APPENDIX 
189 
KING JOHN. 
Bast. Madam, an if my brother had my shape, 
And I had his, Sir Robert’s his, like him ; 
And if my legs were two such riding-rods, 
My arms such eel-skins stuff’d, my face so thin, 
That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose, 
Lest men should say, “ Look, where three-farthings goes !” 
I. i- 138. 
Const. Do, child, go to it grandam, child ; 
Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will 
Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig: 
There’s a good grandam. 
II. i. 160. 
Of Nature’s gifts thou mayst with lilies boast 
And with the half-blown rose. 
HI. i. 53. 
Sal. Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, 
To guard a title that was rich before, 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 
IV. ii. 9. 
I am amazed methinks, and lose my way 
Among the thorns and dangers of this world. 
IV. iii. 140. 
RICHARD II. 
Pierced to the soul with slander’s venom’d spear, 
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood 
Which breathed this poison. 
I. i. 171. 
Cap. ’Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. 
The bay-trees in our country are all wither’d 
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven. 
II. iv. 7. 
