60. O! grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart

Would I were dead so you did live again.— Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 3. (II Sam. 18:33.)

61. In the shape of man, master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver's beam; because I know also life is a shuttle.- Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 1. (I Sam. 17:7; Job 7:6.)

62. Ford.

Page.

And one that is as slanderous as Satan?
And as poor as Job?

Ford.

And as wicked as his wife?- Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5,

Scene 5. (Job 2.)

63. Moth. Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great carriage; for he carried the town-gates on his back, like a porter: and he was in love.

Arm. O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I am in love too.
-Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene 2. (Judges 16:1-3.)

64. Love is familiar . . . There is no evil angel but love.

Yet Samson was so tempted; and he had an excellent strength.
Yet was Solomon so seduced; and he had a very good wit.- Love's
(Judges 16:4-20; I Kings 11:1-9.)

Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene 2.

65. You found his mote;

the king your mote did see.

But I a beam do find in each of three.- Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4. Scene 3. (Matt. 7:3.)

66. Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve.- Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5, Scene 2. (1 Tim. 2:14.)

67. What prodigal portion have I spent that I should stand to such penury? -As You Like It, Act 1, Scene 1. (Luke 15:11-19.)

68. Take that; and He that doth the ravens feed,

Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,

Be comfort to my age!

As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 3. (Ps. 147:9.)

69. My master is of churlish disposition,

25:35.)

And little reeks to find the way to heaven,

By doing deeds of hospitality.- As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 4. (Matt.

70. I'll go sleep if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the first born of Egypt. As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 5. (Ex. 12:29-31.)

71. How brief the life of man!

The stretching of a span

(Job 14:1.)

Buckles in his sum of age. As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2.

72. There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the ark! As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 4. (Gen. 7:2, 15.)

Be yoked with his that did betray The Blest!- Winter's Tale, Act 1, Scene 2. (John 13:21-25.)

74. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth. -Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 2. (II Sam. 14:25.)

75. There is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.- Twelfth Night, Act 4, Scene 2. (Ex. 10:21-23.) 76. Adam that kept the Paradise.- Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 3. (Gen. 2:15.)

77. Lafeu. They are not salad-herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs. Clown. I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, Sir; I have not much skill in grass. All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 5. (Dan. 4:25.)

78. He that of greatest works is finisher

Oft does them by the weakest minister:

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown.- All's Well that Ends Well, Act 2, Scene 1. (Matt. 21:16.)

His friend that dips in the same dish?- Timon of Athens, Act 3, Scene 2. (John 13:26.)

80. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.- Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 2. (I Cor. 9:27.)

81. Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into! Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 3. (Matt. 8:28-34.)

82. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.- Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 3. (Matt. 4:5, 6.)

- Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 5. (Gen. 32:10; Heb. 11:21.)

84. But mercy is above this scepter'd sway;

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;

It is an attribute to God himself;

And earthly power doth then show likest God's,

When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,

Tho' justice be thy plea, 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. I have spoke thus much,

To mitigate the justice of thy plea;

Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice

Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.

Shylock. My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,

The penalty and forfeit of my bond.- Merchant of Venice, Act 4,

Scene 1. (Matt. 6:11-15.)

85. A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!- Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1. (The Apocrypha.)

86.

I have a daughter;

Would any of the stock of Barabbas

Had been her husband, rather than a Christian! Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1. (Mark 15:6-15.)

87. Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way

88.

Of starved people.- Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1. (Ex. 16:14-16.)
Where's that palace whereinto foul things
Sometimes intrude not? Who has a breast so pure,

But some uncleanly apprehensions,

Keep leets, and law days, and in sessions sit

With meditations lawful?

-Othello, Act 3, Scene 3. (Proverbs 20:9; Job 4:17.)

89. If any wretch hath put this in your head,

Let Heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!- Othello, Act 4, Scene 2. (Gen. 3:14.)

90. No, not so much perdition as an hair,

Betide to any creature in the vessel,

Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. - Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2. (Acts 27:34.)

91. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep,

When thou may'st knock a nail into his head.- Tempest, Act 3, Scene 2. (Judges 4:17-21.)

92. Our revels now are ended: these our actors,

As it foretold you, were all spirits, and

Are melted into air, into thin air:

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind.- Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1. (Isaiah 51:6.)

93. I do now remember a saying, The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows he is a fool.- Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1. (I Cor. 3:18.)

To an unsettled fancy.- Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1. (I Sam. 16:23.)

LORD BACON

95. What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. -Of Truth. (John 18:38.)

96. The blessing of Judah and Issachar will never meet; that the same nation should be both the lion's whelp and the ass between burdens. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms. (Gen. 49:9, 14.)

97. A certain rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old.- Of Youth and Age. (Joel 2:28.)

98. The fool who saith in his heart there is no God saith it rather by vote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it or be persuaded of it.- Of Atheism. (Ps. 14:1.)

JOHN MILTON

One might expect that Milton, the Puritan, who wrote two long poems on Biblical subjects, would use many Biblical allusions. He draws from all parts of the Bible, and it is a Biblical education to trace out his many references.

99. Siloa's brook that flowed fast by the oracle of God.- Paradise Lost, Book I. (Is. 8:6.)

100. And justify the ways of God to men.- Paradise Lost, Book I. (Rom. 3:4.)

101. Dagon his name; sea monster, upward man and downward flesh. -Paradise Lost, Book I. (I. Sam. 5:4.)

102. And now his heart distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength. - Paradise Lost, Book I. (Dan. 5:20.)

103. Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit

104.

Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste

Brought death into the world and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man

Restore us and regain the blissful seat,

Sing heav'nly Muse.- Paradise Lost, Book I. (Gen. 3.)

As when the potent rod

Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day,

Wav'd round the coast, up-call'd a pitchy cloud

Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind,

That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung

Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile.- Paradise Lost, Book I.

(Ex. 10:12-15.)

105. Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from heaven.

Paradise Lost, Book I. (Matt. 6:24.)

106. His dark pavilion spread wide on the wasteful deep.- Paradise Lost, Book II. (Ps. 18:11.)

107. Since God is light.

Paradise Lost, Book III. (I John 1:5; 1 Tim. 6:16.)

108. That be far from thee, Father, who art judge of all things made. -Paradise Lost, Book III. (Gen. 18:25.)

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109. All but the unsleeping eyes of God.- Paradise Lost, Book V. (Ps. 121:4.)

110. He on the wings of cherub rode sublime.- Paradise Lost, Book VI. (Ps. 18:10.)

111. That wish'd the mountains now might be again thrown on them. - Paradise Lost, Book VI. (Rev. 6:16.)

112. Who into glory him received,

Where now he sits at the right hand of bliss.- Paradise Lost, Book VI.

(1 Tim. 3:16; Hebrews 1:3.)

113. When Orient light exhaling first from darkness they beheld;

Birthday of heaven and earth: with joy and shout.- Paradise Lost, Book VII. (Job 38:4, 7.)

114. There the eagle and the stork on cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build. - Paradise Lost, Book VII. (Job 39:27, 28.)

115. The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.- Paradise Lost, Book IX. (Gen. 3:1.)

Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet

On his pale horse.- Paradise Lost, Book X. (Rev. 6:6-8.)

117. O sons, like one of us man is become, to know both good and evil.
-Paradise Lost, Book XI. (Gen. 3:22-24.)

118. God, from the mount of Sinai, whose gray top
Shall tremble, he descending, will himself,

In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets' sound,

Ordain them laws.- Paradise Lost, Book XII. (Ex. 20:18-21.)

119. By one man's disobedience lost.

120. Roving still about the world.

Paradise Regained, Book I. (Rom. 5:19.)

- Paradise Regained, Book I. (Job 1:7; 1 Peter 5:8.)

121. And of thy kingdom there should be no end.- Paradise Regained, Book I. (Luke 1:32, 33.)

122. And forty days Elijah, without food.- Paradise Regained, Book I. (I Kings 19:8.)

123. Vouchsafed his voice to Balaam reprobate.- Paradise Regained, Book II. (Num. 22:28.)

124. The great Tishbite, who on fiery wheels rode up to heaven.- Paradise Regained, Book II. (II Kings 2:11.)

125. Command a table in this wilderness.- Paradise Regained, Book II. (Ps. 78:19.)

126. As he who, seeking asses, found a kingdom.- Paradise Regained, Book III. (I Sam. 9:20, 21.)