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Gleanings from Shakespeare
(W. H. Faust.)
For a long while in the early part
of the writer’s life it was impossi
ble to read Shakespeare. It seemed
hard and dry and lifeless, hut the
older one grows and the more expo
rienee one has with life, the more
fascinating Shakespeare becoims. He
has sounded life to greater depths
than any other of the world re
nowned writers. He understands na
ture as few others have ever under
stood it. When lie expresses an
opinion you are more than apt to
hear men expressing the same opin
ion in a different way centuries
later. In fact he was so profoundly
wise that very few if any new
thoughts have been advanced since
his time. Too late I find the wonders
of this marvelous author. How much
I have missed because of my ignor
ance. In the Tragedy of King Itich
ard the Third he says in reference
to honor: “My dear Lord,
The purest treasure mortal times af
ford
Is spotless reputation: that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted
clay.
A jewel in a ten times-barred-up
chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine honor is my life: both grow
in one;
Take honor from me and my life is
done;
Then dear liege, mine honor let me
try;
In that I live and for that will 1 die. ’
There must have been some who
leaned to the doctrines of Chris
tian Science so called in his day,
for he strikes them a good lick in
the same play:
“O who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Chucus
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Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By bare imagination of a feast,
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastic summer’s
heat.
Gives but the greater feeding to the
worse;
Fell sorrows tooth doth never rankle
more
Than when he bites, but laneeth not
the sore."
When it comes to the advocacy of
strong manhood note this:
"I never sued to friend nor enemy;
My tongue could never learn sweet
smoothing words."
One can almost feel across the
centuries the thrill and pull of his
stalwart manhood.
He is the master of scathing invect
ive also:
"If heaven have any grievous plague
in store
Exceeding those that 1 can wish upo
thee,
O let them keep it till thy sins be
ripe
Ajui then hurl down their indignation
On thee, the troubler of the poor
worlds peace.
The worm of conscience still beknaw
thy soul.
Thy friends suspect for traitors while
thou litest,
And take deep traitors for thy dear
est friends.
No sleep close up that deadly eye of
thine,
Unless it be while some tormenting
dream
Affrights tlu'e with a hell of ugly
dt vils.
Thou elfish-marked, abortive, rooting
hog.
Thou that wast sealed in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of
hell.”
When it comes to sorrow he must
have felt deep as manifest in this:
"Sorrow breaks seasons and re
ing hours,
Makes the night, morning and the
noon tide night,
Princes have but their titles for
their glories,
An outward honor for an inward toil;
And for unfelt imagination,
They often feel a world of restless
cares:
So that, betwixt their titles and low
names,
There’s nothing differs but the out
ward fame.”
He writes of conscience like a
preacher and in no uncertain terms
tells of the dire results of attempt
ing even to stifle it. ‘Til not meddle
with it; it is a dangerous thing; U
makes a man a coward; a man can
not steal hut it accuseth him; he
cannot swear, but it checks him;
lie cannot lie with his neighbor’s
wife but that it detects him; ’tis a
blushing, shamefaced spirit that mu
tinies in a man's bosom; it fills one
full of obstacles; made me once re
store a purse of gold that I found;
it beggars any man that keeps it; if
is turned out of all towns and cities,
for a dangerous thing; and every
man that means to live well endeav
ors to trust to himself, and to live
without it.”
And how it thrills one to read
Wolsevs lament. How much of hu
man exiH-rieiico there is to be found
in it:
"Cromwell, I did not think to shed a
tear
In all my miseries, but thou hast
forced me,
Out of thy honest truth to play the
woman.
Let’s dry our eyes: and thus far hear
me Cromwell:
And, when I am forgotten; as 1 shall
be,
And sleep in dull cold marble, where
no mention
Of me more must he heard of, say
I taught thee,
Say, Wolsey that once trod the
paths of glory,
And sounding all the depths of honor
Found thee a way out of his wreck
to raise in:
A sure and safe one though thy mas
ter missed it.
Mark but my fall, and that, that
ruined me,
Cromwell, I charge thee fling ambi
tion :
By that sin fell the angels; how
can man then,
The image of his maker hope to win
by it.
Love thyself last: cherish those
hearts that hate thee:
Corruption wins not more than hon
esty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle
peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just
and fear not:
all the ends thou aimest at be
thy countrys,
Thy God’s and truths: then if thou
failest O Cromwell,
Serve the king;
And, Prithee, lead me in:
There take an inventory, of all 1
have,
Tlo the last penny: ’tis the king’s,
my robe,
And my integrity to heaven is all
I dare now call mine own. O Crom
well, Cromwell,
Had 1 but served my God with half
the zeal
1 served my king, he would not in
mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
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