The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.
Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
To hope till hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
Prometheus. Act iv. P.B. SHELLEY.
HORSEMANSHIP.
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed,
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropped down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
King Henry IV., Pt. I. Act iv. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
"Stand, Bayard, stand!" The steed obeyed,
With arching neck and bended head,
And glancing eye, and quivering ear,
As if he loved his lord to hear.
No foot Fitz-James in stirrup staid.
No grasp upon the saddle laid,
But wreathed his left hand in the mane,
And lightly bounded from the plain,
Turned on the horse his armèd heel,
And stirred his courage with the steel.
Bounded the fiery steed in air,
The rider sate erect and fair,
Then, like a bolt from steel cross-bow,
Forth launched, along the plain they go.
The Lady of the Lake, Canto V. SIR W. SCOTT.
After many strains and heaves,
He got up to the saddle eaves,
From whence he vaulted into the seat
With so much vigor, strength, and heat,
That he had almost tumbled over
With his own weight, but did recover,
By laying hold of tail and mane,
Which oft he used instead of rein.
Hudibras. S. BUTLER.
HOSPITALITY.
You must come home with me and be my guest;
You will give joy to me, and I will do
All that is in my power to honor you.
Hymn to Mercury, P.B. SHELLEY.
Sir, you are very welcome to our house:
It must appear in other ways than words,
Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
Merchant of Venice, Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
Paradise Lost, Bk. V. MILTON.