[Footnote 4: worldly advantage.]
[Footnote 5: 'Purpose holds but while Memory holds.']
[Footnote 6: 'Purpose is born in haste, but is of poor strength to live.']
[Footnote 7: Here again there is carelessness of construction, as if the Poet had not thought it worth his while to correct this subsidiary portion of the drama. I do not see how to lay the blame on the printer.—'Purpose is a mere fruit, which holds on or falls only as it must. The element of persistency is not in it.']
[Footnote 8: unavoidable—coming of necessity.]
[Footnote 9: 'Grief turns into joy, and joy into grief, on a slight chance.']
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The great man downe, you marke his fauourites flies,
[Sidenote: fauourite]
The poore aduanc'd, makes Friends of Enemies:
And hitherto doth Loue on Fortune tend,
For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend:
And who in want a hollow Friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his Enemie.[1]
But orderly to end, where I begun,
Our Willes and Fates do so contrary run,
That our Deuices still are ouerthrowne,
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our owne.[2]
[Sidenote: 246] So thinke thou wilt no second Husband wed.
But die thy thoughts, when thy first Lord is dead.
Bap. Nor Earth to giue me food, nor Heauen light, [Sidenote: Quee.]
Sport and repose locke from me day and night:[3]
[A]
Each opposite that blankes the face of ioy,
Meet what I would haue well, and it destroy:
Both heere, and hence, pursue me lasting strife,[4]
If once a Widdow, euer I be Wife.[5] [Sidenote: once I be a | be a wife]
Ham. If she should breake it now.[6]