Matt. vi. 31-"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shal we eat? or what shal we drincke? or wherewith shall we be clothed?" 34-"Care not then for the morrow: for the morow shall care for itself."

Act IV. ii. 289: Belarius

"The ground that gave them first, has them againe :

Their pleasures here are past, so are their paine."

Gen. iii. 19-"In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate breade till thou returne to the earth, for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return."

Author." return unto the ground."

Act IV. ii. 404: Lucius

"Be cheerful: wipe thine eyes:

Some Falles are meanes the happier to rise."

Ps. cxix. 71—"It is good for me that I have been afflicted : that I might learn Thy statutes."

Act V. ii. 35: Posthumus

"That some, turn'd coward

But by Example (O, a sin in war)
Damn'd in the first beginners."

A reference to the Fall and Curse of Man.

Act V. iv. 101

"Whom best I love, I crosse: to make my guift

The more delay'd delighted."

Heb. xii. 6-"For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth and He scourgeth every sonne that He receiveth."

Act V. iv. 176-Gaoler. "For look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go."

Posthumus. "Yes indeed do I, fellow."

Gaoler. "Your deaths has eyes in's head then: I have not seen him so pictured: you must either be directed by some that take upon them to know, or take upon yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or jump the after enquiry on your owne perill; and how you shall speed in your journie's end, I thinke you'l never returne to tell one."

Posthumus. "I tell thee, Fellow, there are none want eyes to direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and will not use them."

John xiv. 4-" And whither I goe, ye knowe, and the way ye knowe. Thomas saide unto Him, Lord we knowe not whither Thou goest, and how can we then know the way. Jesus said unto him, I am that Way, that Truth, and that Life. No man commeth unto the Father but by Me."

Act V. v. 351: Belarius—

"The benediction of these covering heavens

Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy

To inlay Heaven with starres."

Dan. xii. 3-" And they that be wise shall shine as the bright

ness of the firmament, and they that turne many to righteousnesse shall shine as the stars for ever and ever."

THE WINTER'S TALE.

Act I. ii. 28-Hermione. "I had thought, sir, to have held my peace."

Prov. xvii. 28-"Even a foole (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise."

Neh. viii. 11-"Saying, Hold your peace."

Luke xix. 40-"If these should hold their peace."

Acts xii. 17

He beckoned unto them with the hande to

hold their peace."

Act I. ii. 47

Polixenes. "I may not verely."

Hermione. "Verely."

The expression "verily, verily" is peculiar to the Gospel of
St. John, and used some twenty-three times.

The Synoptics have "Verily, I say."

Rheims gives in these passages, “Amen, amen, I say unto

you."

Act I, ii. 69: Polixenes

"We knew not

The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed

That any did: Had we pursued that Life,

And our weak spirits ne're been higher rear'd

With stronger blood, we should have answer'd Heav'n

Boldly, not guilty: the imposition cleared

Hereditarie ours."

Rom. v. 12- "Wherefore as by one man sinne entred into the world, and death by sinne, and so death went over all men in whom all men have sinned."

2 Esdras vii. 48-"O Adam, what hast thou done? for in that that thou hast sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but the fall also redoundeth unto us that come of thee."

Act I. ii. 417: Polixenes

"O then my best blood turne

To an infected Gelly, and my Name

Be yoaked with his that did betray the Best."

A reference to the Betrayal of the Lord Jesus Christ by
Judas.

John xviii. 2--" And Judas, also, which betrayed Him.

Act II. iii. 114: Paulina.

"I care not:

It is an Heretique that makes the fire,

Not she that burns in it."

I John iv. 20-" How can he that loveth not his brother whome he hath seene, love God whom he hath not seene."

Act II. iii. 175: Leontes

"(Take up the child)

That thou leave it—

(Without more mercy) to it owne protection

And favour of the Climate . . .

That thou commend it strangely to some place

Where chance may nurse or end it.”

Compare the placing of the child Moses on the banks of

the river

Exod. ii. 3-" Layd the child therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the river's brinke."

Act II. iii. 183: Antigonus"Come on (poore babe)

Some powerfull spirit instruct the Kytes and Ravens

To be thy nurses."

1 Kings xvii. 4-"I have commanded the Ravens to feede thee there." 6-"And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he dranke of the river."

Act III. ii. 28: Hermione

"If powers Divine

Behold our human actions, as they do,

I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny

Tremble at patience."

Ps. xxxiii. 13-"The Lorde looketh downe from heaven and beholdeth all the children of men." 18-" Beholde the eye of the Lord is upon them that feare Him and upon them that trust in His mercie."

Ps. ix. 12-"When Hee maketh inquisition for blood, He remembreth it and forgetteth not the complaint of the poore."

Act III. ii. 42: Hermione

"For life, I prize it

As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,

Tis a derivative from me to mine,

And only that I stand for."

Ecclus. iii. 11, 12—" Rejoyce not at the dishonour of thy father : for it is not honour unto thee but shame, seeing that man's glorie commeth by his father's honour, and the reproch of the mother is dishonour to the children."

Act III. iii. 5—

Mariner. "The heavens with that we have in hand are angry And frown upon's."

Antig. "Their sacred wills be done."

Luke xxii. 42" Not my will but Thine be done."

Matt. xxvii. 45-" Now from the sixt houre was there darkenesse over the land unto the ninth houre."

Act III. iii. 83: Clown-"I have seen two such sights, by sea, and by land—but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the sky : betwixt the Firmament and it, you cannot thrust a bodkin's point" (i.e., a return to chaos).

Gen. i. 6-" Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the mids of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters."

Act III. iii. 120: Clown—“You're a made old man if the sinnes of your youth are forgiven you, you're well to live."

Ps. xxv. 7-" Remember not the sinnes of my youth." Job xx. II-"His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust."

Act IV. Chorus: Time-"To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace."

2 Peter iii. 18-" But grow in grace, and in the knowledge."