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| Martlets | This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate. |
| Martlets | What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty. |
| May | All furnished, all in arms, All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed, Glittering in golden coats like images, As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer, Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. |
| May | No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May, and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity. |
| May | There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. |
| May | Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. |
| May | More matter for a May morning. |
| Medicine | Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. How ended she? |
| Medicine | I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death. |
| Medicine | In poison there is physic, and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well. |
| Medicine | Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. |
| Medicine | 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. |
| Medicine | But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic After his patient's death, the king already Hath married the fair lady. |
| Medicine | Trust not the physician, His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob. |
| Medicine | How does your patient, doctor? Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it! |
| Medicine | In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismayed away. |
| Medicine | I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones, And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes, and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show. |
| Medicine | You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! |
| Medicine | When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you. |
| Medicine | By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. |
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