2.

To be a secondary at control,

Or useful serving-man and instrument

To any sovereign state throughout the world.
Your breath first kindled the dead coal of war
Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it.
You taught me how to know the face of right,
Acquainted me with interest to this land;
Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;
And come ye now to tell me,John hath made
His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?
I, by the honor of my marriage-bed,

After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;
And, now it is half conquered, must I back,

Because that John hath made his peace with Rome!
Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,
What men provided, what munition sent,

To underprop this action? Is't not I

That undergo this charge? Who else but I,
And such as to my claim are liable,

Sweat in this business, and maintain this war?
Have I not heard these islanders shout out,
Vive le roy! as I have banked their towns;
Have I not here the best cards for the game,
To win this easy match played for a crown?
And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?
No, on my soul, it never shall be said.

However heaven or fortune cast my lot,
There lives or dies true to King Richard's throne,
A loyal, just, and upright gentleman:
Never did captive with a freer heart

Cast off his chains of bondage, and embrace

His golden, uncontrolled enfranchisement,

More than my dancing soul to celebrate

This feast of battle with mine adversary.

Most mighty liege,-and my companion peers,
Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:
As gentle and as jocund, as to jest,

Go I to fight,-truth hath a quiet breast.

3. Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,
And both return back to their chairs again :-
Withdraw from us, and let the trumpet sound
While we return these dukes what we decree.-
Draw near,

And list what with our council we have done.
For that our kingdom's earth should not be soiled
With that dear blood which it hath fostered;

And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect

Of civil wounds, ploughed up with neighbors' swords;
Therefore we banish you our territories:

You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of death,

Till twice five summers have enriched our fields,

Shall not regreet our fair dominions,

But tread the stranger paths of banishment.

4. On pain of death no person be so bold
Or daring hardy as to touch the lists;
Except the marshal, and such officers
Appointed to direct these fair designs.

5. Met. Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Cæsar, Metellus Cimber throws before thy feet

An humble heart.

Cæs. I must prevent thee, Cimber:

These crouchings, and these lowly courtesies
Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
And turn pre-ordinance, and first decree,
Into the law of children. Be not fond,

To think that Cæsar bears such rebel blood,

That will be thawed from the true quality

With that which melteth fools; I mean sweet. words,
Low-crooked curt'sies, and base spaniel fawning.
Thy brother by decree is banished;

If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him,
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

Know, Cæsar doth not wrong, nor without cause
Will he be satisfied.

6. But wherefore do you droop?

Why look you sad?
Be great in act as you have been in thought;
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust
Govern the motion of a kingly eye:

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire,
Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviors from the great,
Grow great by your example, and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution;
Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
What, shall they seek the lion in his den,

And fright him there, and make him tremble there ?—
Oh, let it not be said!-Forage, and run,

To meet displeasure farther from the doors,
And grapple with him ere he come so nigh.

7. How comes it, Cassio, you are thus forgot,
That you unlace your reputation thus,
And spend your rich opinion for the name
Of a night brawler? Give me answer to it.

8. As I was banished, I was banished Hereford;
But as I come, I come for Lancaster:

And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace,
Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye :
You are my father, for, methinks, in you
I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father!
Will you permit that I should stand condemned
A wandering vagabond; my rights and loyalties
Plucked from my arms perforce, and given away
To upstart spendthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
If that my cousin king be king of England,
It must be granted, I am duke of Lancaster.

You have a son, Aumerle, my noble kinsman;
Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,
He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,
To rouse his wrongs, and chase them to the bay.
I am denied to sue my livery here,

And yet my letters-patent give me leave:
My father's goods are all distrained and sold,
And these, and all, are all amiss employed.
What would you have me do? I am a subject,
And challenge law: attorneys are denied me;
And therefore personally I lay my claim
To my inheritance of free descent.

9. To whom the goblin full of wrath replied:
“Art thou that traitor Angel, art thou he,
Who first broke peace in heaven and faith, till then
Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms

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Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons,
Conjured against the Highest, for which both thou
And they, outcast from God, are here condemned
To waste eternal days in wo and pain?
And reckon'st thou thyself with spirits of heaven,
Hell-doom'd, and breath'st defiance here and scorn
Where I reign king? and, to enrage thee more,
Thy king and lord! Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings,
Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue
Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart
Strange horrors seize thee, and pangs unfelt before."

I conjure you by that which you profess,

(Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me; Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves

Confound and swallow navigation up;

Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders' heads;

Though palaces and pyramids do slope

Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure

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Of nature's germins tumble altogether,
Even till destruction sicken, answer me
To what I ask you.

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward,
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!

Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But when her humorous ladyship is by

To teach thee safety!

NOTE.-It is by the use of these symbols of expression, that man maintains his authority over the domestic animals; and these are among the first which children learn to interpret. So universally are these employed to express their appropriate sentiments, that they are sometimes heard on a clause occurring in a member whose current melody presents the Rising Slide; thus,—-"If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto him, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled-notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body: what doth it profit?"

12. The following directions of Hamlet to the players, exhibit a good specimen of the Didactic style of delivery.

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. And do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

"Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the Time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the