And flourish'd after, I'd not do't: but fince The Effects of Jealousy. This jealoufy Is for a precious creature: as fhe's rare ACT II. SCENE I. Knowledge fometimes hurtful. There be in the cup may A fpider fteep'd, and one may drink, depart Th' abhorr'd ingredient to his eye; make known Calumny. Praise her but for this her without-door form, (Which, on my faith, deferves high speech) and ftraight The (8) Gorge.] i, e. Throat; from the French. Hefts, is the fame as heavings. The reader will find a paffage fimilar to this in Othello, where that unhappy, deluded man, laments his knowledge of his wife's stolen hours of lust; and obferves, He had been happy, if the gen'ral camp, The fhrug, the hum, or ha! these petty brands, That mercy does; for calumny will fear Fortitude and Innocence. Her. Do, not weep, good fools; There is no cause when you shall know your mif trefs Has deferv'd prison, then abound in tears, SCENE II. Honesty and Honour.. Here's a do, To lock up honefty and honour from The Silence of Innocence eloquent The filence often of pure innocence Perfuades, when speaking fails. SCENE III. Affectionate Child. To fee his nobleness! Conceiving the difhonour of his mother, Child refembling its Father. Behold, my lords, Altho' the print be little, the whole matter The trick of his frown, his forehead; nay the valley ་ 1. An Infant to be expofed. Come on, poor babe! * Some powerful fpirits inftruct the kites and ravens Like offices of pity. ACT III. SCENE II. Hermione pleading her Innocence. Behold our human actions (as they do) Tremble at patience. You, my lord, beft know, A moiety of the throne, a great king's daughter, 2 Το To prate and talk for life and honour, 'fore Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it (9) As I weigh grief, which I would spare; for honour, 'Tis a derivative from me to mine, And only that I ftand for. I appeal To your own confcience, Sir, before Polixenes With what encounter fo uncurrent I Have ftrain'd, (10) to appear thus? if one jot beyond That way inclining; harden'd be the hearts Cry, fie, upon my grave! A Wife's Lofs of all Things dear, and Contempt of Death. Leo. Look for no lefs than death. The bug which you would fright me with, I seek. The crown and comfort of my life, your favour, But know not how it went. My fecond joy, I am barr'd, like one infectious: my third comfort, The (9) Life, I prize it, &c.] Life is to me only grief, and as fuch is confidered by me; I would therefore willingly Spare, that is, let it go, or quit the poffeffion of it. 7. (10) Have firain'd.] Mrs. Ford talks of some strain, in her character; and in B. and Fletcher's Cuftom of the Country, the fame expreffion occurs. Strain your loves With any bafe or hir'd perfuafions. St. (11) Star'd most unluckily.] i, e. born under an inau fpicious planet. St. The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth, Defpair of Pardon. But, O thou tyrant! Do not repent these things; for they are heavier SCENE III. An Account of a Ghofts appearing in a Dream. (13) I've heard, but not believ'd, the spirits of the dead May (12) Strength of limit.] I know not well how ftrength of limit can mean "ftrength to pafs the limits of the childbed chamber," which yet it must mean in this place, unless we read in a more eafy phrafe, Strength of limb. J. (13) See Paftor Fido, A&t 1. Sc. 4. In the third Book of Lucan's Pharfalia, there is an elegant defcription of Pompey's |