Poor soul! the centre of my sinful earth,
Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine, to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine, in selling hours of dross ;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
And, Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

SONNET cxlvi.

They did say their prayers, and address'd them
Again to sleep.

MACBETH, ii. 2.

I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night;

For I have need of many orisons

To move the Heavens to smile upon my state,

Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.

He concludes in hearty prayers,

That your attempts may overlive the hazard.

2 HENRY IV. iv. 1.

With wild wood-leaves and weeds I have strew'd his grave,

And on it said a century of prayers.

CYMBELINE, iv. 2.

Are you so gospell'd

To pray for this good man, and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave

?

MACBETH, iii. 1.

O, that my prayers could such affection move!

Beg often our own harms, which the wise Powers

Deny us for our good; so find we profit,

By losing of our prayers.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 1.

We had need

pray,

And heartily, for our deliverance.

HENRY VIII. ii. 2.

If thou dost slander her, and torture me,

Never pray more.

OTHELLO, iii. 3.

O! what form of prayer

Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!— That cannot be; since I am still possess'd

Of those effects for which I did the murder.

HAMLET, iii. 3.

I saw her,

As I thought, dead; and have, in vain, said many
A prayer upon her grave.

WINTER'S TALE, v. 3.

With such gifts that Heaven shall share with you;
Not with foul shekels of the tested gold,

That shall be up at Heaven, and enter there,

Shakespeare.

Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.

RICHARD II. v. 3.

They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.

HENRY V. iv. 2.

Consider this,

That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.

I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,

To join your hearts in love and amity.

1 HENRY VI. iii. 1.

If ever danger do environ thee,

Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, i. 1.