...that will bear the support of poetry : let me recall a passage that you are well acquainted with. • Reason thus with life :— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would reck ; — a breath them art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That do this habitation, where thou...

...still were anxious to live ; and could never, as he at this moment found himself disposed to do — " Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing Which none but fools would keep." Yet he had seen many die in the field, who neither seemed to fear...

...still were anxious to live; and could never, as he at this moment found himself disposed to do— " Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thine; Which none but fools would keep." Yet he had seen many die in the field, who neither seemed...

...prepared to die. Duke. Be absolute* for death; either death or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do...fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, * Determined. And yet run'st toward him still : thou art not noble; For alt the accommodations that...

...the skiey influences," be inclosed in a parenthesis, all the difficulty will vanish. PORSON. 7 — merely, thou art DEATH'S FOOL ; For him thou labour'st...thy flight to shun, And yet run'st toward him still :] In those old farces called Moralities, the. fool of the piece, in order to show the inevitable approaches...

...Philaster : " 1 had thought, thy mind " Had been of honour." STEEVENS. Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life.— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep s : a breath thou art, 4 Be absolute for death ;] Be determined to die, without any hope of life. Horace,...

...reck ; — a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That do this habitation, where tbou keep'st, Hourly afflict. Merely thou art death's fool...him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, And yet runn'st tow'rd him still : — Thou art not noble, ; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are...

...every turn, into the very jaws of Fate. To this Shakspeare alludes again in Measure for Measure : " merely thou art Death's Fool ; " For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, " And yet run'st towards him still — ." It is plain from all this, that the nonsense of pertaunt-like, should be read,...

...the beginning of the third Act of Measure for Measure, where we have this obscure passage : " — — merely thou art Death's Fool, " For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, " And yet runn'st tow'rd him still." For, in these moralities, the Fool of the piece, in order to show the inevitable...

...prepar'd to die. Duke. Be absolutei for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do...a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath them art (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this hahitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly...