Chapter INTERCOURSE to JEMMY DAWSON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act III. Scene 1. (The General to Lartius.)

JARS.—Hence jarring sectaries may learn
Their real int’rest to discern;
That brother should not war with brother,
And worry and devour each other.

Cowper.—Nightingale and Glow-worm.

JEALOUSY.—Be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Cassius to him.)

It is a monster,
Begot upon itself, born on itself.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 4. (Emilia to Desdemona.)

O beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago to Othello;) Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 2.

JEMMY DAWSON—Though justice ever must prevail,
The tear my Kitty sheds is due;
For seldom shall she hear a tale
So sad, so tender, yet so true.

Shenstone.—Jemmy Dawson, Verse 20.

Or Gallus’ song, so tender and so true,
As e’vn Lycoris might with pity view!

Roscommon.—On Translated Verse, Line 23.