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| Meditation | But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. |
| Meditation | He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord, To visit him to-morrow or next day, He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation, And in no worldly suits would he be moved To draw him from his holy exercise. |
| Meeting | But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek, And he will look as hollow as a ghost, As dim and meagre as an ague's fit, And so he'll die, and rising so again, When I shall meet him in the court of heaven I shall not know him. |
| Meeting | When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? |
| Mercy | Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? |
| Mercy | Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. |
| Mercy | The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy, For your own reasons turn into your bosoms As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. |
| Mercy | Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so, Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. |
| Mercy | The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings, But mercy is above this scept'red sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. |
| Mercy | We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. |
| Mercy | Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. |
| Mercy | Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. |
| Mercy | The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. |
| Merit | For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? |
| Merit | Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends, For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way, nor called upon For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied To eminent assistants, but spiderlike Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note, The force of his own merit makes his way, A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king. |
| Merit | Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. |
| Merriment | What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. |
| Merriment | Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore. |
| Merriment | And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. |
| Merriment | We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself To barbarous license, as 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. |
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