And tho’ he in a fertile climate dwell,
Plague him with flies: tho’ that his joy be joy,
Yet throw such changes of vexation on’t,
As it may lose some colour.—
Shakspeare’s Othello, A. 1. S. 1.
The soliloquy of Charinus, (of which the lines I have cited in the commencement of this Note form a part,) is one of the best written in the plays of our author: it is exactly of the kind recommended by the Duke of Buckingham.
“Soliloquies had need be very few,
Extremely short, and spoke in passion too.
Our lovers, talking to themselves, for want
Of others, make the pit their confidant: