Shakespeare. More are men's ends mark'd, than their lives before : The setting sun, and music at the close, (As the last taste of sweets) is sweetest last. RICHARD II. ii. 1. Just Death, kind umpire of men's miseries, I will; if that my fading breath permit, 1 HENRY VI. ii. 5. And Death approach not ere my tale be done. 1 HENRY VI. ii. 5. Heaven's vault should crack; O, she is gone for ever! She's dead as earth! KING LEAR, v. 3. Dost thou know who speaks to thee?— Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,- 3 HENRY VI. ii. 6. O God, forgive him! So bad a death argues a monstrous life.- 2 HENRY VI. iii. 3. Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom! ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 2. Shakespeare. Although the duke was enemy to him, Yet he, most christian-like, laments his death. 2 HENRY VI. iii. 2. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 1. The purest treasure mortal times afford, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: * * In that I live, and for that will I die. O me! this sight of death is as a bell RICHARD II. i. 1. ROMEO AND JULIET, v. 3. A man's life's no more than to say, One. HAMLET, V. 2. The sands are number'd that make up my life! 3 HENRY VI. i. 4. Shakespeare. SOUL. My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breath'd out That e'er devotion tender'd! TWELFTH NIGHT, v. 1. There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. HENRY V. iv. 1. Hence, thou suborn'd informer!-a true soul, When most impeached, stands least in thy control. SONNET CXXV. O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul. HAMLET, iii. 4. I have done those things, That now give evidence against my soul. RICHARD III. i. 4. I will not vex your souls; Since presently your souls must part your bodies. RICHARD II. iii. 1. Shakespeare. It may be so; but yet my inward soul RICHARD II. ii. 2. Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood RICHARD II. i. 1. Heaven's above all; and there be souls that must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved. OTHELLO, ii. 3. God forbid, so many simple souls 2 HENRY VI. iv. 4. O God, defend my soul from such foul sin! RICHARD II. i. 1. Now God be prais'd! that to believing souls 2 HENRY VI. ii. 1. My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief RICHARD II. iv. 1. Shakespeare. Our souls religiously confirm thy words. KING JOHN, iv. 3. And then my soul shall wait on thee to Heaven, KING JOHN, v. 7. If Heaven have any grievous plague in store, The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! I hold my duty, as I hold my soul, RICHARD III. i. 3. Both to my God, and to my gracious king. Come, side by side together live and die; HAMLET, ii. 2. And, soul with soul from France to Heaven fly. 1 HENRY VI. iv. 5. If, when you make your prayers, God should be so obdurate as yourselves, 2 HENRY VI. iv. 7. Take good heed You charge not, in your spleen, a noble person; HENRY VIII. i. 2. |