SHAKSPEARE’S MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

SHAKSPEARE’S

MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

—whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as

’t were, the mirour up to nature.—Hamlet

He cannot flatter, he!—

An honest mind and plain,—he must speak truth;

An they will take it, so.

King Lear.

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CONTENTS.

The Game consists of ten Questions, to each of which there are twenty Answers. The Questions are:

To obtain a photograph, one of the party must keep the book and ask the questions in order; the person asked, being at liberty to choose any number from one to twenty.

SHAKSPEARE’S MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

QUESTION I.
WHAT ARE YOU?

1. I am Sir Oracle,

And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.

2. A woman: and for secrecy,

No lady closer.

Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 3.

3. I am so full of business, I cannot answer thee acutely.

All’s Well That Ends Well. Act i. Scene 1.

4. A braver soldier never couched lance,

A gentler heart did never sway in court.

Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Scene 2.

5. Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:

I am a gentleman.

Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.

6. Infirm of purpose!

Macbeth. Act ii. Scene 2.

7. Being a woman, I will not be slack

To play my part in fortune’s pageant.

Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 2.

8. But man, proud man!

Drest in a little brief authority.

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Scene 2.

9. To answer every man directly, and briefly,

Wisely, and truly. Wisely I say, I am a bachelor.

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 3.

10. Perfect.

Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.

11. A man, who is the abstract of all faults

That all men follow.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Scene 4.

12. A woman of an invincible spirit.

Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 4.

13. A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.

14. A promise-breaker.

Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 8.

15. A man, worth any woman.

Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.

16. A railing wife.

Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.

17. I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and

besides myself.

Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Scene 2.

18. I am the very pink of courtesy.

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 4.

19. An angel! or, if not,

An earthly paragon!

Cymbeline. Act iii. Scene 6.

20. As opposite to every good,

As the antipodes.

Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 4.

QUESTION II.
WHAT QUALITY OR QUALITIES IN OTHERS AMONG YOU?

1. A quietness of spirit.

Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Scene 1.

2. Good, your highness, patience.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.

3. Faint deeds, hollow welcomes,

Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’t is shown.

Timon of Athens. Act i. Scene 2.

4. Liberal thanks.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.

5. Shallow spirit of judgment.

Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.

6. That glib and oily art,

To speak and purpose not.

King Lear. Act i. Scene 1.

7. The slanderous tongue.

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.

8. A patient sufferance.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act i. Scene 3.

9. Sweet words,

Low crooked curt’sies, and base spaniel fawning.

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 1.

10. Defect of manners, want of government,

Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain.

Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.

11. Ingratitude!

King Lear. Act i. Scene 4.

12. Back-wounding calumny.

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.

13. Modest stillness and humility.

Henry V. Act iii. Scene 1.

14. Self-harming jealousy!

Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Scene 1.

15. Fear and doting.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 9.

16. Vaulting ambition.

Macbeth. Act i. Scene 7.

17. Scorn, and defiance; slight regard, contempt.

Henry V. Act ii. Scene 4.

18. Vainness, and self-glorious pride.

Henry V. Act v. Chorus.

19. A base, ignoble mind.

Henry VI. Part II. Act ii. Scene 1.

20. A mind impatient,

An understanding simple and unschool’d.

Hamlet. Act i. Scene 2.

QUESTION III.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE OCCUPATION OR PURSUIT?

1. To discover islands far away.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 3.

2. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat

and drink, make the beds, and do all myself.

Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Scene 4.

3. My brain, more busy than the laboring spider,

Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 1.

4. The disposing of new dignities.

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 1.

5. Billiards.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.

6. Methinks, it were a happy life,

To be no better than a homely swain.

Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.

7. Steal hearts.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.

8. To outlook conquest, and to win renown,

Even in the jaws of danger and of death.

King John. Act v. Scene 2.

9. Quaint lies,

How honorable ladies sought my love,

Which I denying, they fell sick and died.

Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Scene 4.

10. A ghostly confessor,

A sin-absolver.

Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Scene 3.

11. A mender of bad soles.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Scene 1.

12. No women’s matters.

Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 3.

13. Eating and drinking.

Twelfth Night. Act ii. Scene 3.

14. Why, sir, a carpenter.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Scene 1.

15. To be in love.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.

16. To number Ave-Maries.

Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Scene 3.

17. Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.

Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 1.

18. Give me mine angle,—We’ll to the river; there,

My music playing far off, I will betray

Tawny-finn’d fishes; my bended hook shall pierce

Their slimy jaws.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.

19. A piece of work that will make sick men whole.

Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Scene 1.

20. To carve out dials quaintly, point by point.

Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.

QUESTION IV.
WHAT IS YOUR PET AVERSION?

1. A woman’s tongue.

Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Scene 2.

2. Marriage.

Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 5.

3. The lover,

Sighing like furnace.

As You Like It. Act ii. Scene 7.

4. Women and fools.

King John. Act ii. Scene 1.

5. The first bringer of unwelcome news.

Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.

6. Sleek-headed men.

Julius Cæsar. Act i. Scene 2.

7. The livery of a nun.

Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 1.

8. A lady’s tears.

King John. Act v. Scene 2.

9. Unbidden guests.

Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 2.

10. A good rebuke.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 7.

11. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Troilus and Cressida. Act v. Scene 3.

12. A younker, prancing to his love.

Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.

13. To climb steep hills.

Henry VIII. Act i. Scene 1.

14. A fawning greyhound.

Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 6.

15. A twice-told tale,

Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

King John. Act iii. Scene 4.

16. Coy looks,

With heart-sore sighs.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.

17. To be suspected of more tenderness

Than doth become a man!

Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.

18. To fight with you.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.

19. My wife,

I would you had her spirit in such another;

The third o’ the world is yours; which with a snaffle

You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 2.

20. A silly woman.

Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 1.

QUESTION V.
WHAT STYLE OF BEAUTY DO YOU ADMIRE?

1. Her hair is auburn.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Scene 4.

2. A sweet-faced man.

Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 2.

3. She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Scene 1.

4. Her sunny locks

Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.

Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.

5. Her hair, what color?

Brown, Madam: and her forehead is as low

As she would wish it.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 3.

6. As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,

Twinkling another counterfeited beam,

So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.

Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 3.

7. A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue

eye and sunken; which you have not: an

unquestionable spirit; which you have not.

As You Like It. Act iii. Scene 2.

8. Her eyes are gray as glass.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Scene 4.

9. There is never a fair woman has a true face.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.

10. Item, two lips indifferent red; item, two gray

eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one

chin, and so forth.

Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.

11. She is fair, and fairer than that word,—

Of wondrous virtues.

Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.

12. Straight and slender; and as brown in hue as hazel-nuts.

Taming of the Shrew. Act ii. Scene 1.

13. The April’s in her eyes; It is love’s spring,

And these the showers to bring it on.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 2.

14. Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty.

Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.

15. Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,

Her words y-clad with wisdom’s majesty,

Makes me from wondering, fall to weeping joys,

Such is the fulness of my heart’s content.

Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.

16. A fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face

is not worth sun-burning, that never looks

in his glass for love of anything he sees

there.

Henry V. Act v. Scene 2.

17. There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple;

If the ill spirit have so fair an house,

Good things will strive to dwell with ’t.

Tempest. Act i. Scene 2.

18. He’s as tall a man as any’s in Illyria.

Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 3.

19. Fam’d for mildness, peace, and prayer.

Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.

20. A gray eye or so.

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 4.

QUESTION VI.
DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAL?

1. Her voice was ever soft,

Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.

King Lear. Act v. Scene 3.