...very different light. 251 LETTER XIV. ASSOCIATIONS— FRIENDSHIPS. " Noacitur a Sociis." — ANON. " It is certain that either wise bearing, or ignorant...caught as men take diseases, one of another; therefore take heed of your company." — SHAKSPEARE. MY DEAR SONS, I can well remember the time, when, in the...

...1. Bat in selecting our friends, there is need of the greatest caution; for, as Shakspere has it, " It is certain that either wise bearing, or ignorant...another: therefore, let men take heed of their company." 2 This is precisely what is taught us everywhere in the Bible, 3 and especially by S. Paul, when he...

...philosophical reflection, seems as it were to have dipped into the same volume : * It is certain,1 he says, ' that either wise bearing, ' or ignorant carriage, is caught as men take diseases one 1 of another : therefore let men take heed of their company ' (vi 84) — for Pettie had already written...

...this fourteen days (H4A IV, 1, 126). Thus Qq, against the sense and metre. F correctly has, cannot. I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions, — which is four terms, or two actions, — and a shall laugh with...

...it of your eyes, LLL V, 2, 421. it is caught of you, Wint. I, 2, 386. we c. of you, II4B II, 4, 49. wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another, V, 1, 85. Hence, without of, = to receive by contagion or infection: my ear should c. your voice etc....

...conjunction, with the participation of society, that they flock together in concert, like wild geese. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take disease ; therefore, let men take heed of their company.' 90 passion in our own minds ;' * and when...

...man', concludes with the following aphorism: It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carnage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore, let men take heed ot" their company. Heard with the rest of his patter, the sentence passes almost unnoticed. Isolated,...

...he would have to be to expect to be believed. In part two, after he meets Shallow, he soliloquizes: "I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions." Characters in comedy normally do not have enough scope to become...

...Bibliography 291 Index 305 .00° oc o HI V * II w . < o i_ <n «< ui ai CHAPTER ONE Interpreting the Trickster I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter. FALSTAFF (Henry IV, 2 : V,i) Yes, by God, you need technique to make a good job out of life. All you...

...third word a lie. SHALLOW (off): Sir John! FALSTAFF: 1 come, Master Shallow, 1 come. (To the Page.) 1 will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter for the wearing out of six fashions. You shall see him laugh. (Falstaff begins to laugh.) DAVY (entering...