CALUMNY (See also Slander.) Back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. M. M. iii. 2.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou Shalt not escape calumny. H. iii. 1.
That thou art blam'd, shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair. Poems.
CANDOUR. Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate Nor set down aught in malice. O. v. 3.
In simple and pure soul I come to you. O. i. 1.
CANNONADE (See also Siege). By east and west, let France and England mount Their battering cannon, charged to the mouths ; Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl' d down The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city : I'd play incessantly upon these jades. Ev'n till unfenced desolation Leave them as naked as the vulgar air. K. J. ii. 2.
CAPACITY. The truth is, I am only old in judgment and understanding ; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and have at him ! H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
CAPTAIN. the Title of, Prostituted. Captain ! thou abominable cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called captain ? If captains were of
my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. You a captain, you slave ! for what ? A captain ! these villains will make the word captain odious : therefore, captains had need look to it. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 4.
CAPTIOUSNESS. You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault. Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,
(And that's the dearest grace it renders you) Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage, Defect of manners, want of government, Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain: The least of which haunting a nobleman, Loseth men's hearts ; and leaves behind a stain Upon the beauty of all parts besides, Beguiling them of commendation. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 1.
CARE. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges sleep will never lie ; But where unbruised youth with
unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. R. J. ii. 3.
You lay out too much pains, For purchasing but trouble. Cym. ii. 3.
CARNAGE. Slaying is the word ; It is a deed in fashion. J.C. v. 5.
CAVALIER. But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stulfd with epithets of war ; And, in conclusion, nonsuits My mediators. 0. i. 1.
CAVILLER. I'll give thrice so much land To any well deserving friend ; But in the way of bargain, mark you me, I'll cavil on the ninth part
of a hair. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 1.
CAUSE. Common. For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependence Upon our joint and several dignities. T. C. ii. 2.
Defective. A rotten cause abides no handling. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
I cannot fight upon this argument. T. C. i. 1.
CAUTION (See also Advice). Too much trust hath damag'd such As have believ'd men in their loves too much. Poems.
Take heed o' the foul fiend ! K. L. iii. 4.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. J. C. ii. 1.
Good, my lord, let's fight with gentle words, Till time lend friends, and friends their helping swords. R. II. iii. 3.
Come not between the dragon and his wrath. K. L. i. 1.
Hear you me, Jessica : Lock up my doors ; and when you hear the drum, And the vile squeaking of the wry-neck' d fife, Clamber not you
up to the casement then, Nor thrust your head into the public street, To gaze on Christian fools with varnish' d faces ; But stop my
house's ears ; I mean my casements : Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. M. V. ii. 5.
Think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous ; And kill him in the shell. J. C. ii. 1.
Let me still take away the harms I fear, Not fear still to be taken. K. L. i. 4.
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell, Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. K. L. i. 4.
Excessive, of the Aged. But, beshrew my jealousy ! It seems, it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions,
As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. H. ii. 1.
CELEBRITY (See also Fame). Thrice-fam'd beyond all erudition. T.C. ii. 3.
CELERITY. Celerity is never more admir'd. Then by the negligent. A. C. iii. 7.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. M. iv. 1.
CENSURE (See also Opinion). We, in the world's wide mouth Live scandaliz'd, and foully spoken of. H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party ? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, Till that the weary very means do ebb ? What woman in the city do I name, When that I say, The city woman bears The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders ? Who can come in and say that I mean her, When such a one as she, such is her neighbour ? Or what is he of basest function, That says his bravery is not on my cost, (Thinking that I mean him,) but therein suits His folly to the mettle of my speech ? There, then ; How, what
then ? Let me see wherein My tongue hath wrong'd him ; if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself ; if he be free, Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies, Unclaim'd of any man. A.Y. ii. 7.
CEREMONY (See also Regal Ceremonies). Was but devis'd at first to set a gloss On faint deeds, hollow welcomes Recanting
goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown, But where there is true friendship, there needs none. T. A. i. 2.
Rebukable And worthy shameful check it were to stand On more mechanic compliment. A. C. iv. 4.
CERES, Invocation to. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease ; Thy turfy mountains where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep ; Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims, Which spungy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs, chaste crowns ; and dark broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn ; thy pole-clipt vineyard ; And thy sea-marge, sterile, and rocky hard, Where thou thyself dost air: The queen o' sky,
Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I, Bids thee leave these ; and with her sovereign grace, Here, on this grass-plot, in this very
plaee, To come and sport. T. iv. 1.
CHALLENGE. Here's the challenge, read it ; I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. T. N. iii. 4.
Nay, answer me : stand, and unfold Yourself. H. i. 1.
God bless me from a challenge ! M. A. v. 1.
Read thou this challenge ; mark but the penning of it. K. L. iv. 6.
Draw, you rogue ; for though it be night, the moon shines. K. L. ii. 2.
I'll write thee a challenge ; or I'll deliver thy indignation by word of mouth. T. N. ii. 4.
By gar, it is a shallenge : I vill cut his troat in de park. M.W. i. 4.
Go, write it in a martial hand ; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent, and full of invention ; taunt him with the license
of ink. T. N. iii. 2.
I protest Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence, Despite thy victor sword, and fire-new fortune, Thy valour, and thy heart,
— thou art a traitor : False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father ; Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince ; And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust beneath thy feet, A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou, No, This sword, this arm, and my
best spirits are bent, To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak, Thou liest. K. L. v. 3.
I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms. He gave you all the duties of a man ; Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue ; Spoke your deservings like a chronicle ; Making you ever better than his praise, By still dispraising praise, valued with you : And, which became him like a prince indeed, He made a blushing cital of himself; And chid his truant youth with such a grace, As if he master'd there a double spirit, Of teaching and of learning instantly. H. IV. pt. I. v. 2.
CHAMPION. Like a bold champion, I assume the lists, Nor ask advice of any other thought But faithfulness and courage. P. P. i. 1.
CHANCE. (See also Fortune). Full oft 'tis seen, Our mean secures us ; and our mere defects Prove our commodities. K. L. iv. 1.
CHANGE. Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth ! M. M. i. 2.
And art thou come to this ? K. L. iii. 4.
the Necessity of. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
CHANGELING. His humour Was nothing but mutation ; Ay and that From one bad thing to worse. Cym. iv. 2.
CHARITY. My learn' d lord cardinal, Deliver all with charity. H. VIII. i. 2.
For he is gracious if he be observ'd ; He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
CHARM. For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. M. iv. 1.
Then I beat my tabor, At which, like unback'd colts, they prick' d their ears, Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, As they smelt
music ; so I charm' d their ears, That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through Tooth'd briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,
Which enter'd their frail shins : at last I left them I'the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell. T. iv. 1. .
Dissolving. The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. T.v.1.
CHASTITY. Chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. C. v. 3.
Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. Poems.
She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow ; she hath Dian's wit ; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. R.J. i.1.
I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow. Cym. ii. 6.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor 'bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. R. J. i.1.
CHEATS (See also Knaves). They say, this town is full of cozenage ; As, nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye, Dark-working
sorcerers, that change the mind, Soul-killing witches, that deform the body ; Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many
such like libertines of sin. C. E. i. 2.
CHECK. I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits. 0. iii. 3.
CHEERFULNESS. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice By being peevish. M. V. i. 1.
CHIDING. But I'll not chide thee ; Let shame come when it will, I do not call it : I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of
thee to high-judging Jove : Mend, when thou can'st ; be better at thy leisure : I can be patient. K. L. ii. 4.
0, what a beast was I to chide him ! R. J. iii. 2.
CHILDREN. Undutiful (See also Filial Ingratitude). I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. K. L. iii. 7.
CHIVALRY. Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry. H. VI. pt. I. iv. 6.
In this glorious and well foughten field, We kept together in our chivalry. H. V. iv. 6 .
I am to day i' the vein of chivalry. T.C. v. 3.
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry. H. IV. pt. I. v. 1.
CHOICE. There's a small choice in rotten apples. T. S. i. 1.
CHRISTENING. You must be seeing christenings ! Do you look for ale and cakes here, you rude rascals ! H. VIII. v. 3.
CHRISTIAN WARS. I always thought, It was both impious and unnatural, That such immanity and bloody strife Should reign among professors of one faith. H. VI. pt. I. v. 1.
CHURCHMEN. Who should be pitiful if you be not ? Or who should study to prefer a peace, If holy churchmen take delight in broils ?
H. VI. pt. I. iii. 1.
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition ; Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
H. VIII. v. 2.
I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence, to make atonements and compromises between you. M. W. i. 1.
If we did think His contemplations were above the earth, And fix'd on spiritual objects, he should still Dwell in his musings : but I am
afraid, His thinkings are below the moon, not worth His serious considering. H. VIII. iii. 2.
CHURCH MILITANT. What ! the sword and the word ! do you study them both, master parson ? M. W. iii. 1.
CHURLISHNESS. My master is of churlish disposition, And little recks to find the way to heaven, By doing deeds of hospitality.
A. Y. ii. 4.
CIRCUMLOCUTION. Thou shalt never get such a secret from me, but by a parable. T. G. ii. 5.
CIRCUMSPECTION. Wear your eye, — thus, not jealous nor secure : I would not have your free and noble nature, Out of self bounty, be abus'd ; look to't. 0. iii. 3.
Lay thy finger, — thus, and let thy soul be instructed. O.ii.1.
CLAIM, Antiquated. 'Tis no sinister, nor no aukward claim, Pick'd from the worm-holes of long vanish'd days, Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd. H. V. ii. 4.
CLEOPATRA, Sailing. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see, The fancy out- work nature ; on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool ;
— And what they undid, did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm, A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely
frame the office. From the barge, A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.
A.C. ii. 2.
CLERICAL FUNCTION. The very opener and intelligencer, Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, And our dull workings
H IV. pt. II. iv. 2.
CLOUDS. That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
A. C. iv. 12 .
Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour, sometimes, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory, With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : Thou hast seen these signs They are black vesper's pageants. A. C. iv. 12.
CLOWN. A clod of wayward marie. M. A. ii. 1.
It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. A.Y. v.1.
COAST at Sun-rise. Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red, Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams Turns into yellow gold his.
salt-green streams. M. N. iii. 2.
COCK, Crowing. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god
of day ; and, at his warning, Whether in sea, or fire, in earth, or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. H. i. 1.
COCKATRICES. This will so fright them both, that they will kill one another by the look, like cockatrices. T.N. iii. 4.
COLDNESS (See also Frigidity). Tut, tut, thou art all ice ; thy kindness freezes. R. III. iv. 2.
COLLECTOR. A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. W. T. iv. 2.
And in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, — he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the
which he vents In mangled forms. A. Y. ii. 7.
Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work. W. T. iv. 3.
A poor humour of mine, Sir, to take that that no man else will. A.Y. v. 4.
COMBAT. Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go look on T.C. v. 4
COMFORT. Thoughts tending to content, flatter themselves,— That they are not the first of fortune's slaves, Nor shall not be the last ; like silly beggars, Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame, — That many have, and others must sit there, And in this thought they find a kind of ease, Bearing their own misfortunes on the back Of such as have before endur'd the like. R. II. v. 5.
How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses. A. W. iv. 3.
COMMODITY. Commodity, the bias of the world ; The world, who of itself is peised well, Made to run even upon even ground ; Till this advantage, this vile drawing bias, This sway of motion, this commodity, Makes it take head from all indifferency, From all direction, purpose, course, intent : And this same bias, this commodity, This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word, Clapp'd on the outward
eye of fickle France, Hath drawn him from his own determin'd aid, From a resolv'd and honourable war, To a most base and vile concluded peace. K. J. ii. 2.
COMMOTION. (See also Mob). The times are wild ; contention, like a horse Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him. H. IV. pt. II. i. 1.
You have made good work, You and your apron men ; you that stood so much Upon the voice of occupation, and The breath of
garlic-eaters. C. iv. 6.
COMPACT. A seal'd compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry. H. i. 1.
COMPANIONS, Juvenile. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other : what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, no, nor dream'd That any did. W. T. i. 2.
COMPANY. It is certain, that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another ; therefore, let
men take heed of their company. H. IV. pt. II. v. 1.
There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch : this pitch, as ancient
writers do report, doth defile ; so doth the company thou keepest. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
Well, heaven send the prince a better companion! H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
COMPASSION. Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin, I should not for my life but weep with him, To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul. H. VI. pt. II. i. 4.
COMPENDIUM. There are some shrewd contents in yon' same paper. M.V. iii. 2.
COMPLAINT. 0, that I were Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar The horned herd ! for I have savage cause ; And to proclaim it civilly,
were like A halter'd neck, which does the hangman thank For being yare about him. A.C. iii. 11.
COMPLIMENT. ; Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment. T. N. iii. 1.
COMPUNCTION (See also Remorse). Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem ; Letting I dare not, wait upon I would, Like
the poor cat i' the adage ? M. i. 7.
We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions of all sorts of people.
M. i. 7.
But wherefore could I not pronounce, Amen ? I had most need of blessing, and Amen Stuck in my throat. M. ii. 2.
COMRADE. Friend and companion in the front of war. A.C. v. 1.
CONCEIT. So sensible Seemeth their conference, their conceits have wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things. L. L. v. 2.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. H. iii. 4.
CONCLUSION. Indeed, without an oath, I'll make an end on't. H. iv. 5.
False. most lame and impotent conclusion ! 0. ii. 1.
But then there is no consonancy in the sequel. T. N. ii. 5.
CONDESCENSION. I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of controul. T. N. ii. 5.
CONFERENCE, Learned. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. K. L. iii. 4.
CONFIDENCE. As gentle and as jocund as to jest, Go I to fight : Truth has a quiet breast. R. II. i. 3.
Unwarranted. Is not this a strange fellow, my lord ? that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be
done ; damns himself to do, and dares better be damn'd than to do it. A. W. iii. 6.
CONJUROR. They brought one Punch : a hungry lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, a
fortune-teller ; A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch, A living dead man : this pernicious slave, Forsooth, took on him as a
conjuror; And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, And with no face, as 'twere, out-facing me, Cried out, I was possess'd.
C. E. v.1.
CONNEXIONS. Why, this is to have a name in great men's fellowship. A. C. ii. 7.
CONQUEROR (See also War). Before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. C. ii. 1.
A conqueror and afear'd to speak ! L. L. v. 2.
CONQUEST. Truly to speak, Sir, and with no addition, We go to gain a little patch of ground, That hath in it no profit but the name.
H. iv. 4.
CONSCIENCE (See also Suicide). I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience. And try your penitence, if it be sound, Or hollowly put on. M. M. ii. 3.
Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know. M. M. ii. 2.
Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions Keep leets and law-days, and in sessions sit With meditations lawful ?
O. iii. 3.
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. H. VI. pt. II. iii. 2.
I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. H. VIII. iii. 2 .
You shall see, anon ; 'tis a knavish piece of work ; but what of that ? Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not : Let the gall'd jade wince, our withers are unwrung. H. iii. 2.
Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep ; Thus runs the world away.
H. iii. 2.
I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick ; if he do blench, I know my course. H. ii. 2.
I'll not meddle with it, it is a dangerous thing, it makes a man a coward ; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him ; a man cannot swear,
but it checks him ; a man cannot lie with a neighbour's wife, but it detects him : 'Tis a blushing shame-fac'd spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles : it made me once restore a purse of gold, that by chance I found ; it beggars any man that keeps it ;
it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing. R. III. i. 4.
Guiltv. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale ; And every tale condemns me for a villain. R. III. v. 3.
How is't with me when every noise appals me ? M. ii. 2.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. H. VI. pt. III. v. 6 .
How smart A lash that speech doth give my conscience ! H. iii. 1.
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very sonl ; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. H. iii. 4.
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass, Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded. T. ii. 2.
Soft ; I did but dream, 0, coward conscience, how dost thou affright me ! R. III. v. 3.
With clog of conscience and sour melancholy. R. II. v. 6.
Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. M. v. 3.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And
with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? M. v. 3.
Seaked. If it were a kybe, 'Twould put me to my slipper ; but I feel not This deity in my bosom : twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they, And melt, ere they molest. T. ii. 1.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls ; Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first, to keep me strong in awe.
R. III. v. 3.
CONSPIRACY. While you here do snoring lie Open-ey'd conspiracy His time doth take : If of life you keep a care. Shake off
slumber, and beware : Awake ! Awake ! T. ii. 2.
O conspiracy ! Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free ? 0, then, by day, "Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage ? Seek none, conspiracy, Hide it in smiles and affability : For if thou path thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention. J. C. ii. 1.
Popular. It is a purpos'd thing, and grows by plot, To curb the will of the nobility : — Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule And
never will be rul'd. C. iii. 1.
CONSTANCY (See also Fidelity). The fineness of which metal is not found In fortune's love ; for then, the bold and coward, The wise and fool, the artist and unread, The hard and soft, seem all affin'd and kin ; But in the wind and tempest of her frown, Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, Puffing at all, winnows the light away ; And what hath mass, or matter, by itself Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled. T. C. i. 3.
Master, go on ; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. A. Y. ii. 3.
Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. T. C. iv. 2 .
Now from head to foot, I am marble constant ; now the fleeting moon No planet is of mine. A. C. v. 2.
But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd, and vesting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament. J.C. iii. 1.
Conjugal. Here I kneel. — If e'er my wish did trespass 'gainst his love, Either in discourse, in thought, or actual deed ; Or that mine
eyes, mine ears, or any sense, Delighted them in any other form ; Or that I do not yet, and ever did, And ever will, — though he do
shake me off To beggarly divorcement, — love him dearly, Comfort forswear me ! Unkindness may do much ; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. 0. iv. 2.
He counsels a divorce : a loss of her, That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years About his neck, yet never lost her lustre ; Of her, that loves him with that excellence That angels love good men with ; even of her, That when the greatest stroke of fortune falls, Will bless the king. H. VIII. ii. 2.
Sir, call to mind, That I have been your wife in this obedience, Upward of twenty years, and have been bless'd With many children by you.
If, in the course And process of this time, you can report, And prove it too, against mine honour aught, My bond to wedlock, or my love
and duty, Against your sacred person, in God's name, Turn me away ; and let the foul'st contempt Shut door upon me, and so give me up To the sharpest kind of justice. H. VIII. ii. 4.
O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower ; Or walk in thievish ways ; or bid me lurk Where serpents are ; chain me with roaring bears ; Or shut me nightly in a charnel house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls ; Or bid me go into a new made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble ; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.
R. J. iv. 1.
CONSTERNATION. Behold, destruction, frenzy, and amazement, Like witless antics, one another meet. T.C. v. 3.
CONSULTATION. Now sit we close about the taper here, And call in question our necessities. J. C. iv. 3.
CONSUMMATION. When, the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. M. i. 1.
CONTEMPLATION. Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him ; how he jets under his advanced plumes ! T. N. ii. 5.
CONTEMPTIBLE. Put on him what forgeries you please ; marry, none so rank As may dishonour him. H. ii. 1.
CONTENT (See also Moderation). Our content Is our best having. H. VIII. ii. 3.
Verily, I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. H. VIII. ii. 3.
My crown is in my heart, not on my head ; Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen ; my crown is call'd content ;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. H. VI. pt. III. iii. 1.
Willing misery Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before: The one is filling still, never complete ; The other, at high wish. T. A. iv. 3.
CONTENTION. I pr'ythee take thy fingers from my throat ; For though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. H. v. 1.
CONVERSATION. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways, Draw out our miles and make them wearisome , And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and d'electable. R. II. ii. 3.
I praise God for you, Sir ; your reasons at dinner, have been sharp and sententious ; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. L.L. v. 1.
COOKERY. But his neat cookery ! He cut our roots in characters ; And sauc'd our broths as Juno had been sick, And he her dieter. Cym. iv. 2.
COOLING. And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stew'd in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe, think of that ; — hissing hot ; — think of that. Master Brook.
M. W. iii. 5.
CORINTHIAN. A Corinthian, a lad of mettle. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
CORIOLANUS. Thou art left, Marcius : A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible Only in strokes ; but, with thy grim looks, and The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds, Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the world Were feverous and did tremble. C. i. 4.
His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
C. iii. 1.
CORRECTION. Your purpos'd low correction, Is such, as basest and contemned'st wretches, For pilferings and most common trespasses, Are punished with. K. L. ii. 2.
My masters of St. Alban's, have you not beadles in your town, and things called whips ? H. VI. pt. II. ii. 1.
Difficulties of. For full well he knows, He cannot so precisely weed this land, As his misdoubts present occasion ; His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That, plucking to unfix an enemy, He doth unfasten so, and shake a friend. So that this land, like an offensive wife, That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes, As he is striking, holds his infant up, And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm That was uprear'd to execution. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
COVETOUSNESS. Those that much are of gain so fond, That oft they have not that which they possess ; They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less. Poems.
COUNSEL. Is this your Christian counsel ? out upon ye ! Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
H.VIII. iii. 1.
COUNTENANCE, Benign. Her face, the book of praises, where is read Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence Sorrow were ever raz'd, and testy wrath Could never be her mild companion. P.P. i. 1.
COURAGE (See also Valour). Pr'ythee peace ; I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none. M. i. 7.
Things out of hope are compass't oft with vent'ring. Poems.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. What though the mast be now blown overboard, The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood ? Yet lives our pilot still : Is't meet that he Should leave the helm, and like a fearful lad, With tearful eyes add water to the sea, And give more strength to that which hath too much ; Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock, Which industry and courage might have sav'd ? H. VI. pt. III. v. 4.
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence ; For courage mounteth with occasion. K. J. ii. 1.
For this last, Before and in Corioli, let me say, I cannot speak him home ; he stopp'd the fliers ; And by his rare example, made the
coward Turn terror into sport : as waves before A vessel under sail, so men obey'd, And fell below his stern : his sword, death's stamp . Where it did mark, it took ; from face to foot, He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was tim'd with dying cries.
C. ii. 2.
But wherefore do you droop ? why look you sad ? Be great in act, as you have been in thought ; Let not the world see fear and sad
distrust Govern the motion of a kingly eye : Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener and outface the brow Of bragging horror:so shall inferior eyes,That borrow their behaviour from the great, Grow great by your example, and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. Away ; and glister like the god of war, When he intendeth to become the field : Show boldness and aspiring confidence. What, shall they seek the lion in his den, And fright him there ? and make him tremble there ? 0, let it not be said ! Forage, and run To meet displeasure further from the doors ; And grapple with him ere he come so nigh. K. J. v. 1.
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age ; doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. M. A. i. 1.
When by and by the din of war 'gan pierce His ready sense ; then straight his doubled spirit Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,
And to the battle came he ; where he did Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if 'Twere a perpetual spoil ; and till we call'd Both field
and city ours, he never stood To ease his breath with panting. C. ii. 2.
That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone, upholds the day. K. J. v. 4.
Alone he enter'd The mortal gate o' the city, which he painted With shunless destiny, aidless came off, And with a sudden reinforcement struck Corioli, like a planet. C. ii. 2.
Safe, Anthony ; Brutus is safe enough : I dare assure thee, that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus : The gods defend him from so great a shame ! When you do find him, or alive or dead, He will be found like Brutus, like himself. J. C. v. 4.
Our then dictator Whom without praise I point at, saw him fight, When with his Amazonian chin he drove The bristled lips before him : he bestrid An o'er-press'd Roman, and i' the consul's view, Slew three opposers. C. ii. 2.
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast And I will stand the hazard of the die. R. III. v. 4.
COURT. Do you take the court for Paris garden ? you rude slaves, leave your gaping. H. VIII. v. 3.
Beauty. Let the court of France show me such another : I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond : thou hast the right arched
bent of the brow, that becomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian admittance. M. W. iii. 3.
COURTIER (See also Tools, Slavishness). I am a courtier. See'st thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings ? Hath not my gait
in it the measure of the court? Receiveth not thy nose court-odour from me ? Reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt ?
W. T. iv. 3.
You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, That doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender ; and when he's old, cashier'd. 0. i. 1.
But howso'er, no simple man that sees This jarring discord of nobility, This shouldering of each other in the court, This factious bandying
of their favorites, But that it doth presage some ill event. H. IV. pt. I. iv.1.
COURTSHIP (See also Love). That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
T. G. iii. 1.
Every night he comes With music of all sorts, and songs compos' d To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us To chide him from our
eaves ; for he persists, As if his life lay on't. A. W. iii. 7.
I will attend her here, And woo her with some spirit when she comes. Say, that she rail ; why, then I'll tell her plain, She sings as sweetly
as a nightingale : Say, that she frown ; I'll say, she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew : Say, she be mute, and will
not speak a word ; Then I'll commend her volubility, And say, — she uttereth piercing eloquence : If she do bid me pack, I'll give her
thanks, As though she bid me stay by her a week; If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day When I shall ask the banns, and when be
married. T. S. ii. 1.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap, And deck my body in gay ornaments, And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
H. VI. pt. III. iii. 2.
My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore,- In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me ; And
bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake :
She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd ; And I lov'd her that she did pity them. 0. i. 3.
King Edward. — What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get ? Lady Grey. — My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers ;
That love, which virtue begs, and virtue grants. H. VI. pt. III. iii. 2.
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house : Write loyal cantons of contemned love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night ; Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia ! 0, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth, But you should pity me. T. N. i. 5.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say ; . For, get you gone, she doth not mean, away. Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces ; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. T. G. iii. 1.
Say, that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line. That may discover such integrity. T. G. iii. 2.
I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ; And when two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that
feeds their fury : Though little fires grow great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all : So I to her, and so she yields to me ; For I am rough, and woo not like a babe. T. S. ii. 1.
Go then, my mother, to your daughter go ; Make bold her bashful ears with your experience ; Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale.
R. III. iv. 4.
What! I that kill'd her husband, and his father, To take her in her heart's extremest hate : With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of my hatred by ; With God, her conscience, and these bars against me, And I no friends to back my suit withal,
But the plain devil and dissembling looks, And yet to win her, — all the world to nothing ! R. III. i. 2.
After your dire lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber window, With some sweet concert ; to their instruments Tune a deploring dump : the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
T. G. iii. 2.
Frame yourself To orderly solicits ; and be friended With aptness to the season : make denials Increase your services : so seem, as if
You were inspir'd to do those duties which You tender to her ; that you in all obey her, Save when command to your dismission tends,
And therein you are senseless. Cym. ii. 3.
Never give her o'er ; For scorn at first, makes after-love the more. If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you, But rather to beget more love in
you ; If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone ; For why, the fools are mad if left alone. T. G. iii. 1.
The count he wooes your daughter, Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, Resolves to carry her ; let her, in fine, consent, As
we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it, Now his important blood will nought denv That she'll demand. A. W. iii. 7.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; She is a woman, therefore may be won. Tit. And. ii. 1.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed : maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are
wives. A.Y. iv. 1.
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won? R. III. i. 2 .
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd In russet yeas, and honest-meaning noes. L. L. v. 2.
COWARDS. His mind is not heroic, and there's the humour of it. M. W. i. 3.
A coward, a most devout coward ; religious in it. T. N. iii. 4.
I know him a notorious liar ; Think him a great way fool, solely a coward : Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind. A. W. i. 1.
You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat ! Pluto and hell ! All hurt behind ; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agued fear ! Mend, and charge home, Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe, And make my wars on you : Look to't. C. i. 4.
So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome stench, Are from their hives, and houses, driven away. They call'd us, for our fierceness, English dogs ; Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. H.VI. pt. I. i. 5.
The enemy full-hearted, Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down Some mortally,
some slightly touch'd, some falling Merely through fear ; that the straight pass was damn'd With dead men, hurt behind, and cowards living To die with lengthened shame. Cym. v. 3.
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear and be slain ; no worse can come, to fight : And fight and die, is death destroying death ; Where, fearing dying, pays death servile breath. R. II. iii. 2.
A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
Slander'd to death by villains ; That dare as well answer a man, indeed, As I dare take a serpent by the tongue ; Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops. M. A. v. 1.
Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true bred cowards as ever turned back ; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules, and frowning
Mars ; Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk ! And these assume but valour's excrement, To render them redoubted.
M. V. iii. 2.
A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too ! marry and amen ! H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat, as they did budge From rascals worse than they. C. i. 6.
Reproach and everlasting shame Sit mocking in our plumes. H. V. iv. 5.
Did I but suspect a fearful man, He should have leave to go away betimes ; Lest, in our need, he might infect another, And make him of
like spirit to himself. If any such be here, as God forbid ! Let him depart before we need his help. H. VI. pt. III. v. 4 .
To say the truth, this fact was infamous, And ill-beseeming any common man ; Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader.
H. VI. pt. I. iv. 1.
We took him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. T. N. v. 1.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : Nature hath meal, and bran ; contempt, and grace. Cym. iv. 2.
All the contagion of the south light on you ! You shames of Rome ! You herd of, — Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er ; that you may be abhorred Farther than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile ! C. i. 4.
He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company, That fears his fellowship to die with us. H. V. iv. 3.
Perish the man whose mind is backward now. H. V. iv. 3.
He's a great quarreller ; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward, to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent, he would quickly have the gift of a grave. T. N. i. 3.
In a retreat he outruns any lacquey ; marry, in coming on, he has the cramp. A. W. iv. 3.
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard. K. J. ii. 1.
Plenty and peace, breed cowards : hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Cym. iii. 6.
I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards To run, and show their shoulders. A. C. iii. 9.
Foul-spoken coward ! that thunderest with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. Tit. And. ii. 1.
He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. A. W. iv. 3.
Turn head and stop pursuit ; for coward dogs Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten Runs far before them.
H. V. ii. 4.
So cowards fight when they can fly no further : As doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons ; So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. H. VI. pt. III. i. 4 .
Cowards die many times before their deaths : The valiant never taste of death but once. J. C. ii. 2.
COXCOMB (See also Fribble). Believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing : indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. H. v. 2.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony ; A man of compliments, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny.
L. L. i.1.
O murd'rous coxcomb ! what should such a fool Do with so good a wife ? O. v. 2.
O most profane coxcomb ! L. L. iv. 3.
Thus has he and many more of the same breed, that, I know, the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter ; a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions ; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. H. v. 2.
A barren-spirited fellow. T.C. iv. 1.
COZENERS. And, indeed, Sir, there are cozeners abroad ; therefore it behoves men to be wary. W.T. iv. 3.
CRAFT. Exploded. My antient incantations are too weak. H. VI. pt. I. v. 3.
CREDULITY. Thus credulous fools are caught ! 0. iv. 1.
But he that will believe all that they say, shall never be saved by half that they do. A. C. v. 2.
CRIMES. All have not offended : For those that were, it is not square, to take, On those that are, revenges : crimes, like lands, Are
not inherited. T. A. v. 5.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes ill deeds done I K.J. iv. 2.
Unpunished. For we bid this be done, When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not their punishment. M. M. i. 4.
CRISIS. Ha 1 is it come to this ! K. L. i. 4.
Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest ; evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil. K. J. iii. 4.
Things at the worst will cease ; or else climb upward To what they were before. M. iv. 2.
CRITICAL. I am nothing if not critical. O. ii. 1.
CROAKER. I would croak like a raven ; I would bode, I would bode. T.C. v. 2.
CROWN, Regal (See also Kings). O polish'd perturbation ! golden care ! That keeps the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night ! sleep with it now ! Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound, Snores out the watch
of night. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
A thousand flatteries sit within thy crown, Whose compass is no bigger than thy head ; And, yet incaged in so small a verge, The waste
is no whit lesser than thy land. R. II. ii. 1.
Do but think How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown ; Within whose circuit is Elysium, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
H. IV. pt. III. i. 2.
Heaven knows, my son, By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown ; and I myself know well, How troublesome it sat upon my head. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
I spake unto the crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it : The care on thee depending, Hath fed upon the body of my father ; Therefore thou, best of gold, art worst of gold ; Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in med'cine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour 'd, most renown'd Hast eat thy bearer up. Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head ; To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murder'd my father, — The quarrel of a true inheritor.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
CRUELTY. 0, be thou damn'd, inexorable dog ! And for thy life let justice be accus'd. Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, To
hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men : thy currish spirit, Govern'd a wolf ; who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And whilst thou layest in thy unhallow'd dam, Infus'd itself in
thee ; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. M. V. iv. 1.
I am sorry for thee ; thou art come to answer A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram
of mercy. M. V. iv. 1.
See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears ; This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy, And I with tears do wash the blood away, Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this : And, if thou tell'st the heavy story right, Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears ; Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears ; And say, — Alas, it was a piteous deed ! H. VI. pt. III. i. 4.
She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth ! How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex, To triumph like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes whom fortune captivates ! H. VI. pt. III. i. 4.
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. T. G. iii. 1.
CRUSADE. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, (Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are
impressed and ingag'd to fight,) Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet, Which fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. H. IV. pt. I. i. 1.
CUCKOLD. Amaimon sounds well ; Lucifer, well ; Barbason, well ; yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends ; but cuckold I wittol-cuckold ! the devil himself hath not such a name. M. W. ii. 2.
CUDGEL. I'll have the cudgel hallow'd and hung o'er the altar : it hath done meritorious service. M. W. iv. 2.
CUPIDS. Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with traps. M. A. iii. 1.
CURIOSITIES. I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials and the things of fame, That do renown this city . T. N. iii.3.
CURRENTS, Maritime. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current, and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic, and the Hellespont. 0. iii. 3.
CURS. O 'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies ! I would have, as one should say, one that taketh upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. T. G. iv. 4.
When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard : one that I brought up a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it ! I have taught him — even as one would say precisely, — Thus I would
teach a dog. T.G. iv. 4.
CURSING. I would the gods had nothing else to do, But to confirm my curses ! C. iv. 2.
CUSTOM (See also Habit). Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. H.v.1.
Custom calls me to't: — What custom wills in all things should we do't The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to overpeer. C. ii. 3.
Nice customs curt'sey to great kings. H. V. v. 2.
Assume a virtue if you have it not, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this. H. iii. 4 .
Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ? K. L. i. 2 .
Vile. Though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honoure'd in the breach than the observance.
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou Shalt not escape calumny. H. iii. 1.
That thou art blam'd, shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair. Poems.
CANDOUR. Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate Nor set down aught in malice. O. v. 3.
In simple and pure soul I come to you. O. i. 1.
CANNONADE (See also Siege). By east and west, let France and England mount Their battering cannon, charged to the mouths ; Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl' d down The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city : I'd play incessantly upon these jades. Ev'n till unfenced desolation Leave them as naked as the vulgar air. K. J. ii. 2.
CAPACITY. The truth is, I am only old in judgment and understanding ; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and have at him ! H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
CAPTAIN. the Title of, Prostituted. Captain ! thou abominable cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called captain ? If captains were of
my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. You a captain, you slave ! for what ? A captain ! these villains will make the word captain odious : therefore, captains had need look to it. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 4.
CAPTIOUSNESS. You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault. Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,
(And that's the dearest grace it renders you) Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage, Defect of manners, want of government, Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain: The least of which haunting a nobleman, Loseth men's hearts ; and leaves behind a stain Upon the beauty of all parts besides, Beguiling them of commendation. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 1.
CARE. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges sleep will never lie ; But where unbruised youth with
unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. R. J. ii. 3.
You lay out too much pains, For purchasing but trouble. Cym. ii. 3.
CARNAGE. Slaying is the word ; It is a deed in fashion. J.C. v. 5.
CAVALIER. But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stulfd with epithets of war ; And, in conclusion, nonsuits My mediators. 0. i. 1.
CAVILLER. I'll give thrice so much land To any well deserving friend ; But in the way of bargain, mark you me, I'll cavil on the ninth part
of a hair. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 1.
CAUSE. Common. For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependence Upon our joint and several dignities. T. C. ii. 2.
Defective. A rotten cause abides no handling. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
I cannot fight upon this argument. T. C. i. 1.
CAUTION (See also Advice). Too much trust hath damag'd such As have believ'd men in their loves too much. Poems.
Take heed o' the foul fiend ! K. L. iii. 4.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. J. C. ii. 1.
Good, my lord, let's fight with gentle words, Till time lend friends, and friends their helping swords. R. II. iii. 3.
Come not between the dragon and his wrath. K. L. i. 1.
Hear you me, Jessica : Lock up my doors ; and when you hear the drum, And the vile squeaking of the wry-neck' d fife, Clamber not you
up to the casement then, Nor thrust your head into the public street, To gaze on Christian fools with varnish' d faces ; But stop my
house's ears ; I mean my casements : Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. M. V. ii. 5.
Think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous ; And kill him in the shell. J. C. ii. 1.
Let me still take away the harms I fear, Not fear still to be taken. K. L. i. 4.
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell, Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. K. L. i. 4.
Excessive, of the Aged. But, beshrew my jealousy ! It seems, it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions,
As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. H. ii. 1.
CELEBRITY (See also Fame). Thrice-fam'd beyond all erudition. T.C. ii. 3.
CELERITY. Celerity is never more admir'd. Then by the negligent. A. C. iii. 7.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. M. iv. 1.
CENSURE (See also Opinion). We, in the world's wide mouth Live scandaliz'd, and foully spoken of. H. IV. pt. I. i. 3.
Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party ? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, Till that the weary very means do ebb ? What woman in the city do I name, When that I say, The city woman bears The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders ? Who can come in and say that I mean her, When such a one as she, such is her neighbour ? Or what is he of basest function, That says his bravery is not on my cost, (Thinking that I mean him,) but therein suits His folly to the mettle of my speech ? There, then ; How, what
then ? Let me see wherein My tongue hath wrong'd him ; if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself ; if he be free, Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies, Unclaim'd of any man. A.Y. ii. 7.
CEREMONY (See also Regal Ceremonies). Was but devis'd at first to set a gloss On faint deeds, hollow welcomes Recanting
goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown, But where there is true friendship, there needs none. T. A. i. 2.
Rebukable And worthy shameful check it were to stand On more mechanic compliment. A. C. iv. 4.
CERES, Invocation to. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease ; Thy turfy mountains where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep ; Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims, Which spungy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs, chaste crowns ; and dark broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn ; thy pole-clipt vineyard ; And thy sea-marge, sterile, and rocky hard, Where thou thyself dost air: The queen o' sky,
Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I, Bids thee leave these ; and with her sovereign grace, Here, on this grass-plot, in this very
plaee, To come and sport. T. iv. 1.
CHALLENGE. Here's the challenge, read it ; I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. T. N. iii. 4.
Nay, answer me : stand, and unfold Yourself. H. i. 1.
God bless me from a challenge ! M. A. v. 1.
Read thou this challenge ; mark but the penning of it. K. L. iv. 6.
Draw, you rogue ; for though it be night, the moon shines. K. L. ii. 2.
I'll write thee a challenge ; or I'll deliver thy indignation by word of mouth. T. N. ii. 4.
By gar, it is a shallenge : I vill cut his troat in de park. M.W. i. 4.
Go, write it in a martial hand ; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent, and full of invention ; taunt him with the license
of ink. T. N. iii. 2.
I protest Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence, Despite thy victor sword, and fire-new fortune, Thy valour, and thy heart,
— thou art a traitor : False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father ; Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince ; And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust beneath thy feet, A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou, No, This sword, this arm, and my
best spirits are bent, To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak, Thou liest. K. L. v. 3.
I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms. He gave you all the duties of a man ; Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue ; Spoke your deservings like a chronicle ; Making you ever better than his praise, By still dispraising praise, valued with you : And, which became him like a prince indeed, He made a blushing cital of himself; And chid his truant youth with such a grace, As if he master'd there a double spirit, Of teaching and of learning instantly. H. IV. pt. I. v. 2.
CHAMPION. Like a bold champion, I assume the lists, Nor ask advice of any other thought But faithfulness and courage. P. P. i. 1.
CHANCE. (See also Fortune). Full oft 'tis seen, Our mean secures us ; and our mere defects Prove our commodities. K. L. iv. 1.
CHANGE. Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth ! M. M. i. 2.
And art thou come to this ? K. L. iii. 4.
the Necessity of. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
CHANGELING. His humour Was nothing but mutation ; Ay and that From one bad thing to worse. Cym. iv. 2.
CHARITY. My learn' d lord cardinal, Deliver all with charity. H. VIII. i. 2.
For he is gracious if he be observ'd ; He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
CHARM. For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. M. iv. 1.
Then I beat my tabor, At which, like unback'd colts, they prick' d their ears, Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, As they smelt
music ; so I charm' d their ears, That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through Tooth'd briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,
Which enter'd their frail shins : at last I left them I'the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell. T. iv. 1. .
Dissolving. The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. T.v.1.
CHASTITY. Chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. C. v. 3.
Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. Poems.
She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow ; she hath Dian's wit ; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. R.J. i.1.
I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow. Cym. ii. 6.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor 'bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. R. J. i.1.
CHEATS (See also Knaves). They say, this town is full of cozenage ; As, nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye, Dark-working
sorcerers, that change the mind, Soul-killing witches, that deform the body ; Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many
such like libertines of sin. C. E. i. 2.
CHECK. I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits. 0. iii. 3.
CHEERFULNESS. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice By being peevish. M. V. i. 1.
CHIDING. But I'll not chide thee ; Let shame come when it will, I do not call it : I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of
thee to high-judging Jove : Mend, when thou can'st ; be better at thy leisure : I can be patient. K. L. ii. 4.
0, what a beast was I to chide him ! R. J. iii. 2.
CHILDREN. Undutiful (See also Filial Ingratitude). I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. K. L. iii. 7.
CHIVALRY. Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry. H. VI. pt. I. iv. 6.
In this glorious and well foughten field, We kept together in our chivalry. H. V. iv. 6 .
I am to day i' the vein of chivalry. T.C. v. 3.
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry. H. IV. pt. I. v. 1.
CHOICE. There's a small choice in rotten apples. T. S. i. 1.
CHRISTENING. You must be seeing christenings ! Do you look for ale and cakes here, you rude rascals ! H. VIII. v. 3.
CHRISTIAN WARS. I always thought, It was both impious and unnatural, That such immanity and bloody strife Should reign among professors of one faith. H. VI. pt. I. v. 1.
CHURCHMEN. Who should be pitiful if you be not ? Or who should study to prefer a peace, If holy churchmen take delight in broils ?
H. VI. pt. I. iii. 1.
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition ; Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
H. VIII. v. 2.
I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence, to make atonements and compromises between you. M. W. i. 1.
If we did think His contemplations were above the earth, And fix'd on spiritual objects, he should still Dwell in his musings : but I am
afraid, His thinkings are below the moon, not worth His serious considering. H. VIII. iii. 2.
CHURCH MILITANT. What ! the sword and the word ! do you study them both, master parson ? M. W. iii. 1.
CHURLISHNESS. My master is of churlish disposition, And little recks to find the way to heaven, By doing deeds of hospitality.
A. Y. ii. 4.
CIRCUMLOCUTION. Thou shalt never get such a secret from me, but by a parable. T. G. ii. 5.
CIRCUMSPECTION. Wear your eye, — thus, not jealous nor secure : I would not have your free and noble nature, Out of self bounty, be abus'd ; look to't. 0. iii. 3.
Lay thy finger, — thus, and let thy soul be instructed. O.ii.1.
CLAIM, Antiquated. 'Tis no sinister, nor no aukward claim, Pick'd from the worm-holes of long vanish'd days, Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd. H. V. ii. 4.
CLEOPATRA, Sailing. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see, The fancy out- work nature ; on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool ;
— And what they undid, did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm, A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely
frame the office. From the barge, A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.
A.C. ii. 2.
CLERICAL FUNCTION. The very opener and intelligencer, Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, And our dull workings
H IV. pt. II. iv. 2.
CLOUDS. That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
A. C. iv. 12 .
Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour, sometimes, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory, With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : Thou hast seen these signs They are black vesper's pageants. A. C. iv. 12.
CLOWN. A clod of wayward marie. M. A. ii. 1.
It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. A.Y. v.1.
COAST at Sun-rise. Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red, Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams Turns into yellow gold his.
salt-green streams. M. N. iii. 2.
COCK, Crowing. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god
of day ; and, at his warning, Whether in sea, or fire, in earth, or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. H. i. 1.
COCKATRICES. This will so fright them both, that they will kill one another by the look, like cockatrices. T.N. iii. 4.
COLDNESS (See also Frigidity). Tut, tut, thou art all ice ; thy kindness freezes. R. III. iv. 2.
COLLECTOR. A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. W. T. iv. 2.
And in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, — he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the
which he vents In mangled forms. A. Y. ii. 7.
Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work. W. T. iv. 3.
A poor humour of mine, Sir, to take that that no man else will. A.Y. v. 4.
COMBAT. Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go look on T.C. v. 4
COMFORT. Thoughts tending to content, flatter themselves,— That they are not the first of fortune's slaves, Nor shall not be the last ; like silly beggars, Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame, — That many have, and others must sit there, And in this thought they find a kind of ease, Bearing their own misfortunes on the back Of such as have before endur'd the like. R. II. v. 5.
How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses. A. W. iv. 3.
COMMODITY. Commodity, the bias of the world ; The world, who of itself is peised well, Made to run even upon even ground ; Till this advantage, this vile drawing bias, This sway of motion, this commodity, Makes it take head from all indifferency, From all direction, purpose, course, intent : And this same bias, this commodity, This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word, Clapp'd on the outward
eye of fickle France, Hath drawn him from his own determin'd aid, From a resolv'd and honourable war, To a most base and vile concluded peace. K. J. ii. 2.
COMMOTION. (See also Mob). The times are wild ; contention, like a horse Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him. H. IV. pt. II. i. 1.
You have made good work, You and your apron men ; you that stood so much Upon the voice of occupation, and The breath of
garlic-eaters. C. iv. 6.
COMPACT. A seal'd compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry. H. i. 1.
COMPANIONS, Juvenile. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other : what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, no, nor dream'd That any did. W. T. i. 2.
COMPANY. It is certain, that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another ; therefore, let
men take heed of their company. H. IV. pt. II. v. 1.
There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch : this pitch, as ancient
writers do report, doth defile ; so doth the company thou keepest. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
Well, heaven send the prince a better companion! H. IV. pt. II. i. 2.
COMPASSION. Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin, I should not for my life but weep with him, To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul. H. VI. pt. II. i. 4.
COMPENDIUM. There are some shrewd contents in yon' same paper. M.V. iii. 2.
COMPLAINT. 0, that I were Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar The horned herd ! for I have savage cause ; And to proclaim it civilly,
were like A halter'd neck, which does the hangman thank For being yare about him. A.C. iii. 11.
COMPLIMENT. ; Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment. T. N. iii. 1.
COMPUNCTION (See also Remorse). Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem ; Letting I dare not, wait upon I would, Like
the poor cat i' the adage ? M. i. 7.
We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions of all sorts of people.
M. i. 7.
But wherefore could I not pronounce, Amen ? I had most need of blessing, and Amen Stuck in my throat. M. ii. 2.
COMRADE. Friend and companion in the front of war. A.C. v. 1.
CONCEIT. So sensible Seemeth their conference, their conceits have wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things. L. L. v. 2.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. H. iii. 4.
CONCLUSION. Indeed, without an oath, I'll make an end on't. H. iv. 5.
False. most lame and impotent conclusion ! 0. ii. 1.
But then there is no consonancy in the sequel. T. N. ii. 5.
CONDESCENSION. I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of controul. T. N. ii. 5.
CONFERENCE, Learned. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. K. L. iii. 4.
CONFIDENCE. As gentle and as jocund as to jest, Go I to fight : Truth has a quiet breast. R. II. i. 3.
Unwarranted. Is not this a strange fellow, my lord ? that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be
done ; damns himself to do, and dares better be damn'd than to do it. A. W. iii. 6.
CONJUROR. They brought one Punch : a hungry lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, a
fortune-teller ; A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch, A living dead man : this pernicious slave, Forsooth, took on him as a
conjuror; And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, And with no face, as 'twere, out-facing me, Cried out, I was possess'd.
C. E. v.1.
CONNEXIONS. Why, this is to have a name in great men's fellowship. A. C. ii. 7.
CONQUEROR (See also War). Before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. C. ii. 1.
A conqueror and afear'd to speak ! L. L. v. 2.
CONQUEST. Truly to speak, Sir, and with no addition, We go to gain a little patch of ground, That hath in it no profit but the name.
H. iv. 4.
CONSCIENCE (See also Suicide). I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience. And try your penitence, if it be sound, Or hollowly put on. M. M. ii. 3.
Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know. M. M. ii. 2.
Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions Keep leets and law-days, and in sessions sit With meditations lawful ?
O. iii. 3.
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. H. VI. pt. II. iii. 2.
I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. H. VIII. iii. 2 .
You shall see, anon ; 'tis a knavish piece of work ; but what of that ? Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not : Let the gall'd jade wince, our withers are unwrung. H. iii. 2.
Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep ; Thus runs the world away.
H. iii. 2.
I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick ; if he do blench, I know my course. H. ii. 2.
I'll not meddle with it, it is a dangerous thing, it makes a man a coward ; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him ; a man cannot swear,
but it checks him ; a man cannot lie with a neighbour's wife, but it detects him : 'Tis a blushing shame-fac'd spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles : it made me once restore a purse of gold, that by chance I found ; it beggars any man that keeps it ;
it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing. R. III. i. 4.
Guiltv. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale ; And every tale condemns me for a villain. R. III. v. 3.
How is't with me when every noise appals me ? M. ii. 2.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. H. VI. pt. III. v. 6 .
How smart A lash that speech doth give my conscience ! H. iii. 1.
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very sonl ; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. H. iii. 4.
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass, Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded. T. ii. 2.
Soft ; I did but dream, 0, coward conscience, how dost thou affright me ! R. III. v. 3.
With clog of conscience and sour melancholy. R. II. v. 6.
Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. M. v. 3.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And
with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? M. v. 3.
Seaked. If it were a kybe, 'Twould put me to my slipper ; but I feel not This deity in my bosom : twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they, And melt, ere they molest. T. ii. 1.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls ; Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first, to keep me strong in awe.
R. III. v. 3.
CONSPIRACY. While you here do snoring lie Open-ey'd conspiracy His time doth take : If of life you keep a care. Shake off
slumber, and beware : Awake ! Awake ! T. ii. 2.
O conspiracy ! Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free ? 0, then, by day, "Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage ? Seek none, conspiracy, Hide it in smiles and affability : For if thou path thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention. J. C. ii. 1.
Popular. It is a purpos'd thing, and grows by plot, To curb the will of the nobility : — Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule And
never will be rul'd. C. iii. 1.
CONSTANCY (See also Fidelity). The fineness of which metal is not found In fortune's love ; for then, the bold and coward, The wise and fool, the artist and unread, The hard and soft, seem all affin'd and kin ; But in the wind and tempest of her frown, Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, Puffing at all, winnows the light away ; And what hath mass, or matter, by itself Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled. T. C. i. 3.
Master, go on ; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. A. Y. ii. 3.
Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. T. C. iv. 2 .
Now from head to foot, I am marble constant ; now the fleeting moon No planet is of mine. A. C. v. 2.
But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd, and vesting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament. J.C. iii. 1.
Conjugal. Here I kneel. — If e'er my wish did trespass 'gainst his love, Either in discourse, in thought, or actual deed ; Or that mine
eyes, mine ears, or any sense, Delighted them in any other form ; Or that I do not yet, and ever did, And ever will, — though he do
shake me off To beggarly divorcement, — love him dearly, Comfort forswear me ! Unkindness may do much ; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. 0. iv. 2.
He counsels a divorce : a loss of her, That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years About his neck, yet never lost her lustre ; Of her, that loves him with that excellence That angels love good men with ; even of her, That when the greatest stroke of fortune falls, Will bless the king. H. VIII. ii. 2.
Sir, call to mind, That I have been your wife in this obedience, Upward of twenty years, and have been bless'd With many children by you.
If, in the course And process of this time, you can report, And prove it too, against mine honour aught, My bond to wedlock, or my love
and duty, Against your sacred person, in God's name, Turn me away ; and let the foul'st contempt Shut door upon me, and so give me up To the sharpest kind of justice. H. VIII. ii. 4.
O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower ; Or walk in thievish ways ; or bid me lurk Where serpents are ; chain me with roaring bears ; Or shut me nightly in a charnel house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls ; Or bid me go into a new made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble ; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.
R. J. iv. 1.
CONSTERNATION. Behold, destruction, frenzy, and amazement, Like witless antics, one another meet. T.C. v. 3.
CONSULTATION. Now sit we close about the taper here, And call in question our necessities. J. C. iv. 3.
CONSUMMATION. When, the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. M. i. 1.
CONTEMPLATION. Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him ; how he jets under his advanced plumes ! T. N. ii. 5.
CONTEMPTIBLE. Put on him what forgeries you please ; marry, none so rank As may dishonour him. H. ii. 1.
CONTENT (See also Moderation). Our content Is our best having. H. VIII. ii. 3.
Verily, I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. H. VIII. ii. 3.
My crown is in my heart, not on my head ; Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen ; my crown is call'd content ;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. H. VI. pt. III. iii. 1.
Willing misery Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before: The one is filling still, never complete ; The other, at high wish. T. A. iv. 3.
CONTENTION. I pr'ythee take thy fingers from my throat ; For though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. H. v. 1.
CONVERSATION. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways, Draw out our miles and make them wearisome , And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and d'electable. R. II. ii. 3.
I praise God for you, Sir ; your reasons at dinner, have been sharp and sententious ; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. L.L. v. 1.
COOKERY. But his neat cookery ! He cut our roots in characters ; And sauc'd our broths as Juno had been sick, And he her dieter. Cym. iv. 2.
COOLING. And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stew'd in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe, think of that ; — hissing hot ; — think of that. Master Brook.
M. W. iii. 5.
CORINTHIAN. A Corinthian, a lad of mettle. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
CORIOLANUS. Thou art left, Marcius : A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible Only in strokes ; but, with thy grim looks, and The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds, Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the world Were feverous and did tremble. C. i. 4.
His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
C. iii. 1.
CORRECTION. Your purpos'd low correction, Is such, as basest and contemned'st wretches, For pilferings and most common trespasses, Are punished with. K. L. ii. 2.
My masters of St. Alban's, have you not beadles in your town, and things called whips ? H. VI. pt. II. ii. 1.
Difficulties of. For full well he knows, He cannot so precisely weed this land, As his misdoubts present occasion ; His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That, plucking to unfix an enemy, He doth unfasten so, and shake a friend. So that this land, like an offensive wife, That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes, As he is striking, holds his infant up, And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm That was uprear'd to execution. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
COVETOUSNESS. Those that much are of gain so fond, That oft they have not that which they possess ; They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less. Poems.
COUNSEL. Is this your Christian counsel ? out upon ye ! Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
H.VIII. iii. 1.
COUNTENANCE, Benign. Her face, the book of praises, where is read Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence Sorrow were ever raz'd, and testy wrath Could never be her mild companion. P.P. i. 1.
COURAGE (See also Valour). Pr'ythee peace ; I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none. M. i. 7.
Things out of hope are compass't oft with vent'ring. Poems.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. What though the mast be now blown overboard, The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood ? Yet lives our pilot still : Is't meet that he Should leave the helm, and like a fearful lad, With tearful eyes add water to the sea, And give more strength to that which hath too much ; Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock, Which industry and courage might have sav'd ? H. VI. pt. III. v. 4.
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence ; For courage mounteth with occasion. K. J. ii. 1.
For this last, Before and in Corioli, let me say, I cannot speak him home ; he stopp'd the fliers ; And by his rare example, made the
coward Turn terror into sport : as waves before A vessel under sail, so men obey'd, And fell below his stern : his sword, death's stamp . Where it did mark, it took ; from face to foot, He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was tim'd with dying cries.
C. ii. 2.
But wherefore do you droop ? why look you sad ? Be great in act, as you have been in thought ; Let not the world see fear and sad
distrust Govern the motion of a kingly eye : Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener and outface the brow Of bragging horror:so shall inferior eyes,That borrow their behaviour from the great, Grow great by your example, and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. Away ; and glister like the god of war, When he intendeth to become the field : Show boldness and aspiring confidence. What, shall they seek the lion in his den, And fright him there ? and make him tremble there ? 0, let it not be said ! Forage, and run To meet displeasure further from the doors ; And grapple with him ere he come so nigh. K. J. v. 1.
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age ; doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. M. A. i. 1.
When by and by the din of war 'gan pierce His ready sense ; then straight his doubled spirit Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,
And to the battle came he ; where he did Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if 'Twere a perpetual spoil ; and till we call'd Both field
and city ours, he never stood To ease his breath with panting. C. ii. 2.
That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone, upholds the day. K. J. v. 4.
Alone he enter'd The mortal gate o' the city, which he painted With shunless destiny, aidless came off, And with a sudden reinforcement struck Corioli, like a planet. C. ii. 2.
Safe, Anthony ; Brutus is safe enough : I dare assure thee, that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus : The gods defend him from so great a shame ! When you do find him, or alive or dead, He will be found like Brutus, like himself. J. C. v. 4.
Our then dictator Whom without praise I point at, saw him fight, When with his Amazonian chin he drove The bristled lips before him : he bestrid An o'er-press'd Roman, and i' the consul's view, Slew three opposers. C. ii. 2.
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast And I will stand the hazard of the die. R. III. v. 4.
COURT. Do you take the court for Paris garden ? you rude slaves, leave your gaping. H. VIII. v. 3.
Beauty. Let the court of France show me such another : I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond : thou hast the right arched
bent of the brow, that becomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian admittance. M. W. iii. 3.
COURTIER (See also Tools, Slavishness). I am a courtier. See'st thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings ? Hath not my gait
in it the measure of the court? Receiveth not thy nose court-odour from me ? Reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt ?
W. T. iv. 3.
You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, That doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender ; and when he's old, cashier'd. 0. i. 1.
But howso'er, no simple man that sees This jarring discord of nobility, This shouldering of each other in the court, This factious bandying
of their favorites, But that it doth presage some ill event. H. IV. pt. I. iv.1.
COURTSHIP (See also Love). That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
T. G. iii. 1.
Every night he comes With music of all sorts, and songs compos' d To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us To chide him from our
eaves ; for he persists, As if his life lay on't. A. W. iii. 7.
I will attend her here, And woo her with some spirit when she comes. Say, that she rail ; why, then I'll tell her plain, She sings as sweetly
as a nightingale : Say, that she frown ; I'll say, she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew : Say, she be mute, and will
not speak a word ; Then I'll commend her volubility, And say, — she uttereth piercing eloquence : If she do bid me pack, I'll give her
thanks, As though she bid me stay by her a week; If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day When I shall ask the banns, and when be
married. T. S. ii. 1.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap, And deck my body in gay ornaments, And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
H. VI. pt. III. iii. 2.
My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore,- In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me ; And
bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake :
She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd ; And I lov'd her that she did pity them. 0. i. 3.
King Edward. — What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get ? Lady Grey. — My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers ;
That love, which virtue begs, and virtue grants. H. VI. pt. III. iii. 2.
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house : Write loyal cantons of contemned love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night ; Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, Olivia ! 0, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth, But you should pity me. T. N. i. 5.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say ; . For, get you gone, she doth not mean, away. Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces ; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. T. G. iii. 1.
Say, that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line. That may discover such integrity. T. G. iii. 2.
I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ; And when two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that
feeds their fury : Though little fires grow great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all : So I to her, and so she yields to me ; For I am rough, and woo not like a babe. T. S. ii. 1.
Go then, my mother, to your daughter go ; Make bold her bashful ears with your experience ; Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale.
R. III. iv. 4.
What! I that kill'd her husband, and his father, To take her in her heart's extremest hate : With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of my hatred by ; With God, her conscience, and these bars against me, And I no friends to back my suit withal,
But the plain devil and dissembling looks, And yet to win her, — all the world to nothing ! R. III. i. 2.
After your dire lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber window, With some sweet concert ; to their instruments Tune a deploring dump : the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
T. G. iii. 2.
Frame yourself To orderly solicits ; and be friended With aptness to the season : make denials Increase your services : so seem, as if
You were inspir'd to do those duties which You tender to her ; that you in all obey her, Save when command to your dismission tends,
And therein you are senseless. Cym. ii. 3.
Never give her o'er ; For scorn at first, makes after-love the more. If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you, But rather to beget more love in
you ; If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone ; For why, the fools are mad if left alone. T. G. iii. 1.
The count he wooes your daughter, Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, Resolves to carry her ; let her, in fine, consent, As
we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it, Now his important blood will nought denv That she'll demand. A. W. iii. 7.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; She is a woman, therefore may be won. Tit. And. ii. 1.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed : maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are
wives. A.Y. iv. 1.
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? Was ever woman in this humour won? R. III. i. 2 .
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd In russet yeas, and honest-meaning noes. L. L. v. 2.
COWARDS. His mind is not heroic, and there's the humour of it. M. W. i. 3.
A coward, a most devout coward ; religious in it. T. N. iii. 4.
I know him a notorious liar ; Think him a great way fool, solely a coward : Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind. A. W. i. 1.
You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat ! Pluto and hell ! All hurt behind ; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agued fear ! Mend, and charge home, Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe, And make my wars on you : Look to't. C. i. 4.
So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome stench, Are from their hives, and houses, driven away. They call'd us, for our fierceness, English dogs ; Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. H.VI. pt. I. i. 5.
The enemy full-hearted, Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down Some mortally,
some slightly touch'd, some falling Merely through fear ; that the straight pass was damn'd With dead men, hurt behind, and cowards living To die with lengthened shame. Cym. v. 3.
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear and be slain ; no worse can come, to fight : And fight and die, is death destroying death ; Where, fearing dying, pays death servile breath. R. II. iii. 2.
A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
Slander'd to death by villains ; That dare as well answer a man, indeed, As I dare take a serpent by the tongue ; Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops. M. A. v. 1.
Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true bred cowards as ever turned back ; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules, and frowning
Mars ; Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk ! And these assume but valour's excrement, To render them redoubted.
M. V. iii. 2.
A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too ! marry and amen ! H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat, as they did budge From rascals worse than they. C. i. 6.
Reproach and everlasting shame Sit mocking in our plumes. H. V. iv. 5.
Did I but suspect a fearful man, He should have leave to go away betimes ; Lest, in our need, he might infect another, And make him of
like spirit to himself. If any such be here, as God forbid ! Let him depart before we need his help. H. VI. pt. III. v. 4 .
To say the truth, this fact was infamous, And ill-beseeming any common man ; Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader.
H. VI. pt. I. iv. 1.
We took him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. T. N. v. 1.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : Nature hath meal, and bran ; contempt, and grace. Cym. iv. 2.
All the contagion of the south light on you ! You shames of Rome ! You herd of, — Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er ; that you may be abhorred Farther than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile ! C. i. 4.
He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company, That fears his fellowship to die with us. H. V. iv. 3.
Perish the man whose mind is backward now. H. V. iv. 3.
He's a great quarreller ; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward, to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent, he would quickly have the gift of a grave. T. N. i. 3.
In a retreat he outruns any lacquey ; marry, in coming on, he has the cramp. A. W. iv. 3.
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard. K. J. ii. 1.
Plenty and peace, breed cowards : hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Cym. iii. 6.
I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards To run, and show their shoulders. A. C. iii. 9.
Foul-spoken coward ! that thunderest with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. Tit. And. ii. 1.
He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. A. W. iv. 3.
Turn head and stop pursuit ; for coward dogs Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten Runs far before them.
H. V. ii. 4.
So cowards fight when they can fly no further : As doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons ; So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. H. VI. pt. III. i. 4 .
Cowards die many times before their deaths : The valiant never taste of death but once. J. C. ii. 2.
COXCOMB (See also Fribble). Believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing : indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. H. v. 2.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony ; A man of compliments, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny.
L. L. i.1.
O murd'rous coxcomb ! what should such a fool Do with so good a wife ? O. v. 2.
O most profane coxcomb ! L. L. iv. 3.
Thus has he and many more of the same breed, that, I know, the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter ; a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions ; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. H. v. 2.
A barren-spirited fellow. T.C. iv. 1.
COZENERS. And, indeed, Sir, there are cozeners abroad ; therefore it behoves men to be wary. W.T. iv. 3.
CRAFT. Exploded. My antient incantations are too weak. H. VI. pt. I. v. 3.
CREDULITY. Thus credulous fools are caught ! 0. iv. 1.
But he that will believe all that they say, shall never be saved by half that they do. A. C. v. 2.
CRIMES. All have not offended : For those that were, it is not square, to take, On those that are, revenges : crimes, like lands, Are
not inherited. T. A. v. 5.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes ill deeds done I K.J. iv. 2.
Unpunished. For we bid this be done, When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not their punishment. M. M. i. 4.
CRISIS. Ha 1 is it come to this ! K. L. i. 4.
Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest ; evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil. K. J. iii. 4.
Things at the worst will cease ; or else climb upward To what they were before. M. iv. 2.
CRITICAL. I am nothing if not critical. O. ii. 1.
CROAKER. I would croak like a raven ; I would bode, I would bode. T.C. v. 2.
CROWN, Regal (See also Kings). O polish'd perturbation ! golden care ! That keeps the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night ! sleep with it now ! Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound, Snores out the watch
of night. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
A thousand flatteries sit within thy crown, Whose compass is no bigger than thy head ; And, yet incaged in so small a verge, The waste
is no whit lesser than thy land. R. II. ii. 1.
Do but think How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown ; Within whose circuit is Elysium, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
H. IV. pt. III. i. 2.
Heaven knows, my son, By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown ; and I myself know well, How troublesome it sat upon my head. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
I spake unto the crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it : The care on thee depending, Hath fed upon the body of my father ; Therefore thou, best of gold, art worst of gold ; Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in med'cine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour 'd, most renown'd Hast eat thy bearer up. Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head ; To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murder'd my father, — The quarrel of a true inheritor.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
CRUELTY. 0, be thou damn'd, inexorable dog ! And for thy life let justice be accus'd. Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, To
hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men : thy currish spirit, Govern'd a wolf ; who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And whilst thou layest in thy unhallow'd dam, Infus'd itself in
thee ; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. M. V. iv. 1.
I am sorry for thee ; thou art come to answer A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram
of mercy. M. V. iv. 1.
See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears ; This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy, And I with tears do wash the blood away, Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this : And, if thou tell'st the heavy story right, Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears ; Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears ; And say, — Alas, it was a piteous deed ! H. VI. pt. III. i. 4.
She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth ! How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex, To triumph like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes whom fortune captivates ! H. VI. pt. III. i. 4.
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. T. G. iii. 1.
CRUSADE. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, (Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are
impressed and ingag'd to fight,) Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet, Which fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. H. IV. pt. I. i. 1.
CUCKOLD. Amaimon sounds well ; Lucifer, well ; Barbason, well ; yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends ; but cuckold I wittol-cuckold ! the devil himself hath not such a name. M. W. ii. 2.
CUDGEL. I'll have the cudgel hallow'd and hung o'er the altar : it hath done meritorious service. M. W. iv. 2.
CUPIDS. Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with traps. M. A. iii. 1.
CURIOSITIES. I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials and the things of fame, That do renown this city . T. N. iii.3.
CURRENTS, Maritime. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current, and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic, and the Hellespont. 0. iii. 3.
CURS. O 'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies ! I would have, as one should say, one that taketh upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. T. G. iv. 4.
When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard : one that I brought up a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it ! I have taught him — even as one would say precisely, — Thus I would
teach a dog. T.G. iv. 4.
CURSING. I would the gods had nothing else to do, But to confirm my curses ! C. iv. 2.
CUSTOM (See also Habit). Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. H.v.1.
Custom calls me to't: — What custom wills in all things should we do't The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to overpeer. C. ii. 3.
Nice customs curt'sey to great kings. H. V. v. 2.
Assume a virtue if you have it not, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this. H. iii. 4 .
Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ? K. L. i. 2 .
Vile. Though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honoure'd in the breach than the observance.
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