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There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture: they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. 13—v. 2.

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I could weep,

And I could laugh; I am light, and heavy. 28-ii. 1.

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If the measure of thy joy

Be heap'd like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazena it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness, that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.

35-ii. 6.

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Give me a gash, put me to present pain;
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me,
O'erbear the shores of my mortality,

And drown me with their sweetness.

553.

33-v. 1.

The same.

You have bereft me of all words,

Only my blood speaks to you in my veins :

This description not only contains the beautiful and the sublime, but rises to a still higher sublimity, or, to speak in the style of the Psalmist, to the most highest, in allusion to sacred writ, relating to the two principal articles in the Old and New Testament, the fall of man, and his redemption. Shakspeare makes frequent references to the sacred text, and writes often, not only as a moralist, but as a divine. a Paint, display.

The thing imported.

And there is such confusion in my powers,
As, after some oration fairly spoke
By a beloved prince, there doth appear
Among the buzzing pleased multitude;
Where every something, being blente together,
Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,
Express'd, and not express'd.

9-iii. 2.

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My plenteous joys,

15-i. 4.

Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

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Joy had the like conception in our eyes,

And, at that instant, like a babe sprung up. 27-i. 2.

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O rejoice,

Beyond a common joy; and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars.

1-v. 1.

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If after every tempest come such calms,

May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas,

Olympus-high; and duck again as low

As hell 's from heaven! If it were now to die, 'T were now to be most happy; for, I fear,

• Blended.

My soul hath her content so absolute,
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate.

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When thou, haply, seest

37-ii. 1.

Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel;

Wish me partaker in thy happiness,

When thou dost meet good hap; and, in thy danger,

If ever danger do environ thee,

Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,

For I will be thy bead's-man.

2-i. 1.

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To build his fortune, I will strain a little,
For 't is a bond in men.

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For herein fortune shews herself more kind
Than is her custom: it is still her use,
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow,
An age of poverty.

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27-i. 1.

9-iv. 1.

A most poor man, made tame by fortune's blows:
Who, by the art of known and feelingf sorrows,
Am pregnant to good pity.

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I as free forgive as I would be forgivens.

566.

The same.

I pardon him as God shall pardon meb.

34-iv. 6.

25-ii. 1.

17-v. 3.

f Felt. Sorrows known, not by relation, but by experience. "To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it, in the person of Christ."-2 Cor. ii. 10.

"If ye forgive men their trespasses, our heavenly Father will also forgive you."-Matt. vi.

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God, our hope, will succour us

The trust I have is in mine innocence,
And therefore am I bold and resolute i.

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The quality of mercy is not strain'd;

It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven
It is an attribute to God himself.

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26-iv. 4.

9-iv. 1.

How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring nonek?

570.

Penitence.

9-iv. 1.

Who by repentance is not satisfied,

Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleased; By penitence the Eternal's wrath 's appeas'd1. 2-v. 4.

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This, in the name of God, I promise here:
The which if he be pleas'd I shall perform
And I will die a hundred thousand deaths,

Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow. 18-iii. 2.

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It is the purpose, that makes strong the vow:
But vows to every purpose must not hold.

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26-v. 3.

It is religion, that doth make vows kept m. 16—iii. 1.

"In the integrity of my heart, and innocency of my hands, have I done this."-Gen. xx. 5.

"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." -Matt. v. 7.

"If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him."- Luke vii. 3.

m"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, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." -Numb. xxx. 2.

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'Tis 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.

11-iv. 2.

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I have toward heaven breath'd a secret vow,
To live in prayer and contemplation".

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"Tis mad idolatry,

9-iii. 4.

To make the service greater than the god°. 26-ii. 2.

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Thy bones are hollow: impiety hath made a feast of

thee P.

578.

Apprehension.

5-i. 2.

My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,
Unless my hand and strength could equal them.

579.

Fear.

Shelves and sands,

23-iii. 2.

Huge rocks, high winds, strong pirates,

The merchant fears, ere rich at home he lands. Poems.

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Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man. 22-iii. 1.

"When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God

thou shalt not slack to pay it."-Deut. xxiii. 21.

"Their land also is full of idols: they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made." -Isa. ii. 8.

"Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."-Psa. lii. 7.

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