Object of Imitation
Ophelia. O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown,
The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword,
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th’ observed of all observers. “Hamlet,” iii, 1.
Lady Percy.——He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
——In speech, in gait.
In diet, in affections of delight,
He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
That fashion’d others. “2d Henry IV.”, ii, 3.