Chapter FORSAKE to FOUGHT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FORSAKE to FOUGHT

FORSAKE.—The flocks shall leave the mountains,
The woods the turtle-dove;
The nymphs forsake the fountains,
Ere I forsake my love.

Gay.—Acis and Galatea, Part II. Trio.

My God, my father, and my friend,
Do not forsake me at my end!

Roscommon.—His last words on his death-bed. See Fenton’s Ed. of Waller’s Poems.

FORTUNE.—A most poor man, made tame to fortune’s blows.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act IV. Scene 6. (Edgar.)

I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act V. Scene 2.

A man that fortune’s buffets and rewards
Has ta’en with equal thanks.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (The Prince to Horatio before the King and Queen came to the play.)

I another,
So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance
To mend it, or be rid on’t.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 1. (First Murderer.)

I am so out of love with life, that I will sue to be rid of it.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene I. (Claudio to the Duke.)

All other doubts by time let them be clear’d;
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene III. (Pisanio.)

Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind,
Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind.

Pope.—Book II. Sat. II. To Bethel, Line 123.

FORTUNE.— Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us any thing.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene II. (Anthony.)

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Sallust.—De Republicâ Ordinandâ; Beaumont and Fletcher.—Love’s Pilgrimage, Act I. Scene 1.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Plautus.—Trinummus, Act II. Scene 2.

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

Bacon.—Essay XL. on Fortune, Line 3.

A better fortune will be following a lamentable beginning.

Riley’s Ovid.—Meta., Page 249.