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As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her;
But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,
Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
The knife that made it.

SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES.

The ample ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant* from his course of growth.

ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN.

Why then, you princes,

Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works;
And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought

else,

But the protractive trials of great Jove,
To find persistive constancy in men?
The fineness of which metal is not found
In fortune's love; for, the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affin'd† and kin:
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
And what hath mass, or matter, by itself
Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled.

ON DEGREE.

Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In meret oppugnancy: The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides)

* Twisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity.* #Absolute.

Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;

And appetite, an universal wolf.
So doubtedly secondly with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,

And, last, eat up himself.

ACHILLES DESCRIBED BY ULYSSES.

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'The great Achilles, -(whom opinion crowns) The sinew and the forehand of our host,Having his ear full of his airy same, Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent Lies mocking our designs: With him, Patroclus, Upon a lazy bed the live-long day

Breaks scurril jests;

And with ridiculous and awkward action
(Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,)
He pageants* us. Sometime, great Agamemnon,
Thy toplesst deputation he puts on;
And, like a strutting player, whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
"Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage,‡--
Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrestedý seeming
He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks,
'Tis like a chime a mending; with terms unsquair'd, ||
Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd,
Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff,
The large Achilles, on his prest bed lolling,
From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause;
Cries-Excellent! -'tis Agamemnon just.-
Now play me Nestor;--hem, and stroke thy beard,
As he, being drest to some oration.

That's done;-as near as the extremest ends
Of parallels: as like as Vulcan and his wife:
Yet good Achilles still cries, Excellent!

'Tis Nestor right! Now play him me, Patroclus,

Arming to answer in a night alarm.

* In modern language, takes us off.

† Supreme.

‡ The galleries of the theatre.

§ Beyond the truth. || Unadapted

As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her;
But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,
Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
The knife that made it.

SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES.

The ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant* from his course of growth.

ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN.

Why then, you princes,

Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works;
And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought

else,

But the protractive trials of great Jove,
To find persistive constancy in men?
The fineness of which metal is not found
In fortune's love; for, the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affin'd† and kin:
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
And what hath mass, or matter, by itself
Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled.

ON DEGREE.

Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In meret oppugnancy: The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides)

* Twisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity.

+ Absolute,

Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite;

And appetite, an universal wolf.

So doubtedly secondly with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,

And, last, eat up himself.

ACHILLES DESCRIBED BY ULYSSES.

'The great Achilles, -(whom opinion crowns) The sinew and the forehand of our host,Having his ear full of his airy same, Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent Lies mocking our designs: With him, Patroclus,

- Upon a lazy bed the live-long day

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Breaks scurril jests;

And with ridiculous and awkward action

(Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,) He pageants* us. Sometime, great Agamemnon, Thy toplesst deputation he puts on;

And, like a strutting player, whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage,‡-
Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested§ seeming
He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks,
'Tis like a chime a mending; with terms unsquair'd,
Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd
Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff,
The large Achilles, on his prest bed lolling,
From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause;
Cries-Excellent!'tis Agamemnon just.-
Now play me Nestor;--hem, and stroke thy beard,
As he, being drest to some oration.

That's done;-as near as the extremest ends
Of parallels: as like as Vulcan and his wife:

Yet good Achilles still cries, Excellent!

'Tis Nestor right! Now play him me, Patroclus,

Arming to answer in a night alarm.

* In modern language, takes us off.

† Supreme.

‡ The galleries of the theatre.

§ Beyond the truth. || Unadapted

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As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her;
But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,
Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
The knife that made it.

SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES.

The ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant* from his course of growth.

ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN.

Why then, you princes,

Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought

But the protractive trials of great Jove,
To find persistive constancy in men?
The fineness of which metal is not found
In fortune's love; for, the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affin'dand kin:
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
And what hath mass, or matter, by itself
Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled.

ON DEGREE.

ake but degree away, untune that string,
hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
ret oppugnancy: The bounded waters
d lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
nake a sop of all this solid globe:
gth should be lord of imbecility,
he rude son should strike his father dead:
e should be right; or, rather, right and wrong
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'wisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity.

+ Absolute.

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