We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. |