Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.1-PROV. iv. 14, 15. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. PROV. i. 10. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. 2 COR. vi. 17. He is no man on whom perfections wait, Act 1. Scene 1. Lie in the lap of sin, and not mean harm ? It is hypocrisy against the devil ; They that mean virtuously, and yet do so, The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.-OTHELLO. Act IV. Scene 1. Satan avoid! I charge thee tempt me not. COMEDY OF ERRORS. Act IV. Scene 3. 'Tis not for gravity to play at cherrypit with Satan. TWELFTH NIGHT. Act III. Scene 4. 1 Ps. i. 1, 2; Eph. v. 11. Do not give dalliance Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i' the blood.-TEMPEST. Act IV. Scene 1. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. Act IV. Scene 4. XCIX. THE DANGER OF AN UNGOVERNED The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips.1-PROV. xii. 13. The lips of a fool will swallow up himself.2 ECCLES. X. 12. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles.-PROV. xxi. 23. Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Act II. Scene 4. * How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes deeds ill done! KING JOHN. Act IV. Scene 2. 12 Sam. i. 2-16; Dan. vi. 7, 8, 24. 2 Luke xix. 22; Job xv. 6. SHAKSPEARE'S ALLUSIONS TO SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, ETC. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. He alludes to Herod, in Henry V., act iii., sc. 3; in Antony and Cleopatra, act i., sc. 2; twice in act iii., sc. 3 of the same play; also in act iii., sc. 6, and act iv., sc. 6, and in Hamlet, act iii., scene 2. To Pilate, in King Richard II., act iv., sc. 1; and King Richard III, act i., sc. 4. To Judas, in Love's Labour's Lost, act v., sc. 2; As You Like It, act iii., sc. 4; King Richard II., act iii., sc. 2; and act iv., sc. 1; and in King Henry VI. (3d part), act v., sc. 7. To Barrabas, in the Merchant of Venice, act iv., sc. 1. To the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, in King Richard II., act iv., sc. 1; in King Henry IV. (1st part), act iv., sc. 2, and act iii., sc. 3 of the same play. To the Parable of the Prodigal Son, in the Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv., sc. 5; in the Comedy of Errors, act iv., sc. 3; in King Henry IV. (1st part), act iv., sc. 2; in As You Like It, act i., sc. 1; and in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, act ii., sc. 3. To the Legion of Devils, in Twelfth Night, act iii., sc. 4; and in the Merchant of Venice, act i., sc. 3. To Golgotha, in Macbeth, act i., sc. 2; and in King Richard II., act iv., sc. 1. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. ; He alludes to Adam, twice in Much Ado about Nothing, act ii., sc. 1; in Love's Labour's Lost, act iv., sc. 2; in As You Like It, act ii., sc. 1 in the Comedy of Errors, act iv., sc. 3; in King Henry IV. (1st part), act iii., sc. 3; in King Henry V., act i., sc. 1; in King Henry VI (2d part), act iv., sc. 2; and twice in Hamlet, act v., sc. 1. To Adam and Eve, in Love's Labour's Lost, act v., sc. 2; and in King Richard II., act iii., sc. 4. To Eve, in Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iii., sc. 1; Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv., sc. 2; Twelfth Night, act i., sc. 5; and in Love's Labour's Lost, act i., sc. 1. To Cain, in Love's Labour's Lost, act iv., sc. 2; King John, act iii., sc. 4; King Richard II., act v., sc. 6; King Henry IV. (2d part), act i., sc. 1; King Henry VI. (1st part), act i., sc. 3; Hamlet, act To Abel, King Richard II., act i., sc. 1; King Henry To Abraham, twice in the Merchant of Venice, act i., sc. 3. To Jacob, five times in the Merchant of Venice, act i., To the Flood, in the Comedy of Errors, act iii., sc. 2. To Pharaoh's Soldiers, in Much Ado about Nothing, act iii., sc. 3. To Pharaoh's Lean Kine,* King Henry IV. (1st part), act ii., sc. 4. To the manner of Sisera's death, in the Tempest, act iii., sc. 2. To Job, in King Henry IV. (2d part), act i., sc. 2. To Job and his Wife, in Merry Wives of Windsor, act V., Sc. 5. * Stevens says that the following lines from Hamlet, act iii., sc. 4, contain an allusion to Pharaoh's dream, in Gen. xli. :— Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. But the allusion is a little obscure, and may be questioned. |