Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

a. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2.

(How sharp the point of this remembrance is!) b. Tempest. Act V. Sc. 1.

I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.

c. Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 3.

I count myself in nothing else so happy,
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends;
And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,
It shall be still thy true love's recompense.
d. Richard II. Act II. Sc. 2.

If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument, than the bell rings, and the widow weeps. An hour in clamour, and a quarter in rheum.

e.

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Much Ado About Nothing. Act V.

Sc. 2.

I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. f. Othello. Act II. Sc. 3.

I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,
But I should think of shallows and of flats;
And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,
Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs,
To kiss her burial.

g.

Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1.
Looking on the lines

Of my boy's face, my thoughts I did recoil Twenty-three years; and saw myself unbreech'd,

In my green velvet coat; my dagger muzzled, Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, As ornaments oft do, too dangerous.

h. Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. Memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume.

i. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7.

O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was.

j.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act V.

And shut the gates of mercy on mankind:
v. GRAY Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
St. 17.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,
Let us be merciful as well as just!
LONGFELLOW- Emma and Eginhard.
Line 167.

w.

x.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfied, and thee appease. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. X. Line 77. Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

y. POLLOK-The Course of Time. Bk. III. All-Pervading Wisdom.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd;
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that
takes;

"Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,

The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the heart of kings,
It is an attribute to God Himself:

And earthly power doth then show likest

God's,

By merit raised

To that bad eminence.

น.

MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. II.

Line 5.

O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear

honour

Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer. Merchant of Venice-Act II. Sc. 9.

v.

Hath blaz'd with lights, and brayed with minstrelsy.

0.

Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. 2. Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life.

p. Taming of the Shrew. Induction.

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth; he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow string, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.

զ. Much Ado About Nothing. Act III.

Sc. 2.

Hostess, clap to the doors; watch to-night, pray to-morrow, -Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore?

r. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 4. Jog on, jog on the foot-path way And merrily hent the stile-a:

A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
S. Winter's Tale. Act IV.

Sc. 3.

U. Henry V. Act I. Sc. 2. What should a man do, but be merry? บ. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. Where is our usual manager of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play, To ease the torturing hour?

20. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V.

Sc. 1.