Act V. scene vii.:

'Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands: Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach; Those he commands, move only in command, Nothing in love.'

_Coriolanus_, Act IV. scene vii.:

'Whether 'twas pride, Which out of daily fortune ever taints The happy man; whether defect of judgement, To fail in the disposing of those chances Which he was lord of; or whether nature, Not to be other than one thing, not moving From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace, Even with the same austerity and garb, As he controlled the war; but one of these As he hath spices of them all, not all, For I dare so far free him,--made him feared, So hated, and so banished.'

=Metaphors crowded with ideas=, p. 17. _Julius Cæsar_, Act II. scene i. l. 81-4.

'Seek none, conspiracy. Hide it thy visage in smiles and affability; For if thou _path_, thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough to hide thee from _prevention_.'

_Macbeth_, Act V. scene vii.:

'Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal, And with him pour we in our country's purge, Each drop of us. Or so much as it needs To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.'

(rather strained figures).

_Hamlet_, Act I. scene iv.:

'So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some _vicious mole_ of nature in them, As, in their birth,--wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, By the _o'ergrowth_ of some _complexion_, Oft breaking down _pales_ and _forts_ of Reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er _leavens_ The form of plausive manners, that these men Carrying, I say, the _stamp_ of one defect, Being _nature's livery_, or _fortune's star_,-- Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo,-- Shall in the general censure take _corruption_ From that particular fault.'

=Conceits and Wordplay=, p. 22. _Richard II_, Act II. scene i.:

'Old Gaunt indeed and gaunt in being old,' etc.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, Act IV. scene iii.:

'They have pitched a toil, I am toiling in a pitch!'

=Personification=, p. 25. _Two Gentlemen_, Act I. scene i.:

'So _eating Love_ Inhabits in the finest wits of all.'

_Richard II_, Act III. scene ii.:

'Foul _Rebellion's_ arms.'

_Midsummer Night's Dream_:

'The debt that _bankrupt Sleep_ doth Sorrow owe.'

_Henry V_, Act II. scene ii.:

'_Treason_ and _Murder_ ever kept together.'

_Macbeth_, Act I. scene iii.:

'If _Chance_ will have me king, Why _Chance_ may crown me.'