I to my selfe am deerer then a friend, For Loue is still most precious in it selfe, And Siluia (witnesse heauen that made her faire) Shewes Iulia but a swarthy Ethiope.
My selfe was from Verona banished, For practising to steale away a Lady, And heire and Neece, alide vnto the Duke 2.
And Iulia her selfe did giue it me, And Iulia her selfe hath brought it hither Pro.
This night he meaneth with a Corded-ladder To climbe celestiall Siluia's chamber window, My selfe in counsaile his competitor.
Lorde wyllinge and nowe butt perswade yowr selfe soe as I hope & yow shall nott need to feare butt wth all hartie thanckefullenes I wyll holde my tyme & content yowr ffrende & yf we Bargaine farther yow shalbe the paie mr yowr selfe.
Let euery man be master of his time, Till seuen at Night, to make societie The sweeter welcome: We will keepe our selfe till Supper time alone: While then, God be with you.
This Castle hath a pleasant seat, The ayre nimbly and sweetly recommends it selfe Vnto our gentle sences Banq.
But gentle Heauens, Cut short all intermission: Front to Front, Bring thou this Fiend of Scotland, and my selfe Within my Swords length set him, if he scape Heauen forgiue him too Mal.
Come high or low: Thy Selfe and Office deaftly show.
No: though thou call'st thyselfe a hoter name Then any is in hell Macb.
Our selfe will mingle with Society, And play the humble Host: Our Hostesse keepes her State, but in best time We will require her welcome La.
I heard you visited those canvas tragedies, One of their constant audience, and so taken With Susan, that you wish'd your selfe a rivall With the two wicked elders.
I found my selfe the very same i'th morning, Where two of her familiars had left me.
But I should be In my thoughts miserable to be fond Of leaving the sweet freedome I possesse, And court my selfe into new marriage fetters, I now observe mens severall wits, and windings, And can laugh at their follies.
Nor frailtie, you dare not trust you selfeto see he.
Not I sir, I never found my selfe more cleare at heart.
And yet they say your entertainments are, Give me your pardon Madam, to proclaime Your selfe a widow, and to get a husband.
Y'are not my Lord agen, the Lord I thought you, And I must tell you now, you doe forget Your selfe and me.
For that let me alone; do thou but soothe What I my selfe will presently devise And I will send him satisfied away.
Come, I love Your selfe and not your fortunes: pray forgett em.
Alas, my Lord, they are all farre out of my aime; and only to fit my selfe a little better to your friendshippe, have I given these wilfull raynes to my affections.
Sir, troble not your selfe With any doute oth' secrecye was usd In actinge your comand.
Let me style myselfe (And proudlye too) the mynion of the fates.
A courtier might have spared it And as he is a courtier beene excusd Thoughe it were false; for he whose tonge and harte Runne one selfe course shall seldome find the way To a preferment.
First let us know what penalty thou setst Upon thy selfe if thou be vanquished.
I speake it with a confydence whereby Ide have you say unto your selfe 'tys doone.
Yes, foorsoothe, I will confes my selfe emptye of sence, Dealinge with suche a wyttie sparke as you.
F}enton, you may assure your selfe My hart is setled vpon none but you, Tis as my father and mother please: Get their consent, you quickly shall haue mine.
But good sir Iohn when I haue 90 Told you my griefe, cast one eie of your owne Estate, since your selfe knew what tis to be Such an offender.
The Towne it selfe standeth on a hill, having almost on every side an ascent to it; and about it are divers fruitfull valleyes well replenished with grasse, corne, and wood.
No one shoemaker can fit all by one Last; nor any one taylor can suite all by one, and the selfe same measure.
Marry, well bethought: Tis told me he hath very oft of late Giuen priuate time to you; and you your selfe Haue of your audience beene most free and bounteous.
We fat all creatures else to fat vs, and we fat our selfe for Magots.
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myselfe a King of infinite space; were it not that I haue bad dreames Guil.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For lone oft loses both it selfe and friend: And borrowing duls the edge of Husbandry.
This aboue all; to thine owne selfe be true: And it must follow, as the Night the Day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Tender your selfe more dearly; Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase, Roaming it thus, you'l tender me a foole Ophe.
I am my selfe indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my Mother had not borne me.
Of the foole that thought him selfe deed, whan he was a lyue.
A ryche couetous marchant there was that dwellid in London, which euer gaderyd mony and could neuer fynd in hys hert to spend ought vpon hym selfe nor vpon no man els.
By this tale ye may lerne, that they that will come to the speche or presence of any persone for theyr owne cause, they muste fyrste endeuer them selfe to shewe suche matters as those persones most delyte in.
Of hym that feyned hym selfe deed to proue what his wyfe wolde do.
Whan Turpin sawe there was none other remedy, he helde him selfe contente.
By this tale a man may se, that he that useth to deryde and mocke other folkes, is somtyme him selfe more deryded and mocked.
By this tale a man may lerne, that he that ouershoteth hym selfe doth folysshely: yet he is more fole to shewe it openly.
Of the olde man that put him selfe in his sonnes handes.
That which is betweene the Lake and the Bay it selfe is called Taphræ and the Bay it selfe is called Carcinites.
A King in Loue, is Steward to himselfe, And neuer scornes the office, my selfe buy, All glances from the Market of her eye.
Nature unto her selfe is too unkind To buzze such scruples into Fredericks minde; Twas a device of man to avoid selfe love, Else every pleasure in one stocke should move, Beautie in grace part never from the kinne.
Part of my selfe, now seemst thou wholy me, And I seeme neither like my selfe nor thee, Thankes to thy care and this unknown disguise.
My father bid I should obey your will, And yeelde my selfeto your discretion: Besides my cozen gave me yesternight, A prettie nag to ride to Padua.
Nay but, Accutus, prethee what mis-shapen vizard of Melancholly hast thou mask't thy selfe in?
But nature, love, and reason, tells thee thus, Thy selfe must yet be neerest to thyselfe.
Nay brother, sister, all shall pardon me, Before ile sell my selfe to penurie.
Better and better, then it cannot out, Unlesse your love will be so scripulous [sic] That it will overthrowe your selfe and me.
Should you reverse this sentence of my death, My selfe would play the death-man on my selfe And overtake your swift and winged soule, Ere churlish Caron had transported you Unto the fields of sad Proserpina.
My selfe was busie dressing up the house: As for your man he is not verie well, But sitteth sleeping by the kitchen fier.
If by this occasion I may provoke any reader to an attempt of this nature, I shall then thinke my selfe happy, and this work successefull.
Upon this God commanded her to contract her selfe into a narrower compasse, but she being much discontented hereat, replies, What!
In the pursuit whereof, if I have shewed much weaknesse or indiscretion; I shall willingly submit my selfe to the reason and censure of the more judicious.
That he goeth in person, and furnisheth him selfe out with 10li.
But at ye best this cometh of it, yt he maks him selfe a scorne & laughing stock unto them.
And although a man growndlie learned all readie, may take moch proffet him selfe in vsing, by Epitome, to draw other mens the ready way to the Latin tong.
The first booke teachyng lacking a skilfull master, most commonlie, doth either, sinck it selfe vpon sandes, or breake it selfe vpon rockes.
I my selfe one of the meanest of a great number, in that Colledge, because there appeared in me som small shew of towardnes and diligence, lacked not his fauor to forder me in learning.
And as I had rather haue any do it, than my // Opus de selfe, yet surelie my selfe rather than none at all.
The British historie affirmeth, that she did not onelie abuse hir selfe by vnlawfull companie with Mordred, but that also in Arthurs absence she consented to take him to husband.
Nor it is no newes theselfe same thynges to be applyed to diuerse vses.
So translacion in the whych comonly is the greatest vse of eloquuciõ, applieth wordes not the selfe proper thinges.
And for thy fryndes and parentes, and other acquayntance to put thy selfe in peryll: for the cõmon wealth in the whyche both it & that most reuerende name of the contrey is conteyned, not to be willynge to come in ieopardye.
Subiectio, when we axe of oure selfe what can be saide agaynst vs, and answere to our selues thus: ¶ Shall we tary in synne?
Content thyselfe w^t thy state, in thy herte do no man hate, be not the cause of stryfe and bate.
They be called signes properlye, whyche rysynge of the thynge it selfe that is in question come vnder the sences of menne, [Sidenote: Signes be referred to tyme.
Wherefore if we haue proued both by reason & by exãple, that we be bounde to put oure selfe in peryll for the common wealthe, they are to be counted wyse men, whych for the sauegarde of the contrey auoyde no peryll.
Transsumptio, Transsũpcion, is when by degrees we go to y^t that is shewed as: he hyd hym selfe in the blacke dennes.
For my selfe (my sonne) I am determined not to tarrie, till fortune in my life time doe make an ende of this warre.
Ellinor Holland said he came like a great beare, with open mouth, upon her, and presently turned it selfeinto the similytude of a white dove; but she resisted, and it departed.
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