ACT IV.
Scene 2. Page 601.
Oth. The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets.
The same image occurs more delicately, but less strongly, in a beautiful "Song to a forsaken mistresse," written by an anonymous author, about the time of Charles the First, and published in Playford's Select ayres, 1659, folio. As most persons of taste already possess the whole of it in Mr Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets, it is unnecessary to give more in this place than the stanza in which the above image occurs:
"I do confess thou'rt sweet, yet find
Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets;
Thy favours are but like the wind,
Which kisseth every thing it meets:
And since thou can'st with more than one,
Th'art worthy to be kiss'd by none."
Scene 2. Page 635.
Oth. Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
Had stomach for them all.
The same sentiment occurs in the third part of King Henry the Sixth, where Clifford says,
"Had I thy brethren here, their lives and thine,
Were not revenge sufficient for me."
Scene 2. Page 653.
Oth. Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!
Again, in Measure for measure,
"To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world."