Service. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Service


I have done the state some service, and they know’t; No more of that:—I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act V. Scene 2. (The Moor before his death.)	1
Nor exaggerated praise Bestow on me, nor censure; for thou speak’st To those who know me all for what I am. Homer.—The Iliad, Bk. 10, Line 277. (Derby.)	2