he says,
I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true, fixed, and resting quality,
There is no fellow in the firmament :
The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks,
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They are allure and every one doth shine-
But there 's but one, in all, doth hold his place .'
JULIUS CAESAR, iii. 1.
Here is a manifestation of his knowledge of the
changes in the positions of the stars, through the
effect of the rotation of the earth. But what shall
we say, how shall we express our surprise and ad-
miration at his distinctly denning the principle of
gravitation, long before Sir Isaac Newton was born,
to whom the merit of the discovery has been so
honourably attributed, from his enlarged and scientific
explanations of its operating effects, acting throughout
the whole system of the Universe ? As it applies to
our Earth it is thus defined by Shakespeare :
Time, force, and death,
Do to this body what extremes they can ;
But the strong base, and building of my love,
Is, as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iv. 2.
Here is an instance of intellectual supremacy, that at
least approaches to inspiration : and it would indeed
be "gilding refined gold," to adduce any additional
instance to illustrate his gifted intellect, for we may
justly say that he possessed a mind
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So perfect, and so peerless ; seem'd created
Of every creature's best.
TEMPEST, iii. 1.
We must, however, give one trait of his intimate
knowledge of the innate qualities, and apparent states,
of the human mind. The case is a medical one, and
his analysis of it is so clear, and so concise, that the
President of the College of Physicians, in a Lecture
to that body, introduced it, to illustrate his own dis-
course upon Insanity; as an exemplary definition of
that disease. It is in the scene where Hamlet rebukes
his mother for her marriage with his uncle, and she
charges him with being " in ecstacies" he says in
reply,
Ecstacy !
My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthful music. It is not madness
That I have uttered : bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word; which madness
Would gambol from.
HAMLET, iii. 4.
Can any thing be more definite or more lucid upon
the subject ?
The distinguished beauties in the language of
Shakespeare, his vast conceptions, his boundless
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ideas, his innate knowledge of human nature, his
inimitable descriptive powers, have been so often and
so ably analysed and portrayed, that it would be
supererogation to enter upon those themes ; we only
request permission to repeat Dr. Johnson's illustration
of his powers, as conveyed in his celebrated prologue
at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, in 1747, viz.
When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes
First reared the Stage, immortal Shakespeare rose ;
Each change of many-colour'd life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new :
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
It delights the mind to read such an encomium from
the pen of the most eminent writer of the age in which
he lived, acknowledging the pre-eminence of his gifted
predecessor.
Previous to entering upon the presentation of the
following religious extracts from the works of Shake-
speare (which may be justly termed his moral beau-
ties), it is proper that the cause or motive should be
PREFACE.
stated which gave rise to the selection, and the publi-
cation of them.
Upon visiting Stratford-upon-Avon, the Compiler
observed in the room where " Shakespeare's Relicks "
are exhibited, a large written paper, in a gilt frame,
(designedly presented to the view), termed " a copy of
Shakespeare s Will," but drawn up in the Roman
Catholic form ; representing itself, as a faithful copy
of the real Will, deposited at Doctors Commons.
Having repeatedly seen printed copies of his genuine
Will, fraud was immediately apparent; and as it
was manifestly placed there for the purpose of de-
ceiving the world, by the insidious attempt to prove
him a Papist, the Compiler resolved, in justice to
Shakespeare's memory in justice to the Reformed
Religion and in justice to the divinity of Truth,
to expose the fraudulent design, by proving from
Shakespeare's own writings, that he lived and died a
true Protestant.
With this view, the following extracts from his
works, and from the Scriptures, have been collected,
and placed together in parallel positions, to shew the
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close affinity that exists between the sentences there
exhibited, from his works, and passages taken from
Holy Writ.
It has been thought right, however, antecedently
to present to the reader, copies of the preambles to
the true and the fraudulent Wills, in order that he
may, himself, judge of the motive for the fabrication,
and of the motive for the refutation.
TRUE COPY OF THE PREAMBLE TO
rfiaftrsprarf's KSMll,
Extracted from the Registry of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Vicesimo quinto die Martii, anno regni domini nostri
Jacobi, nunc Rex Anglise, &c. decimo quarto, et
Scotise quadragesimo nono. Anno Domini 1616.
In the name of God, Amen ! I, William Shakespeare,
of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the County of Warwick,
Gentleman, in perfect health and memory, (God be
praised !) do make and ordain this my last will and
testament, in manner and form following : that is
to say,
First I commend my soul into the hands of God, my
Creator ; hoping, and assuredly believing, through
the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be
made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to
the earth whereof that is made.
Item I give and bequeath," &c.
N.B. This Preamble has been minutely compared,
and it correctly corresponds with the true original last
will and testament of Shakespeare, deposited in the
Prerogative Office, at Doctors' Commons.
Copy of the Preamble to a Manuscript exhibited as
Sfjatospeare's Oiill.
At a House in Stratford-upon-Avon, where his relics are shewn*
PREAMBLE :
" Vicesimo quinto die Martii, anno regni domini nostri
Jacobi, nunc Rex Anglise, &c. decimo quarto, et
Scotise quadragesimo nono. Anno Domini 1616.
" In the name of God, the Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost ; the most holy and blessed Virgin Mary, Mo-
ther of God; the Holy Ghost, of Arc- Angels, Angels,
Patriarchs, Prophets, Evangelists, Apostles, Saints,
Martyrs, and all the Celestial Courts and Companies of
Heaven,
" I, William Shakespear, an unworthy member of
the Holy Catholic Religion, being, at this my present
writing, in perfect health of body, sound mind, memory,
* The proprietors of the house where this Will is shewn
(amongst the relics) are innocent of the fraud, and ignorant of
its import, being poor persons, to whom the articles exhibited
devolved by descent.
and understanding, but calling to mind the uncertainty
of life, and the certainty of death, and that I may
be possibly cut off in the blossom of my sins, and
called to render an account of all my transgressions,
external and internal, and that I may be unprepared
for the dreadful trial, either by sacrament, penance,
fasting, or prayer, or any other purgation whatever,
do, in the holy presence above specified, of my own
free and voluntary accord, make and ordain this my
last spiritual Will, Testament, Confession, Protestation,
and Confession of Faith ; hoping hereby to receive
pardon for all my sins and offences, and thereby to be
made partaker of life everlasting, through the only
merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour and Redeemer ;
who took upon himself the likeness of man, suffered
death, and was crucified upon the cross, for the re-
demption of sinners.
Item. I, William Shakespear, do, by this present,
protest, acknowledge, and confess, that in my past life
I have been a most abominable and grievous sinner,
and therefore unworthy to be forgiven without a true
and sincere repentance for the same ; but, trusting in
the manifold mercies of my blessed Saviour and Re-
deemer, I am encouraged, by relying on His Sacred
Word, to hope for salvation, and be made partaker of
His Heavenly Kingdom, as a member of the Celes-
tial Company of Angels, Saints, and Martyrs, and
therefore reside for ever and ever in the Court of my
God.
Item. I, William Shakespear, do, by this present,
declare, that as I am certain I must pass out of this
transitory life into another that will last to eternity, I
do hereby most humbly implore and entreat my good
Guardian Angels to instruct me in this my solemn pre-
paration, protestation, and confession of Faith at least
spiritually.
Item. I give and bequeath, &c. &c.
N.B. There is not, and never has been, any Will of
Shakespeare, with the above preamble, deposited at
Doctors' Commons ; which circumstance is, in itself, a
sufficient proof of the fraud attempted.
PASSAGES EXTRACTED
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE;
ADDUCED AS PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE
THAT THE
TENETS OF THE RELIGION WHICH HE PROFESSED
WERE NOT OF THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC PERSUASION.
THE following anti-papistical sentences are selected from
the writings of Shakespeare with a view to corroborate the
just opinion of him, that he was a true and professed member
of the Protestant Church of England.
There is nothing presented in his writings, or hi the few
records that we have of his life, that in the least indicates his
having held the Roman Catholic faith ; and it may be fully
presumed, that had he been of that persuasion, he would
not have exposed himself to the censure of that priesthood,
by expressing the strong anti-popish sentiments conveyed in
the following extracts.
That he was a member of the Protestant Church of England
is indisputably corroborated, by the circumstance of his chil-
dren having been all baptized in that faith, in which faith
he made his real last Will and Testament, and in which faith
he was buried in his own Protestant Parish Church.
SUPREMACY.
Thou can'st not, Cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous,
To charge me to an answer, as the Pope.
We, under Heaven, are supreme head ;
So under Him, that great Supremacy,
Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,
Without assistance from a mortal hand :
So tell the Pope ; all reverence set apart,
To him, and his usurped authority.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
The Cardinal makes no reply to the above abjuration.
No Italian priest shall tithe or toll in our dominions.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
FAITH.
Oaths are straws, men s faiths are wafer-cakes.
HENRY V. ii. 3.
Play fast and loose with faith, so jest with Heaven.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
ABSOLUTION.
Though you, and all the Kings of Christendom,
Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,
Dreading the curse that money may buy out,
And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,
Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,
Who, in that sale, sells pardon from himself
Though you and all the rest so grossly led,
This juggling witchcraft, with reverence cherish ;
Yet I alone, alone do me oppose
Against the Pope ; and count his friends my foes.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
DENUNCIATION.
We think it indispensable to give Cardinal Pandulph's ex-
communication of the King, hi reply to the above speech
of King John, denouncing the Pope.
Then, by the lawful power that I have,
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate ;
And blessed shall he be that doth revolt,
From his allegiance to an heretic ;
And meritorious shall that hand be called,
Canonized, and worshipped as a saint,
That takes away, by any secret course,
Thy hateful life.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
The original of the above denunciation led to the esta-
blishment of Magna Charta ; for the barons, fearful that
the King would be intimidated by the threat, forced him
to sign the great charter of the land, the first words of
which are : " The Church of England shall be free, and
shall have her whole rights and liberties inviolable."
CHARACTER OF CARDINAL BEAUFORT, BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER.
What ! is my lord of Winchester installed
And called unto a Cardinal's degree !
Then, I perceive, that will be verified,
Henry the Fifth did sometimes prophesy :
" If once he come to be a Cardinal
He '11 make his cap co-equal with the crown."
1 HENRY VI. v. 1.
This Cardinal is more haughty than the devil.
1 HENRY VI. i. 3.
Oh, how this discord doth afflict my soul !
Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold
My sighs and tears, and will not once relent ?
Who should be pitiful if you are not ?
Or who should study to prefer a peace,
If holy churchmen take delight in broils ?
1 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook ;
Thou art no friend to God, or to the King.
1 HENRY VI. i. 8.
Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh,
And ne'er, throughout the year, to church thou go'st,
Except it be to pray against thy foes.
1 HENRY VI. i. 1.
Fie, Uncle Beaufort ! I have heard you preach,
That malice was a great and grievous sin ;
And will you not maintain the thing you teach,
But prove a chief offender in the same ?
1 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
There 's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor King,
Hath here distrained the Tower to his use.
1 HENRY VI. i. 3.
Under my feet I '11 stamp the Cardinal's hat,
In spite of Pope, or dignities of Church.
1 HENRY VJ. i. 3.
Presumptuous priest ! this place commands my
patience,
Or thou should'st find thou hast dishonoured me.
Think not, although in writing I preferred
The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
That therefore I have forged, or am not able,
Verbatim, to rehearse the method of my pen :
No, prelate ; such is thy audacious wickedness,
Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks,
As very infants prattle of thy pride.
Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
Froward by nature, enemy to peace ;
Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
A man of thy profession and degree ;
And for thy treachery, what 's more manifest ?
1 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
Let us watch the haughty Cardinal,
His insolence is more intolerable
Than all the princes in the land beside.
2 HENRY VI. i. 1.
Oft have I seen the haughty Cardinal,
More like a soldier than a man o' the church,
As stout and proud as he were lord of all,
Swear like a ruffian.
2 HENRY VI. i. 1.
Now, by God's Mother, priest, I '11 shave your
crown for this.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
What, Cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremp-
tory ?
Churchmen so hot ? good uncle, hide such malice.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
Ambitious churchman ! leave to afflict my heart ;
Sorrow and grief have vanquished all my powers.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
Gloster, thou 'It answer this before the Pope.
Winchester goose ! I cry a rope ! a rope !
Now beat them hence ; why do you let them stay ?
Thee I '11 chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array .-
Out, tawney coats ! out, scarlet hypocrite !
1 HENRY VI. i. 8.
Gas
Now, Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Humphrey of Gloster, thou shalt well perceive
That nor in birth, nor for authority,
The Bishop will be overborne by thee ;
Either I '11 make thee stoop, and bend thy knee,
Or sack this country with a mutiny.
1 HENRY VI. v. 1.
York, and impious Beaufort, that false priest,
Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 4.
Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death,
*****
Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth,
And whispers to his pillow
The secrets of his over-charged soul.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
Lord Cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,
Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope :
He dies, and makes no sign !
2 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
WOLSEY.
My surveyor is false the o'er great Cardinal
Hath shewed him gold : my life is spanned already.
HENRY VIII. i. 1.
The Cardinal is the end of this,
The Commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Wish him ten fathoms deep.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
That devil monk
Hopkins, that made the mischief ;
That was he
That fed them with his prophecies.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
This is the Cardinal's doing ; the King Cardinal,
That b]md priest : the King will know him one day.
HENRY VIII. ii. 2.
I love him not, nor fear him ; there 's my creed ;
I knew him, and I know him ; so I leave him
To him that made him proud, the Pope.
HENRY VIII. ii. 2.
Heaven will one day open
The King's eyes, that so long have slept upon
This bold, bad, man.
HENRY VIII. ii. 2.
I must tell you,
You tender more your person's honour, than
Your high profession spiritual.
HENRY VIII. ii. 4.
These Cardinals trifle with me : I abhor
This dilatory sloth, and tricks of Rome.
HENRY VIII. ii. 4.
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Is this your Christian counsel ? out upon ye !
Holy men I thought ye,
But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
HENRY VIII. Hi. 2.
This paper has undone me : 'T is the account
Of all that world of wealth I 've drawn together
For mine own ends : indeed to gain the popedom,
And fee my friends in Rome.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
Thou art a proud traitor, priest !
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
I '11 startle you,
Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench
Lay kissing in your arms, Lord Cardinal.
HENKY VIII. iii. 2.
In all you writ to Rome, or else
To foreign princes, " Ego et Rex meus "
Was still inscrib'd : in which you brought the King
To be your servant.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
Out of mere ambition, you have caus'd
Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the King's coin.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
Now, if you can blush, and cry guilty, Cardinal,
You '11 shew a little honesty.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
If we did think
His contemplations were above the earth,
And fixed on spiritual objects ; he should still
Dwell in his musings ; but I am afraid
His thinkings are below the moon ; not worth
His serious considering.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
Woe upon ye, and such false professors !
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
Himself with princes. I' the presence
He would say untruths ; and be ever double,
Both in his words and meaning :
Of his own body he was ill, and gave
The clergy ill example.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
By my soul,
Your long coat, priest, protects you : thou should' st
feel
My sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords,
Can ye endure this arrogance,
And from this fellow ?
HENRY VIII. iii. 4.
Love and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition :
Win straying souls with modesty again,
Cast none away.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
Stand back, thou manifest conspirator :
Thou, that contrived' st to murder our dead lord !
Thou, that giv'st whores indulgences to sin !
I '11 canvass thee in thy broad Cardinal's hat,
If thou proceed'st in this thy insolence.
1 HENRY VI. i. 3.
What ! talking with a priest, Lord Chamberlain ?
Your friends at Pomfret they do need the priest :
Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.
RICHAKD III. iii. 2.
I know that thou art religious,
And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,
Which I have seen thee careful to observe ;
Therefore I urge thy oath ; for that I know
An idiot holds his bauble for a God,
And keeps the oath, which by that God he swears ;
To that I '11 urge him : 'therefore thou shalt vow
By that same God, what God soe'er it be,
That thou adorst and hast in reverence.
TITUS ANDRONICUS, v. 1.
From the foregoing extracts it is presumed, that every mind
capable of judging will be fully convinced that Shakespeare
was not a papist ; and it must be borne in mind, that the
evidence hi proof thereof is given by himself; a testimony
more powerful than the arguments of commentators.
No papist would have been inclined, or would have dared
to have put into the mouths of his Dramatis Personse, such
expressions, counter to papacy, as are presented in these
extracts.
We will now proceed to shew, by demonstration similar
to the preceding, viz. his own writings, that he was a true
and worthy member of the Reformed Church of England.
This we do by placing, hi juxtaposition with his own re-
ligious sentences, corresponding passages from Holy Writ;
thereby proving how versed he was in the Scriptures, as
exemplified by the similitude of his religious sentences to
the passages drawn from the Bible, and the Liturgy of the
Church of England.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ABEL.
Sluic'd out his innocent soul through streams of blood :
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries
* for justice.
RICHARD II. i. 1.
This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
To slay thy brother Abel.
\ HENRY VI. i. 3.
ABILITY.
The force of his own merit makes his way,
A gift that Heaven gives for him.
HENRY VIII. i. 1.
ABRAHAM.
O Father Abraham, what these Christians are !
MERCHANT OF VENICE, i. 3.
Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
Of good old Abraham !
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom.
RICHARD III. iv. 3.
ACCOUNT.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account,
With all my imperfections on my head.
HAMLET, i. 5.
And, how his audit stands, who knows, save Heaven ?
HAMLET, iii. 3.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
ABEL.
Upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon
the earth ; from the blood of righteous Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias whom ye slew.
MATTHEW, xxiii.
And the Lord said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground ; and now art
thou cursed from the earth !
GENESIS, iv.
ABILITY.
If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which
God giveth.
1 PETER, iv.
ABRAHAM.
Though Abraham be ignorant of us, Thou, Lord, art our
Father, our Redeemer !
ISAIAH, Ixiii.
Ye shall see Abraham, in the kingdom of God!
LUKE, xiii.
And he was carried, by the angels, into Abraham's bosom.
LUKE, xvi.
ACCOUNT.
Every one of us shall give account of himself to God !
ROMANS, xiv.
They shall give account to Him, that is ready to judge
the quick and the dead !
1 PETER, iv.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ACCOUNT (continued).
What I speak,
My body shall make good upon this earth,
Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.
RlCHAKD II. 1. 1.
ACTIONS.
To give us warrant from the hand of Heaven ;
And on our actions set the name of right,
With holy breath.
KING JOHN, v. 2.
ADAM.
Consideration, like an angel, came,
And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,
Leaving his body as a Paradise.
HENRY V. i. 1.
I would not marry her, though she were endowed with
all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
MtTCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 1.
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam.
AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 1.
AFFLICTION.
Had it pleas'd Heaven
To try me with affliction,
I should have found, in some part of my soul,
A drop of patience.
OTHELLO, iv. 2.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
ACCOUNT (continued).
I say unto you, Every idle word that men shall speak,
they shall give account thereof hi the day of judgment.
MATTHEW, xii.
ACTIONS.
The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are
weighed.
1 SAMUEL, ii.
ADAM.
O merciful God! grant that the old Adam in these per-
sons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised
up in them.
LiTUBGY, BAPTISM.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine
iniquity in my bosom.
JOBjXxxi.
The Lord God sent Adam forth from the Garden of
Eden, to till the ground.
GENESIS, iii.
AFFLICTION.
And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers,
the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and
our labour, and our oppression.
DEUTERONOMY, xxvi.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ALTAR.
Her grace rose, and with modest paces
Came to the altar : where she kneel'd, and, saint-like,
Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and pray'd devoutly.
HENRY VIII. iv. 1.
AMEN.
Now I pray God Amen !
HENRY VIII. ii. 3.
God save the King ! Will no man say Amen ?
Am I hoth priest and clerk ? Well then, Amen !
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
One cried God bless us ! and Amen ! the other.
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I could not say Amen
When they did say God bless us.
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But wherefore could I not pronounce Amen ?
I had most need of blessing.
MACBETH, ii. 2.
AMENDS.
Now, Lord, be thanked for my good amends !
TAMING OF THE SHREW (Induction).
God amend us, God amend ! we are much out o' the way.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
ALTAR.
He said unto Judah, Ye shall worship before this altar
in Jerusalem.
2 KINGS, xviii.
AMEN.
Lord ! be merciful unto me, and raise me up ! Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting !
Amen, and Amen !
PSALM xli.
Blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save King
Solomon ! And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, answered
and said, Amen !
1 KINGS, i.
Praise ye the Lord! blessed are they that keep las judg-
ments ! Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ! and let all the
people say Amen !
PSALM cvi.
AMENDS.
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done.
LEVITICUS, v.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend
your ways.
JEREMIAH, vii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL, SENTENCES FROM
AMBITION.
That spirit of his,
In aspiration, lifts him from the earth.
TROILUS AND CRBSSIDA, iv. 5.
Fling away ambition,
By that sin fell the angels : how can man, then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ?
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
ANGEL.
And her immortal part with angels lives.
ROMEO AND JULIET, v. 1.
I tell thee, churlish priest,
A minist'ring angel shall my sister be,
When thou liest howling.
HAMLET, v. 1.
With angel- like perfection.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ii. 4.
If angels fight,
Weak men must fall, for Heaven still guards the right.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
ANT.
We '11 set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there 's
no labouring in the whiter.
KING LEAR, ii. 4.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
AMBITION.
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that
He may exalt you in due time.
1 PETER, v.
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughti-
ness of men shall be made low.
ISAIAH, ii.
ANGEL.
He shall give His angels charge over thee ; to keep thee
hi all thy ways.
PSALM xci.
Of the angels He saith, Who maketh His angels spirits.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for
them who shall be heirs of salvation ?
HEBREWS, i.
Wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God.
2 SAMUEL, xiv.
Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, that
do His Commandments ! As for man, his days are as grass :
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth,
PSALM ciii.
ANT.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their
meat in the summer.
PROVERBS, xxx.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ANSWER.
By the eternal God ! whose name and power
Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask !
2 HENRY VI. i. 4.
APPEAL. (PRAYER.)
But this lies all within the will of God,
To whom I do appeal !
HENRY V. i. 2.
For we have now no thought in us, but France,
Save those to God.
HENRY V. i. 2.
APPEASE.
O God f if my deep prayers cannot appease Thee,
But Thou wilt be aveng'd on my misdeeds,
Yet execute Thy wrath on me alone !
RICHARD III. i. 4.
ARK.
There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples
are coming to the ark!
A8 YOU LIKB IT, V. 4.
ARMOUR.
To reach at victory above my head,
Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers ;
And with thy blessings steel my lance's point.
RICHARD II. i. 3.
21;
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
ANSWER.
The baptism of John, was it from Heaven, or of men ?
Answer me.
MARK xi.
APPEAL. (PRAYER.)
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of Thy servant,
Lord my God ! to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer
which Thy servant prayeth before Thee this day !
1 KINGS, viii.
APPEASE.
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed;
and thou shalt know that / am the Lord : that thou mayest
remember and be confounded, when / am pacified towards
thee for all that thou hast done.
EZEKIEL, Xvi.
ARK.
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark,
the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
GENESIS, vii.
ARMOUR.
When a stronger than he shall come upon him and over-
come him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he
trusted.
ST. LUKE, xi.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ARMS.
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ?
Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though lock'd up hi steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted !
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
BABES.
He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister ;
So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shewn,
When judges have been babes.
ALL '8 WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ii. 1.
BAPTISM.
And we will hear, note, and believe in heart,
That what you speak is, in your conscience, wash'd
As pure as sin with baptism.
HENRY V. i. 2.
There is a fair young maid, that yet wants baptism.
HENRY VIII. v. 2.
BARABBAS.
I have a daughter :
Would any of the stock of Barabbas
Had been her husband, rather than a Christian !
MERCHANT OP VENICE, iv. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
QWrit.
ARMS.
He put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and an helmet
of salvation upon his head.
ISAIAH, lix.
My righteousness is near, and mine arms shall judge the
people. The isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall
they trust.
ISAIAH, li.
BABES.
Behold, the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah the stay and the staff : the mighty man, the
judge, the prophet, the prudent, and the ancient.
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And / will give children to be their princes, and babes shall
rule over them.
ISAIAH, iii.
BAPTISM.
And now, why tamest thou ? arise and be baptized, and
wash away thy sins : calling on the name of the Lord.
ACTS, xxii.
And a certain woman named Lydia was baptised ; and her
household.
ACTS, xvi.
BARABBAS.
The chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that
they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
MATTHEW, xxvii.
RELIGIOVS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
BASAN.
O that I were
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar
The horned herd !
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 11.
BELIEVE.
Before my God, 1 might not this believe,
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes.
HAMLET, i. 1.
BEELZEBUB.
Truly he holds Beelzebub at the stave's end, as well as
a man in his case may do.
TWELFTH NIGHT, v. 1.
Who 's there, i' the name of Beelzebub ?
MACBETH, ii. 3.
BETRAY.
O, then my hest blood turn
To an infected jelly ; and my name
Be yok'd with his, that did betray the Best !
WINTER'S TALE, i. 2.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
BASAN.
As the Hill of Basan, so is God's Hill : even an high hill
as the Hill of Basan.
PSALM Ixviii.
Many oxen are come about me : fat bulls of Basan close me
in on every side.
PSALM xxii.
Lift up thy voice in Basan.
JEKEMIAH, xxii.
BELIEVE.
Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders,
ye will not believe.
JOHN, iv.
BEELZEBUB.
Ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub; and if I
by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast
them out ?
LUKE, xi.
BETRAY.
And Jesus said, Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man
is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been
born !
MARK, xiv.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
BEWITCH.
Look to it, lords ; let not his smoothing words
Bewitch your hearts : be wise, and circumspect.
What, though the common people favour him !
2 HENRY VI. i. 1.
I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man.
CORIOLANUS, ii. 3.
Pray God, he be not bewitch'd !
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4.
Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not.
3 HENRY VI. Ui. 3.
BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR.
Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes,
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long,
So hallowed, and so gracious, is the time.
HAMLET, i. 1.
BLESSING.
God's benison go with you !
MACBETH, ii. 4.
The bounty and the benison of Heaven,
To boot, and boot.
KING LEAR, iv. 6.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
BEWITCH.
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which before-
time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people
of Samaria.
ACTS, viii.
O foolish Galatians ! who hath bewitched you, that ye
should not obey the truth ?
GALA-HANS, iii.
To him they had regard, because that of long time he had
bewitched them with sorceries.
ACTS, viii.
BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR.
Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the
days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from
the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King
of the Jews ? for we have seen His star in the east, and are
come to worship Him.
MATTHEW, ii.
BLESSING.
Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord ! the generation of
the upright shall be blessed.
PSALM cxii.
He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and
great.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
BLESSING (continued).
The God of Heaven both now and ever bless her !
HENRY VIII. v. 2.
The Heavens have bless" d you with a goodly son,
To be your comforter.
RICHARD III. i. 3.
BLINDNESS (MENTAL).
Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
To counsel me to make my peace with God;
And art thou yet to thine own soul so blind,
That thou wilt war with God by murdering me ?
RICHARD III. i. 4.
BLOOD.
Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effus'd,
Will cry for vengeance at the gates of Heaven.
1 HENRY VI. v. 4.
I am in blood
Stept in so far, that should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
MACBETH, iii. 4.
BOUNDS.
There 's nothing, situate under Heaven s eye,
But hath His bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.
COMEDY OF ERRORS, ii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
BLESSING (continued).
Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David !
1 SAMUEL, xxvi.
And David sent to comfort Hanun, for his father.
2 SAMUEL, x.
BLINDNESS (MENTAL) .
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because
of the blindness of their heart.
EPHESIAKS, iv.
BLOOD.
Shed not innocent blood.
JEREMIAH, vii.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
GENESIS, ix.
Lord, holy and true! Dost Thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the earth ?
REVELATION, vi.
BOUNDS.
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day
and night come to an end.
JOB, xxvi.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
BOOK OF LIFE.
If ever I were traitor,
My name be blotted from the Book of Life,
And I from Heaven banish'd, as from hence.
RICHABD II. i. 8.
If thy offences were upon record,
Would it not shame thee to read a lecture
Of them ?
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Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the Book of Heaven.
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
BOW THE KNEE.
Rather let my head
Stoop to the block, than these knees bow to any,
Save to the God of Heaven, and to my king.
2 HENHY VI. ir. 1.
On my knee
I give Heaven thanks, I was not like to thee.
KING JOHN, i. 1.
Help, angels, make assay !
Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of steel,
Be soft as smews of the new-born babe.
HAMLET, iii. 3.
CAIN.
With Cain go wander through the shade of night,
And never shew thy head by day nor light.
RICHARD II. v. 6.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
BOOK OF LIFE.
If any man shall take away from the words of the book
of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the
Book of Life.
REVELATION, xxii.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed hi white
raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the Book
of Life.
REVELATION, iii.
BOW THE KNEE.
Thus saith the Lord that created the Heavens; God Him-
self that formed the earth and made it : Look unto Me, all
the ends of the earth, for / am God, and there is none else ; and
unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear !
ISAIAH, xlv.
For it is written, As / live, saith the Lord, every knee shall
bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God !
ROMANS, xiv.
And they cried before him, Bow the knee.
GENESIS, xli.
CAIN.
Behold, Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of
the earth ; and from Thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.
GENESIS, iv.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
CAMEL.
It is as hard to come, as for a camel
To thread the postern of a needle's eye.
RICHARD II. v. 5.
CAUSE.
God befriend us, as our cause is just.
1 HENRY IV. v. 1.
CHRIST.
Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought
For Jesu Christ : in glorious Christian field
Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross,
Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens.
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
It hath been taught us from the primal state,
That He which is, was wish'd until He were.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, i. 4.
And there, at Venice, gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long.
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
CAMEL.
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God.
MATTHEW, xix.
CAUSE.
I would seek unto God ; and unto God would I commit my
cause.
JOB, v.
CHRIST.
He that loseth his life for My sake, shall find it : whoso-
ever shall deny Me before men, him will / also deny before
My Father which is in Heaven.
MATTHEW, x.
The Lord Himself shall give you a sign : Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
ISAIAH, vii.
Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus : endure
hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 TIMOTHY, ii.
Behold, God Himself is with us for our Captain.
2 CHRONICLES, xiii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
CHRIST (continued).
And, were these inward wars once out of hand,
We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land ;
2 HEXHY IV. iii. 1.
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,
(Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engag'd to fight) ;
To chase these pagans, in those holy fields,
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet,
Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd
For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
1 HENRY IV. i. 1.
And my name
Be yok'd with his that did betray the Best !
WINTER'S TALE, i. 2.
Now, by the death of Him that died for all,
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Wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son ?
2 HENRY VI. i. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
CHRIST (cow ifmwed).
And Jes?/s went about all Galilee, teaching in their syna-
gogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom ; and His
fame went through all Syria ; and there followed Him great
multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and
from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.
MATTHEW, iv.
And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples
apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem ; and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the
chief priests and unto the scribes ; and they shall condemn
Him to death; and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock,
and to scourge, and to crucify Him ; and the third day He
shall rise again.
MATTHEW, xx.
And they crucified Him : He rose again the third day, and
He appeared unto His disciples in Galilee, and spake unto them,
saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth : go
ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost : teach-
ing them to observe all things whatsoever / have commanded
you ; and lo ! /am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world. Amen.
MATTHEW.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
CHRISTIAN.
We trifle time away ; I long
To have this young one made a Christian.
HENRY VIII. v. 2.
Now, as I am a Christian, answer me.
COMEDY OF ERRORS, i. 2.
I hate him, for he is a Christian.
MERCHANT op VENICE, i. 3.
I shall be saved by my husband : he has made me a
Christian.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, iii. 5.
CHARGE.
Heaven, lay not my transgression to my charge !
KING JOHN, i. 1.
CHERUBIM.
O ! a cherubim
Thou wast that did preserve me : thou didst smile,
Infused with a fortitude from Heaven.
TEMPEST, i. 2.
CHURCH.
The King is full of grace and fair regard,
And a true lover of the holy church.
HENRY V. i. 1.
How much are we bound to Heaven
In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince ;
Not only good and wise, but most religious :
One that, in all obedience, makes the church
The chief aim of his honour.
HENRY VIII. v. 2.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
CHRISTIAN.
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me
to be a Christian.
ACTS, zxvi.
Yet, if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed,
but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 PETER, iv.
And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled them-
selves with the church, and taught much people ; and the
disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
ACTS, xi.
CHARGE.
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
ACTS, vii.
CHERUBIM.
Lord of Hosts, that dwellest between the cherubims,
Thou art the God, even Thou alone !
ISAIAH, zzzvn.
The Lord reigneth ; He sitteth between the cherubims : let
the earth be moved !
PSALM zcix.
CHURCH.
Christ is the Head of the church ; and He is the Saviour
of the body. * * Christ loved the church, and gave Him-
self for it, that He might present it to Himself a glorious
church, holy and without blemish.
EPHESIANS, v.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
COMFORT.
that comfort comes too late ;
'T is like a pardon after execution :
Now I am past all comfort here but prayers.
HEXRY VIII. iv. 3.
Comfort 's in Heaven, and we are on the earth.
RICHARD II. ii. 2.
My comfort is, that Heaven will take our souls.
RICHARD II. iii. 1.
I conjure thee, as thou believ'st
There is another comfort than this world,
That thou neglect me not.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, v. 1.
I will keep her ignorant of her good,
To make her heavenly comforts of despair.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 3.
of comfort no man speak :
Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
God comfort him in this necessity !
1 HENRY VI. iv. 3.
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COMFORT.
Thou hast caused me to put my trust in Thy word ; the
same is my comfort in my trouble.
Let Thy merciful kindness be for my comfort.
PSALM cxix.
God is in Heaven, and thou upon earth.
ECCLESIASTES, V.
I remembered thine everlasting judgment, Lord, and
received comfort.
PSALM cxix.
Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up ! Thy comforts have
refreshed my soul.
PSALM xciv.
Blessed be God, the Father of mercies, and the God of all
comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may
be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the com-
fort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2 CORINTHIANS, i.
Are not my days few ? Cease, then, and let me alone,
that I may take comfort a little before I go, even to the land
of darkness and the shadow of death.
JOB, x.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
ISAIAH, xl.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
COMMANDMENTS.
Obey thy parents ; keep thy word justly ; swear not ;
commit not with man's sworn spouse ; set not thy sweet
heart on proud array.
KING LEAR, iii. 4.
Thou shalt not steal.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, i. 2.
CONSCIENCE.
The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul !
RICHARD III. i. 3.
I '11 haunt thee like a wicked conscience still.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 11.
With God, her conscience, and these bars against me.
RICHARD III. i. 2.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
CONTEMPLATION.
If we did think
His contemplation were above the earth,
And fix'd on spiritual object, he should still
Dwell in his musings.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
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COMMANDMENTS.
And Moses was with the Lord forty days and forty nights ;
and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the
ten commandments ; and he gave in commandment to the chil-
dren of Israel all that the Lord had spoken.
EXODUS, xxxiv.
Your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord, there-
fore shall ye keep all the commandments.
DEUTERONOMY, xi.
CONSCIENCE.
Then* mind and conscience is defiled.
TITUS, i.
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one.
JOHN, viii.
Their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts
the meanwhile accusing.
ROMANS, ii.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience.
2 CORINTHIANS, i.
CONTEMPLATION.
Hear my prayer, Lord ! give ear to my supplications : I
remember the days of old ; I meditate on all Thy works : I
muse on the works of Thy hands.
PSALM cxliii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
COMMANDER.
We '11 do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee,
Love thee as our commander, and our king.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iv. 1.
CORRECTION.
This sorrow 's heavenly ;
It strikes where it doth love.
OTHELLO, v. 2.
Since correction lieth in those hands,
Which made the fault, that we cannot correct,
Put we our quarrel to the will of Heaven.
RICHARD II. i. 2.
CRIME.
If you bethink yourself of any crime,
Unreconcil'd as yet to Heaven and grace,
Solicit for it straight.
OTHELLO, v. 2.
CROWN.
Not to-day, Lord !
O, not to-day ! think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown.
HENRY V. iv. 1.
Ere the next Ascension- day , .at noon,
Your highness should deliver up your croicn.
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,
Which, our profane hours here, have stricken down.
RICHARD II. v. 1.
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COMMANDER.
I have given him for a leader and commander to the people.
ISAIAH, Iv.
CORRECTION.
Whom the Lord loveth, He correcteth.
PROVERBS, iii.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.
JOB, v.
CRIME.
This is an heinous crime, it is an iniquity to be punished
by the judges ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ?
when He visiteth, what shall I answer Him ?
JOB, xxxi.
CROWN.
And he took their King's crown from off his head : and it
was set on David's head.
2 SAMUEL, xii.
Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take
off the crown.
EZEKIEI., xxi.
Thou hast made void the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast
profaned his crown.
PSALM Ixxxix.
Now they do this to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an
incorruptible.
] CORINTHIANS, ix.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
CRUEL.
I, that am cruel, am yet merciful.
OTHELLO, v. 2.
You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy.
HENRY V. ii. 2.
CURSES.
Their curses now
Live where their prayers did.
HENRY VIII. i. 2.
Can curses pierce the clouds, and enter Heaven ?
RICHARD III. i. 3.
DAMNATION.
If thou dost slander her, and torture me,
Never pray more ; abandon all remorse ;
Do deeds to make Heaven weep, all earth amaz'd ;
For nothing canst thou to damnation add,
Greater than that !
OTHELLO, ill. 3.
O ! when the last account 'twixt Heaven and earth
Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal
Witness against us to damnation.
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
DEATH.
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
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Have I commandment on the pulse of life ?
KINO JOHN, iv. 2.
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CRUEL.
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
PROVERBS, xii.
They are cruel, and have no mercy.
JEREMIAH, vi.
CURSES.
It shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all His commandments
and His statutes, that all curses shall come upon thee, and over-
take thee.
DEUTERONOMY, xxviii.
DAMNATION.
Then, in the audience of all the people, He said unto His
disciples, Beware of the Scribes, which devour widows'
houses, and for a shew make long prayers : the same shall
receive greater damnation.
LUKE, xx.
Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of
God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves dam-
nation.
ROMANS, xiii.
DEATH.
The hand of the Lord hath wrought this, in Whose hand
is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all
mankind.
JOB, xii.
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DEATH (continued} .
The dread of something after death
Makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
HAMLET, Ui. 1.
My joy is death !
Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,
Because I wish'd this world's eternity !
2 HENRY VI. ii. 4.
All, that live, must die,
Passing through nature to eternity,
HAMLET, i. 2.
Ah ! what a sign it is of evil life,
When death's approach is seen so terrible.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
'T is a vile thing to die,
When men are unprepar'd, and look not for it.
RICHARD III. iii. 2.
TV unguided days that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 4.
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
And lift my soul to Heaven.
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Heaven has an end in all : the last hour
Of my long weary life is come upon me.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
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DEATH (continued) .
If a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet
let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be
many.
ECCLESIASTES, Xi.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death, but it cometh
not, which are glad when they can find the grave ?
JOB, iii.
As sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life.
ROMANS, v.
And now my soul is poured out upon me : the days of
affliction have taken hold upon me ; for I know that Thou
wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all
living.
JOB, zzx.
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried hi the
city of David.
1 KINGS, ii.
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his.
NUMBERS, xxiii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
DEVOTION.
Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
DEW (OF HEAVEN).
The benediction of these covering Heavens
Fall on their heads like dew !
CYMBELINE, v. 5.
The dews of Heaven fall thick in blessings on her !
HENRY VIII. iv. 2.
DIE.
Now, quiet soul, depart when Heaven shall please :
What is the trust or strength of foolish man ?
E'en Kings and mightiest potentates must die,
For that 's the end of human misery.
1 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
DIVINITY (SPIRIT OF).
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
* and that should teach us
There 's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
HAMLET, v. 2.
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DEVOTION.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with pure
conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee
in my prayers night and day.
2 TIMOTHY, i.
DEW (OF HEAVEN).
The fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and
wine ; also his Heavens shall drop down dew.
DETTTERONOMY, xxxiii.
The seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give her fruit,
and the ground shall give her increase, and the Heavens shall
give their dew.
ZECHARIAH, viii.
DIE.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under Heaven : a time to be born, and a time to die.
ECCLESIASTES, Hi.
It is appointed unto men once to die.
HEBREWS, ix.
DIVINITY (SPIRIT OF).
There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty
giveth them understanding.
JOB, xxxii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ENEMY.
He hath ever been God's enemy ;
Then, if you fight against God's enemy,
God will, in justice, ward you as His soldiers.
RICHARD III. V. 8.
Now, quiet soul, depart when Heaven shall please ;
For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.
1 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
EVE.
What Eve, what serpent hath suggested thee
To make a second fall of cursed man ?
RICHARD II. iii. 4.
EXAMPLE.
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Shew me the steep and thorny way to Heaven,
Whilst, like a puff 'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose-path of dalliance treads.
HAMLET, i. 3.
EXCELLENT.
One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
And in the essential vesture of creation,
Does bear all excellency.
OTHELLO, ii. 1.
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ENEMY.
Wilt Thou not slay the wicked, God ? for thine enemies
take Thy Name in vain !
PSALM cxxxix.
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their
enemies in the battle ; and they shall fight because the Lord is
with them.
ZECHARIAH, x.
EVE.
She took of the forbidden fruit, and did eat thereof, and
gave also unto her husband, and he did eat. And the Lord
God said unto Adam, Cursed is the ground for thy sake :
out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.
GENESIS, iii.
EXAMPLE.
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother
that walketh disorderly ; we make ourselves an ensample unto
you to follow us.
2 THESSALONIANS, iii.
EXCELLENT.
Lord our Governour, how excellent is Thy Name in all
the world : Thou that hast set Thy glory above the Heavens !
PSALM viii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
EYE OF HEAVEN.
All places that the eye of Heaven visits,
Are to a wise man, ports, and happy havens.
RICHARD II. i. 3.
EYES.
His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,
Draw those Heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
Which Heaven shall take in nature of a fee ;
Ay, with those crystal beads, Heaven shall be brib'd
To do him justice.
KINO JOHN, ii. I.
FAITH.
The latest breath, that gave the sound of words,
Was deep- sworn faith.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
FAITHFUL.
I have this day receiv'd a traitor's judgment,
And by that name must die ; yet, Heaven bear witness,
And if I have a conscience, let it sink me,
Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
FALSEHOOD.
Take heed ;
Lest He, that is the supreme King of kings,
Confound your hidden falsehood.
RICHARD III. ii. 1.
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XLilnt.
EYE OF HEAVEN.
A land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of
the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of
the year even unto the end of the year.
DEUTERONOMY, xi.
EYES.
It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction.
2 SAMUEL, xvi.
Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, I have heard thy
prayers, I have seen thy tears ; behold, / will heal thee.
2 KINGS, xx.
FAITH.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard
of me, in faith which is in Christ.
2 TIMOTHY, i.
FAITHFUL.
Be thou faithful unto death, and 7 will give thee a crown of
life.
REVELATION, ii.
FALSEHOOD.
When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall
not come unto us ; for we have made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves.
ISAIAH, xxviii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
FAULTS.
Our purposes God justly hath discover'd ;
And I repent my fault, more than my death.
HENRY V. ii. 2.
FEARS.
Their sense, thus weak, lost with their fears, thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. 2.
FIRE.
Never till to-night, never till now,
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
JULIUS CJESAR, i. 3.
FIRMAMENT.
The meteors fright the fixed stars of Heaven :
I see thy glory, like a shooting star,
Fall to the base earth from the firmament !
RICHARD II. ii. 4.
Look, how the floor of Heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ;
There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st,
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubims :
Such harmony is in immortal souls.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, v. 1.
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FAULTS.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for
another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
JAMES, v.
FEARS.
Fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which
reason offer eth.
WISDOM OP SOLOMON, xvii.
FIRE.
God maketh fire come down from Heaven on the earth, in
the sight of men.
REVELATION, xiii.
FIRMAMENT.
God said, Let there be a firmament, and it was so ; and
God called the firmament Heaven. And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of Heaven, to give light upon the
earth : and it was so.
GENESIS, i.
The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
sheweth His handy- work.
PSALM xix.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven, to give light upon the earth ; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : He made the
stars also.
GENESIS, i.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
FORGIVENESS.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness.
KINO LEAH, v. 3.
I as free forgive as I would be forgiven.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
RICHARD II. v. 3.
God forgive them that so much have sway'd
Your majesty's good thoughts away from me.
1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.
FORSWEAR.
God forbid your grace should be forsworn.
3 HENRY VI. i. 2.
Ay, he forswore himself, which Jesu pardon !
RICHARD III. i. 3.
FORTRESS.
God is our fortress : in whose conquering name,
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
1 HBNRY VI. ii. 1.
FURNACE.
Heat not & furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
HENRY VIII. i. 1.
GARDEN.
God saw him when he was hid in the garden.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, V. ] .
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FORGIVENESS.
To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also ; for if I
forgave any thing, for your sakes forgave I it, in the person
of Christ.
2 CORINTHIANS, ii.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass
against us.
LITURGY.
Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
LUKE, vi.
FORSWEAR.
Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto
the Lord thine oaths.
MATTHEW, T.
FORTRESS.
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer ;
so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
2 SAMUEL, xxii.
FURNACE.
The King commanded that they should heat the furnace
one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. * * *
The flames of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego.
DANIEL, iii.
GARDEN.
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of
the Lord God, amongst the trees of the garden.
GENESIS, iii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
GATES OF HEAVEN.
Then, Heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,
To entertain my vows of thanks and praise.
2 HENRY VI. iv. 9.
Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God ;
My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.
3 HBNRY VI. i. 4.
GENTLE.
He to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother : be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
HENRY V. iv. 3.
GIFTS (SPIRITUAL).
How he solicits Heaven,
Himself best knows ; but strangely- visited people,
All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,
The mere despair of surgery, he cures ;
Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
Put on with holy prayers : and 't is spoken,
To the succeeding royalty he leaves
The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,
He hath a Heavenly gift of prophecy ;
And sundry blessings hang about his throne,
That speak him full of grace.
MACBETH, iv. 3.
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GATES OF HEAVEN.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates : and be ye lift up, ye ever-
lasting doors ; and the King of Glory shall come in.
PSALM xxiv.
O go your way into His gates with thanksgiving, and into
His courts with praise.
PSALM c.
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may go in to
them, and give thanks unto the Lord.
PSALM cxviii.
GENTLE.
A virtuous and a good man, reverend hi conversation and
gentle in condition.
2 MACCABEES, xv.
GIFTS (SPIRITUAL).
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; and
there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God
which worketh all ; for to one is given by the Spirit the
word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge, to another
faith, to another the gifts of healing, to another the working
of miracles, to another prophecy.
1 COKINTHIANS, Xii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
GLORIFY.
Tell us here the circumstance,
That we for thee may glorify the Lord.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
GOD.
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my King, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
God, and your Majesty, protect mine innocence !
HENRY VIII. v. 1.
O remember, God,
To hear her prayers for them, as now for us !
Be satisfied, dear God, with our true bloods,
Which, as Thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.
RICHARD III. iii. 3.
GOD KNOWN.
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her ;
Her own shall bless her : Good grows with her ;
In her days
God shall be truly known ; and those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
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GLORIFY.
If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in
himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
JOHN, xiii.
GOD.
Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall. It is better
to trust in the Lord, than to put any confidence in man. It
is better to trust in the Lord, than to put any confidence in
princes.
PSALM cxviii.
God is our hope and strength : a very present help in
trouble.
PSALM xlvi.
It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well
doing, than for evil doing.
1 PETER, iii.
GOD KNOWN.
We have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed
the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
JOHN, iv.
Jesus taught in the temple, saying, Ye both know Me and
ye know whence / am.
JOHN, vii.
They shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the
greatest of them, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH, xxxi.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
GOD'S GLORY.
I shall be well content with any choice,
Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.
1 HENRY VI. v. 1.
GOLGOTHA.
The blood of English shall manure the ground,
And future ages groan for this foul act.
Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny,
Shall here inhabit ; and this land be call'd
The field of Golgotha, and dead men's sculls.
RICHARD II. iv. I.
GOOD AND EVIL.
God Almighty !
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
HENRY V. iv. 1.
GRACE OF GOD.
Though thy speech doth fail,
One eye thou hast, to look to Heaven for grace.
1 HENRY VI. i. 4.
O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God !
RICHARD III. iii. 4.
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GOD'S GLORY.
Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God,
1 CORINTHIANS, x.
Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare His praise in
the islands.
ISAIAH, xlii.
GOLGOTHA.
And He, bearing His cross, went forth into a place called
the place of a scull, which is called, hi the Hebrew, Golgotha.
JOHN, six.
And when they were come into a place called Golgotha,
that is to say, a place of a scull, they gave Him vinegar to
drink, mingled with gall.
MATTHEW, xxvii.
GOOD AND EVIL.
The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates
of the righteous.
PROVERBS, xiv.
God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
ECCLESIASTES, Xli.
GRACE OF GOD.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God.
EPHESIANS, ii.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no
man shall see the Lord : looking diligently, lest any man fail
of the grace of God.
HEBREWS, xii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
GRAFTED.
Methinks I hear him now, his plausive words
He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them
To grow there, and to bear.
ALL 'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 2.
GREAT NAME.
Wherever the bright sun of Heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name
Shall be. He shall nourish ; and our children's children
Shall see this, and bless Heaven.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
GUIDE.
All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement
Inhabits here : some Heavenly power guide us !
TEMPEST, v. 1.
HAIL.
Did they not sometime cry, All hail! to me ?
So Judas did to Christ.
RICHARD II. iv. I.
To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his Master ;
And cried All hail ! when as he meant all harm.
3 HENKT VI. v. 7.
HAND OF GOD.
Fears and scruples shake us.
In the great hand of God I stand.
MACBETH ii. 3.
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GRAFTED.
Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that the words
which we have heard this day with our outward ears, may,
through Thy grace, be so grafted inwardly hi our hearts, that
they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living.
LITURGY.
GREAT NAME.
I have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the
great men that are in the earth.
2 SAMUEL, vii.
GUIDE.
The Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul.
ISAIAH, Iviii.
HAIL.
Now he that betrayed Him, gave them a sign, saying,
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is He : hold Him fast.
And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master ! and
kissed Him.
MATTHEW, xxvi.
HAND OF GOD.
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He
may exalt you in due time.
1 PETER, v.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
HEAD.
We '11 both together lift our heads to Heaven,
And never more abase our sight so low,
As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.
2 HEXRY VI. i. 2.
HEAVEN.
you powers
That give Heaven countless eyes to view men's acts.
PERICLES, i. 1.
thou eternal Mover of the Heavens !
Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
Here, afore Heaven
1 ratify this my rich gift.
TEMPEST, iv. 1.
HEROD.
Whiles the mad mothers, with their howls confus'd,
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry,
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
HENRY V. iii. 3.
HOPE.
Farewell
The hopes of court ! my hopes in Heaven do dwell.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
HEAD.
Thou, O Lord ! art a shield for me ; my glory, and the
lifter up of mine head.
PSALM iii.
HEAVEN.
Can any hide himself in secret places that / shall not see him ?
JEREMIAH, xxiii.
The Lord looked down from Heaven, and beheld all the
children of men.
PSALM xxxiii.
Now, behold, my Witness is in Heaven, and my record is
on High.
JOB, xvi.
HEROD.
Depart hence, for Herod will kill thee.
LUKE, xiii.
Immediately the King (Herod) sent an executioner, and
commanded his (John the Baptist's) head to be brought.
MARK, vi.
HOPE.
And now, Lord, what wait I for ? my hope is in Thee.
PSALM xxxix.
And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH, xxxi.
Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord.
PSALM xl.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
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HOLY LAND.
Laud be to God ! even there my life must end :
It hath been prophesied to me many years,
I should not die but in Jerusalem,
Which vainly I suppos'd the Holy Land.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 4.
HOSPITALITY.
My master is of churlish disposition,
And little recks to find the way to Heaven,
By doing deeds of hospitality.
As YOU LIKE IT, ii. 4.
HUMILITY.
Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee.
RICHARD II. ii. 3.
I thank my God for my humility.
RICHARD III. ii. I.
IDOLATRY.
'T is mad idolatry,
To make the service greater than the god.
THOILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 2.
IMAGE.
Waiting- vassals
Have done a drunken slaughter, and defac'd
The precious image of our dear Redeemer.
RICHARD III. ii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
HOLY LAND.
It was Thy will to destroy, by the hands of our fathers, both
those old inhabitants of Thy Holy Land ; that the land which
Thou esteemed' st above all other, might receive a worthy
colony of God's children.
SOLOMON, xii.
HOSPITALITY.
Above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves ;
use hospitality one to another, without grudging.
1 PETER, iv.
HUMILITY.
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom ; and
before honour is humility.
PROVERBS, xv.
IDOLATRY.
Their land, also, is full of idols ; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
ISAIAH, ii.
IMAGE.
God did predestinate man to be conformed to the image
of His Son ; that he might be the first-born among many
brethren.
ROMANS, viii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
IMPIETY.
Thy bones are hollow : impiety hath made a feast of
thee.
MEASURE FOII MEASURE, i. 2.
INDIGNATION.
Withhold Thine indignation, mighty Heaven !
And tempt us not to bear above our power.
KING JOHN, v. 6.
INHERITANCE.
To hold in right and title of the female :
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For in the Book of Numbers is it writ,
When the son dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter.
HENRY V. i. 2.
INNOCENCE.
God, our hope, will succour us ;
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
And therefore am I bold and resolute.
2 HENRY VI. iv. 4.
INSPIRATION.
Your father was ever virtuous ; and holy men at their death
have good inspirations.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, i. 2.
Virtuous and holy ; chosen from Above,
By inspiration of celestial grace ;
To work exceeding miracles on earth.
1 HENRY VI. v. 4.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
IMPIETY.
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength ; but
trusted hi the abundance of his riches, and strengthened him-
self hi his wickedness !
PSALM lii.
INDIGNATION.
The Lord is slow to anger, and great hi power : who can
stand before His indignation ?
NAHUM, i.
INHERITANCE.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If
a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance
to pass unto his daughter.
NUMBERS, xxvii.
INNOCENCE.
In the integrity of my heart, and innocency of my hands,
have I done this.
GENESIS, xx.
I will wash my hands hi innocency.
PSALM xxvi.
INSPIRATION.
There is a spirit hi man, and the inspiration of the Almighty
giveth them understanding.
JOB, xxxii.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is pro-
fitable for instruction in righteousness.
3 TIMOTHY, iii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
JEPHTHAH.
Jephthah, Judge of Israel, what a treasure had'st
thou!
" One fair daughter, and no more ;
The which he loved passing well."
HAMLET, ii. 2.
Perhaps, thou wilt object my holy oath ;
To keep that oath were more impiety
Than Jephthah's, when he sacrific'd his daughter.
3 HENRY VI. v. 1.
JERUSALEM.
Awhile we must neglect
Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
\ HENRY IV. i. 1.
Bear me to that chamber ; there I '11 lie ;
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 4.
So part we sadly in this troublous world,
To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.
3 HENRY VI. v. 5-
JOY.
Were it not good your grace could fly to Heaven ?
The treasury of everlasting joy !
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
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WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
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JEPHTHAH.
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh, unto his house, and, behold,
his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with
dances ; and she was his only child ; beside her, he had neither
son nor daughter.
JUDGES, xi.
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah ; and
Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord ; and he sacrificed his
daughter, according to the vow which he had vowed.
JUDGES, xi.
JERUSALEM.
The King took counsel, and said unto them, It is too much
for you to go up to Jerusalem.
1 KINGS, xii.
Our feet shall stand in thy gates, Jerusalem ! for there
is the seat of judgment : even the seat of the house of David.
PSALM cxxii.
Thus saith the Lord, I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem,
and Jerusalem shall be called a City of Truth.
ZECHARIAH, viii.
JOY.
The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness,
and peace, and joy.
ROMANS, xiv.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
JOY (continued).
Feast and banquet in the open streets,
To celebrate the^'oy that God hath given us.
1 HENRY VI. i. 6.
God give roe joy to wear it ; for my heart is exceeding heavy.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ill. 4.
He finds the joys of Heaven here on earth.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, iii. 5.
JUDAS.
Judas was hang'd on an elder.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, V. 2.
O, then, my best blood turn
To an infected jelly ; and my name
Be yok'd with his, that did betray the Best !
WINTER'S TALE, i. 2.
JUDAS MACCABEUS.
You shall present before her the nine worthies :
Where will you find men worthy enough to present ?
Joshua, yourself, myself [Holoj f ernes], and this gallant
gentleman, Judas Maccabaeus.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 1.
JUDGE.
Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a Judge
That no king can corrupt.
HENRY VIII. iii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
JOY (continveff).
God giveth to a man that is good in His sight, wisdom, and
knowledge, and^'oy.
ECCLESIASTES, ii.
Let the heart of them rejoice, that seek the Lord.
PSALM cv.
God had made them rejoice with great joy.
NEHEMIAH, xii.
JUDAS.
Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, cast down the pieces
of silver in the Temple, departed, and went and hanged
himself.
MATTHEW, xxvii.
JUDAS MACCABEUS.
Judas Maccabeeus, with nine others, withdrew himself into
the wilderness.
2 MACCABEES, v.
Nabuchodonosor, King of the Assyrians, called Holofernes,
the chief captain of his army.
JUDITH, ii.
JUDGE.
God standeth in the congregation of princes ; He is judge
among Gods.
PSALM Ixxxii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
JUDGE (continued').
That supernal Judge, that stirs good thoughts
In any breast of strong authority ;
That Judge hath made me guardian to this boy.
KING JOHX, ii. 1.
I say again,
I utterly abhor ; yea, from my soul,
Refuse you, for my judge.
HENRY VIII. ii. 4.
I would to Heaven I had your potency,
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I would tell what 't were to be a. judge.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
JUDGMENT.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
Thou that judgest all things ! stay my thoughts ;
If my suspect be false, forgive me, God !
For judgment only doth belong to Thee.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are ? O, think on that !
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
Writ.
JUDGE (continued).
Let them shout for joy, because thou protectest them ;
God is a righteous judge, God is judge Himself.
PSALM v.
The righteous might dispute with him ; so should I be
delivered for ever from my judge.
JOB, xxiii.
Thou shalt provide, out of all the people, able men, such
as fear God; men of truth ; and let them judge the people at
all times.
EXODUS, xviii.
JUDGMENT.
Judge not, that ye be not judged; for with what judgment
ye judge, ye shall be judged.
MATTHEW, vii.
Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion,
every man to his brother.
ZECHAKIAH, vii.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; judge righteously
between every man, for the judgment is God's.
DEUTERONOMY, i.
Enter not into judgment with Thy servant, Lord ! for in
Thy sight shall no man living be justified.
PSALM cxliv.
We are sure that the judgment of God is according to
truth.
ROMANS, ii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
JUST.
Be just, and fear not ;
Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's,
Thy God's, and truth's.
HENKY VIII. iii. 2.
JUSTICE.
O God! I fear thy justice will take hold
On me for this.
RICHAKD III. ii. 1.
He, who the sword of Heaven will bear,
Should be as holy as severe.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 2.
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, iv. 1.
KILL.
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust ;
But, in defence, by mercy, 't is most just.
TIMON OF ATHENS, iii. 5.
KISS.
Here, take you this,
And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ii. 2.
And his kissing is as full of sanctity, as the touch of
holy beard.
As YOU LIKE IT, iii. 4.
With this kiss, take my blessing : God protect thee !
Into whose hands I give thy life.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
JUST.
He that hath walked in My statutes, and hath kept My
judgments, to deal truly, he is just ; he shall surely live, saith
the Lord God.
EZEKIEL, xviii.
JUSTICE.
Judgment and just ice shall take hold on thee.
JOB, xxxvi.
He that ruleth over men must be just.
2 SAMUEL, xxiii.
And David executed judgment and justice to all his people.
2 SAMUEL, viii.
Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice ;
for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be
revealed.
ISAIAH, Ivi.
KILL.
He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
LEVITICUS, xxiv.
Thou shalt not kill.
EXODUS, xx.
KISS.
Salute one another with an holy kiss.
ROMANS, xvi.
And Joab took Amassa by the beard, with the right hand,
to kiss him.
2 SAMUEL, xx.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
KNOWLEDGE.
Ignorance is the curse of God ;
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to Heaven.
2 HENRY VI. iv. 7.
LANTERN.
God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 3.
LATTER DAYS.
I myself will lead a private life,
And in devotion spend my latter days,
To sin's rebuke, and my Creator's praise.
8 HENRY VI. iv. 6.
LAW.
I lie open to the law ;
But God, in mercy, so deal with my soul,
As I, in duty, love my king and country.
2 HENRT VI. i. 8.
How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
When thou hast broke it in such dear degree ?
RICHARD III. i. 4.
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WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
KNOWLEDGE,
That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good.
PROVERBS, xiii.
If they obey not, they shall die without knowledge.
JOB, xxxvi.
And God said unto Solomon, Wisdom and knowledge is
granted unto thee.
2 CHRONICLES, xii.
LAMP.
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my
path.
PSALMS cv. cxix.
LATTER DAYS.
Afterward shall the Children of Israel return, and seek the
Lord then- God ; and shall fear the Lord, and His goodness, in
the latter days.
HOSEA, ill.
LAW.
Whoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the
King, let judgment be executed speedily upon him.
EZRA, vii.
God shall smite thee ; for sittest thou to judge me after the
law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law ?
ACTS, xxiii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
LAW (continued) .
Villain ! thou know'st no law of God nor man ;
No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD III. i. 2.
Take heed : for He holds vengeance in His hand,
To hurl upon their heads that break His law.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
LIFE.
Life 's but a walking shadow ; * * *
'T is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
MACBETH, v. 5.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made of ; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
TEMPEST, iv. 1.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and bad
together.
ALL '8 WELL THAT ENDS WELL, IV. 8.
O Lord, that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness !
2HEXRT VI. i. 1.
LIGHT.
Heaven does with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves ; for, if our virtues
Did not go forth with us, 't were all alike
As if we had them not.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, i. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
LAW (continued).
They kept not the covenant of God ; and refused to walk in
His laws; but He, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, and destroyed them not.
PSALM Ixxviii.
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord, our God, to
walk in His laws which He set before us.
DANIEL, ix.
LIFE.
All our days are passed away ; we spend our years as a tale
that is told.
PSALM xc.
Man is like to vanity ; his days are as a shadow that
passeth away.
PSALM, cxliv.
Who knoweth what is good for man in this life ? all the
days of his vain life he spendeth as a shadow.
ECCLE8IASTES, VI.
Thou hast granted me life, and favour, and Thy visitation
hath preserved my spirit.
JOB, x.
LIGHT.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father, which is in
Heaven.
MATTHEW, v.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
LUCIFER.
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
Thou art more deep-damn' d than Prince Lucifer.
KING JOHN, iv. 3.
MAKER.
When I am in Heaven, I shall desire
To see what this child does, and praise my Maker.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
MAN.
What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason !
how infinite in faculties ! in form, and moving, how express
and admirable ! in action how like an angel! in apprehension
how like a God ! The beauty of the world" ! the paragon of
animals !
HAMLET, ii. 2.
MANNA.
You drop manna in the way of starved people.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, v. 1.
MARRIAGE.
God forbid that I should wish them sever'd,
Whom God hath join'd together.
3 HENRY VI. iv. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
LUCIFER.
How art thou fallen from Heaven, Lucifer ! thou shalt
be brought down to hell.
ISAIAH, xiv.
MAKER.
At that day shall a man look to his Maker.
ISAIAH, zvii.
MAN.
And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after
our likeness : in the image of God created He him.
GENESIS, i.
What is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son
of man, that Thou visitest him ? Thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and
honour.
PSALM viii.
MANNA.
And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the
Lord hath given you to eat. And the house of Israel called
the name thereof manna.
EXODUS, xvi.
MARRIAGE.
What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder.
MATTHEW, xix.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
M ARRI AGE (continued) .
If either of you know any inward impediment, why you
should not be conjoined, I charge you, on your souls, to
utter it.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iv. 1.
MERCY.
The quality of mercy is not strain' d ;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven :
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It is an attribute to God Himself.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.
We do pray for mercy ;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.
How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring none ?
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.
As you are great, be pitifully good.
TIMON OF ATHENS, iii. 5.
MOON.
Thou out of Heaven's benediction com'st :
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Approach, thou beacon to this under globe !
KING LEAR, ii. 2.
MOTE.
You found his mote, the King your mote did see ;
But I a beam do find in each of three.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
MARRIAGE (continued).
If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these
two persons should not be joined together in holy matrimony,
ye are to declare it.
PROTESTANT RITUAL.
MERCY.
God shall send forth His mercy and truth. The greatness
of His mercy reacheth unto the Heavens.
PSALM Mi.
As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them.
LTTKE, vi.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
LUKE, vi.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
MATTHEW, v.
Thou, God.' art gracious and true, long suffering, and in
mercy ordering all things.
SOLOMON, xxv.
MOON.
O, give thanks unto Him that made the Heavens ; to Him that
stretched out the earth above the waters ! to Him that made
the sun to rule by day, the moon and stars to rule by night !
PSALM cxxxvi.
MOTE.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's
eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ?
MATTHEW, vii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
MURDER.
O, my oiFence is rank, it smells to Heaven ;
It hath the primal, eldest curse upon 't
A brother's murder.
HAMLET, ill. 3.
Erroneous vassal ! the great King of kings
Hath, in the table of His law, commanded
That ' Thou shalt do no murder :' Wilt thou, then,
Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man's ?
Take heed ! for He holds vengeance in His hand,
To hurl upon their heads that break His law.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Are you call'd forth from out a world of men,
To slay the innocent ?
I charge you, as you hope for any goodness,
By Christ's dear blood, shed for our grievous sins,
That you depart, and lay no hands on me ;
The deed you undertake is damnable.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Murder not this innocent child,
Lest thou be hated both of God and man.
3 HENRY VI. i. 3.
As surely as my soul intends to live
With that dread King, that took our state upon Him,
To free us from His Father's wrathful curse,
I do believe, that violent hands were laid
Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
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WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
MURDER.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother ; and it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against
Abel his brother, and slew him.
GENESIS, iv.
As many as have sinned without law, shall also^emA without
law.
ROMANS, ii.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou
shalt not kill : and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of
the judgment.
MATTHEW, v.
If any man rise up against his neighbour, and smite him
mortally, that he die ; then the elders shall deliver him into
the hands of the avengers of blood, that he may die.
DEUTERONOMY, six.
He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall surely be put
to death.
EXODUS, xxi.
The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed
therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
NUMBERS, xxxv.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
MURDER (continued).
This is the man should do the bloody deed.
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Old men and Beldames in the streets
Do prophesy upon it dangerously.
Young Arthur's death is common in then" mouths.
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine,
That cravens my weak hand.
CYMBELINE, Hi. 4.
MURMURERS.
Heaven's peace be with him !
That 's Christian care enough : For living murmurers,
There 's places of rebuke.
HENRY VIII. ii. 2.
NAKEDNESS.
Why seek'st thou, then, to cover with excuse,
That which appears in proper nakedness ?
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iv. 1.
NAME.
My fair name
(Despite of Death, that lives upon my grave,)
To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have.
RICHARD II. i. I.
Did my father's godson seek your life,
He whom my father named ?
KING LEAR, ii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
MURDER (continued).
The wicked, in his pride, doth persecute the poor : hi
secret places doth he murder the innocent.
PSALM x.
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
DEUTERONOMY, xxvii.
Thou shalt do no murder.
LITURGY.
MURMURERS.
And they forgat God their Saviour, who had done so great
things ; but murmured in their tents.
PSALM cvi.
NAKEDNESS.
Ye are spies ! To see the nakedness of the land ye are
come.
GENESIS, xlii.
NAME.
I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off. So shall your seed and your name remain.
ISAIAH, Ivi. & Ixvi.
Raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
RUTH, iv.
He called their names after the names by which his father
had called them.
GENESIS, xxvi.
Bring me him up whom I shall name.
I SAMUEL, xxviii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
NAME (continued) .
Good name in man and woman,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
OTHELLO, iii. 3.
NATURE'S LAW.
Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law
My services are bound.
KING LEAR, i. 2.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir ; I have not much skill
in grass.
ALL 'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 5.
NEED.
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
KING LEAR, ii. 4.
NIGHT SONGS.
No night is now with hymn or carol blest.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. 2.
NOTE-BOOK.
Set in a note-book, learn'd and conn'd by rote.
Juntrs C^SAR, iv. 3.
NOURISH.
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion.
CORIOLANUS, iii. 1.
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ZMvit.
NAME (continued) .
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
PROVERBS, xxii.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
ECCLESIASTES, vii.
NATURE'S LAW.
The Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the
things contained in the law.
ROMANS, ii.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
There fell a voice from Heaven, saying, O King Nebu-
chadnezzar ! to thee it is spoken : Thy kingdom is departed
from thee : and they shall drive thee from men ; they shall
make thee to eat grass as oxen.
DANIEL, iv.
NEED.
They that be whole need not a physician, but they that
are sick.
MATTHEW, ix.
NIGHT SONGS.
Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs hi the night ?
JOB, xxxv.
Ye shall have a song as in the night.
ISAIAH, xxx.
NOTE-BOOK.
Note it in a book, that it may be for ever and ever.
ISAIAH, xxx.
NOURISH.
Gorgias hired soldiers, and nourished war continually with
the Jews.
2 MACCABEES, x.
9!)
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
OBEDIENCE.
Let them obey, that know not how to rule.
2 HENRY VI. r. 1.
Heaven doth divide
The state of man hi divers functions,
Setting endeavour hi continual motion ;
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience.
HENRY V. i. 2.
I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v. a.
OFFENCE.
God needs no indirect nor lawless course,
To cut off those that have offended Him.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
And when I give occasion of offence,
Then let me die.
3 HENRY VI. i. 3.
OMNIPOTENT.
God omnipotent
Is mustering hi His clouds, on our behalf,
Armies of pestilence.
RICHARD II. iii. 3.
ORDER.
Find a barefoot brother out,
One of our order, to associate me,
Here, visiting the sick.
ROMEO AND JULIET, v. 2.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
OBEDIENCE.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves.
HEBREWS, xiii.
We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be
well with us.
JEREMIAH, xlii.
If any man obey not our word, note that man, and have no
company with him.
2 THESSALONIANS, iil.
To this end did I write, that I might know the proof of
you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 CORINTHIANS, ii.
OFFENCE.
Woe unto the world, because of offences ! for it must needs
be that offences come : but woe to that man by whom the
offence cometh !
MATTHEW, xviii.
I have borne chastisement ; I will not offend any more.
JOB, xxxiv.
OMNIPOTENT.
I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, saying,
Alleluia ! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
REVELATION, xix.
ORDER.
The King commanded the high priest, and the priests
of the second order, to bring forth out of the temple all the
vessels.
2 KINGS, xxiii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
ORDER (continued) .
You must confine yourself within the modest limits of
order.
TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 3.
ORNAMENT.
The world is still deceiv'd with ornament ;
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There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii. 2.
ORPHANS.
That his bones,
When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings,
May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
HENRY VIII. iii. 2.
OSPREY.
I think, he '11 be to Rome,
As is the osprey to the fish who takes it
By sovereignty of nature.
CORIOLANCS, iv. 7.
OVERTAKE.
I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children.
KINO LEAR, iii. 7.
PARDON.
God pardon them that are the cause thereof !
A virtuous and a christian-like conclusion,
To pray for them that have done scath to us.
RICHARD III. i. 3.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
ORDER (continued).
Let all things be done decently and in order.
I CORINTHIANS, xiv.
ORNAMENT.
Let not your adorning be that of plaiting the hair, or of
wearing of gold ; but that which is not corruptible, the orna-
ment of a meek and quiet spirit.
1 PETER, iii.
ORPHANS.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father
is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.
JAMES, i.
We are orphans, and fatherless ; our mothers are widows.
LAMENTATIONS, v.
OSPREY.
Among the fowls shall not be eaten, the eagle, the ossi-
frage, and the osprey.
NUMBERS, xi.
OVERTAKE.
I will pursue, I will overtake ; I will draw my sword ; my
hand shall destroy them.
LEVITICUS, xi.
PARDON.
Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and
passeth by transgressions ?
MICAH, vii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
PARDON (continued).
I do think that you might pardon him,
And neither Heaven, nor man, grieve at the mercy.
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Spare him ! spare him !
He 's not prepared for death.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
RICHARD II. v. 3.
PEACE.
They humbly sue unto your excellence,
To have a godly peace concluded of,
To stop effusion of our Christian blood.
1 HENRY VI. v. 1.
PEACE-MAKERS.
Blessed are the peace-makers on earth.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
PENITENCE.
Who by repentance is not satisfied,
Is nor of Heaven nor earth ; for these are pleas'd ;
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath 's appeas'd.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, v. 4.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
Witit.
PARDON (continued).
Thou art a God ready to pardon ,- gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness.
NEHEMIAH, ix.
Pardon, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of this people, accord-
ing unto the greatness of Thy mercy ! And the Lord said, /
have pardoned, according to thy word.
NUMBERS, xiv.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass
against us.
LITURGY.
PEACE.
The Lord will give strength unto His people. The Lord
will bless His people with peace.
PSALM xxix.
PEACE-MAKERS.
Blessed are the peace-makers ! for they shall be called the
children of God !
MATTHEW, v.
PENITENCE.
Take heed to yourself ! If thy brother trespass against
thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him.
LUKE, x?ii.
Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,
more than over ninety and nine just persons which need
no repentance.
LITRE, xv.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
PERSECUTION.
God forbid any malice should prevail
That, faultless, may condemn a nobleman !
Pray God, he may acquit him of suspicion !
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
PILATE.
A bloody deed, and desperately despatch'd.
How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
Of this most grievous guilty murder, done !
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Though some of you, with Pilate, wash your hands,
Shewing an outward pity ; yet you, Pilates,
Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,
And water cannot wash away your sin.
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
POWER.
Since God, so graciously hath brought to light
This dangerous treason,
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Let us deliver
Our puissance into the hand of God.
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The signs of war advance.
HENRI V. ii. 2.
That Power that made you king,
Hath power to keep you king, in spite of all :
The means that Heaven yields must be embrac'd.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
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P?oit>
PERSECUTION.
Lord, my God ! in Thee do I put my trust ; save me
from all them that persecute me. My defence is of God, which
saveth the upright in heart.
PSALM vii.
PILATE.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his
hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood
of this just Person ; see ye to it.
MATTHEW, xxvii.
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, delivered
Jesus (when he had scourged Him) to be crucified.
MARK, xv.
POWER.
Do it ; be strong for the battle ! For God hath power to
help, and to cast down.
2 CHRONICLES, xxv.
The God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power
unto His people.
PSALM Ixviii.
Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers ; for there
is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of
God.
ROMANS, xiii.
107
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
PRAISE OF GOD.
Now, God be prais'd ! that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
And be it death proclaimed through our host,
To boast of this, or take that praise from God,
Which is His only.
HENRY V. iv. 8.
PRAYER.
Now I am past all comfort, here, but prayers.
HENKY VIII. iv. a.
If you bethink yourself of any crime,
Unreconcil'd as yet to Heaven and grace,
Solicit for it straight.
OTHELLO, v. 2.
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms ; which the wise Powers
Deny us for our good : so find we profit,
By losing of our prayers.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. I.
If, when you make your prayers,
God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
How would it fare with your departed souls ?
2 HENRY VI. iv. 7.
PRESUMPTION.
It is presumption in us, when
The help of Heaven we count the act of men.
ALL '8 WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ii. 1.
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PRAISE OF GOD.
praise the Lord, all ye heathen ! Praise Him, all ye
nations.
PSALM cxvii.
praise the Lord of Heaven ! Praise Him, all ye angels !
Let every thing that hath breath, praise the Lord !
PSALM cxlviii. & cxlix.
PRAYER.
Is any among you afflicted ? Let him pray.
JAMES, v.
God judge th the righteous. The Lord will receive my
prayer ; He hath heard my supplication.
PSALM vi. & vii.
The Spirit helpeth our infirmities ; for we know not what
we should pray for, as we ought ; but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us.
ROMANS, viii.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.
JAMES, iv.
If my people shall humble themselves, and pray, and turn
from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will
forgive their sins.
2 CHKONICLES, vii.
PRESUMPTION.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes ; but man's
goings are of the Lord : how can a man, then, understand his
own way ?
PROVEKBS, xx. & xxi.
109
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
PROPHETS AND APOSTLES.
His champions are the prophets and apostles.
2 HENRY VI. i. 3.
PROVIDENCE.
We defy augury ; there is a special providence in
the fall of a sparrow.
HAMLET, v. 2.
RANSOM.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth,
Renowned for then* deeds as far from home,
(For Christian service, and true chivalry),
As is the sepulchre, in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son.
RICHARD II. ii. 1.
If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found
On any ground that I am ruler of,
The world shall not be ransom for thy life.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
RAVENS.
Take that ; and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age.
AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 3.
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VMvit.
PROPHETS AND APOSTLES.
Also, said the Wisdom of God, I will send them prophets
and apostles.
LTTKE, xi.
PROVIDENCE.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of
them shall not fall to the ground without your Father.
MATTHEW, x.
RANSOM.
Thus saith the Lord that created thee, Jacob, and
He that formed thee, Israel! Fear not, for I have re-
deemed thee : I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom.
ISAIAH, xlili.
The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.
MATTHEW, xx.
RAVENS.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens
which cry.
PSALM cxlvii.
BELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
REASON.
Sure, He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unus'd.
HAMLET, iv. 4.
REDEEMER.
I every day expect an embassage
From my Redeemer, to redeem me hence ;
And more in peace, my soul shall part to Heaven.
RICHARD III. ii. 1.
REDEMPTION.
After defunction of King Pharamond,
Who died within the year of our redemption
Four hundred twenty- six.
HENRY V. i. 2.
RELIGION.
Methinks, my lord should be religious,
And know the office that belongs to such.
1 HEKRY VI. iii. 1.
REPENTANCE.
Confess yourself to Heaven,
Repent what 's past, avoid what is to come.
HAMLET, iii. 4.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
REASON.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek
out wisdom, and the reason of things.
ECCLESIASTES, VJi.
REDEEMER.
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth.
JOB, xix.
When these things begin to come to pass, then look up,
and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth nigh.
LTJKE, xxi.
REDEMPTION.
Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
but into Heaven itself ; now to appear in the presence of God ;
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
HEBREWS, ix.
RELIGION.
Pure religion, and undefiled before God, and the Father,
is this, to keep himself unspotted from the world.
JAMES, i.
REPENTANCE.
Repent, therefore, of this thy wickedness, and pray God:
for I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness.
ACTS, viii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
REPENTANCE (continued) .
Try what repentance can : What can it not ?
Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ?
HAMLET, iii. 3.
He set forth
A deep repentance ; nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it : he died
As one that had been studied in his death.
MACBETH, i. 4.
REVENGE.
I do hut stay behind,
To do the office for thee of revenge ;
And then my soul shall wait on thee to Heaven,
As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
KING JOHN, v. 7.
Revenge upon you all ;
And, in that hope, I throw mine eyes to Heaven,
Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.
3 HENRY VI. i. 4.
You both have vow'd revenge,
On him, his sons, his favourites, and his friends ;
If I be not, Heavens be reveng'd on me !
3 HENRY VI. i. 1.
Here, on my knee, I vow to God above,
I '11 never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath clos'd these eyes of mine,
Or fortune given me measure of revenge !
3 HENRY VI. ii. 3.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
Mrit.
REPENTANCE (continued).
He found no place of repentance, though he sought it.
HEBREWS, xii.
The Lord is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 PETER, iii.
REVENGE.
Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise ; for he
is the minister of God to thee for good ; a revenger, to execute
wrath upon him that doeth evil.
ROMANS, xiii.
Lord ! remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of
my persecutors !
JEREMIAH, XT.
It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth me forth
from mine enemies.
2 SAMUEL, xxii.
His word was in mine heart, as a burning fire shut up in
my bones, and I was weary with forbearing : peradventure he
will be enticed, and we shall take our revenge on him.
JEREMIAH, xx.
115
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
REVENGE (continued).
To see this sight, it irks my very soul.
Withhold revenge, dear God ! 'tis not my fault ;
Not wittingly have I infring'd my vow.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 2.
RICH MAN.
I never see thy face, but I think on hell-fire, and Dives
that lived in purple ; for there he is in his robes, burning,
burning.
1 HENRY IV. iii. 3.
SABBATH.
By our holy Sabbath have I sworn.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.
I am in your debt for your last exercise,
Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
RICHARD III. iii. 3.
SANCTUARY.
On what occasion, God He knows, not I,
The Queen your mother, and your brother York,
Have taken sanctuary.
RICHARD III. iii. 1.
God in Heaven forbid
We should infringe the holy privilege
Of blessed sanctuary ! not for all this land
Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.
RICHARD III. iii. 1.
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WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
REVENGE (continued).
I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that
thou wouldest not suffer the revenger of blood to destroy any
more.
2 SAMUEL, xiv.
RICH MAN.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple,
and fared sumptuously every day ; and in hell he lift up his
eyes, being in torments, and cried, Father Abraham, have
mercy on me.
LUKE, xvi.
SABBATH.
This is that which the Lord hath said, To-morrow is the
rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord.
EXODUS, xvi.
The Gentiles besought that these words might be preached
to them the next Sabbath.
ACTS, xiii.
SANCTUARY.
Thus saith the Lord God, Although I have cast them
far off among the heathen, yet will I be to them as a sanc-
tuary.
EZEKIEL, XJ.
He hath looked down from His sanctuary ; out of Heaven
did the Lord behold the earth, that he might hear the
mournings of such as are in captivity, and deliver the children
appointed unto death.
PSALM cii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
SANCTUARY (continued).
Trust not him that hath once broken faith :
I '11 hence forthwith unto the sanctuary ;
There shall I rest secure from force, and fraud.
3 HENRY VI. iv. 4.
SEA.
But I am not to say, it is a sea, for it is now the sky ;
hetwixt the firmament and it, you cannot thrust a bodkin's
point.
WINTER'S TALE, iii. 3.
SELF-EXAMINATION.
I will chide no breather in the world, but myself; against
whom I know most faults.
As Yotr LIKE IT, iii. 2.
SIN.
O God ! forgive my sins, and pardon thee !
3 HENRY VI. v. 6.
Have not to do with him, beware of him ;
Sin, death, and hell, have set their marks on him ;
And all their ministers attend on him.
RICHARD III. i. 3.
In sight of God, and us, your guilt is great :
Receive the sentence of the law, for sins,
Such as by God's Book are adjudg'd to death.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 3.
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal !
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iv. 1.
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SANCTUARY (continued) .
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and praise the
Lord.
PSALM cxxxir.
SEA.
The floods are risen, Lord ! the floods lift up then- waves ;
the waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly.
PSALM xciii.
SELF-EXAMINATION.
Let a man examine himself ; for if we would judge ourselves,
we should not be judged.
1 CORINTHIANS, xi.
SIN.
My son, hast thou sinned ? do so no more ; but ask pardon
for thy former sins.
ECCLESIASTICUS, XXJ.
If I sin, then Thou markest me, and Thou wilt not acquit
me from mine iniquity.
JOB, x.
Until the law, sin was in the world ; but sin is not imputed
when there is no law.
ROMANS, v.
If I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me.
ROMANS, vii.
If thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
DEUTERONOMY, xxiii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
SIN (continued).
It is great sin to swear unto a sin ;
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
2 HENRY VI. v. 1.
Then God forgive the sin of all those souls
That to their everlasting residence,
Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,
In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king !
KING JOHN, ii. 1.
I am a man, more sinn'd against, than sinning.
KING LEAR, iii. 2.
SOUL.
Take me from the world ;
My soul to Heaven, my blood upon your heads !
3 HENRY VI. i. 4.
Mount, mount, my soul ! thy seat is up on high ;
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to die.
RICHARD II. v. 5.
I would not kill thy unprepared spirit ;
No Heaven forefend ! I would not kill thy soul.
OTHELLO, v. 2.
O, I have done these things,
That now give evidence against my soul !
RICHARD III. i. 4.
He held thee dearly, as his soul's redemption.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
SIN (continued).
The Lord God is merciful and gracious, abundant in good-
ness and truth ; forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.
Lord ! pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for
Thine inheritance.
EXODUS, xxxiv.
And God said, / withheld thee from sinning against Me.
GENESIS, xx.
If thou sinnest, what dost thou against Him ?
JOB, xxxv.
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him.
1 SAMUEL, ii.
SOUL.
My soul is weary of my life : I will speak in the bitterness
of my soul.
JOB, x.
My soul fleeth unto the Lord.
PSALM cxxx.
Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill
the soul ; but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both
soul and body in hell.
MATTHEW, x.
Why art thou so full of heaviness, my soul ! and why art
thou so disquieted within me ?
PSALM xlii.
Then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto
the Lord.
EXODUS, zxz.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
SOUL (continued).
And there I '11 rest, as, after much turmoil,
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ii. 7.
This look of thine will hurl my soul from Heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it !
OTHELLO, v. 2.
All the souls that were, were forfeit once :
And He, that might the vantage best have took,
Found out the remedy.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
SPARROW.
I will huy nine sparrows for a penny, and his " pia mater
is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 1.
SPIRIT.
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound ;
But now, two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough.
1 HENRY IV. v. 4.
STARS.
I see thy glory, like a shooting star,
Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
RICHARD II. ii. 4.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
SOUL (continued).
Stand ye in the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall
find rest for your souls.
JEREMIAH, vi.
Lo, they lie waiting for my soul !
PSALM, lix.
Man became a living soul ; and the Lord God put the man
into the Garden of Eden, saying, Of every tree of the garden
mayest thou freely eat ; but of the tree of knowledge, of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it ; for the day that thou eatest
thereof, thou shalt surely die.
GENESIS, ii.
SPARROW.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings ? Ye are of
more value than many sparrows.
LUKE, xii.
SPIRIT.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the
spirit shall return unto God, who gave it.
ECCLESIASTES, xii.
STARS.
God set stars in the firmament of Heaven.
GENESIS, i.
The stars shall fall from Heaven.
MATTHEW, xxiv.
And the stars of Heaven fell unto the earth.
REVELATION, vi.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
STRENGTH.
Praised be God, and not our strength, for it !
HENRY V. iv. 7.
STRIFE.
I would to God, all strifes were well compounded !
RICHARD III. ii. 1.
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife ;
Become a Christian, and thy loving wife.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, ii. 3.
SWEAR.
Who should I swear by ? thou believ'st no God !
TITPS ANDHONICUS, v. 1.
TEMPERANCE.
Ask God for temperance ; that 's the appliance only,
Which your disease requires.
HENRY VIII. i. l.
TEMPEST OF FIRE.
Never till to-night, never till now,
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
JULIUS C-SJSAR, i. 3.
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STRENGTH.
The Lord is my strength, and my shield ; my heart hath
trusted in Him, and I am helped.
PSALM xxviii.
STRIFE.
Let nothing be done through strife.
PHILIPPIANS, li.
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife.
PHOVERBS, xx.
SWEAR.
Now, therefore, swear unto me here, by God, that thou wilt
not deal falsely with me. And Abraham said, I will swear.
GENESIS, xxi.
TEMPERANCE.
Add to your faith, virtue ; to virtue, knowledge ; to know-
ledge, temperance ; and to temperance, patience.
2 PETER, i.
TEMPEST OF FIRE.
And the Lord rained hail upon the land, and fire mingled
with the hail, such as there was none like in the land.
EXODUS, ix.
The same day it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven.
LUKE, xvii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
TEMPLE.
Confusion now hath made his master-piece !
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building.
MACBETH ii. 8.
TEMPT.
Withhold thine indignation, mighty Heaven,
And tempt us not to bear above our power !
KINO JOHN, v. 6.
THANKSGIVING.
Poor soul ! God's goodness hath been great to thee :
Let never day nor night unhallowd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
O upright, just, and true- disposing God,
How do I thank Thee.
RICHARD III. iv. 4.
THOUGHTS.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below ;
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.
HAMLET, iii. 3.
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WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
TEMPLE.
All the city was moved, and the people ran together :
and they took Paul, and drew him out of the Temple ; and
forthwith the doors were shut, and they went about to
kill him.
ACTS, xxi.
TEMPT.
There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common
to man : but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able.
1 CORINTHIANS, x.
THANKSGIVING.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with pure
conscience, that, without ceasing, I have remembrance of thee
in my prayers, night and day.
2 TIMOTHY, i.
While I live will I praise the Lord ; yea, as long as I have
any being, I will sing praises unto my God.
PSALM cxlvi.
Being enriched in every thing, to all bountifulness, which
causeth, through us, thanksgiving to God.
2 CORINTHIANS, ix.
THOUGHTS.
God is not in all his thoughts.
PSALM x.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man.
PSALM xciv.
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KELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
THRONE.
God, and His angels, guard your sacred throne,
And make you long become it !
HENKY V. i. 2.
TIME.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time ;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
MACBETH, v. 5.
TRANSGRESSION.
Heaven, lay not my transgression to my charge !
KING JOHN, i. 1.
TROUBLOUS WORLD.
So part we sadly in this troublous world,
To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.
3 HENRY VI. v. 5.
TRUTH.
Methinks, the Truth should live from age to age,
As 't were retail'd to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.
RICHARD III. iii. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
TOrtt
THRONE.
And I heard the voice of many angels, round about the
Throne.
REVELATION, v.
TIME.
A thousand years, in Thy sight, are but as yesterday ;
all our days are passed away, and we spend our years as a tale
that is told.
PSALM xc.
TRANSGRESSION.
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is
covered.
PSALM xxxii.
TROUBLOUS TIMES.
From the going forth of the commandment, to restore
Jerusalem; in three- score and two weeks it shall be built
again ; the street, and the wall, even in troublous times.
DANIEL, ix.
TRUTH.
The Lord is good : His mercy is everlasting, and His truth
endureth to all generations.
PSALM c.
The truth of the Lord endureth for ever.
PSALM cxvii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
VAIN GLORY.
Most miserable
Is the desire that 's glorious : Blessed be those,
How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,
Which seasons comfort.
CYMBELINE, i. 7.
VENGEANCE.
A virgin from her tender infancy,
Chaste and immaculate in very thought :
Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effus'd,
Will cry for vengeance at the gates of Heaven.
1 HENRY VI. v. 4.
VICTORY.
God on our side, doubt not of victory.
2 HENRY VI. iv. 8.
Heaven have glory for this victory !
1 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
I, with submissive loyalty of heart,
Ascribe the glory of this conquest got,
First to my God, and next unto your Grace.
1 HENRY VI. iii. 4.
God, Thy arm was here !
And not to us, but to Thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all * * * take it, God,
For it is only Thine.
HENRY V. iv. 8.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
VAIN GLORY.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory.
GALATIANS, v.
Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in
lowliness of mind.
PHILIPPIANS, ii.
VENGEANCE.
/, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of
the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth gene-
ration.
COMMANDMENTS.
Avenge not yourselves ; for it is written, Vengeance is
Mine.
ROMANS, xii.
VICTORY.
Thou hast given victory unto kings.
PSALM cxliv.
David stood in the midst of the ground, and defended
it, and slew the Philistines, and the Lord wrought a great
victory.
2 SAMUEL, xxiii.
And he went forth conquering and to conquer.
REVELATION, vi.
O sing unto the Lord a new song, for He hath done mar-
vellous things ; His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten
Him the victory.
PSALM xcviii.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
VICTORY (continued).
To whom God will, there be the victory !
8 HENRY VI. ii. 3.
Sound trumpets ! let our bloody colours wave !
And either victory, or else a grave !
S HENBY VI. ii. 2.
Thou, whose captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye ;
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Make us Thy ministers of chastisement,
That we may praise Thee in Thy victory !
RICHARD III. v. 3.
VISION.
Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop
Invite me to a banquet ; whose bright faces
Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun ?
They promised me eternal happiness.
HENRY VIII. iv. 2.
VOWS.
This, in the name of God, I promise here ;
The which, if He be pleas'd, I shall perform :
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And I will die a hundred thousand deaths,
Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
VICTORY (continued).
Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory.
I CORINTHIANS, xv.
And the Lord wrought a great victory that day.
2 SAMUEL, xxiii.
Thine, Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the
glory, and the victory.
1 CHRONICLES, xxiii.
VISION,
He saw in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day,
an angel of God coming to him, and saying unto him,
Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a
memorial before God.
ACTS, x.
VOWS.
Yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and per-
form it.
ISAIAH, xix.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou
shouldest vow and not pay.
ECCLESIASTES, V.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
VOWS (continued).
It is the purpose, that makes strong the vow ;
But vows, to every purpose, must not hold.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 3.
It is religion, that doth make vows kept.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
'T is not the many oaths, that make the truth ;
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
What is not holy, that we swear not by,
But take the Highest to witness.
ALL '8 WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 2.
He hath given countenance to his speech,
With almost all the holy vows of Heaven.
HAMLET, i. 3.
I have toward Heaven breath'd a secret vow,
To live in prayer and contemplation.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii. 4.
WAR.
How you awake the sleeping sword of war,
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed.
HENRY V. i. 2.
WICKEDNESS.
If the wickedness of these men have defeated the law, and
outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men,
they have no wings to fly from God.
HENRY V. iv. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
VOWS (continued) .
So I will sing praises unto Thy name for ever ; that I may
daily perform my vows.
PSALM Ixi.
If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind
his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word.
NUMBERS, xxx.
That mayest thou offer for a free-will offering, but for a vow,
it shall not be accepted.
LEVITICUS, xxii.
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou
shalt not slack to pay it.
DEUTEHONOMY, xxiii.
WAR.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
ISAIAH, ii.
WICKEDNESS.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them ; but the
wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
PBOVERBS, xi.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
WIDOW.
Where, then, alas ! may I complain myself ?
To Heaven, the widow's champion and defence.
RICHARD II. i. 2.
Arm, arm, you Heavens, against these perjur'd kings !
A widow cries ; be hushand to me, Heavens !
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
WILL OF HEAVEN.
The words of Heaven ; on whom it will, it will :
On whom it will not, so ; yet still, 't is just.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, i. 3.
The will of Heaven
Be done in this, and all things !
HENRY VIII. i. 1.
This lies all within the will of God,
To Whom I do appeal.
HENRY V. i. 2.
WISDOM.
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
I HBNRY IV. i. 2.
The fool doth think he is wise ; but the wise man knows
himself to be a fool.
AS YOU LIKE IT, V. 1.
WITCH.
Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,
And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st.
1 HENRY VI. i. 5.
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WITH COBRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
Wlvit.
WIDOW.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child ; if thou
afflict them in anywise, and they cry at all unto Me, I will
surely hear their cry.
EXODUS, xxii.
The King said unto her, What aileth thee ? and she answered,
I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
2 SAMUEL, xiv.
WILL OF HEAVEN.
He said unto Moses, I will have mercy on whom 7 will
have mercy, and / will have compassion on whom / will have
compassion.
ROMANS, ix.
Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so in earth.
LUKE, xi.
He maketh intercession according to the will of God.
ROMANS, viii.
WISDOM.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the
streets.
PROVERBS, i.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes : but he that
hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
PROVERBS, xxii.
WITCH.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
EXODUS, xxii.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
WITCHCRAFT.
Tell me what they deserve,
That do conspire my death with devilish plots
Of damned witchcraft.
RICHARD III. Hi. 4.
WOE.
Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy ;
And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,
Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd.
RICHARD II. ii. 2.
WORLD.
Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so :
For what is in this world but grief and woe ?
8 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
WORLD'S DISSOLUTION.
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
TEMPEST, iv. 1.
WITH CORRESPONDING PASSAGES FROM
WITCHCRAFT.
He used enchantments and used witchcraft, and dealt with
familiar spirits and with wizards ; he wrought much evil in the
sight of the Lord.
2 CHROHICLES, xxxiii.
WOE.
Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ?
who hath wounds without cause ?
PROVERBS, xxiii.
WORLD.
He that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life
eternal.
JOHN, xii.
WORLD'S DISSOLUTION.
The Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the
works that are therein, shall he burned ; for the Heavens being
on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt.
2 PETER, Hi.
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In concluding this part of the compilation of Shakespeare's
Religious Sentences, we cannot avoid expressing the indulged
hope, that our readers will feel with us a gratified surprise,
that so many passages, embellishing his works, should have
been found so conformable to the Holy Scriptures. They pre-
sent incontestable proofs that he was fully read in Holy Writ,
and that his mind was most sensibly imbued with the sublimity
and hallowed character of the Sacred Writings.
In contemplating the diversity of Shakespeare's genius, it is
delightful to behold him, while depicting the sublunary scenes
of human life in all its various shades, exhorting us, at the same
time, to look up with adoration to the Omnipotent Creator of
the Universe.
We now proceed to submit some further extracts from
the works of Shakespeare, of a similar description to the
preceding, but not accompanied with corresponding passages
from Scripture ; thus shewing how copiously he drew from
the pure source of his own all- gifted mind, sentences of
high morality and true religion.
These we have placed under the respective heads of GOD,
HEAVEN, DEATH, SOUL, PRAYER, HOLY, SACRAMENT, and WAR,
in order to give a denned arrangement of the subjects, and to
shew in what a pure religious sense he treats and considers
each.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
GOD.
Since God so graciously hath brought to light
This dangerous treason, lurking in our way,
Then, forth, dear countrymen ; let us deliver
Our puissance into the hand of God.
HENRY V. ii. 2.
So just is God, to right the innocent.
RICHARD III. i. 3.
Lord ! we know what we are, but know not what
we may be.
HAMLET, iv. 5.
God, which this blood mad'st, revenge his death !
Either Heaven, with lightning, strike the murderer dead,
Or, Earth, gape open wide, and eat him quick.
RICHARD III. i. 2.
What is your grace's pleasure ?
Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,
And all good men.
RICHARD III. iii. 7.
This, in the name of God, I promise here.
1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Pray God he keep his oath.
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4.
F the name of God,
Your pleasure be fulfill' d !
HENRY VIII. ii. 4.
God forbid any malice should prevail !
Pray God, he may acquit him of suspicion !
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
God be thanked for prevention ;
Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
Beseeching God, and you, to pardon me.
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God quit you in His mercy !
HENRY V. ii. 2.
God above deal between thee and me !
MACBETH, iv. 8.
I rather do beseech you pardon me,
Who, earnest in the service of my God,
Neglect the visitation of my friends.
RICHARD III. iii. 7.
Cold news, Lord Somerset ; but God's will be done !
2 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
But Warwick, after God, thou set'st me free ;
And chiefly, therefore, I thank God, and thee ;
He was the Author, thou the instrument.
3 HENRY VI. iv. 6.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
God defend the right !
LOVE'S LABOUR '8 LOST, i. 1.
God will revenge it ; whom I will importune,
With earnest prayers, all to that effect.
RICHARD III. ii. 2.
God is much displeas'd,
That you take with unthankfulness His doing.
RICHARD III. ii. 2.
Be patient yet.
I will, when you are humble ; nay, before,
Or God will punish me.
HENRY VIII. ii. 4.
Thy wife is proud : she holdeth thee in awe,
More than God, or religious churchmen may.
1 HENRY VI. i. 1.
That he is dead, good "Warwick, 't is too true ;
But how he died, God knows.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
For love of God, forbear him.
HAMLET, v. 1.
Proffers, not took, reap thanks for their reward.
Inspired merit, so by breath is barr'd :
It is not so with Him, that all things knows,
As 't is with us, that square our guess by shows ;
But most it is presumption in us, when
The help of Heaven we count the act of men.
ALL *S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ii. 1.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray !
RICHARD III. iv. 4.
If God will be avenged for the deed,
O, know you, that He doth it publicly ;
He needs no indirect nor lawless course
To cut off those that have offended Him !
RICHARD III. i. 4.
God be wi' you ; fare you well.
HAMLET, ii. 1.
God grant, we never may have need of you !
RICHARD III. i. 3.
Both to defend my loyalty and truth,
To God, my king, and my succeeding issue.
RICHARD II. i. 8.
God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one.
HENRY V. v. 2.
God take King Edward to His mercy,
And leave the world for me to bustle in.
RICHARD III. i. 1.
We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
HENRY V. iii. 6.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
More needs she the divine than the physician.
God, God, forgive us all !
MACBETH, v. 1.
You know your places ; God be with you all !
HENRY V. iv. 3.
In the name of God,
How comes it, then, that thou art call'd a king,
When living blood doth in these temples beat,
Which owe the crown that thou o'er-masterest ?
KING JOHN, ii. 1.
We thought ourself thy lawful king :
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If we be not, shew us the hand of God
That hath dismiss'd us from our stewardship.
RICHARD II. iii. 3.
God bless thee, and put meekness hi thy breast,
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
RICHARD III. ii. ii.
O pity, God, this miserable age !
Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural !
3 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
O upright, just, and true- disposing God,
How do I thank Thee !
RICHARD III. iv. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
A hell-hound, that doth hunt us all to death, :
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That foul defacer of God's handy- work.
RICHARD III. iv. 4.
O, triumph not in my woes ;
God witness with me, I have wept for thine !
RICHARD III. iv. 4.
God (if Thy will be so),
Enrich the tune to come with smooth-fac'd peace,
With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days !
RICHARD III. v. 4.
God forbid,
That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
Or nicely charge your understanding soul
With opening titles miscreate, whose right
Suits not in native colours with the truth.
HENRY V. i. 2.
O God ! God ! that e'er this tongue of mine,
That laid the sentence of dread banishment
On yon proud man, should take it off again
With words of sooth !
RICHARD II. iii. 3.
Now God in Heaven forbid !
RICHARD II. ii. 2.
God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones ;
Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby !
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
God ! forgive my sins, and pardon thee !
3 HENRY VI. v. 6.
If he do fear God, he must necessarily keep peace.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 3.
Nor God, nor I, delight in perjur'd men.
LOVE'S LABOUR 'S LOST, V. 2.
O, forbid it, God,
That in a Christian climate, souls refined
Should shew so heinous, black, obscene a deed !
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
God hath blessed you with a good name.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Hi. 3.
Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine,
And, in this vow, do chain my soul to thine ;
And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,
1 throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to Thee,
Thou setter-up and plucker-down of kings !
Beseeching Thee, if with Thy will it stands,
That to my foes this body must be prey,
Yet that Thy brazen gates of Heaven may ope,
And give sweet passage to my sinful soul !
Now, lords, take leave, until we meet again,
Where e'er it be, in Heaven, or on earth.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 8.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Great God, how just art Thou !
2 HENRY VI. v. 1.
Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
Which He hath given for fence impregnable ;
And with then 1 helps only defend ourselves.
3 HENRY VI. iv. 1.
I say no more than truth, so help me God !
2 HENRY VI. ill. 1.
Serve God, love me, and mend.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, V. 2.
God give your graces both
A happy and a joyful time of day !
RICHARD III. iv. 1.
Who hath not heard it spoken,
How deep you were within the books of God ?
2 HENRY IV. iv. 2.
God ! God !
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world !
HAMLET, i. 2.
In God's name, lead : your king's name be obey'd :
And what God will, that let your king perform.
3 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
HEAVEN.
O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven !
Keep me in temper : I would not be mad !
KING LEAR, i. 5.
Heaven ! be Thou gracious to none alive,
If Salisbury wants mercy at Thy hands.
1 HENRY VI. i. 4.
Tarry, dear cousin,
My soul shall thine keep company to Heaven :
Tarry, sweet soul, for mine ; then fly a-breast :
As, in this glorious and well-foughten field,
We kept together in our chivalry !
HENRY V. iv. 6.
His actions shew much like to madness : pray Heaven, his
wisdom be not tainted.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 4.
O, help him, you sweet Heavens !
* * * *
Heavenly Powers ! restore him.
HAMLET, iii. 1.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FHOM
Though thy speech doth fail,
One eye thou hast, to look to Heaven for grace :
The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
1 HENRY VI. i. 4.
But, for the certain knowledge of that truth,
I put you o'er to Heaven.
* * * *
Heaven guard my mother's honour.
KINO JOHN, i. 1.
O, upon my knee,
Made hard by kneeling, I do pray to thee.
* * * *
Alter not the doom,
Fore-thought by Heaven.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
When thou fall'st (as God forbid the hour !)
Must Edward fall ; which peril Heaven forfend.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
Pray Heaven he sound not my disgrace.
God, turn their hearts !
HENRY VIII. v. 2.
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
You Heavens, give me that patience, patience I need !
KING LEAR, ii. 4.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Woe above woe ! grief more than common grief !
O, that my death would stay these ruthful deeds !
O, pity, pity, gentle Heaven, pity !
3 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
This gate
Instructs you how to adore the Heavens ; and bows you
To morning's holy office :
Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair Heaven !
CYMBELINE, iii. 8.
Shall we serve Heaven
With less respect than we do minister
To our gross selves ?
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
O, but man ! proud man !
Drest in a little brief authority ;
Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven,
As make the angels weep.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
Flow, flow, you Heavenly blessings, on her.
CYMBELINE, iii. 5.
Heaven be the record to my speech !
In the devotion of a subject's love.
* * * *
For what I speak,
My body shall make good upon this earth,
Or my divine soul answer it in Heaven.
RICHARD II. i. 1.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc'd
Above the clouds, as high as Heaven itself ?
ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 5.
Heaven, hi thy good cause, make thee prosperous.
RICHARD II. i. 3.
Sweet rest to his soul .'
Fly, lords, and save yourselves ; for Warwick bids
You all farewell, to meet again in Heaven.
3 HENRY VI. v. 2.
Now, Heaven help him !
KING LEAR, iii. 7.
'Would I had met my dearest foe in Heaven
Or ever I had seen that day.
HAMLET, i. 2.
Who ever knew the Heavens menace so ?
JULIUS C^SAR, i. 3.
For myself, to Heaven I do appeal,
How I have lov'd my long, and commonweal.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
First, methought,
I stood not in the smile of Heaven.
HBNRY VIII. ii. 4.
Hark ! hark ! the lark at Heaven's gate sings.
CYMBELINE, ii. 3.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Can we outrun the Heavens ?
2 HENRY VI. v. 2.
Give place ; by Heaven, thou shalt rule no more
O'er him, whom Heaven created for thy ruler !
2 HENRY VI. v. 1.
So defend thee Heaven, and thy valour !
RICHARD II. i. 3.
Heaven has an end in all.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
O Heavens ! that this treason were not, or not I the
detector.
KING LEAR, iii. 5.
Each day still better other's happiness ;
Until the Heavens * * * *
Add an immortal title to your crown.
RICHARD II. i. 1.
The King of Heaven forbid, our lord the King
Should so with civil and uncivil arms
Be rush'd upon !
RICHARD II. iii. 3.
Then is there mirth in Heaven,
When earthly things made even
Atone together.
As YOU LIKE IT, v. 4.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
As false, by Heaven, as Heaven itself is true.
RICHARD II. IV. 1.
All the stor'd vengeances of Heaven fall
On her !
KINS LEAR, ii. 4.
Who comes here ? O Heavens !
KING LEAK, ii. 4.
Heaven mend all !
CYMBELINE, v. 5.
I charge thee,
As Heaven shall work in me for thine avail,
To tell me truly.
ALL 'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 3.
The Heavens speed thee in thine enterprise.
JULIUS C.-KSAR, ii. 4.
The will of Heaven
Be done in this, and all things.
HENRY VIII. i. 1.
In that hope, I throw mine eyes to Heaven,
Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.
8 HENRY VI. i. 4.
See what Heaven can do !
PERICLES, i. 4.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
This sorrow 's Heavenly ;
It strikes, where it doth love.
OTHELLO, v. 2.
What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ?
Is there not rain enough in the sweet Heavens,
To wash it white as snow ?
HAMLET, iii. 3.
If that the Heavens do not their visible spirits
Send quickly down, to tame these vile offences,
Humanity must perforce prey on itself.
KING LEAK, iv. 2.
Heavens ! can you hear a good man groan,
And not relent, or not compassion him ?
TITUS ANDRONICITS, iv. 1.
1 here protest, in sight of Heaven,
And by the hope I have of Heavenly bliss,
That I am clear from this misdeed.
8 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
To us, the imagin'd voice of God himself ;
The very opener, and intelligencer,
Between the grace, the sanctities of Heaven,
And our dull workings.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MOEAL SENTENCES FROM
O Heaven .' were man
But constant, he were perfect : That one error
Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all sins
Bear witness, Heaven !
Two GENTLEMEN OP VEKONA, v. 4.
The Heavens do low'r upon you, for some ill ;
Move them no more, by crossing their high will.
ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 5.
Heaven and yourself
Had part in this fair maid ; now Heaven hath all ;
Your part hi her you could not keep from death ;
But Heaven keeps His part in eternal life.
ROMEO AND J0LIET, iv. 5.
Though usurpers sway the rule awhile,
Yet Heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.
3 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
Even in that was Heaven ordinant.
HAMLET, v. 2.
His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,
Draw those Heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
Which Heaven shall take in nature of a fee ;
Ay, with these crystal beads, Heav'n shall be brib'd
To do him justice.
KING JOHN, ii. 1.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Wherefore did you so much tempt the Heavens ?
It is the part of men to fear and tremble.
JULIUS GVESAR, i. 3.
So much my conscience whispers in your ear :
Which none but Heaven, and you, and I, shall hear.
KING JOHN, i. 1.
Heaven hath a hand in these events,
To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
RICHARD II. v. 2.
At his touch,
Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand,
They presently amend.
MACBETH, iv. 3.
He delivers you,
From this earth's thraldom, to the joys of Heaven.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous !
The fitter for the King of Heaven, that hath him.
RICHARD III. i. 2.
He is in Heaven, where thou shalt never come.
RICHARD III. i. 2.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace.
HENRY VIII. iv. 2.
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ;
His heart as far from fraud, as Heaven from earth.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ii. 7.
With his strong arms
He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out
As he'd burst Heaven.
KING LEAR, v. 3.
Thou, out of Heaven's benediction com'st,
To the warm sun !
KING LEAR, ii. 2.
Heaven hath infus'd them with these spirits,
To make them instruments of fear, and warning.
JULIUS CAESAR, i. 8.
Heaven's bounty towards him might
Be us'd more thankfully.
CTMBELINE, i. 7.
We '11 both together lift our heads to Heaven,
And never more abase our sight so low,
As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.
2 HENRY VI. i. 2.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
I will keep her ignorant of her good,
To make her Heavenly comforts of despair.
MEASURE FOB MEASURE, iv. 3.
He that parts us, shall bring a brand from Heaven,
And fire us hence.
KING LEAR, v. 3.
Heaven, and my conscience, knows
Thou didst unjustly banish me.
CYMBELINE, iii. 3.
When I am in Heaven, I shall desire
To see what this child does, and praise my Maker.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught ; leave her to Heaven.
HAMLET, i. 5.
His greatness was no guard,
To bar Heaven s shaft ; but sin had his reward.
PERICLES, ii. 4.
So smile the Heavens upon this holy act.
ROMEO AND JULIET, ii. 6.
Now, lords, if Heaven doth give successful end
To this debate, that bleedeth at our doors ;
We will our youth lead on to higher fields,
And draw no swords but what are sanctify 'd.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below :
Words without thoughts never to Heaven go.
HAMLET, iii. 3.
This judgment of the Heavens, that makes us tremble,
Touches us not with pity.
KING LEAK, v. 3.
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ;
That thou may'st shake the superflux to them,
And shew the Heavens more just.
KING LEAR, iii. 4.
Commend me to his grace ;
And, if he speak of Buckingham, pray tell him,
You met him half in Heaven.
HENRY VIII. U.I.
The means, that Heaven yields, must be embrac'd,
And not neglected ; else, if Heaven would,
And we will not, Heaven's offer we refuse ;
The proffer 'd means of succour and redress.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to Heaven !
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in thy grave,
But not remember' d in thy epitaph !
1 HENRY IV. v. 4.
O, who shall believe,
But you misuse the reverence of your place ;
Employ the countenance and grace of Heaven,
As a false favourite doth his prince's name,
In deeds dishonourable ?
2 HENRY IV. iv. 2.
The cross blue lightning seem'd to open
The breast of Heaven.
JULIUS CJESA.R, i. 3.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Put we our quarrel to the will of Heaven ;
Who, when He sees the hours ripe on earth,
"Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.
RICHARD II. i. 2.
Then I confess,
Here on my knee, before high Heaven and you,
That before you, and next unto high Heaven,
I love your son !
ALL '8 WELL THAT ENDS WELL, 1. 3.
Were it not good, your grace could fly to Heaven ?
The treasury of everlasting joy.
2 HENRY VI. ii. I.
If sanctimonious ceremonies
With full and holy rite be minister'd,
Then sweet aspersions shall the Heavens let fall,
To make this contract grow.
TEMPEST, iv. 1.
Father cardinal, I have heard you say,
That we shall see and know our friends in Heaven :
If that be true, I shall see my boy again ;
For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
To him that did but yesterday suspire,
There was not such a gracious creature born.
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And so he'll die ; and, rising so again,
When I shall meet him in the court of Heaven
I shall not know him.
KINO JOHN, Hi. 4.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both Heaven and earth.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, i. 1.
Thou, whom I from meaner form
Have bench'd, and rear'd to worship ; who may'st see,
Plainly as Heaven sees earth, and earth sees Heaven,
How I am galled.
WINTER'S TALE, i. 2.
Nor Heaven, nor earth, have been at peace to-night.
JULIUS CJESAS., ii. 2.
A serving-man proud in heart and mind ; * *
That swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them
in the sweet face of Heaven.
KING LEAR, iii. 4.
For Heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound !
And I will sit as quiet as a lamb.
KING JOHN, iv. 1.
O, Heaven ! I thank you, Hubert.
KING JOHN, iv. 1.
There is no malice in this burning coal ;
The breath of Heaven hath blown his spirit out,
And strew'd repentant ashes on his head.
KING JOHN, iv. 1.
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KELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
By Heaven, lady, you shall have no cause
To curse the fair proceedings of this day.
KING JOHN, iii. 1,
What you bid me undertake,
Though that my death were adjunct to my act,
By Heaven, I 'd do 't !
KING JOHN, iii. 3.
A thousand businesses are brief in hand,
And Heaven itself doth frown upon the land.
KING JOHN, iv. 3.
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
I do think that you might pardon him,
And neither Heaven, nor man, grieve at the mercy.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
Sure, one of you does not serve Heaven well.
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. 5.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
I cannot tell
What Heaven hath given him, let some graver eye
Pierce into that ; but I can see his pride
Peep through each part of him.
Therefore doth Heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions.
HENRY VIII. i. 1.
HENRY V. i. 2.
To sing Heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.
POEMS.
Now, afore Heaven, 't is shame such wrongs are borne.
RICHARD II. ii. I.
Can judge as fitly of his worth,
As I can of those mysteries which Heaven
Will not have earth to know.
CORIOLANUS, if. 2.
The grace of Heaven,
Before, behind thee, and on every hand,
Enwheel thee round !
OTHELLO, ii. 1.
Fare you well !
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
AS YOU LIKE IT, i. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
I conjure thee, as thou believ'st
There is another comfort than this world.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, v. 1.
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by Heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
PERICLES, v. 8.
Swear, by the duty that you owe to Heaven,
To keep the oath that we administer.
RICHARD II. i. 3.
Heaven's is the quarrel ; for Heaven's substitute,
His deputy anointed in His sight,
Hath caus'd his death : the which, if wrongfully,
Let Heaven revenge.
RICHARD II. i. 2.
The plants look up to Heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment.
PERICLES, i. !>.
Too much honour ;
O, 't is a burden 't is a burden,
Too heavy for a man that hopes for Heaven.
HEXRT VIII. iii. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
I have an oath in Heaven :
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul ?
MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.
Canst thou dispense with Heaven for such an oath ?
2 HENRY VI.. v. 1.
Like to the lark, at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at Heavens gate.
SONNET xxix.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
DEATH.
I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.
Be absolute for death ; either death, or life,
Shall thereby be the sweeter.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
The weariest and most loathed worldly life,
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a paradise
To what we fear of death.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
Just Death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
With sweet enlargement, doth dismiss me hence.
1 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
Make haste, the hour of death is expiate.
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Let us here embrace :
Farewell, until we meet again in Heaven.
RICHARD III. iii. 3.
Our purposes God justly hath discover'd ;
And I repent my fault, more than my death;
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Although my body pay the price of it.
HENRY V. ii. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Fly, father, fly ! for all your friends are fled ;
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Away ! for Death doth hold us in pursuit.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust ?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
8 HENRY VI. v. 2.
Your death,
The taste whereof, God of His mercy give you
Patience to endure.
HENRY V. ii. 2.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ;
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
RICHARD III. iii. 1.
Here, on my knee, I beg mortality,
Rather than life preserv'd with infamy.
1 HENRY VI. iv. 5.
Art thou gone too ? All comfort go with thee !
For none abides with me : my joy is death :
Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,
Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 4.
O, I could prophesy,
But that the earthy and cold hand of Death
Lies on my tongue.
1 HENRY IV. v. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Which I had rather seal with my death, than repeat over to
my shame.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, V. 1.
Tell me what blessings I have here alive,
That I should fear to die ?
WINTER'S TALE, iii. 2.
Mercutio 's dead :
That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds.
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Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads ;
Staying for thine to keep him company.
ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 1.
What 's yet in this,
That bears the name of life ? Yet in this life
Lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death we fear.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
Grim Death, how foul and loathsome is thine image.
TAMING OP THE SHREW, i. 1.
Thus ready for the way of life or death,
I wait the sharpest blow.
PERICLES, i. 1.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all :
All shall die.
2 HENRY IV. iii. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Take hence that traitor from our sight,
For, by his death, we do perceive his guilt :
And God, in justice, hath reveal' d to us
The truth and innocence of this poor fellow.
2 HENRY VI. ii. 3.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her !
And be her sense but as a monument,
Thus in a chapel lying !
CYMBELINE, ii. 2.
They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.
HENRY V. iv. 2.
Smile, gentle Heaven ! or strike, ungentle Death ;
For this world frowns.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 3.
Make peace with God, for you must die.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts,
Leaves them insensible : and his siege is now
Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds.
KING JOHN, v. 7.
I repent :
There is no sure foundation set in blood ;
No certain life achiev'd by others' death.
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand
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Think you, I bear the shears of destiny ?
Have I commandment on the pulse of life ?
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
And, when old Time shall lead him to his end,
Goodness and he fill up one monument.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
God knows, how long it is I have to live :
And it has pleas'd Him that three times to-day
You have defended me from imminent death.
2 HENRY VI. v. 3.
'T is a vile thing to die,
When men are unprepar'd, and look not for it.
RICHARD III. iii. 2.
Come, lead me to the block, bear him my head :
They smile at me, who shortly shall be dead.
RICHARD III. iii. 4.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear :
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come, when it will come.
JULIUS C.ESAR, ii. 2.
This fell sergeant, Death, is strict in his arrest.
HAMLET, v. 2.
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Bear from hence his body,
And mourn you for him : let him be regarded
As the most noble corse, that ever herald
Did follow to his urn.
CORIOLANUS, V. 5.
Those whom you curse,
Have felt the worst of Death's destroying wound,
And lie full low, grav'd in the hollow ground.
RICHARD II. Hi. 2.
According to his virtue let us use him,
With all respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,
Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.
JULIUS C^ESAK, v. 5.
For Heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
For within the hollow crown,
That rounds the mortal temples of a king,
Keeps Death his court ; and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ;
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchise.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
To die, is to be banish'd from myself.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii. 1.
He that cuts off twenty years of life,
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
JULIUS C^ISAR, iii. 1.
By medicine, life may be prolong'd, yet Death
Will seize the doctor too.
CYMBELINE, v. 5.
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 5.
These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil,
Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun.
8 HENRY VI. v. 2.
Dar'st thou die ?
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
Where art thou, Death ?
Come hither, come ! come, come, and take a queen.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v. 2.
Good night, sweet prince ;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest !
HAMLET, v. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Nothing can we call our own, but death,
And that small model of the barrren earth,
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
RICHARD II. ii. 1.
So, now prosperity begins to mellow,
And drop into the rotten mouth of Death.
RICHARD III. iv. 4.
Death remember'd, should be like a mirror,
Who tells us, life 's but breath ; to trust it, error.
PERICLES, i. 1.
He should the bearers put to sudden death.
HAMLET, v. 2.
To whom he gave these words, " O father Abbott,
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ;
Give him a little earth for charity !"
So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness
Pursu'd him still ; and, three nights after this,
About the hour of eight (which he himself
Foretold should be his last), full of repentance,
Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace.
HENRY VIII, iv. 2.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Ambition's debt is paid !
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Dost thou lie so low ?
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure ?
JULIUS C-ESAR, III. i.
O, let the vile world end,
And the premised flames of the last day,
Knit earth and Heaven together !
2 HENRY VI. v. 2.
My grief
Stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 4.
His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little :
And, to add greater honours to his age
Than man could give him, he died, fearing God.
HENRY VIII. iv. 2.
Even this night, whose black contagious breath
Already smokes about the burning crest
Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun,
Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire.
KING JOHN, v. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it : he died
As one that had been studied in his death.
MACBETH, i. 4.
Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die ?
ROUEO AND JULIET, v. 1.
Death,
Thou hate and terror to prosperity !
KING JOHN, iii. 4.
Can vengeance be pursu'd further than death ?
ROMEO AND JULIET, v. 3.
How oft, when men are at the point of death,
Have they been merry ! which their keepers call
A lightning before death.
ROMEO AND JULIET, v. 3.
Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder ;
Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
To wash your blood
From off my hands, here, in the view of men,
I will unfold some causes of your death.
RICHARD II. iii. I.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Woe, destruction, ruin, loss, decay ;
The worst is death, and Death will have his day.
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
See them deliver'd over
To execution and the hand of Death.
RICHARD II. iii. 1.
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.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope :
I have hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye,
As interest of the dead !
SONNET XZZl.
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart ;
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And she is dead, slander 'd to death by villains.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, V. 1 .
O, our lives' sweetness !
That with the pain of death we'd hourly die,
Rather than die at once !
KING LEAR, v. 3.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Let him not come there
To seek out sorrow, that dwells everywhere :
Desolate, desolate, will I hence, and die.
RICHARD II. i. 2.
What is thy sentence, then, but speechless death,
Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath ?
RICHARD II. i. 3.
The law I bear no malice for my death :
It has done, upon the premises, but justice ;
But those, that sought it, I could wish more Christians.
HENRY VIII. ii. 1.
We smothered
The most replenished sweet work of nature,
That, from the prime creation, e'er she fram'd.
RICHARD III. iv. 3.
Not that I am afraid to die ; but that, my offences being
many, I would repent out the remainder of nature.
ALL '8 WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 3.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself ! Up, up, and see
The great doom's image !
MACBETH, ii. 3.
Kings and mightiest potentates must die ;
For that 's the end of human misery.
1 HENRY VI. iii. 2.
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How doth the king ?
Exceeding well ; his cares are now all ended :
He 's walk'd the way of nature,
And, to our purposes, he lives no more.
2 HENRY IV. v. 2.
Hung be the Heavens with black, yield day to night !
Henry is dead, and never shall revive :
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He was a king, bless' d of the King of kings.
The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought.
1 HENRY VI. i. 1.
0, Death 's a great disguiser !
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iv. 2.
Then is it sin,
To rush into the secret house of Death,
Ere Death dare come to us ?
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 13.
Thy conceit is nearer death, than thy powers. For my
sake, hold death awhile at the arm's end.
AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 6.
Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts :
And may that thought, when I imagine ill,
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Be my last breathing in this mortal world !
2 HENRY VI. i. 2.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
More are men's ends mark'd, than their lives before :
The setting sun, and music at the close,
(As the last taste of sweets) is sweetest last.
RICHARD II. ii. 1.
Just Death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence.
1 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
I will ; if that my fading breath permit,
And Death approach not ere my tale be done.
1 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
Heaven's vault should crack ; O, she is gone for ever !
She 's dead as earth !
KING LEAR, v. 3.
Dost thou know who speaks to thee ?
Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,
And he nor sees, nor hears us what we say.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 6.
God, forgive him !
So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close ;
And let us all to meditation.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 3.
Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom !
ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 2.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Although the duke was enemy to him,
Yet he, most christian-]ike, laments his death.
2 HENRY VI. Hi. 2.
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive
grief the enemy to the living.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 1 .
The purest treasure mortal times afford,
Is spotless reputation : that away,
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
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Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one :
Take honour from me, and my life is done.
* Mine honour let me try ;
In that I live, and for that will I die.
RICHARD II. i. 1.
O me ! this sight of death is as a bell
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
ROMEO AND JULIET, v. 3.
A man's life 's no more than to say, One.
HAMLET, v. 2.
The sands are number'd that make up my life !
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
3 HENRY VI. i. 4.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
SOUL.
My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breath'd out
That e'er devotion tender'd !
TWELFTH NIGHT, v. 1.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
HENRY V. iv. 1.
Hence, thou suborn'd informer ! a true soul,
When most impeached, stands least in thy control.
SONNET cxxv.
O, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul.
HAMLET, iii. 4.
I have done those things,
That now give evidence against my soul.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
I will not vex your souls ;
Since presently your souls must part your bodies.
RICHARD II. iii. 1.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
It may be so ; but yet my inward soul
Persuades me, it is otherwise.
RICHARD II. ii. 2.
Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize
The unstooping firmness of my upright soul.
RICHARD II. i. 1.
Heaven 's above all ; and there be souls that must be
saved, and there be souls must not be saved.
OTHELLO, ii. 3.
God forbid, so many simple souls
Should perish by the sword !
2HENRT VI. iv. 4.
God, defend my soul from such foul sin !
RICHARD II. i. 1.
Now God be prais'd ! that to believing souls
Gives light hi darkness, comfort in despair !
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
My grief lies all within,
And these external manners of lament
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FKOM
Our souls religiously confirm thy words.
KING JOHN, iv. 8.
And then my soul shall wait on thee to Heaven,
As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
KING JOHN, v. 7.
If Heaven have any grievous plague in store,
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
O, let them keep it, till thy sins be ripe.
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The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul !
RICHARD III. i. 3.
I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
Both to my God, and to my gracious king.
HAMLET, ii. 2.
Come, side by side together live and die ;
And, soul with soul from France to Heaven fly.
1 HENRY VI. iv. 5.
If, when you make your prayers,
God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
How would it fare with your departed souls ?
2 HENRY VI. iv. 7.
Take good heed
You charge not, in your spleen, a noble person ;
And spoil your nobler soul ! I say, take heed.
HENRY VIII. i. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
God shall mend my soul.
ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 5.
Fare thee well; and God have mercy upon one of
our souls !
TWELFTH NIGHT, Hi. 4.
My comfort is, that Heaven will take our souls,
And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
RICHARD II. iii. 1.
God in mercy so deal with my soul,
As I, in duty, love my long and country !
2 HENRY VI. i. 3.
Sweet rest his soul !
Fly, lords, and save yourselves, for Warwick bids
You all farewell ! to meet again in Heaven.
8 HENRY VI. v. 2.
God have mercy on his soul !
And of all Christian souls, I pray God !
HAMLET, iv. 5.
God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul !
1 HENRY VI. iv. 8.
In simple and pure soul I come to you.
OTHELLO, i. 1.
Sheba was never
More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue,
Than this pure soul shall be.
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Thus war hath given thee peace : for thou art still.-
Peace with his soul, Heaven, if it be Thy will !
2 HENRY VI. v. 2.
Never come such division 'tween our souls !
JULIUS CAESAR, iv. 3.
Now have I paid my vow unto his soul.
1 HENRY VI. ii. 2.
O, villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption !
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Three Judases ; each one thrice worse than Judas !
* * Terrible hell make war
Upon their spotted souls for this offence !
RICHARD II. iii. 2.
Arm you against your other enemies ;
I '11 make a peace between your soul and you.
KING JOHN, iv. 2.
It is too late ; the life of all his blood
Is touch' d corruptibly ; and his pure brain
(Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house)
Doth, by the idle comments that it makes,
Foretell the ending of mortality.
KING JOHN, v. 7.
Shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
RICHARD III. v. 3.
187
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
By Heaven, he shall not have a Scot of them !
No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not.
1 HENRY IV. i. 3.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee ;
And, for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal ?
HAMLET, i. 4.
The immortal part needs a physician ; hut that moves not
him : though that be sick, it dies not.
2 HENRY IV. ii. 2.
Thy soul's flight,
If it find Heaven, must find it out to-night.
MACBETH, iii. 1.
The soul and body rive not more in parting,
Than greatness going off.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 11.
There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold' st,
But in his motion like an angel sings ;
Such harmony is in immortal souls.
MERCHANT OF VENICE, v. 1.
Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
The clogging burden of a guilty soul.
RICHARD II. i. 3.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
He is the very soul of bounty !
TIMON OP ATHENS, i. 2.
That in his reprieve,
Longer, or shorter, he may be so fitted,
That his soul sicken not.
MEASURE FOB MEASURE, ii. 4.
In mercy, thou wilt mind
Thy followers of repentance, that their souls
May make a peaceful and a sweet retire.
HENRY V. iv. 8.
Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul,
That apprehends no further than this world,
And squar'st thy life according.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, v. 1.
The conjunction of our inward souls,
Married in league, coupled and link'd together,
With all religious strength of sacred vows.
KING JOHN, iii. 1.
That is to see how deep my grave is made :
For, with his soul, fled all my worldly solace ;
For seeing him, I see my life in death.
2 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
Stand these poor people's friend.
HENRY VIII. iv. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
To move wild laughter in the throat of death ?
It cannot be ! it is impossible :
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2.
Often did I strive
To yield the ghost : but still the envious flood
Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Speak no more :
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ;
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.
HAMLET, iii. 4.
Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave ?
A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.
3 HENRY VI. ii. 6.
The hope and expectation of thy time
Is ruin'd ; and the soul of every man,
Prophetically does fore-think thy fall.
1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.
Hang there like fruit, my soul,
'Till the tree die !
CYMBELINE, v. 5.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
I fear thy overthrow,
More than my body's parting with my soul.
8 HENKT VI. il. 6.
Relent, and save your souls.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Poor soul ! the centre of my sinful earth,
Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ?
Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine, to aggravate thy store ;
Buy terms divine, in selling hours of dross ;
Within be fed, without be rich no more :
So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
And, Death once dead, there 's no more dying then.
SONNET cxlvi.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
PRAYERS.
Get him to say his prayers ; *
Get him to pray.
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4.
They did say their prayers, and address'd them
Again to sleep.
MACBETH, ii. 2.
I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night ;
For I have need of many orisons
To move the Heavens to smile upon my state,
Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.
ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 8.
Unto my mother's prayers, I bend my knee.
RICHARD II. v. 8.
He concludes in hearty prayers,
That your attempts may overlive the hazard.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 1.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Heaven keep your honour safe !
Amen : for I
Am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
With wild wood-leaves and weeds I have strew' d his grave,
And on it said a century of prayers.
CYMBELINE, iv. 2.
Are you so gospell'd
To pray for this good man, and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave ?
MACBETH, iii. 1.
O, that my prayers could such affection move !
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, i. 1.
Loved him next Heaven,
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Almost forgot my prayers to content him.
HENRY VIII. iii. 1.
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise Powers
Deny us for our good ; so find we profit,
By losing of our prayers.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 1.
We had need pray,
And heartily, for our deliverance.
HENRY VIII. ii. 2.
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RELIGIOUS AND MOKAL SENTENCES FROM
A book of prayers On their pillow lay.
RICHARD III. iv. 3.
I '11 pray, and then I '11 sleep.
KING LEAH, iii. 4.
By the worth of mine eternal soul,
* * * *
If thou dost slander her, and torture me,
Never pray more.
OTHELLO, iii. 3.
O ! what form of prayer
Can serve my turn ? Forgive me my foul murder !-
That cannot be ; since lam still possess'd
Of those effects for which I did the murder.
HAMLET, iii. 3.
I saw her,
As I thought, dead; and have, hi vain, said many
A prayer upon her grave.
WINTER'S TALE, v. 3.
I '11 bribe you
***,**
With such gifts that Heaven shall share with you ;
Not with foul shekels of the tested gold,
*****
But with true prayers,
That shall be up at Heaven, and enter there,
Ere sun-rise.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.
O, let me pray before I take my death .'
3 HENRY VI. i. 3.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.
RICHARD II. v. 3.
They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.
HENRY V. iv. 2.
Consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
MERCHANT OP VENICE, iv. i.
I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
To join your hearts in love and amity.
1 HENRY VI. iii. 1.
If ever danger do environ thee,
Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers.
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, i. 3 .
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
HOLY.
Most holy and religious fear it is,
To keep those many many bodies safe,
That live.
HAMLET, iii. 8.
What is not holy, that we swear not by,
But take the Highest to witness.
ALL 'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 2.
I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,
To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
RICHARD II. v. 6.
True is it, that we have seen better days,
And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church.
AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 7.
Do not count it holy
To hurt by being just : it is not lawful
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To rob in the behalf of charity.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 3.
He 's honourable,
And, doubling that, most holy.
CYMBELINE, iii. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
I '11 send some holy bishop to entreat ;
For God forbid so many simple souls
Should perish by the sword,
2 HENBY VI. iv. 4.
See where his grace stands 'tween two clergymen !-
Two props of virtue for a Christian prince :
And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,
True ornaments to know a holy man.
RICHARD III. iii. 7.
He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
Divinely bent to meditation :
And in no worldly suit would he be mov'd,
To draw him from his holy exercise.
RICHARD III. iii. 7.
And hath given countenance to his speech,
With almost all the holy vows of Heaven.
HAMLET, i. 3.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
SACRAMENT.
Before I freely speak my mind herein,
You shall not only take the sacrament
To bury my intents, but to effect
Whatever I shall happen to devise.
RICHARD II. iv. 1.
Thou didst receive the sacrament to fight,
*****
And, like a traitor to the name of God,
Didst break that vow.
RICHARD III. i. 4.
Both they, and we, perusing o'er these notes,
May know wherefore we took the sacrament,
And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.
KING JOHN, v. .
Once did I lay hi ambush for your life ;
A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul :
But, ere I last receiv'd the sacrament,
I did confess it.
RlCHAKD II. 1. 1.
Great God of Heaven, say Amen to all !
*****
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red :
Smile, Heaven, upon this fair conjunction !
RICHARD III. v. 4.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
MARTIAL SENTENCES IN SHAKESPEARE,
TREATING OF WAR AND BATTLE, IN WHICH THE NAME OF GOD IS
REVERENTLY AND RELIGIOUSLY INTRODUCED, ASCRIBING ALL
HITMAN SUCCESS TO THE DEITY.
The peace of Heaven is theirs, that lift their swords
In such a just and charitable war.
KING JOHN, ii. 1.
In God's name, and the king's, say who thou art,
And why thou com'st, thus knightly clad in arms :
Speak truly, on thy knighthood, and thy oath ;
And so defend thee, Heaven, and thy valour !
RICHARD II. i. 3.
Whose high deeds, and whose great name in arms,
Holds from all soldiers chief majority,
And military title capital,
Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.
1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge ;
For, on their answer, will we set on them ;
And God befriend us, as our cause is just.
1 HENRY IV. v. 1.
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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
Three knights upon our party slain to-day ;
A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,
If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne
Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
1 HENRY IV. v. 5.
Strike up your drums, pursue the scatter'd stray ;
Heaven, and not we, hath safely fought to-day.
2 HENRY IV. iv. 2.
How you awake the sleeping sword of war ;
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed :
For never two such kingdoms did contend,
Without much fall of blood.
HENRY V. i. 2.
Follow your spirit ; and upon this charge,
Cry, " God for Harry ! England ! and St. George !"
HENRY V. iii. 1.
O God of battles ! steel my soldiers' hearts !
Possess them not with fear ; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them ! Not to-day, Lord !
O not to-day, think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown.
HENRY V. iv. 1.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
God's arm strike with us ! 't is a fearful odds.
God be wi' you, princes all ; I '11 to my charge :
If we no more meet, till we meet in Heaven,
Then, warriors all, adieu !
HENRY V. iv. 3.
Now, soldiers, march away ;
And how Thou pleasest, God, dispose the day !
HENRY V. iv. 3.
The day* is yours !
Praised be God, and not our strength, for it !
HENRY V. iv. 7.
Go we in procession to the village :
And be it death proclaimed through our host,
To boast of this, or take that praise from God,
Which is His only.
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With this acknowledgment,
That God fought for us :
*****
Do we all holy rites ;
Let there be sung " Non Nobis " and " Te Deum."
HENRY V. iv. 8.
He was a king bless' d of the King of kings :
Unto the French the dreadful judgment day
So dreadful will not be, as was his sight.
1 HENRY VI. i. 1.
* Agincourt.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought.
1 HENRY VI. i. 1.
This arm
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Lets fall this sword before your highness' feet,
And with submissive loyalty of heart,
Ascribes the glory of his conquest got,
First to my God, and next unto your grace.
1 HENRY VI. iii. 4.
O' God's name, see the lists and all things fit ;
Here let them end it, and God defend the right !
2 HENRY VL ii. 8.
The head of Cade ? Great God, how just art Thou !
O, let me view his visage, being dead,
That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.
2 HENRY VI. v. 1.
To whom God will, there be the victory !
3 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
Who 's this ? God! it is my father's face,
Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd ;
*****
Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did !
3 HENRY VI. ii. 5.
You fight in justice ; then, in God's name, lords,
Be valiant, and give signal to the fight.
3 HENRY VI. v. 4.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace.
RICHARD III. v. 2.
O Thou ! whose captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye ;
Put in their hands Thy bruising-irons of wrath,
That they may crush down with a heavy fall
Th' usurping helmets of our adversaries !
Make us Thy ministers of chastisement,
That we may praise Thee in Thy victory !
To Thee do I commend my watchful soul,
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes :
Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still !
RICHARD III. v. 3.
Cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd ;
God, and good angels fight on Richmond's side.
RICHARD III. v. 3.
If you fight against God's enemy,
God will, in justice, ward you as His soldiers.
RICHARD III. v. 8.
God, and our good cause, fight upon our side :
The prayers of holy saints, and wronged souls,
Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces.
RICHARD III. v. 3.
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL SENTENCES FROM
In the name of God, and all these rights,
Advance your standards, draw your willing swords ;
*****
Sound drums and trumpets, boldly and cheerfully :
God, and Saint George ! Richmond, and victory !
RICHARD III. r. 3.
God, and your arms be prais'd ! victorious friends.
*****
Great God of Heaven, say amen to all !
*****
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose with the red :
Smile Heaven upon this fair conjunction ;
*****
And let their heirs, God (if Thy will be so),
Enrich the time to come with smooth-fac'd peace !
*****
That she may long live here, God say amen !
RICHARD III. v. 4.
All was lost,
But that the Heavens fought.
CYMBELINE, v. 8.
Then he is dead ! God's soldier be he :
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His knell is knoll' d, so God be with him.
MACBETH, v. 7.
Having now completed our Moral and Religious Ex-
tracts from the Works of Shakespeare, we submit to the
consideration of our readers, whether we have not fully
established the point we aimed at, viz. of proving that
Shakespeare was not a Papist, but a worthy member of the
Church of England ; and we entertain the cherished idea
that the foregoing extracts exemplify these facts, and grace
his character as a moral and religious man.
We illustrate our persuasion in this respect by reca-
pitulating passages from his works exhorting to piety and
devotion ; such as,
" Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done."
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
Here is the substance of a sermon in a single distich.
What themes for devout meditation does he present in
the following :
" Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
HAMLET, iv. 5.
" O Lord, that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness !"
2 HENRY VI. i. 1.
" I have hope to live, and am prepared to die."
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 1.
" To Thee do I commend my watchful soul,
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes :
Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still !"
RICHARD III. v. 3.
" Now God be praised, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair !"
2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.
Many, very many such passages appear in his works :
whereupon we ask this simple question : Can there be
named any other general dramatist that ever lived, who
has combined so many religious and moral sentences hi
his works as Shakespeare has ?
We feel convinced that none other such can be named ;
and that the world, who know him by his works, will admit
that his character may be most justly summed up in the
ever-memorable words of Hamlet, that
" He was a man, take him for all in all,
We shall not look upon his like again."
HAMLET, i. 2.
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SHAKESPEARE S INTERVIEW WITH
ELIZABETH.
SHAKESPEARE AT NONSUCH.
As an appendix to the foregoing extracts, we give a brief
notice of Shakespeare as connected with the high personages
who, when living, appreciated his works, and patronised his
genius ; and, foremost, of Queen Elizabeth, by whose gracious
commands he was, at times, summoned to attend her Majesty,
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at her palace of Nonsuch.
The accompanying engraving represents Queen Elizabeth
seated in a bower, or " Cabinet of Verdure," at her palace of
Nonsuch, attended by the Earl of Essex, listening to her
favourite dramatist reading to her one of his plays (probably
"The Merry Wives of Windsor"), with which the Queen
appears to be well pleased.
The artist has presented a favourable portraiture of our im-
mortal bard, in the highest state of his personal elevation,
enjoying the distinguished notice of that intellectual Sovereign,
the famed Elizabeth ; and it is, in other respects, well con-
ceived, as it affords a most pleasing representation of the
graciousness of the Queen, while irresistibly smiling at the
comic passages of the play, preserving the dignity of her
nature and station in domestic retirement. The delineation
of the appropriate deportment of Shakespeare also does credit
to the imagination of the artist, and is equally calculated to
excite our admiration, and to draw forth a feeling of gratifica-
tion in possessing so pleasing a portrait of the individual
of whom England is so justly proud.
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It was at Nonsuch that the Queen usually devoted her
leisure hours to intellectual pursuits ; and one cannot imagine
any thing of that nature more agreeable to her cultivated mind
than the emanations of the all- gifted mind of Shakespeare.
It is most probable that our poet was introduced to the
notice of the Queen by the Earl of Essex, and that his intro-
duction to Lord Essex was by his friend and munificent patron,
the Earl of Southampton.
As Queen Elizabeth possessed great literary attainments,
and delighted much in literature and the drama, so she pa-
tronised the superior classes of dramatists, and availed herself
of their recreative qualities to divert her mind after the fatigues
of regal duties.
The details which have come down to us are very scanty
in their elucidation of the tunes and manner in which her
Majesty was entertained with dramatic representations at the
palace of Nonsuch ; neither have we been successful in our
endeavours to obtain a definite knowledge of the dates when
the Queen visited that palace : it is only recorded that, in the
latter years of her life, she frequently sojourned there ; and
that plays and dramatic pastimes formed a part of the amuse-
ment of the court there ; but of the names or nature of the
dramas, or of the performers, we have no correct knowledge,
save that Shakespeare and Tarlton were, at times, honoured
with her Majesty's commands to attend.
We feel a gratification in remarking that, however highly
honoured Shakespeare might feel by the flattering distinction
which he received at the Queen's hands, he fully manifested
his sense of it, and repaid it with tributary stanzas of grati-
tude, of a surpassing kind, which are introduced in his various
dramas, breathing a spirit of adulation most refined, without
admixture of servility.
First, we find, in " Midsummer Night's Dream," that, with
lofty imagery, graceful flattery, and poetic genius, he com-
pares the Queen to a western star, viz. :
" That very time I saw (but thou could'st not),
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took,
At a fair Vestal, throned by the west ;
And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts :
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft,
Quench'd hi the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ;
And the Imperial Vofress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy free."
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. 2.
What a fine illustration is this of his own beautiful metaphor
of
" The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven," &c.
Secondly, in " Henry VIII.," upon her christening, when
Garter King-at-Arms addresses an invocation to Heaven in
her hehalf, viz. :
" Heaven, from Thy endless goodness ! send prosperous life, long,
and ever happy, to the high and mighty Princess of England,
Elizabeth."
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
Afterwards, Cranmer pronounces a species of prediction of
her rising virtues, worldly eminence, and Heavenly goodness :
" Let me speak, sir,
For Heaven now bids me ; and the words I utter
Let none think flattery, for they '11 find them truth.
This royal infant {Heaven still move about her!},
Though in her cradle, yet now promises
Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings,
Which tune shall bring to ripeness : She shall be
(But few now living shall behold that goodness)
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A pattern to all princes, living with her,
And all that shall succeed : Sheba was never
More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue,
Than this pure soul shall be : all princely graces,
That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
With all the virtues that attend the good,
Shall still be doubled on her : truth shall nurse her :
Holy and Heavenly thoughts still counsel her ;
She shall be lov'd and fear'd : Her own shall bless her :
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
And hang their heads with sorrow : Good grows with her .-
In her days, every man shall eat in safety,
Under his own vine, what he plants ; and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours :
God shall be truly known ; and those about her,
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour ;
And by those, claim their greatness, not by blood.
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She shall be, to the happiness of England,
An aged Princess ; many days shall see her,
And yet no day without a deed to crown it."
HENRY VIII. v. 4.
Then again, in " The Merry Wives of Windsor :"
" About, about,
Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out :
Strew good luck, Ouphes, on every sacred room ;
That it may stand till the perpetual doom,
In state as wholesome as in state 't is fit ;
Worthy the owner, and the owner it."
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, v. 5.
NONSUCH.
The following is a description of Nonsuch Palace, published
by Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill, 1757, derived from
Camden.
" Nonsuch, a royal retreat, built by Henry VIII. with an
excess of magnificence and elegance, even to ostentation.
The whole science of architecture seemed to have been ex-
hausted upon this building ; everywhere so many statues,
of exquisite workmanship ; so many miracles of consummate
ait ; so many casts, that rivalled even the perfection of Roman
antiquity, that it claimed, and justly so, its distinguished
name of Nonsuch, being without an equal ; for, as the poets
sung :
' This, which no equal has, in art or fame ;
Britons, deservedly, do Nonsuch name.'
And also :
' Unrivall'd in design, the Britons tell,
The wond'rous praises of this Nonpareil.'
" The palace was so encompassed with parks, full of deer ;
delicious gardens ; groves, ornamented with trellis-works ;
cabinets of verdure ; and walks, so embrowned by trees, that it
seemed to be a place chosen by Pleasure to dwell in, along with
Health"
This is all the information (interesting to Shakespearians)
that we have been enabled to collect of that once renowned
palace of Nonsuch, where the votaries of Thalia and Melpomene
were wont to assemble : Not a vestige of it now remains ; it
has wholly disappeared, and
" Like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Left not a rack behind."
ME ISA; 1 . TMASM
THK KKMKV'nl.KVr FRIEND AMI HI STI Mil: I H Illil) i'ATIJON OK S 1 1 A KKS I'K AK K .
THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON.
When the pensive mind contemplates the interesting history
of the times of Shakespeare, and seeks for records of events
connected with that distinguished man, it is natural to enter-
tain a feeling of attachment to the memory of those individuals
who contributed to the personal comfort, and to the literary
protection, of that pre-eminent genius. With this feeling,
retrospection immediately signalizes Henry Wriothesley, third
Earl of Southampton, as an individual to whom England, in
particular, and the world in general, are peculiarly indebted for
his fostering patronage of that gifted child of nature.
There have been but few memoirs published of the lives of
the illustrious men of those days ; consequently, our knowledge
of the private life of even so distinguished a character as the
Earl of Southampton is but very scanty. We have traced
some scattered anecdotes in various authors relative to him,
and have deemed it best to present them as we have found
them ; at the same time regretting that they do not enlighten
us upon the literary intercourse that must have existed between
this distinguished nobleman and his grateful protdge.
In the pages of Malone we find a brief but interesting no-
tice of the Earl, which states that he was born on the 6th of
October, 1573. His father died in 1581, when he was only
eight years old. Being a youth of very quick parts, he was, at
the age of twelve, admitted a student of St. John's College,
Cambridge, where the eulogies of his contemporaries afford
abundant reason for believing that he made great progress in
his studies ; in the course of four years he took his degree of
A.M., in the regular form, and in three years after he was
admitted to the same degree at Oxford. After quitting the
university, he studied the law in one of the Inns of Court
(Gray's Inn or Lincoln's Inn) ; but he early adopted a military
life, and joined the fortunes of the Earl of Essex, in 1596, and
is said to have been in the battles fought against the Spanish
Armada.
In 1597 he commanded a squadron of ships, \\ith which he
took, sunk, and dispersed, thirty-five sail of Spanish galleons,
laden with treasure from South America (through which he
was probably greatly enriched).
In the same year Essex and Southampton, with a few En-
glish troops, took Villa Franca, in the island of St. Michael,
at which attack Southampton behaved with such gallantry,
that Essex knighted him in the field, ere (as it was observed
at the time) " that he could dry the sweat from his brows, or
return his sword to the scabbard."
In 1598 he attended Essex to Ireland, as general of the
horse, where he again distinguished himself, against the rebels ;
but he was dismissed from his command by Elizabeth, who
was offended at his having presumed to marry* without her
consent.
Lord Southampton then withdrew from court ; and at this
period a circumstance is mentioned by a writer of that time,
which accords with the received account of his acquaintance
with, and of his admiration of, Shakespeare ; for the writer
(Rowland White) says, in a letter to Sir Robert Sidney,
* He married Miss Elizabeth Vernon, daughter of John Vernon, Esq.,
of Hednet, county of Salop. She was cousin to the Earl of Essex.
dated in the latter end of the year 1599, " My Lord South-
ampton and Lord Rutland came not to court (at Nonsuch),
the one doth very seldom ; they pass away the tyme in Lon-
don, merely in going to plaies, every day."*
Lord Southampton having been implicated in the rebellion
of the Earl of Essex, was with that nobleman committed to
the Tower, and remained confined there after the decapitation
of Essex until the death of the Queen ; he was much visited
there, and six days after the Queen's demise (April 1, 1603),
King James sent a letter for his release, and commanded him
to meet his Majesty on his way to London : his attainder was
immediately reversed, and he was installed a Knight of the
Garter. In the same year he was made Governor of the Isle
of Wight ; in which office, says the historian of the island
(Sir John Oglander), his just, affable, and obliging deportment
gained him the love of all ranks of people, and raised the island
to a most flourishing state, many gentlemen residing there in
great affluence and hospitality.
In 1613 he took an excursion to Spa, being displeased at
not having obtained a seat in the council; and in 1614 he
joined the romantic Lord Herbert of Cherbury, at the siege of
Rees, in the Duchy of Cleves. He was made a privy council-
lor in 1619.
On the rupture with Spain, in 1624, he was appointed, with
Lords Oxford and Willoughby, and the young Earl of Essex,
to the command of 6000 men hi the Low Countries, under
* Paul Hentzner, who visited England in 1598, and wrote an account
of his travels in Latin (which Horace Walpole translated), says (speaking
of London), " without the city are some theatres, where English actors
represent , almost every day, tragedies and comedies to very numerous
audiences ; these are concluded with excellent music, variety of dances,
and the excessive applause of those that are present." He then proceeds
to give an account of the pastimes in the Bear Garden, p. 41.
Prince Maurice, but was cut off by a fever at Bergen-op-Zoom,
on the 10th of November in that year.
Wilson, the historian, who attended the expedition, says,
that both Lord Southampton and his son, Lord Wriothesley,
were seized with fever at Rosendaell, where the son died, and
Lord Southampton having recovered from the fever, left Ro-
sendaell with the intention of bringing his son's body over to
England : but at Bergen-op-Zoom he died of lethargy, from
too copious bleeding, and that the two bodies were brought in
the same vessel to Southampton, and were buried together at
Titchfield, in Hampshire.
Of this amiable and accomplished nobleman there is an
original portrait at Gorhambury, by Vansomer (as is sup-
posed) ; another at Woburn Abbey, by Miervelt ; and two
in the possession of the Duke of Portland : one a whole-
length, when he was a young man the other a half-length,
when he was a prisoner in the Tower. There exists, some-
where, a portrait of Lord Southampton on horseback, toge-
ther with the Earl of Oxford, and, what is remarkable, Lord
Southampton is painted with a jewel suspended from his left
ear, without there being any historical notice of the reason of
his wearing such a distinction ; but it is conceived that it was
a present from the Queen, given when he enjoyed her Majesty's
favour, and that the portrait was painted at that time.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA
RELATIVE TO
HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, THIRD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON,
ftfie Matron of Sfiattcspeare;
EXTRACTED FROM
RAPIN, HUME, HOWES, NICHOLLS, NICHOLAS, &c.
Submitted with a view to stimulate a diligent and full inquiry into the life and times
of that illustrious nobleman, particularly as connected with
our immortal poet.
FROM RAPIN.
1599. The Earl of Essex gave the command of the cavalry in
Ireland (1300 men) to his friend the Earl of South-
ampton, in opposition to the express commands of
the Queen (Elizabeth), who was displeased with the
Earl of Southampton for having married without her
consent.
The Earl of Southampton accompanied Essex on his
return to England (without permission) to justify
himself to Elizabeth for his conduct in Ireland.
January. The Earls of Oxford and Southampton were
committed to the Tower for having expressed them-
selves too freely, in the House of Lords, upon the
subject of the royal prerogative.
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1622.
FROM HUME.
The Earl of Southampton was made general of horse,
in Ireland, by the Earl of Essex, during the expe-
dition against Tyrone, in 1599 : this contrary to the
Queen's injunctions.
When sentence was pronounced against Essex and
Southampton (convicted of rebellion), Essex spoke
like a man who laid his account to die : that he
should be sorry to be represented to the Queen as a
person that despised her clemency; though he should
not, he believed, make any cringing submissions to
obtain it. Southampton's behaviour was more mild
and submissive : he entreated the good offices of the
peers in so modest and becoming a manner as ex-
cited compassion in every one.
Essex was executed privately in the Tower on the 25th
February, 1601, aged about 34. Southampton's
life was spared with great difficulty, but he was kept
in prison during the remainder of this reign.
FROM HOWES.
1583. This year the Queen (Elizabeth), being at Barne-Elmes,
at the earnest request of Sir Francis Walsingham
she entertained twelve plaiers into her service, and
allowed them wages and liveries as Groomes of the
Chamber ; and until then she had none of her own.
1596. The 17th of November, a day of great triumph for the
long and prosperous raigne of her Majesty at the
court ; the Earl of Cumberland, champion for the
Queene, the Earls of Essex, Bedford, Southampton,
and Sussex, with other, ranne at the tilt most bravely.
1597. This year the Earl of Essex and the Lord Thomas
Howard, the Earl of Southampton, Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, and other brave commanders, with 1 8 of the
Queene's ships, and many English merchants' ships,
and twelve Hollander shippes, made a warlike voiage
to the Isles of Terceiras.
1599. On Michaelmas even, Robert, Earl of Essex, Lieutenant-
Generall for Ireland, having secretly returned into
England, came to the court at Nonesuch, and spake
with the Queene, and on the 2nd of October was,
for contempt, &c., committed to the Lord Keeper.
On the 29th of November the Lord Keeper and other
Lords of the Council in the Star Chamber persuaded
against rumourous talke of the Earle of Essex.
1600. The 5th of June, the Earl of Essex was called before
the Lords of the Counsell at the Lord Keeper's,
where, for matters laid to his charge, he was sus-
pended from use of divers offices, and, till her Ma-
jesty's pleasure to the contrary, to keepe his house
as before.
About the last of August, Robert, Earl of Essex, was
set at liberty,
1601. Sonday, February the 8th, about ten of the clocke, be-
fore noone, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, assisted
by sundry noblemen and gentlemen, in warlike man-
ner entered the City of London at the Temple Barre,
crying for the Queen till they came to Fenchurch
Street, and there entered the house of Master Thomas
Smith, one of the Sherriffes of London, who, finding
himself not master of his owne house, by means of
the strength the Earl brought with him, and being
ignorant of his intent and purposes, conveyed himself
out at a back gate to the Mayor, whereupon the
Earl with his troupe turned into Gracechurch Street,
and there perceiving himself with his assistants to be
proclaimed traitors, also the citizens to be raised in
arms against him, he, with his followers wandering
uppe and downe the citie, towards evening would
have passed at Ludgate, which was closed against
him, so that he was forced to returne to Queene-
Hithe, and from thence, by water, to his house by
the Strand, which he fortified ; he understanding
that great Ordnance was brought to have beat if
downe, he yielded, and was conveyed to the Tower
about midnight.
1601. Thursday, the 19th of February, the Earle of Essex and
the Earle of Southampton were both arraigned at
Westminster, and found guilty of high treason,
when sentence was pronounced.
Ash- Wednesday, the 25th of February, the Earl of
Essex was beheaded in the Tower between the hours
of seven and eight of the clocke in the morning,
being present the Earls of Hartfort and Cumberland,
the Lord Thomas Howard, Constable of the Tower
for that time, and not passing 60 or 70 persons
more.
13th March. Sir Gilly Mericke, Knt., and Henry
Cuffe, Gent., were hanged at Tiborne as being actors
with the Earl of Essex.
18th March. Sir Charles Danvers and Sir Christopher
Blunt, Knights, were, upon the new scaffold, upon
Tower Hill, beheaded.
1603. Thursday, the 24th of March, about two of the clocke
in the morning, deceased Queen Elizabeth at her
manor of Richmond, in Surry, being then aged 70
years, and had reigned 44 years, 5 months, &c.
The 10th of April, divers prisoners were discharged out
of the Tower, among whom the Earl of Southampton
was the chiefest.
The 2nd of July, the King solemnised the feast of St.
George at Windsor, and installed Prince Henry,
Knight of the Garter. There were also made Knights
of the Garter with Prince Henry, the Duke of Lenox,
the Earle of Southampton, the Earle of Marre, and
the Earle of Pembroke.
1603. The 21st of July, at Hampton Court, Henry Wriothes-
ley, Earl of Southampton, was created and restored
by patent.
FROM NICHOLLS.
Hemminge and Condell, in the engraved portrait of
Shakespeare (by Martin Droishout) affixed to the
edition of Shakespeare's Plays published by them hi
1623, seem to have preferred the picture which they
did engrave, to the more splendid (original) portrait
by C. Janson, which it is highly probable was in the
possession of the Earl of Southampton, and painted
for him ; but it is a question whether they thought
that portrait attainable by them.
With a disregard of the poet's original devotion of his
whole time and labours to that nobleman, they dedi-
cated their publication not to him, but, perhaps with
an interested view, to the Lord Chamberlain of that
day, William, Earl of Pembroke, and his brother
Philip, Earl of Montgomery, Gentleman of his Ma-
jesty's bedchamber. Whether Lord Southampton
expressed any displeasure at this preference we are
not told, it is most probable that he felt it ; he no
doubt sent for the work when it appeared in 1623,
and by an eager perusal revived the pleasure he had
enjoyed in the original performance of these dramas,
bringing to mind the delightful and grateful humble
servant whom he had lost ; and closed the volume
as to himself for ever : for in the following year,
1624, he accepted a military command in the Low
Countries. He was seized with a fever, and died at
Bergen-op-Zoom on the 10th of November, in that
year, aged 52, at which age (eight years preceding)
his favourite poet had dropt into the grave.
Southampton had largely contributed to the ease and
comfort of Shakespeare's retirement.
Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, K.G.,
succeeded his father in that title in 1581. He was
an intimate friend of Essex, who made him General
of the Horse in Ireland. Having united in that
Earl's insurrection he was sent to the Tower in
1598, but one of the first events after James's ac-
cession was his release. He was presently honoured
with the Garter and the Captaincy of the Isle of
Wight, and, in 1605-6, the king stood god-father
to his eldest son. It was not, however, till 1619
that he was called to the Council Board ; and when
there, his independent opinions proved rather trou-
blesome than serviceable. In the House of Lords,
also, his patriotism induced him to be free of speech,
and he was for some time under restraint after the
Parliament of 1621.
In 1624 he went colonel of one of the four regiments
sent for the defence of the Palatinate ; and there,
having first lost his son, Lord Wriothesley, his own
life also was sacrificed, dying at Bergen-op-Zoom,
Nov. 10th in that year. This noble- spirited Peer is
also memorable as a patron of Shakespeare : and as
one of the founders of Virginia, where Southampton
River, and other local names, are derived from
him.
Portraits by Pass, by Jenner, on horseback, with the
Earl of Oxford in the Low Countries ; and from
Mirevelt, in Lodge.
FROM NICHOLAS.
On the 19th Feb., 1601, they were brought to trial
before their Peers, and convicted of high treason in
conspiring against the Queen, and breaking out into
open rebellion.
Essex was beheaded in the Tower on the 25th of the
same month (February).
What punishment befel the Earl of Southampton does
not appear, save that all his honours were forfeited :
they were restored to him in 1603 (1st of James),
and on the 21st of July in that year he was created
Earl of Southampton, with the same rights and pri-
vileges as he formerly enjoyed, K.G., &c.
Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, suc-
ceeded his father in 1581 was attainted in 1598,
when all his honours became forfeited restored in
1603 created by a new patent, dated 21st July,
1603, Earl of Southampton, with the same rights and
privileges as he formerly enjoyed, K.G. ; ob. 1624.
The title became extinct upon the demise of his son,
S. P. M., Thomas, fourth Earl, in 1667.
FROM LODGE'S ILLUSTRATIONS.
Of Lord Southampton's literature and connection with
literary men, little is known but from the doubtful
testimony of poets of all degrees of merit, by whom
he was loaded with adulation. Shakespeare's two
short dedications, however, of the poems of Venus
and Adonis, and the Rape of Lucrece, addressed to
him when a very young man, are so strongly marked,
particularly the second, with the simple features of
private regard and gratitude, that there seems to be
little room to doubt that such sentiments actually
existed between them. Of this all other evidence is
lost, save the assertion of Sir William Davenant, and
others, that Southampton gave to Shakespeare, at
one time, the sum of a thousand pounds to enable
him to complete a favourite purchase.
FINIS.
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