The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.

f. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

g. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2. The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? h. Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. They fool me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by.

i.

Hamiet. Act III. Sc. 2.

In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

LOWELL-The Present Crisis.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER-Lover's
Progress. Act III. Sc. 1.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

v.

GEORGE ELIOT-Adam Bede. Ch. XIX. Things of to-day? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!

w. EBENEZER ELLIOTT-Hymn. Line 22.

We are our own fates. Our own deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made
Not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds, The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

y.

MILTON--Samson Agonistes. Line 246. You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words. 2. MILTON'S Trans. of Sophocles. Electra. Line 624.

The deed I intend is great, But what, as yet, I know not. aa. SANDY'S Trans. of Ovid's

Metamorphoses.