John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1505 |
| While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1506 |
| Ham. His beard was grizzled,—no? Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver’d. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1507 |
| Let it be tenable in your silence still. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1508 |
| Give it an understanding, but no tongue. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1509 |
| Upon the platform, ’twixt eleven and twelve. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1510 |
| Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1511 |
| A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1512 |
| The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1513 |
| Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. 1 |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1514 |
| Give thy thoughts no tongue. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1515 |
| Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops 2 of steel. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| Note 1. And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did the adviser. Robert Burns: Epistle to a Young Friend. [back] |
| Note 2. ”Hooks” in Singer. [back] |