“_Nay, had she been true,
If Heaven would make me such another world
Of one entire and perfect chrysolite
’I not have sold her for it._”
CORAL
Says Lucentio in Act 1, Scene 1, of the “Taming of the Shrew”:
“_I saw her coral lips to move
And with her breath she did perfume the air:
Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her._”
The charming Ariel in “The Tempest,” (Act 1, Scene 2) sings:
“_Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange._”
CRYSTAL
“_But in that crystal scales let there be weighed
Your lady’s love against some other maid,_”
says Benvolio to Romeo.
(“Romeo and Juliet,” Act 1, Sc. 2.)
In “Love’s Labours Lost” (Act 2, Scene 1) Boyet tells the Princess of
France:
“_Methought all his senses were locked in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy._”
In Act 4, Scene 3, of the same play, the King says:
“_‘Ay, me!’ says one: ‘O, Jove!’ the other cries:
One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other’s eyes._”
In Act 3, Scene 2 of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the awakening
Demetrius sings Helen’s praises:
“_O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy._”
In Act 2, Scene 1, of “King John,” Queen Eleanor says of the sad
sensitive Arthur:
“_His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps,_”
Constance retorting:
“_Now shame upon you whether she does or no!
His grandam’s wrongs, and not his mother’s shames,
Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
Which Heaven shall take in nature of a fee:
Ay, with these crystal beads Heaven shall be bribed
To do him justice and revenge on you._”
Bolingbroke in “Richard II” (Act 1, Scene 1) says:
“_Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly._”
Says Bardolph in “Henry V” (Act 2, Scene 3):
“_Go clear thy crystals._”
At the opening of “King Henry VI,” Bedford has the famous lines:
“_Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night,
Comets, importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky._”
In Act 5, Scene 4, of “Cymbeline,” the ghost father Sicilius says:
“_Thy crystal window ope: look out._”
“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” Act. 2, Scene 4:
“_But that his mistress
Did hold his eyes locked in his crystal looks._”
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