Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
_Hamlet_, I., 4, 39:
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
_Maid of Honour_, V., 1, 133:
And I to make all know I am not shallow,
Will have my points of cochineal and yellow.
_Twelfth Night_, II., 5, 169:
Remember who commended thy yellow stockings.
_Virgin Martyr_, I., 1, 177:
All kind of tortures; part of which they suffer’d
With Roman constancy.
_Julius Cæsar_, II., 1, 226:
Let not our looks put on our purposes,
But bear it as our Roman actors do,
With untired spirits and formal constancy.
(_Cf._ _Duke of Milan_, V., 1, 128.)
_Parliament of Love_, II., 2, 37:
Yet since thou art
So spaniel-like affected.
_Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, II., 1, 205:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me.
_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, IV., 2, 14:
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
_Emperor of the East_, IV., 5, 105:
Methinks I find Paulinus on her lips.
_Othello_, III., 3, 341:
I found not Cassio’s kisses on her lips.
_Emperor of the East_, V., 2, 103:
Can I call back yesterday, with all their aids
That bow unto my sceptre? or restore
My mind to that tranquillity and peace
It then enjoyed?
_Othello_, III., 3, 330:
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.
_Othello_, III., 3, 347:
O, now for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
_Virgin Martyr_, I., 1, 342:
An humble modesty, that would not match
A molehill with Olympus.
_Great Duke of Florence_, IV., 2, 305:
As the lowly shrub is to the lofty cedar,
Or a molehill to Olympus, if compar’d,
I am to you, Sir.
_Roman Actor_, III., 1, 3:
If you but compare
What I have suffered with your injuries
(Though great ones, I confess), they will appear
Like molehills to Olympus.
(_Cf._ also _Duke of Milan_, I., 3, 193.)(539)
_Coriolanus_, V., 3, 29:
My mother bows;
As if Olympus to a molehill should
In supplication nod.
_Duke of Milan_, III., 1, 204:
Thou didst not borrow of Vice her indirect,
Crooked, and abject means.
_2 Henry IV_, IV., 5, 184:
God knows, my son,
By what by-paths and indirect crook’d ways
I met this crown.(540)
_Great Duke of Florence_, II., 2, 12:
Yes, and drink more in two hours
Than the Dutchman or the Dane in four and twenty.
_Hamlet_, I., 4, 18:
This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and tax’d of other nations.
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
Soil our addition.
(_Cf._ also _Othello_, II., 3, 78-87.)
_Parliament of Love_, IV., 5, 137:
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