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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green. Venus and Adonis. L. 145. Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator As if the golden fee for which I plead Were for myself.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 95.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is; *** I only speak right on. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 220. List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 43.

What means this passionate discourse, This peroration with such circumstance?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 104.

For the world was built in order And the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.— EMERSON — Monadnock. St. 12.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?— HENRY FIELDING — Tom Jones. Bk. IV. Ch. IV.

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.— BEN JONSON — The Silent Woman. Act I. Sc. 1.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. S.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 710.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 189.

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.— POPE — Windsor Forest. L. 13.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are and must be greater than the rest.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 49.

Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 394. The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3. L.85.