Act IV. ii. 216: King John

"Oh when the last accompt twixt heaven and earth

Is to be made, then shall this hand and seale

Witnesse against us to damnation.

How oft the sight of meanes to do ill deeds

Makes deeds ill done."

Jude 15-" To give judgment against all men and to rebuke all the ungodly among them of all their wicked deedes which they have ungodly committed."

John xii. 48-"The word that I have spoken, it shall judge him in the last day."

2 Cor. v. 10-" For wee must all appeare before the Judgment seate of Christ.”

Act IV. iii. 67—

"The incense of a vow, a holy vow,

Never to taste the pleasures of the world."

Ps. cxli. 2-"Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting up of mine hands as an evening sacrifice."

Compare Heb. vi. 4, Heb. vi. 5, 1 Peter ii. 3, John viii. 52, for Biblical use of "taste."

Act IV. iii. 113-"For I am stifled with this smell of sinne." Amos v. 21, 22-"I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies, though ye offer mee burnt offerings."

Act IV. iii. 117—

Bast.

Beyond the infinite and boundlesse reach of mercie (If thou didst this deed of death), art ye damned, Hubert." Hubert. "Do but heare me, sir."

Bast. "Ha! I'll tell thee what;

Thou'rt damn'd as blacke, nay nothing is so blacke;

Thou art more deepe damn'd then Prince Lucifer."

Matt. xviii. 6-" But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which beleeve in Mee, it were better for him, that a milstone were hanged about his necke and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Mark ix. 42, 43-"Into hell, into the fire that never shalbe quenched. Where their worme dieth not, and the fire never goeth out."

Mark iii. 22" The prince of the devils."

Isa. xiv. 9-" Hell beneath is mooved for thee to meete thee at thy coming." 12-"How art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning." 15-"Thou shalt be brought downe to the grave, to the sides of the pit."

Rev. ix. 11-" And they have a King over them, which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greeke he is named Apollyon, that is, destroying."

Act IV. iii. 140—

"I am amaz'd methinks and lose my way

Among the thornes and dangers of this world."

Remote Scripture parallel

Prov. xxii. 5—“Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward."

Act IV. iii. 155—

"Now happy he, whose cloak and center (cincture) can
Hold out this tempest."

Reference to the prophet Elijah—

1 Kings xviii. 45, 46-"And in the meanwhile the heaven was blacke with cloudes and winde and there was a great raine." 46—" And the hand of the Lorde was on Elijah, and he girded up his loynes and ran before Ahab till he came to Izreel."

Act V. ii. 155

Bast. "Like Amazons, come tripping after drums:
Their thimbles into armed gauntlets chang'd,

Their neelds to lances, and their gentle hearts
To fierce and bloody inclination."

Compare the passages which may have suggested this ideaIsa. ii. 4-" They shall breake their swords also into mattockes and their speares into siethes."

Joel iii. 10-" Breake your plowshares into swordes, and your sithes into speares : let the weake say, I am strong."

Act V. ii. 176

"At hand

Is warlike John: and in his forehead sits

A bare-rib'd death, whose office is this day

To feast upon whole thousands of the French."

Rev. vi. 8-" And I looked and behold, a pale horse and his name that sate on him was Death, and Hel followed after him,

and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kil with sword, and with hunger and with death."

Act V. iii. 9-"Be of good comfort."

Mark x. 49-"Be of good comfort: arise He calleth thee." Wic.-"be thou of better herte."

Rheims-" be of better comfort."

Tyn., Cran., Gen., Author.-"be of good comfort."

Act V. iv. 26—

Melun. “What in the world should make me now deceive,
Since I must loose the use of all deceite?

Why should I then be false, since it is true

That I must dye heere and live hence by Truth?”

2 Thess. ii. 13—“God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and the faith of trueth."

Genevan Note-"Faith which layeth holde not upon lies, but upon the Trueth of God."

John xiv. 6-"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no man commeth unto the Father but by Me."

I Tim. ii. 4

"Who will that all men shall be saved and come unto the acknowledging of the truth."

Act V. v. I—

Lewis. "The sun of heaven, methought, was loath to set,
But staid, and made the Westerne welkin blush,

When English measure backward their owne ground
In faint Retire."

Compare the Scripture reference to the victory of JoshuaJosh. x. 13-" And the Sunne abode, and the moone stood still, untill the people avenged themselves upon their enemies: (is not this written in the booke of Jasher). So the Sunne abode in the middes of the heaven, and hasted not to goe downe for a whole day."

Act V. vi. 37

Bast. "Withhold thine indignation, mighty Heaven,

And tempt us not to bear above our power."

I Cor. x. 13-"God is faithful which wil not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, but will even give the issue with the tentation that ye may be able to beare it."

LUCRECE.

Entered in the "Stationers' Registers" on May 9, 1594, "A Booke intitled the Ravyshement of Lucrece," and published the same year under the title "Lucrece " by John Harrison. Richard Field was the printer. "Venus and Adonis" was published May or June, 1593.

631-"Think but how vile a spectacle it were To view thy present trespass in another. Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear; Their own transgressions partially they smother: This guilt would seem death-worthy in thy brother." For a Scripture parallel compare Nathan and David2 Sam. xii. 5-7—" Then David was exceeding wroth with the man and said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely die.

And he shall restore the lambe

foure fold, because he did this thing, and had no pitie thereof. Then Nathan sayd to David, Thou art the man."

679-" This said, he sets his foot upon the light,

For light and lust are deadly enemies."

John iii. 20-" Loved darknesse rather than that light, because their deeds were evill. For every man that evill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, lest his deeds should be reprooved."

Ephes. v. 13.

689-" So surfeit-taking

His taste delicious, in digestion souring."

Prov. xxv. 16-" If thou have found hony eate that is sufficient for thee, lest thou be overfull and vomit it."

Rev. x. 10-" It was in my mouth as sweet as hony; but when I had eaten it, my belly was bitter."

924-" From the creation to the general doom."

Gen. ii. 3-" All his worke which God had created and made." 2 Peter iii. 10-"But the day of the Lorde wil come as a

thiefe in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earthe with the workes that are therein, shall be burnt up.'

969-" Devise extremes beyond extremity,

To make him curse this cursed crimeful night.
Let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright;
And the dire thought of his committed evil
Shape every bush a hideous shapeless devil.
Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances."

997-" At his own shadow let the thief run mad."

Job xv. 20-24-"A sound of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He beleeveth not to returne out of darkenesse for he seeth the sword before him. He knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hand. Affliction and anguish shall make him afraid."

Lev. xxvi. 36-"The sounde of a leafe shaken shal chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shal fall, no man pursuing them." Wisdom of Solomon xvii. 4-10. II12-"True sorrow then is feelingly suffic'd

When with like semblance it is sympathised."

Job ii. 12-"Therefore they lift up their voyces and wept, and every one of them rent his garment, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heaven. So they sate by him upon the ground seven dayes and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him; for they sawe that the grief was very great."

1169-"So must my soul, her bark being peel'd away.
Her house is sack'd, her quiet interrupted,

Her mansion batter'd by the enemy;

Her sacred temple spotted, spoil'd, corrupted."

House," "mansion," "temple," Biblical words for "body." Luke xi. 24-"When the uncleane spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest: and when he findeth none, he sayth, I will returne unto mine house whence I came out."

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2 Cor. v. I-" Our earthly house of this tabernacle." Desiring to be clothed with our house which is from heaven." Wisd. of Sol. ix. 15—“A corruptible body is heavy unto the soule, and the earthly mansion keepeth down the minde that is full of cares."