Deny us for our good. So find we profit
By lofing of our prayers.

Ant. and Cleop. A. 2. Sc. 1.

-O thou! whofe captain I account myself,
Look on my
forces with a gracious eye;
Put in their hands thy bruifing irons of wrath,
That they may crush down with a heavy fall
Th' ufurping helmets of our adverfaries!
Make us thy minifters of chastisement,
That we may praife thee in thy victory.
To thee I do commend my watchful foul,
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:
Sleeping and waking, oh, defend me still!

The God of Soldiers,

King Richard III. A. 5. Sc. 3.

With the confent of fupreme Jove, inform
Thy thoughts with nobleness, that thou mayst prove
To fhame invulnerable, and stick i' th' wars

Like a great fea-mark, ftanding every flaw,
And faving thofe that eye thee!

PRAYERS.

When maidens fue,

Coriolanus, A. 5. Sc. 3.

Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,
A their petitions are as truly theirs,

As they themselves would owe them.

Meafure for Measure, A. 1. Sc. 4.

Lord Angelo is precise ;

Stands at a guard with envy; fcarce confefles
That his blood flows, or that his appetite

Is more to bread than stone! hence shall we fee,
If power change purpose, what our feemers be.

Upon his place,

Ibid. A. 1. Sc. 3.

And with full line of his authority,
Governs Lord Angelo: a man whose blood
Is very frow-broth; one who never feels

The wanton ftings and motions of the fenfe ;
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
With profit of the mind, ftudy and fast.

PRECEDENT.

Ibid. A. 1. Sc.4

It must not be; there is no power in Venice
Can alter a decree established.

"Twill be recorded for a precedent;

And many an error, by the fame example,
Will rush into the state.

Let me fpeak, Sir;

The Merchant of Venice, A. 4. Sc. i

PREDICTION.

For Heaven now bids me; and the words I utter
Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.
This royal infant, Heaven still move about her!
Though in her cradle, yet now promifes
Upon this land a thousand thousand bleffings,
Which time fhall bring to ripeness. She shall be
(But few now living can behold that goodness)
A pattern to all princes living with her,
And all that fhall fucceed. Sheba was never
More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue,
Than this bleft foul shall be. All princely graces,
That mould up fuch a mighty piece as this is,
With all the virtues that attend the good,

Shall ftill be doubled on her. Truth fhall nurse her;
Holy and heavenly thoughts ftill counsel her:

She fhall be lov'd and fear'd. Her own fhall bless her;
Her foes thake, like a field of beaten corn,

And hang their heads with forrow. Good grows with her In her days, every man shall eat in safety, Under his own vine, what he plants; and fing The merry fongs of peace to all his neighbours. God fhall be truly known; and those about her From her fhall read the perfect ways of honour, And claim by those their greatnefs, not by blood. Nor fhall this peace fleep with her; but as, when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her afhes new-create another heir,

As great in admiration as herself;

So fhall the leave her bleffedness to one,

When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness, Who from the facred afhes of her honour

Shall ftar-like rife, as great in fame as she was,

And fo ftand fix'd. Peace, Plenty, Love, Truth, Terror,
That were the fervants to this chosen infant,
Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him:
Wherever the bright fun of heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name

Shall be, and make new nations. He fhall flourish,
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches.
To all the plains about him: our children's children
Shall fee this, and bless heaven.

King Kenry VIII. A. 5. Sc. 4..

PREFERMENT.

'Tis the curse of service;

Preferment goes by letter and affection,

Not by the old gradation, where each fecond

Stood heir to the first.

PRIDE.

Othello, A. 1. Sc. 1.

Small things make base men proud.

Henry VI. Part II. A. 4. Sc. 1.

-Pride hath no other glass

To fhew itself but pride; for fupple knees

Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.

Troilus and Creffida, A. 3. Sc. 7.

He that's proud eats up himself.

Pride is his

wn glafs, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatver praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed i' the raife. Ibid. A. 2. Sc. 7.

PRODIGIÉS.

Give me leave

'o tell you once again, that at my birth
'he front of heaven was full of fiery fhapes;
'he goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
Vere ftrangely clam'rous in the frighted fields.

H 2

Thefe

Thefe figns have mark'd me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do fhew

I am not in the roll of common men.

Henry IV. Part I. A. 3. Sc. 1.

In the moft high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,

The graves ftood tenantlefs; and the fheeted dead
Did fqueak and gibber in the Roman ftreets;
Stars fhone with trains of fire, dews of blood fell;
Difafters veil'd the fun; and the moift ftar,
Upon whofe influence Neptune's empire ftands,
Was fick almoft to doomfday with eclipfe:
And even the like precurfe of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding ftill the fates,
And prologue to the omen'd coming-on,
Have heaven and earth together demonftrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.

PRODIGIES

Hamlet, A. 1. Sc. 1.

RIDICULED.

The earth fhook to fee the heavens on fire,

And not in fear of your nativity.

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth

In ftrange eruptions; and the teeming Earth
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vext,

By the imprisoning of unruly wind

Within her womb; which, for enlargement ftriving,
Shakes the old beldam Earth, and topples down

High towers and mofs-grown fteeples. At your birth
Our grandam Earth with this diftemperature

In paffion fhook.

Henry IV. Part I. A. 3. Sc..

The bay-trees in our country all are wither'd, And meteors fright the fixed ftars of heaven; The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth; And lean-look'd prophets whifper fearful change: Rich men look fad, and ruffians, dance and leap The one, in fear to lofe what they enjoy; "Th' other, in hope t' enjoy by rage and war. King Richard II. A. 2. Sc.

PROMISES.

Promifing is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever the duller for his act; and but in the plainer and fimpler kind of people, the deed of faying is quite out of ufe. To promife, is moft courtly and fashionable. Performance is a kind of will, or teftament, which argues a great fickness in his judgment that makes it. Timon of Athens, A. 5. Sc. 2.

PROSPERITY.

Profperity's the very bond of love,

Whofe fresh complexion, and whose heart together,

Affliction alters..

The Winter's Tale, A. 4. Sc. 3

PROSTITUTE.

'Tis the ftrumpet's plague

To beguile many, and be beguil'd by one.

Othello, A. 4. Sc. I.

PROTESTATION.

Were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,
Thereof moft worthy; were I the fairest youth
That ever made eye fwerve; had force and knowledge
More than was ever man's; I would not prize them
Without her love; for her employ them all;

Commend them, and condemn them, to her fervice,
Or to their own perdition.

The Winter's Tale, A. 4. Sc. 3.

PROVIDENCE.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philofophy.

Rafhly

Hamlet, A. 1. Sc. 5

And prais'd be rashness for it.-Let us know

Our indifcretion fometime ferves us well,

When our deep plots do fail: and that should teach us

There is a Divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will.

H 3

Ibid. A. 5. Sc. 2.

There