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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Part 58

More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.

1191 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Come, thou Goddess fair and free, In heav'n yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth.

1192 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 11.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

1193 BURNS: _Tam o' Shanter._

=Mischief.=

O, mischief! thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

1194 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

When to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!

1195 POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iii., St. 125.

=Misery.=

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.

1196 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

1197 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. v., Line 572.

=Misfortune.=

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.

1198 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great.

1199 NICHOLAS ROWE: _Fair Penitent. Prologue._

=Mobs.=

You have many enemies that know not Why they are so, but, like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do.

1200 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

The rabble all alive, From tippling benches, cellars, stalls, and sties, Swarm in the streets.

1201 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. vi., Line 704.

=Mockery.=

Hence, horrible shadow!

Unreal mockery, hence!

1202 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Modesty.=

Her looks do argue her replete with modesty.

1203 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty.

1204 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Monarchs.=

A morsel for a monarch.

1205 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.

1206 THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 1285.

=Money.=

This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench.

1207 SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

He had rolled in money like pigs in mud.

1208 Hood: _Miss Kilmansegg._

'T is true we've money, th' only power That all mankind falls down before.

1209 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 1327.

Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

1210 BEN JONSON: _Every Man in His Humour,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

=Months.=

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

1211 _Common in the New England States._

=Monuments.=

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

1212 SHAKS.: _Sonnet 55._

=Mood.=