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See you those clothes? say, you see them not, and think me still no gentleman born: you were best say, these robes are not gentleman born. Give me the lie; do; and try whether I am not now a gentleman born. Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.

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13-v. 2.

I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,' And he grows angry.

232

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37-v. 1.

Here comes Monsieur Le Beau, with his mouth full of news, which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. 10-i. 2.

233

He was wont to speak plain, and to the purpose, like an honest man, and a soldier; and now is he turned orthographer; his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes.

234

Why, what's the matter,

That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?

235

6-ii. 3.

6-v. 4.

I have ere now, sir, been better known to you, when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's moat, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. 11—v. 2.

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I do remember him, like a man made after a supper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he was SO forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight were invisible: he was the very genius of famine.

m To the quick.

19-iii. 2.

237

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

238

Either thou art most ignorant by age,
Or thou wert born a fool.

239

19-i. 2.

13-ii. 1.

Thy bones are hollow: impiety has made a feast of

thee.

240

A rude despiser of good manners,

That in civility thou seem'st so empty.

241

5-i. 2.

10-ii. 7.

O, he is the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song," keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the very first house,-of the first and second cause:° Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the hay!P 35-ii. 4.

242

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing, that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other 19-i. 2.

men.

243

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under presentation of that, he shoots his wit.

244

10-v. 4.

He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration.

" By notes pricked down.

4-iii. 4.

• A gentleman of the first rank of the first eminence among duellists, and will tell you of the first cause and the second cause for which a man is to fight.

P Terms of the fencing school.

9 Gibe.

245

O, you are sick of self-love, and taste with a distempered appetite.

246

4-i. 5.

He is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent stomach.

247

A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds

On objects, arts, and imitations;

Which, out of use, and staled by other men,

6-i. 1.

Begin his fashion.

248

29-iv. 1.

I cannot tell for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.

249

13-iv. 2.

What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?

250

16-ii. 1.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single?" and every part about you blasted with antiquity?s and will you yet call yourself young? Fye, fye, fye.

251

19-i. 2.

You are rather point-devicet in your accoutrements; as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any

other.

252

10-iii. 2.

Ungracious wretch,

Fit for the mountains, and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd!

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253

He hears merry tales, and smiles not: I fear, he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. 9-i. 2.

254

Thou thread, thou thimble,
Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou :-
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant.

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12-iv. 3.

I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.

256

4-i. 3.

For a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually. 11-iv. 3.

257

He will lie with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his best virtue; for he will be swine drunk; and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they know his conditions, and lay him in straw.

258

11-iv. 3.

He is of a free and open nature,

That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so;
And will as tenderly be led by th' nose,

As asses are.

37-i. 3.

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Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood;"
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own? 18-i. 3.

" Mind, humour.

261

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth; he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him. 6-iii. 2.

262

Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice ;Parts that become thee happily enough,

And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;

But where thou art not known, why, there they shew
Something too liberal;-pray thee, take pain
To allay with some cold drops of modesty
Thy skipping spirit.

263

9-ii. 2.

It is a wonderful thing, to see the semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his: (They, by observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like serving-man:) their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese.

264

19-v. 1.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the next block.*

265

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me ;
I had it from my father.

266

6-i. 1.

25-i. 4.

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. 12-i. 2.

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My good window of lattice, fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. 11-ii. 3.

* Mould for a hat.

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