ABILITY, Innate.
There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way; nor call'd upon For high feats done to the crown; neither allied To eminent assistants; but spider-like, Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note ; The force of his own merit makes his way ; A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king.
H. VIII. i.1.
ABSENCE.
I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd ; But I shall, in a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence. 0. iii. 4.
Lovers'.
What ! keep a week away? seven days and nights? Eight score eight hours, — and lovers' absent hours, — More tedious than the dial eight score times? O weary reckoning ! 0. iii. 4.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest growing ruinous the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was. T. G. v. 4.
ABUSE and Bad English (See also Vituperation).
Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that make, fritters of English ? M. W. v. 5.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. M. W. i. 4.
Let them keep their limbs whole, and hack our English. M. W. iii. 4.
ACCUSATION. To vouch this is no proof, Without more certain and more overt test, Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. 0. i. 3.
ACHIEVEMENT. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. M.N. i. 2.
Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds ; or I swear I will have it in a particular ballad, with mine own picture on the top of it. if.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
ACQUITTAL. Now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith. M. W. iv. 4.
ACTION, Dramatic. Let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so over- done is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at
the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere the mirror up to nature - to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure : O, there be players, that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly,
— not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. H. iii. 2.
ADOPTION. 'Tis often seen, Adoption strives with nature ; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds. A.W. i.3.
ADORATION, a Lover's. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd
have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering of your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function : Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens. W. T. iv. 4.
ADVERSITY (See also Misfortune), A man I am, cross'd with adversity. T. G. iv. 1.
.But myself, Who had the world as my confectionary ; The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, the hearts of men At duty, more than I could
frame employment ; That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare, For every storm that blows; I, to bear this, That never knew but better, is some burden. T.A. iv. 3.
Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him !
T.A. iv. 2.
Folly of Repining at. What think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, Will put thy shirt on warm ? Will these moist trees,
That have out-lived the eagle, page thy heels, And skip when thou point'st out ? will the cold brook, Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit 1 Call the creatures ; Whose naked natures live in all the spight Of wreakful heaven ; whose bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements exposM, Answer mere nature, — bid them flatter thee. T. A. iv.3.
Its Uses. Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
A.Y.ii.1.
'Tis good for men to love their present pains, Upon example ; so the spirit is eas'd : And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
The organs, though defunct and dead before, I Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move With casted slough, and fresh legerity. .
H. V. iii. 1.
In poison there is physic ; and these news Having been well, that would have made me sick ; Being sick, have in some measure made
me well. And as the wretch whose fever-weaken'd joints, Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire Out of his keeper's arms ; even so my limbs, Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with grief, Are thrice themselves.
H.IV. pt.II. i. 1.
ADVICE (See also Caution). Fasten your ear to my advisings. M.M. iii. 1.
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse ; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. .
K.L. iii. 4.
Take heed, be wary how you place your words. H. VI. pt.I. iii. 2.
Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it ; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel give me mine again. K. L. ii. 4.
Pray be counsel'd : I have a heart as little apt as yours, But yet a brain, that leads my use of anger To better 'vantage. C. iii. 2.
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's
key : be check' d for silence, But never tax'd for speech. A. W. i. 1.
Keep thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks, betray thy poor heart to women. K. L. iii. 4.
to a Young Woman. Fear it, my dear sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The
chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon ; Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then ; best safety lies in fear ; Youth to itself rebels, though none else near H. i.3.
to a Young Man. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each unhatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.. Give ev'ry man thine'ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man : — Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man Farewell : — my blessing season this in thee ! H. i. 3.
to a Statesman. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels ; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by't? Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at
be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. H. VIII. iii. 2.
ADULATION (See also Flattery). You shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical ; As if I lov'd my little should be dieted In praises
sauc'd with lies. C. i. 9.
AFFECTED Speakers. These new tuners of accents. R. J. ii. 4.
AFFECTION, (See Parental Affection).
AFFLICTION Affliction is enamonr'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. R. J. iii. 3.
AGE. The silver livery of advised age. H. VI. pt. II. v. 2.
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old, with all the characters of age ? Have you not a moist eye ?
a dry hand"? a yellow cheek ? a white beard ? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly ? Is not your voice broken? your wind short ?
your chin double ? your wit single ? and every part about you blasted with antiquity ? and will you yet call yourself young ? O fye, Sir
John. H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. H. iv. 7.
Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up ;
Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. C. E. v. 1.
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there is nothing between but wenching, wronging the ancientry, stealing, and fighting. W.T. iii. 3.
His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds. It shall be said his judgment rul'd our
hands ; Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity. J. C. ii. 1.
As you are old and reverend you should be wise. K.L. i. 4.
When age is in the wit is out. M. A. iii. 5.
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age, And twit with cowardice a man half dead ? H. VI. pt. I. iii. 2.
and Frailty. The blood of youth burns not with such excess As gravity's revolt to wantonness. L. L. v. 2.
Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been wise. K.L. i. 5.
and Grief. I am old now, And these same crosses spoil me. K. L. v. 3.
O ! grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last -, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, Have written strange defeatures in
my face. C. E. v. 1.
and Loquacity.
These tedious old fool ! H. ii. 2.
AIM. Here is the heart of my purpose. M. W. ii. 2.
AIR. A bond of air, strong as the axle-tree On which heaven rides. T. C. i. 3.
ALARM, What stir is this ? what tumult's in the heavens ? Whence cometh this alarum, and the noise ? H. VI. pt. I. i.4.
What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house ? M. ii. 3.
Silence that dreadful bell, it frights the isle From its propriety. 0. ii. 3.
ALLEGIANCE. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties : and our duties Are to your throne and state, children and servants ;
Which do but what they should, by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. M. i. 4.
AMAZEMENT. But the changes I perceived in the king and Camillo, were very notes of admiration : they seemed almost, with staring
on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes ; there was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture ; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. A notable passion of wonder appeared in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow: but in the extremity of one it must be.
W.T.v.2.
AMBITION. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. H . ii. 2.
I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. H. ii. 2.
Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
J. C. ii. 4.
Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
J. C. i. 2.
What see'st thou there ? King Henry's diadem, Enchas'd with all the honours of the world ? If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face, Until
thy head be circled with the same. Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold : — What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine : And, having both together heav'd it up, We'll both together lift our heads to heaven ; And never more abase our sight so low, As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground. H. VI. pt. II. i. 2.
That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. M. i. 4.
I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, 'And falls on t'other side. M. i. 7.
The devil speed him ! no man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. H. VIII. i. 1.
Follow I must, I cannot go before, While Glo'ster bears this base and humble mind. Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, I would remove these tedious stumbling blocks^ And smooth my way upon their headless necks. H. VI. pt. II. i. 2.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ; Nor can one England brook a double reign, Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
H. IV. pt. II. v. 4.
The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was.ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
J. C.iii. 2.
AMBITION Defeated. People , and senators ! be not affrighted ; Fly not ; stand still : — ambition's debt is paid. J. C. iii. 1.
ALLOY, Universal, in thts Probationary Life. Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring, Unwholesome weeds take root with precious
flowers ; The adder hisseth where the sweet birds sing ; What virtue breeds, iniquity devours. Poems.
AMEN. Let me say, Amen, betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer. M. V. iii. 1.
AMENDMENT (See also Reform). God mend all. H. VIII. i. 3.
ANCESTRY (See also Lineage). Look in the chronicles, we came in with Richard conqueror. T. S. Ind. 1.
ANGER (See also Fury— Rage). To be in anger is impiety, But who is man that is not angry. T. A. iii. 5.
Never anger made good guard for itself. A. C. iv. 1.
This tyger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will, too late, Tie leaden pounds to his heels. C. iii. 1.
Stay, my lord ! And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
Anger is like A full hot horse, who, being allowed his way, Self mettle tires him. H. VIII. i. 1.
It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them that this world did equal theirs, Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught ; Patience is sottish ; and impatience does Become a dog that's mad. A.C. iv. 13.
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood ! H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from, Well could I curse away a winter's night, Though standing naked on a mountain top, Where biting cold would never let grass grow, And think it but a minute spent in sport. H. VI. pt. II. iii. 2.
Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now. R. J. iii. 1.
What ! drunk with choler? stay, and pause awhile. H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
A plague upon them ! wherefore should I curse them ? Would curses kill as doth the mandrake's groan, I would invent as bitter-searching terms, As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear, Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth, With full as many signs of deadly hate, As
lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave : My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words ; Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten
flint ; My hair be fix'd on end, as one distract ; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban : And even now my burdened heart would break, Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink ! Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste ! Their sweetest shade, a grove
of cypress trees ! Their chiefest prospect, murd'ring basilisks ! Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' stings ! Their music, frightful as
the serpent's hiss ; And boding screech-owls make the concert full ! H. VI. pt. II. iii. 2.
Be advis'd ; Heat not a furnace for your foes so hot, That it do singe yourself : we may out-run, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor till't run o'er, In seeming to augment it, wastes it. Be advis'd.
H. VIII. i. 1.
O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth ! Then with a passion would I shake the world. K. J. iii. 4.
I am about to weep ; but, thinking that We are a queen, (or long have dream'd so) certain, The daughter of a king, my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire. H. VIII. ii. 4.
O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. J. C. iv. 3.
Anger's my meat : I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. C. iv. 2.
But anger has a privilege. K.L. ii. 2.
By the gods You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you : for, from this day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for
my laughter, When you are waspish. J. C. iv. 3.
ANGLING. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait. M. A. iii. 1.
ANNOYANCE, Impertinent. The loose encounters of lascivious men. T. G. ii. 6.
ANSWER. Definitively thus I answer you. R. III. iii . 7.
Your answer, Sir, is enigmatical. M.A. v. 4.
General. But for me, I have an answer will serve all men. A. W. ii. 2.
ANSWERING A LETTER. Any man, that can write, may answer a letter. R. J. ii. 4.
ANT. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring in the winter. K. L. ii. 4.
ANTICIPATION. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. M. iv. 1.
I smell it; upon my life, it will do well. H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
Excellent ! I smell a device. T. N. ii. 3.
A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. M. W. iii. 2.
Great business must be wrought ere noon ; Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vapourous drop profound ; I'll catch it ere it
come to ground. M. iii. 5.
I am giddy ; expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet, That it enchants my sense. T. C. iii. 2.
ANTIQUITIES. What's to do ? Shall we go see the reliques of this town ? T. N. iii. 3.
APOLOGIST. I have laboured for the poor gentleman, to the extremest shore of my modesty. M. M. iii. 2.
APOLOGY. What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology. R. J. i. 4.
APOPLEXY. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship ; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a
whoreson tingling. H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
APOTHECARY. I do remember an apothecary, — And hereabouts he dwells, — whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Green earthern pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said, — An' if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives caitiff wretch would sell it him. R. J. v. 1.
APPARITION (See also Ghosts, Spirits). I have heard (but not believ'd) the spirits of the dead May walk again : if such thing be, thy mother Appear'd to me last night ; for ne'er was dream So like a waking . W. T. iii. 3.
APPEAL. And here I stand : — judge, my masters. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
APPELLATIONS of Juvenile Endearment. Adoptedly ; as school-maids change their names By vain, though apt affection.
M. M. i. 5.
APPLAUSE, Popular, (See also Popularity, Mob). And there is such confusion in my powers, As, after some oration fairly spoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear Among the buzzing pleased multitude ; Where every something being blent together, Turns to a wild
of nothing. M. V. iii. 2.
APPREHENSION. Heaven ! that I had thy head ! lie has found the meaning. P.P. i.1.
0F THE Worthless. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile ; Filths savour but themselves. K. L. iv. 2.
APTITUDE. Your spirits shine through you. M. iii. 1.
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats ; If it be man's work, I will do it. K. L. v. 3.
ARDOUR, Military (See also War). O let the hours be short, Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport.
H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
ARITHMETICIAN. Forsooth, a great arithmetician. 0. i. 1.
ARMAMENT, Sailing. Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that
you have seen The well-appointed King at Hampton pier Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. Play with your fancies; and in them behold, Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing : Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confus'd ; behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge : O do but think, You stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant
billows dancing ; For so appears this fleet majestical, Holding due course to Harfleur. H. V. ii. chorus.
ARMY (See also War). A braver choice of dauntless spirits Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, Did never float upon the swelling tide, To do offence and scath in Christendom. The interruption of their churlish drums Cuts off more circumstance : they are at hand, To parley, or to fight ; therefore prepare. K. J. ii. 1.
England, impatient of your just demands, Hath put himself in arms ; the adverse winds, Whose leisure I have staid, have given him time To land his legions all as soon as I : His marches are expedient to this town, His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
K. J. ii. 1.
Tell the Constable, We are but warriors for the working day ; Our gayness, and our gilt, are all be-smirch'd With rainy marching in the
painful field. There's not a piece of feather in our host, (Good argument I hope we shall not fly,) And time has worn us into slovenry :
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim. H.V. iv. 3.
Within a ken our army lies ; Upon mine honour, all too confident To give admittance to a thought of fear. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
All the unsettled humours of the land, — Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens, — Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here. .
K. J. ii. 1.
Remember who you are to cope withal ; — A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run- away s, A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants, Whom their o'er-cloy'd country vomits forth To desperate ventures and assur'd destruction. R. III. v. 3.
Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host, And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, With torch-staves in their hands ; and their poor jades Lob down their heads, drooping the hides and hips ; The gum down-roping from their pale dead eyes ; And in their pale dull mouths the gymold bit Lies foul with chaw'd grass, still and motionless ; And their executors, the knavish crows, Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. H. V. iv. 2.
His army is a ragged multitude Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless. H. VI. pt.II. iv. 4.
ARRAIGNMENT. It shall be done, I will arraign them straight : — Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer. K. L. iii. 6.
ARREST. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors : and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have
the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment. M. M. i. 3.
ART and Nature. Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art . Which, you say, adds to nature, is
an art That nature makes. W. T. iv. 3.
ARTS, Forbidden. I therefore apprehend and do attach thee, For an abuser of the world, a practiser Of arts inhibited, and out of
warrant. 0. i. 2.
ASPECT, Martial. Say, what's thy name? Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face Bears a command in't ; though thy tackle's torn Thou show'st a noble vessel. C. iv. 5.
He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye ; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. C. v. 4.
Sour. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. C. iv. 4.
ASPIRANT. A high hope for a low having : God grant us patience ! L. L. i. 1.
Sir, I lack advancement. H. iii. 2.
ASS. Now, what a thing it is to be an ass ! Tit. And. iv. 2.
O that he were here to write me down an ass ! but, masters, remember, that I am an ass ; though it be not written down, yet forget not
that I am an ass. M. A. iv. 2.
I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. M. W. v. 5.
If thou be'st not an ass, I am youth of fourteen. A. W. ii. 3.
With the help of a surgeon he might recover, and prove an ass, M.N. v. 1.
ASSASSINS. Kill men i' the dark ! where are these bloody thieves? 0. v. 1.
ASSIMILATION. The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. A.W. i. 1.
ASTRONOMERS. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights; Than those that walk and wot not what they are Too much to know, is to know nought but fame, And every godfather can
give a name. L. L. i. 1.
ATTACHMENT. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness. 0. i. 3.
I have forsworn his company hourly, any time this two-and twenty years, and yet I'm bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal
have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged ; it could not be else. H.IV. pt. I. ii. 2.
ATTENDANCE. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. A. W. ii. 1.
ATTENTION. Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. H. i. 5.
Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear ; till I may deliver, Upon the witness of these gentlemen This marvel to you
H. i .2.
ATTRACTIONS, Personal. But I can tell, that in each grace of these There lurks a still and dumb discoursive devil,That tempts most cunningly. T.C. iv. 4.
AVARICE. This avarice, Sticks deeper ; grows with more pernicious root Than summer-seeding lust. M. iv.3.
AVERSION. I think oxen and wain-ropes cannot hale them together. T.N. iii. 2.
AUSTERITY. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants ; let thy tongue tang arguments of state ; put thyself into the trick of singularity. T. N. iii. 4.
AUTHENTICITY. Five justices' hands to it, and authorities more than my pack will hold. W.T. iv. 3.
AUTHOR (See also Poet, Rhymster). Nay, do not wonder at it : you are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't. And vent it for a mockery? .Cym. v. 3.
AUTHORITY (See also Office). place ! form ! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wisest souls To thy false seeming. Blood, thou still art blood : Let's write good angel on the devil's horn, Tis not the devil's crest.
M. M. ii. 4.
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur : There, There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority : A dog's obeyed in office. K. L. iv. 6.
Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o' the top. M. M. ii. 2.
I shall remember : When Caesar says, — Do this, it is perform'd. J. C. i. 2.
Authority bears a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. M. M. iv. 4.
Who will believe thee, Isabel ! My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, Will so your accusation overweigh, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny. M. M. ii. 4.
0, he sits high, in all the people's hearts ; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change
to virtue and to worthiness. J. C. i. 3.
Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. A. W. ii. 3.
And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. W.T. iv. 3.
Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight. M. M. i. 3.
Insolence of. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. 0, but man ! proud man 1 Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. M. M. ii. 2.
AUTUMN. Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter. W.T. iv. 3.
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There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way; nor call'd upon For high feats done to the crown; neither allied To eminent assistants; but spider-like, Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note ; The force of his own merit makes his way ; A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king.
H. VIII. i.1.
ABSENCE.
I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd ; But I shall, in a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence. 0. iii. 4.
Lovers'.
What ! keep a week away? seven days and nights? Eight score eight hours, — and lovers' absent hours, — More tedious than the dial eight score times? O weary reckoning ! 0. iii. 4.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest growing ruinous the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was. T. G. v. 4.
ABUSE and Bad English (See also Vituperation).
Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that make, fritters of English ? M. W. v. 5.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. M. W. i. 4.
Let them keep their limbs whole, and hack our English. M. W. iii. 4.
ACCUSATION. To vouch this is no proof, Without more certain and more overt test, Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. 0. i. 3.
ACHIEVEMENT. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. M.N. i. 2.
Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds ; or I swear I will have it in a particular ballad, with mine own picture on the top of it. if.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
ACQUITTAL. Now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith. M. W. iv. 4.
ACTION, Dramatic. Let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so over- done is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at
the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere the mirror up to nature - to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure : O, there be players, that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly,
— not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. H. iii. 2.
ADOPTION. 'Tis often seen, Adoption strives with nature ; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds. A.W. i.3.
ADORATION, a Lover's. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd
have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering of your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function : Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens. W. T. iv. 4.
ADVERSITY (See also Misfortune), A man I am, cross'd with adversity. T. G. iv. 1.
.But myself, Who had the world as my confectionary ; The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, the hearts of men At duty, more than I could
frame employment ; That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare, For every storm that blows; I, to bear this, That never knew but better, is some burden. T.A. iv. 3.
Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him !
T.A. iv. 2.
Folly of Repining at. What think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, Will put thy shirt on warm ? Will these moist trees,
That have out-lived the eagle, page thy heels, And skip when thou point'st out ? will the cold brook, Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit 1 Call the creatures ; Whose naked natures live in all the spight Of wreakful heaven ; whose bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements exposM, Answer mere nature, — bid them flatter thee. T. A. iv.3.
Its Uses. Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
A.Y.ii.1.
'Tis good for men to love their present pains, Upon example ; so the spirit is eas'd : And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
The organs, though defunct and dead before, I Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move With casted slough, and fresh legerity. .
H. V. iii. 1.
In poison there is physic ; and these news Having been well, that would have made me sick ; Being sick, have in some measure made
me well. And as the wretch whose fever-weaken'd joints, Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire Out of his keeper's arms ; even so my limbs, Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with grief, Are thrice themselves.
H.IV. pt.II. i. 1.
ADVICE (See also Caution). Fasten your ear to my advisings. M.M. iii. 1.
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse ; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. .
K.L. iii. 4.
Take heed, be wary how you place your words. H. VI. pt.I. iii. 2.
Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it ; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel give me mine again. K. L. ii. 4.
Pray be counsel'd : I have a heart as little apt as yours, But yet a brain, that leads my use of anger To better 'vantage. C. iii. 2.
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's
key : be check' d for silence, But never tax'd for speech. A. W. i. 1.
Keep thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks, betray thy poor heart to women. K. L. iii. 4.
to a Young Woman. Fear it, my dear sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The
chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon ; Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then ; best safety lies in fear ; Youth to itself rebels, though none else near H. i.3.
to a Young Man. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each unhatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.. Give ev'ry man thine'ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man : — Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man Farewell : — my blessing season this in thee ! H. i. 3.
to a Statesman. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels ; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by't? Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at
be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. H. VIII. iii. 2.
ADULATION (See also Flattery). You shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical ; As if I lov'd my little should be dieted In praises
sauc'd with lies. C. i. 9.
AFFECTED Speakers. These new tuners of accents. R. J. ii. 4.
AFFECTION, (See Parental Affection).
AFFLICTION Affliction is enamonr'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. R. J. iii. 3.
AGE. The silver livery of advised age. H. VI. pt. II. v. 2.
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old, with all the characters of age ? Have you not a moist eye ?
a dry hand"? a yellow cheek ? a white beard ? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly ? Is not your voice broken? your wind short ?
your chin double ? your wit single ? and every part about you blasted with antiquity ? and will you yet call yourself young ? O fye, Sir
John. H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. H. iv. 7.
Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up ;
Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. C. E. v. 1.
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there is nothing between but wenching, wronging the ancientry, stealing, and fighting. W.T. iii. 3.
His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds. It shall be said his judgment rul'd our
hands ; Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity. J. C. ii. 1.
As you are old and reverend you should be wise. K.L. i. 4.
When age is in the wit is out. M. A. iii. 5.
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age, And twit with cowardice a man half dead ? H. VI. pt. I. iii. 2.
and Frailty. The blood of youth burns not with such excess As gravity's revolt to wantonness. L. L. v. 2.
Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been wise. K.L. i. 5.
and Grief. I am old now, And these same crosses spoil me. K. L. v. 3.
O ! grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last -, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, Have written strange defeatures in
my face. C. E. v. 1.
and Loquacity.
These tedious old fool ! H. ii. 2.
AIM. Here is the heart of my purpose. M. W. ii. 2.
AIR. A bond of air, strong as the axle-tree On which heaven rides. T. C. i. 3.
ALARM, What stir is this ? what tumult's in the heavens ? Whence cometh this alarum, and the noise ? H. VI. pt. I. i.4.
What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house ? M. ii. 3.
Silence that dreadful bell, it frights the isle From its propriety. 0. ii. 3.
ALLEGIANCE. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties : and our duties Are to your throne and state, children and servants ;
Which do but what they should, by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. M. i. 4.
AMAZEMENT. But the changes I perceived in the king and Camillo, were very notes of admiration : they seemed almost, with staring
on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes ; there was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture ; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. A notable passion of wonder appeared in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow: but in the extremity of one it must be.
W.T.v.2.
AMBITION. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. H . ii. 2.
I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. H. ii. 2.
Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
J. C. ii. 4.
Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
J. C. i. 2.
What see'st thou there ? King Henry's diadem, Enchas'd with all the honours of the world ? If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face, Until
thy head be circled with the same. Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold : — What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine : And, having both together heav'd it up, We'll both together lift our heads to heaven ; And never more abase our sight so low, As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground. H. VI. pt. II. i. 2.
That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. M. i. 4.
I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, 'And falls on t'other side. M. i. 7.
The devil speed him ! no man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. H. VIII. i. 1.
Follow I must, I cannot go before, While Glo'ster bears this base and humble mind. Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, I would remove these tedious stumbling blocks^ And smooth my way upon their headless necks. H. VI. pt. II. i. 2.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ; Nor can one England brook a double reign, Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
H. IV. pt. II. v. 4.
The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was.ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
J. C.iii. 2.
AMBITION Defeated. People , and senators ! be not affrighted ; Fly not ; stand still : — ambition's debt is paid. J. C. iii. 1.
ALLOY, Universal, in thts Probationary Life. Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring, Unwholesome weeds take root with precious
flowers ; The adder hisseth where the sweet birds sing ; What virtue breeds, iniquity devours. Poems.
AMEN. Let me say, Amen, betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer. M. V. iii. 1.
AMENDMENT (See also Reform). God mend all. H. VIII. i. 3.
ANCESTRY (See also Lineage). Look in the chronicles, we came in with Richard conqueror. T. S. Ind. 1.
ANGER (See also Fury— Rage). To be in anger is impiety, But who is man that is not angry. T. A. iii. 5.
Never anger made good guard for itself. A. C. iv. 1.
This tyger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will, too late, Tie leaden pounds to his heels. C. iii. 1.
Stay, my lord ! And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
Anger is like A full hot horse, who, being allowed his way, Self mettle tires him. H. VIII. i. 1.
It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them that this world did equal theirs, Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught ; Patience is sottish ; and impatience does Become a dog that's mad. A.C. iv. 13.
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood ! H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from, Well could I curse away a winter's night, Though standing naked on a mountain top, Where biting cold would never let grass grow, And think it but a minute spent in sport. H. VI. pt. II. iii. 2.
Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now. R. J. iii. 1.
What ! drunk with choler? stay, and pause awhile. H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
A plague upon them ! wherefore should I curse them ? Would curses kill as doth the mandrake's groan, I would invent as bitter-searching terms, As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear, Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth, With full as many signs of deadly hate, As
lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave : My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words ; Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten
flint ; My hair be fix'd on end, as one distract ; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban : And even now my burdened heart would break, Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink ! Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste ! Their sweetest shade, a grove
of cypress trees ! Their chiefest prospect, murd'ring basilisks ! Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' stings ! Their music, frightful as
the serpent's hiss ; And boding screech-owls make the concert full ! H. VI. pt. II. iii. 2.
Be advis'd ; Heat not a furnace for your foes so hot, That it do singe yourself : we may out-run, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor till't run o'er, In seeming to augment it, wastes it. Be advis'd.
H. VIII. i. 1.
O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth ! Then with a passion would I shake the world. K. J. iii. 4.
I am about to weep ; but, thinking that We are a queen, (or long have dream'd so) certain, The daughter of a king, my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire. H. VIII. ii. 4.
O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. J. C. iv. 3.
Anger's my meat : I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. C. iv. 2.
But anger has a privilege. K.L. ii. 2.
By the gods You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you : for, from this day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for
my laughter, When you are waspish. J. C. iv. 3.
ANGLING. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait. M. A. iii. 1.
ANNOYANCE, Impertinent. The loose encounters of lascivious men. T. G. ii. 6.
ANSWER. Definitively thus I answer you. R. III. iii . 7.
Your answer, Sir, is enigmatical. M.A. v. 4.
General. But for me, I have an answer will serve all men. A. W. ii. 2.
ANSWERING A LETTER. Any man, that can write, may answer a letter. R. J. ii. 4.
ANT. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring in the winter. K. L. ii. 4.
ANTICIPATION. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. M. iv. 1.
I smell it; upon my life, it will do well. H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
Excellent ! I smell a device. T. N. ii. 3.
A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. M. W. iii. 2.
Great business must be wrought ere noon ; Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vapourous drop profound ; I'll catch it ere it
come to ground. M. iii. 5.
I am giddy ; expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet, That it enchants my sense. T. C. iii. 2.
ANTIQUITIES. What's to do ? Shall we go see the reliques of this town ? T. N. iii. 3.
APOLOGIST. I have laboured for the poor gentleman, to the extremest shore of my modesty. M. M. iii. 2.
APOLOGY. What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology. R. J. i. 4.
APOPLEXY. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship ; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a
whoreson tingling. H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
APOTHECARY. I do remember an apothecary, — And hereabouts he dwells, — whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Green earthern pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said, — An' if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives caitiff wretch would sell it him. R. J. v. 1.
APPARITION (See also Ghosts, Spirits). I have heard (but not believ'd) the spirits of the dead May walk again : if such thing be, thy mother Appear'd to me last night ; for ne'er was dream So like a waking . W. T. iii. 3.
APPEAL. And here I stand : — judge, my masters. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
APPELLATIONS of Juvenile Endearment. Adoptedly ; as school-maids change their names By vain, though apt affection.
M. M. i. 5.
APPLAUSE, Popular, (See also Popularity, Mob). And there is such confusion in my powers, As, after some oration fairly spoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear Among the buzzing pleased multitude ; Where every something being blent together, Turns to a wild
of nothing. M. V. iii. 2.
APPREHENSION. Heaven ! that I had thy head ! lie has found the meaning. P.P. i.1.
0F THE Worthless. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile ; Filths savour but themselves. K. L. iv. 2.
APTITUDE. Your spirits shine through you. M. iii. 1.
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats ; If it be man's work, I will do it. K. L. v. 3.
ARDOUR, Military (See also War). O let the hours be short, Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport.
H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
ARITHMETICIAN. Forsooth, a great arithmetician. 0. i. 1.
ARMAMENT, Sailing. Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that
you have seen The well-appointed King at Hampton pier Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. Play with your fancies; and in them behold, Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing : Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confus'd ; behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge : O do but think, You stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant
billows dancing ; For so appears this fleet majestical, Holding due course to Harfleur. H. V. ii. chorus.
ARMY (See also War). A braver choice of dauntless spirits Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, Did never float upon the swelling tide, To do offence and scath in Christendom. The interruption of their churlish drums Cuts off more circumstance : they are at hand, To parley, or to fight ; therefore prepare. K. J. ii. 1.
England, impatient of your just demands, Hath put himself in arms ; the adverse winds, Whose leisure I have staid, have given him time To land his legions all as soon as I : His marches are expedient to this town, His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
K. J. ii. 1.
Tell the Constable, We are but warriors for the working day ; Our gayness, and our gilt, are all be-smirch'd With rainy marching in the
painful field. There's not a piece of feather in our host, (Good argument I hope we shall not fly,) And time has worn us into slovenry :
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim. H.V. iv. 3.
Within a ken our army lies ; Upon mine honour, all too confident To give admittance to a thought of fear. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
All the unsettled humours of the land, — Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens, — Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here. .
K. J. ii. 1.
Remember who you are to cope withal ; — A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run- away s, A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants, Whom their o'er-cloy'd country vomits forth To desperate ventures and assur'd destruction. R. III. v. 3.
Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host, And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, With torch-staves in their hands ; and their poor jades Lob down their heads, drooping the hides and hips ; The gum down-roping from their pale dead eyes ; And in their pale dull mouths the gymold bit Lies foul with chaw'd grass, still and motionless ; And their executors, the knavish crows, Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. H. V. iv. 2.
His army is a ragged multitude Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless. H. VI. pt.II. iv. 4.
ARRAIGNMENT. It shall be done, I will arraign them straight : — Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer. K. L. iii. 6.
ARREST. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors : and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have
the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment. M. M. i. 3.
ART and Nature. Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art . Which, you say, adds to nature, is
an art That nature makes. W. T. iv. 3.
ARTS, Forbidden. I therefore apprehend and do attach thee, For an abuser of the world, a practiser Of arts inhibited, and out of
warrant. 0. i. 2.
ASPECT, Martial. Say, what's thy name? Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face Bears a command in't ; though thy tackle's torn Thou show'st a noble vessel. C. iv. 5.
He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye ; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. C. v. 4.
Sour. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. C. iv. 4.
ASPIRANT. A high hope for a low having : God grant us patience ! L. L. i. 1.
Sir, I lack advancement. H. iii. 2.
ASS. Now, what a thing it is to be an ass ! Tit. And. iv. 2.
O that he were here to write me down an ass ! but, masters, remember, that I am an ass ; though it be not written down, yet forget not
that I am an ass. M. A. iv. 2.
I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. M. W. v. 5.
If thou be'st not an ass, I am youth of fourteen. A. W. ii. 3.
With the help of a surgeon he might recover, and prove an ass, M.N. v. 1.
ASSASSINS. Kill men i' the dark ! where are these bloody thieves? 0. v. 1.
ASSIMILATION. The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. A.W. i. 1.
ASTRONOMERS. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights; Than those that walk and wot not what they are Too much to know, is to know nought but fame, And every godfather can
give a name. L. L. i. 1.
ATTACHMENT. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness. 0. i. 3.
I have forsworn his company hourly, any time this two-and twenty years, and yet I'm bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal
have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged ; it could not be else. H.IV. pt. I. ii. 2.
ATTENDANCE. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. A. W. ii. 1.
ATTENTION. Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. H. i. 5.
Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear ; till I may deliver, Upon the witness of these gentlemen This marvel to you
H. i .2.
ATTRACTIONS, Personal. But I can tell, that in each grace of these There lurks a still and dumb discoursive devil,That tempts most cunningly. T.C. iv. 4.
AVARICE. This avarice, Sticks deeper ; grows with more pernicious root Than summer-seeding lust. M. iv.3.
AVERSION. I think oxen and wain-ropes cannot hale them together. T.N. iii. 2.
AUSTERITY. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants ; let thy tongue tang arguments of state ; put thyself into the trick of singularity. T. N. iii. 4.
AUTHENTICITY. Five justices' hands to it, and authorities more than my pack will hold. W.T. iv. 3.
AUTHOR (See also Poet, Rhymster). Nay, do not wonder at it : you are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't. And vent it for a mockery? .Cym. v. 3.
AUTHORITY (See also Office). place ! form ! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wisest souls To thy false seeming. Blood, thou still art blood : Let's write good angel on the devil's horn, Tis not the devil's crest.
M. M. ii. 4.
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur : There, There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority : A dog's obeyed in office. K. L. iv. 6.
Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o' the top. M. M. ii. 2.
I shall remember : When Caesar says, — Do this, it is perform'd. J. C. i. 2.
Authority bears a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. M. M. iv. 4.
Who will believe thee, Isabel ! My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, Will so your accusation overweigh, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny. M. M. ii. 4.
0, he sits high, in all the people's hearts ; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change
to virtue and to worthiness. J. C. i. 3.
Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. A. W. ii. 3.
And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. W.T. iv. 3.
Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight. M. M. i. 3.
Insolence of. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. 0, but man ! proud man 1 Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. M. M. ii. 2.
AUTUMN. Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter. W.T. iv. 3.
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