Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. K. John, iii. 4. By bad courses may be understood That their events can never fall out good. Richard II. ii. 1. Beggars mounted run their horse to death. 3 Henry VI. i. 4. Blunt wedges rive hard knots. T. and C. i. 3. Bounty being free itself, thinks all others so. T. of Athens, ii. 2. "But yet" is as a gaoler to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 5. Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and out ward flourishes. Hamlet, ii. 2. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Hamlet, iii. 1. Hamlet, iii. 2. By and by is easily said. Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Othello, ii. 1. T. Night, i. 3. Care's an enemy to life. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder. Meas. for Meas. ii. 2. Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied. 1 Hen. VI. iii. 3. Corruption wins not more than honesty. Henry VIII. iii. 2. 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. T. and C. i. 3. Ceremony was but devis'd at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, |