RABBLE. These are the youths that thunder at a play-house, and fight for bitten apples. H. VIII. v. 3.
The cankers of a calm world. H. IV. pt. I. iv. 2.
I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat. H. IV. pt. I. iv. 2.
RADIANCE. Like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phoebus' front. K. L. ii. 2.
RAGE (See also Anger, Fury). Eyeless rage. K. L. iii. 1.
Lost in the labyrinth of thy fury. T. C. ii. 3.
He's in his fit now, and does not talk after the wisest. T. ii. 2.
In rage, deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. R. II. i. 1.
Darkness and devils ! Saddle my horses ; call my train together. K. L. i. 4.
When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted Even to falling. A. C. iv. 1.
The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar'd ; Which, as he breath'd defiance to my ears, He swung about his head, and cut the winds, Who, nothing hurt withal, hiss'd him in scorn. R. J. i. 1.
RAILING. Did you ever hear such railing ? A. Y. iv. 3.
Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one, that is neither known of thee, nor knows thee. K. L. ii. 2.
Why, what an ass am I ! — This is most brave ; That I, the son of a dear father, murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! H. ii. 2.
I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; but, I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration, than thou learn a prayer without book.
T. C. ii. 1.
Rails on our little state of war Bold as an oracle : and sets Thersites, (A slave, whose gall coins slander like a mint,) To match us in comparisons with dirt. T. C. i. 3.
And Reproof, when worthy, or unworthy, of Regard. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail ; nor no railing in
a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove. T. N. i. 5.
RAILLERY. We may carry it thus for our pleasure, and his penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to have mercy
on him. T. N. iii. 4.
RALLYING, in Battle. With their own nobleness (which could have turn'd A distaff to a lance,) gilded pale looks, Part, shame, part,
spirit renewed ; that some, turn'd coward But by example (0, a sin in war, Damn'd in the first beginners !) 'gan to look The way that they
did, and to grin like lions Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began A stop i' the chaser, a retire ; anon, A rout, confusion thick : Forthwith they fly Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles ; slaves The strides of victors made ; and now our cowards (Like fragments in hard voyages) became The life o' the need ; having found the back-door open Of the unguarded hearts, Heavens, how they wound ! Some,
slain before ; some, dying ; some, their friends O'erborne i' the former wave: ten, chas'd by one. Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty. Cym. v. 3.
RANCOUR. We have been down together in my sleep, Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat, And wak'd half dead with nothing. C. iv. 5.
RANT. Nay, an' thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. H. v. 1.
RAT. How now ? a rat ! H. iii. 4.
READER. How well he's read, to reason against reading ! L. L. i. 1.
READINESS. Here, man, I am at thy elbow. M. A. iii. 3.
REALITY. 'Tis in grain, Sir ; 'twill endure wind and weather. T. N. i. 4.
REASON. What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, He, that made
us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason, To fust in us unus'd.
H. iv. 4.
If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions. O. i. 3.
Strong reasons make strong actions. K. J. iii. 4.
Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. J. C. iv. 3.
The reasons you allege, do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 'Twist right
and wrong. T. C. ii. 2.
Nay, if we talk of reason, Let's shut our gates, and sleep : Manhood and honour Should have hare hearts, would they but fat their thoughts With this cramm'd reason : reason and respect Make livers pale, and lustihood deject. T. C. ii. 2.
Larded with many several sorts of reasons. H. v. 4.
You fur your gloves with reason : here are your reasons : You know an enemy intends you harm You know a sword employ'd is perilous ; And reason flies the object of all harm. T. C. ii. 2.
No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons, You are so empty of them. T. C. ii. 2.
Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion.
H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason good enough. T. N. ii. 3.
REBEL. An exhal'd meteor, A prodigy of fear, and a portent Of broached mischief to the unborn times. H. IV. pt. I. v. 1.
REBELLION. Hear me more plainly. I have in equal balance justly weigh'd, What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
And find our griefs heavier than our offences. We see which way the stream of time doth run, And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere By the rough torrent of occasion : And have the summary of all our griefs, When time shall serve, to show in articles : Which, long ere this, we offer'd to the king ; And might by no suit gain our audience : When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs, We are denied
access unto his person, Even by those men who most have done us wrong. The dangers of the days but newly gone, (Whose memory is written on the earth With yet-appearing blood,) and the examples Of every minute's instance, (present now,) Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms : Not to break peace, or any branch of it ; But to establish here a peace indeed, Concurring both in name and quality. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
Now let it work : Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt. J. C. iii. 2.
If that rebellion Came like itself, in base and abject routs, Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage, And countenanced by boys, and beggary ; You, reverend father, and these noble lords, Had not been here, to dress the ugly form Of base and bloody insurrection.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
O.pity, God, this miserable age ! What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural, This deadly quarrel
daily doth beget. H. VI. pt. III. ii. 5.
But now the Bishop Turns insurrection to religion: Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, He's follow'd both with body and with mind. H. IV. pt II. i.1.
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, When down the hill he holds his fierce career ? We may as bootless spend our vain command Upon th' enraged soldiers in their spoil, As send precepts to the Leviathan To come ashore. H. V. iii. 3.
You, lord Archbishop, — Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd ; Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd ; Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd ; Whose white investments figure innocence, The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, —
Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself, Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace, Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of
war ? Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, Your pens to lances : and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet, and a point of
war ? H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
The rebels are in Southwark ; Fly, my lord ! Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer, Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house, And calls your grace usurper, openly, And vows to crown himself in Westminster. His army is a ragged multitude Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless : Sir Humphrey Stafford, and his brothers' death, Hath given them heart and courage to proceed : All scholars,
lawyers, courtiers, .gentlemen, They call — false caterpillars, and intend their death. H. VI. pt. II. iv. 4.
Noble English, you are bought and sold; Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith. K. J. v. 4.
All the regions Do smilingly revolt ; and, who resist, Are only mock'd for valiant ignorance, And perish constant fools. C. iv. 6.
My lord, your son had only but the corps, But shadows, and the shows of men, to fight : For that same word, rebellion, did divide The action of their bodies from their souls ; And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd As men drink potions ; that their weapons only Seem'd on our side, but for their spirits and souls, This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, As fish are in a pond.
H. IV. pt. II. i. 1.
Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule, Nor ever will be rul'd. C. iii. 1.
Wherefore do I this ? so the question stands. Briefly to this end: — We are all diseas'd ; And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours, Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it : of which disease, Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
You may as well Strike at the heaven with your staves, as lift them Against the Roman state ; whose course will on The way it takes, cracking. ten thousand curbs Of more strong link asunder, than can ever Appear in your impediment. C. i. 1.
No kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ;
contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none. T. ii. 1.
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again, And make poor England weep in streams of blood. R. III. v. 4
RECITATION (See also Speech). 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken ; with good accent, and good discretion. H. ii. 2.
We'll have a speech straight : Come, give us a taste of your quality; come, a passionate speech. H. ii. 2.
RECKONING. I am ill at reckoning, it fitteth the spirit of a tapster. L. L. i. 2.
O Lord, Sir, it were a pity you should get your living by reckoning, Sir. L. L. v. 2
RECOGNITION. Most reverend signior, do you know my voice ? 0. i. 1.
Long is it since I saw him, But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour, Which then he wore. Cym. iv. 2.
Can virtue hide itself ? Go to, mum, you are he ; graces will appear, and there's an end. M. A. ii. 1.
RECOLLECTION, Painful. 0, it comes o'er my memory, As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all. 0. iv. 1.
RECOMPENCE. Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove. T.C. iii. 2.
RECOVERY. This feather stirs ; she lives ! if it be so, It is a chance that does redeem all sorrows That ever I have felt. K. L. v. 3.
RECREATION. Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, But moody and dull melancholy. (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,) And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life ? In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast. C. E. v. 1.
RECREANT Slave. Yet I am thankful : if my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this : Captain, I'll be no more ; But I will eat and drink,
and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass, That every braggart shall be found an ass : Rust, sword ! cool, blushes ! and, Parolles, live ! Safest in shame ! being
fool'd, by foolery thrive ! There's place, and means, for every man alive. A. W. iv. 3.
RECRUIT. In very truth, Sir, I had as lief be hanged, Sir, as go ; and yet, for mine own part, Sir, I do not care ; but rather, because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, I have a desire to stay with my friends ; else, Sir, I did not care, for mine own part, so much.
H. IV. pt. II. iii. 4.
REFINEMENT. By the lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken notice of it ; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, that he galls his kibe. H. v. 1.
I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man.
T. N. ii. 5.
REFORM. God amend us, God amend ! we are much out o' the way. L. L. iv. 3.
Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him Leaving his body as a paradise, To envelop and contain celestial spirits. H. V. i. 1.
The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy. K. L. i. 4.
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
I tell thee, Jack Cade, the clothier, means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it. H.VI. pt. II. iv. 2.
I must give over this life, and I will give it over ; by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
REGAL Ceremonies (See also Ceremony). This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart ; in grace whereof,
No jocound health, that Denmark drinks to-day, But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ; And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder. H. i. 2.
As he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out, The triumph of his pledge. H. i. 4.
There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangour sounds. H. IV. pt. II. v. 5.
The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath ; And in the cup an union shall he throw Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn ; — Give me the cups ; And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heavens,to earth, Now the king drinks to Hamlet. H. v. 5.
A garish flag, To be the aim of every dangerous shot : A sign of dignity, a breath, a bubble. R. III. iv. 4.
The flattering index of a direful pageant, One heav'd a high, to be hurl'd down below. R. III. iv. 4.
Ill-timed. In this, the antique and well noted face Of plain old form is much disfigured : And, like a shifted wind unto a sail, It makes the course of thought to fetch about : Startles and frights consideration ; Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, For putting on so new a fashion'd robe. K. J. iv. 2.
REGARD. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise : At fools I laugh, not fear them. Cym. iv. 2.
Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son and heir to Mars : set at upper end o' the table : no questions asked him by any of
the senators, but they stand bald before him. C. iv. 5.
Our general himself makes a mistress of him ; sanctifies himself with 's hand, and turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse.
C. iv. 5.
Devotional. I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted ; * * * an immortal spirit ; And to be talk'd with in sincerity As with a saint.
M. M. i. 5.
REGICIDE. To do this deed, Promotion follows : If I could find example Of thousands, that had struck anointed kings, And flourish'd
after, I'd not do't : but since Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one, Let villainy itself forswear't. W. T. i. 2.
As full of valour as of royal blood : Both have I spilt ; 0, would the deed were good ! For now the devil, that told me, — I did well, Says,
that this deed is chronicled in hell. R. II. v. 6.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all ; here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
— We'd jump the life to come.— But in these cases, We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th' inventor : This even handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed ; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. — I have no spur 'To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And
falls on t'other side. M. i. 7.
REGRET. I had rather Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty, To have turn'd my leaping time into a crutch, Than have seen this. Cym. iv. 2.
RELATION. A little more than kin, and less than kind. H. i. 2.
RELIGION .(See also Dissimulation, Hypocrisy, Quoting Scripture). It is religion that doth make vows kept. K. J. iii. 1.
I see you have some religion in you, that you fear. Cym. i. 5.
REMEDIES. Things without remedy Should be without regard. M. iii. 2.
Well of that remedy can no man speak, That heals the loss, and cures not the disgrace. Poems.
REMEDIES. Must be suited to the Case. Sir, these cold ways, That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous Where the disease
is violent. C. iii. 1.
REMEMBRANCE (See also Memory). Remember thee ? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there ; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within
the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter : yes, by heaven. H. i. 5.
By our remembrances of days foregone. A. W. i. 3.
I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. M. iv. 3.
Rivetted, Screw'd to my memory. Cym. ii. 2.
Beshrew your heart, Fair daughter ! you do draw my spirits from me, With new lamenting antient oversights. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 3.
His good remembrance, Sir, Lies richer in your thoughts, than on his tomb ; So in approof lives not his epitaph, As in your royal speech. A. W. i. 2.
So came I a widow ; And never shall have length of life enough, To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, That it may grow and sprout
as high as heaven, For recordation to my noble husband. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 3.
Whose remembrance yet Lives in men's eyes : and will, to ears and tongues, Be theme and hearing ever. Cym. iii. 1.
Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew their feats. H. V. i. 2.
Briefly thyself remember. K. L. iv. 6.
REMONSTRANCE. He must be told on't, and he shall : the office Becomes a woman best ; I'll tak't upon me : If I prove honey-mouth'd, let my tongue blister; And never to my red-look'd anger be The trumpet any more. W.T. ii. 2.
REMORSE (See also Compunction.) When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his
study of imagination ; And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed. M. A. iv. 1.
I'll go no more : I am afraid to think what I have done ; Look on't again I dare not. M. ii. 2.
Nothing in his life Became him, like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, As 'twere a careless trifle. M. i. 4.
How sharp the point of this remembrance is ! T. ii. 1.
0, would the deed were good ! For now the devil, that told me — I did well, Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell. R. II. v. 6.
Once a day I'll visit The chapel where they lie ; and tears shed there Shall be my recreation. W.T. iii. 2.
REMUNERATION. Remuneration ! 0, that's the Latin word for three farthings. L. L. iii. 1.
RENOVATION. Break up their drowsy grave and newly move, With casted slough and fresh legerity. H. V. iv. 1.
RENOUNCEMENT. Thy truth then be thy dower : For, by the sacred radiance of the sun ; The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ;
By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be : Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity, and
property of blood. And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever. K. L. i. 1.
RENOWN. In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him. C. ii. 1.
The man is noble ; and his fame folds in This orb o' the earth. C. v. 5.
RENUNCIATION. Legitimation, name, and all is gone. K. J. i. 1.
REPAYMENT. 0, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labour. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 3.
REPENTANCE. Who by repentance is not satisfied Is nor of heaven, nor earth ; for these are pleas'd ; By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. T. G. v. 4.
Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Before thy
face repent. A. C. iv. 9.
And begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 4.
Like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heavy current, scow'ring faults : Nor ever hydra-headed wilfulness So soon did lose his seat, and fall at once, As in this king. H. V. i. 1.
What is done, cannot be now amended : Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after hours give leisure to repent.
R. III. iv. 4.
Sadly I survive To mock the expectation of the world ; To frustrate prophecies ; and to raze out Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down After my seeming. The tide of blood in me Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now ; Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea ; Where it shall mingle with the state of floods, And flow henceforth in formal majesty. H. IV. pt. II. v. 2.
Hold up your hands ; say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, became much more the better For being a little bad ; so may my husband. M. M. v. 1.
The prince will, in the perfectness of time, Cast off his followers ; and their memory Shall as a pattern or a measure live, By which his
grace must mete the lives of others : Turning past evils to advantages. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
I do not shame To tell you what I was, since my conversion So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am. A. Y. iv. 3.
Forgive me, Valentine ; if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here : I do as truly suffer, As e'er I did commit.
T. G. v. 4.
For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.
H. IV. pt. II. v. 5.
Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.
An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse : the inside of a church ! Company, villainous company, has been the spoil of me. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 3.
Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. M. W. iv. 5.
REPORT. There's gold for you ; sell me your good report. Cym. ii. 3.
Bring me no more reports. M. v. 3.
REPLY. Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this ? R. J. ii. 2.
REPOSE. Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. K. L. iv. 4.
REPRESENTATIVE. It is suppos'd, He, that meets Hector, issues from our choice : And choice, being mutual act of all our souls, Makes merit her election ; and doth boil, As 'twere from forth us all, a man distill'd Out of our virtues. T. C. i. 3.
REPROACH. 0, Lymoges ! 0, Austria ! thou dost shame That bloody spoil : Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward ; Thou little valliant, great in villainy ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous
ladyship is by To teach thee safety ! thou art perjur'd, too, And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool art thou, A ramping fool, to brag, and stamp, and swear, Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave, Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side ? Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength ? And dost thou now fall over to my foes ? Thou wear a lion's hide !
doff it for shame, And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs ! K. J. iii. 1.
REPROOF. Madam, I have a touch of your condition And cannot bear the accent of reproof. R. III. iv. 4.
REPROOF. Ill-timed. My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, And time to speak it in : you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster. T. ii. 1.
REPUGNANCE. No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the enmity o' the air ; To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, Necessity's sharp pinch ! K. L. ii. 4.
I'll never see't ; for, I am sure, my nails Are stronger than mine eyes. A. C. v. 2.
REPULSE. I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary out. T. N. iii. 4.
What ! Michael Cassio, That came a wooing with you ; and many a time, When I have spoke of you dispraisingly, Hath ta'en your part ; to have so much to do To bring him in ! 0. iii. 3.
REPUTATION (See also Honour). Good name, in man, and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he, that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. O. iii. 3.
The bubble reputation. A.Y. ii. 7.
The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted, and your name is great In mouths of wisest censure. 0. ii. 3.
Be not amazed . call all your senses to you : Defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever. M. W. iii. 3.
I see, my reputation is at stake ; My fame is shrewdly gor'd. T. C. iii. 3.
These wise men that give fools money, get themselves a good report, after fourteen years' purchase. T. N. iv. 1.
0, I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part, Sir, of myself; and what remains is bestial. O. ii. 3.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 0. ii. 3.
I have offended reputation ; A most unnoble swerving. A.C. iii. 9.
I would to God, thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
REQUEST, Unseasonable. Thou troublest me, Im not i' the vein. R. III. iv. 2.
RESEMBLANCE. Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face ; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral parts May'st thou inherit too ! A. W. i. 2.
RESERVE. Thou art all ice, thy kindness freezes. R. III. iv. 2.
Marry, before your ladyship, I grant, She puts her tongue a little in her heart, And chides with thinking. 0. ii. 1.
RESIGNATION. 0, you mighty gods ! This world I do renounce ; and in your sights, Shake patiently my great affliction off : If I could
bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, My snuff, and loathed parts of nature, should Burn itself out.
K. L. iv. 6.
Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubborness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. A. Y. ii. 1.
O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity. H. VIII. iv. 2.
Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom ! R. J. iii. 2.
I'll queen it no inch further ; But milk my ewes, and weep. W.T. iv. 3.
Cheer your heart : Be you not troubled with the time, which drives O'er your content these strong necessities ; But let determin'd things to destiny Hold unbewail'd their way. A. C. iii. 6.
Grieve not that I am fall'n to this for you : For herein fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom : it is still her use, To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, And view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow, An age of poverty ; from the ling'ring penance Of such a misery doth she cut me off. M. V. iv. 1.
God be with you ! — I have done. O. i. 3.
RESOLVE, Murderous. Come, come; you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse ; That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my full purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it ! Come to my woman's breasts. And take my milk for gall, you
murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on Nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the
dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes : Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry hold !
hold !
M. i. 5.
RESOLUTION (See also Determination). We will not from the helm, to sit and weep ; But keep our course, though the rough wind say, No. H. VI. pt. III. v. 4.
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed, For what I will, I will, and there an end. T. G. i. 3.
The harder match' d, the greater victory: My mind presageth happy gain and conquest. H. VI. pt. III. v. 1.
Strike now, or else the iron cools. H. VI. pt. III. v. 1.
I should be sick, But that my resolution helps me. Cym. iii. 6.
The cause is in my will. J. C. ii. 2.
We must have bloody noses, and crack'd crowns, And pass them current too. Gods me, my horse ! . H. IV. pt. I. ii. 3.
RETIREMENT. To forswear the full stream of the world, and to live.in a nook merely monastic. A. Y. iii. 2.
Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and
say,— This is no flattery ; these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am. A. Y. ii. 1.
Let me not live, — Thus his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,— Let me not live,
quoth he, After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain ; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies Expire before their fashions : This he wish'd I, after him, do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room.
A. W. i. 2.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. A. Y. ii. 1.
For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. H. IV. pt. I. v. 1.
To shake all cares and business from our age ; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we, Unburden'd, crawl toward death.
K. L. i. 1.
RETREAT. A poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish. A. Y. ii. 1.
RETRIBUTION. That high All-seer which I dallied with, Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begg'd
in jest. R. III. v. 1.
Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice ; till now, myself and such As slept within the shadow of your power, Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and breath'd Our sufferance vainly : Now the time is flush, When crouching marrow, in the bearer strong, Cries of itself, No more : now breathless wrong, Shall sit and pant in your great
chairs of ease ; And pursy insolence shall break his wind, With fear and horrid flight. T. A. v. 5.
Thus hath the course of justice wheel' d about, And left thee but a very prey to time ; Having no more but thought of what thou wert, To torture thee the more, being what thou art. Thou didst usurp my place. And dost thou not Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow ?
R. III. iv. 4.
So just is God to right the innocent ! R. III. i. 3.
But it is no matter: Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, the dog will have his day. H. v. 1.
God ! I fear, thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours, for this. R. III. ii. 1.
For this down-trodden equity, we tread, In warlike march, these greens before your town. K.J. ii. 1.
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. T. N. v. 1.
RETROSPECTION. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many
a thing I sought, And with old woes, new waile my dear time's waste ; Then can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid
in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanisht sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I now pay, as if
not paid before. Poems.
REVELRY. Heavy-headed revel. H. i. 4.
Our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine ; when every room Hath blaz'd with lights, and bray'd with minstrelsy. T. A. ii. 2.
REVENGE. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? — revenge ; if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be, by Christian example ? — why, revenge. M.V. iii. 1.
0, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue ! — But, gentle heaven, Cut short all intermission ; front to front, Bring thou this fiend of Scotland, and myself; Within my sword's length set him ; if he 'scape, Heaven forgive him too !
M. iv. 3.
To weep, is to make less the depth of grief ; Tears, then, for babes ; blows, and revenge for me. H. VI. pt. III. ii. 1.
Haste me to know it ; that I, with wings as swift As meditation, or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. H. i. 5.
Had I thy brethren here, their lives, and thine, Were not revenge sufficient for me ; No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. The sight of any of the house of York Is as a fury to torment my soul ; And till I root out their accursed line, And leave not one alive, I live in hell. H. VI. pt. III. i. 3.
Up, sword ; and know thou a more horrid bent , When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage ; Or in the incestuous pleasures of his bed ; At gaming, swearing ; or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't : Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damn'd, and black As hell, whereto it goes. H. iii. 3.
To hell, allegiance ! vows, to the blackest devil ! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit ! I dare damnation : To this point I stand, — That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes ; only, I'll be reveng'd. H. iv. 5.
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here ; Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear ; The which no balm can cure, but his
heart's blood Which breath'd this poison. R. II. i. 1.
My bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow
them up. 0. iii. 3.
Cassar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With At'e by his side, come hot from hell, Shall, in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry
Havock ! and let slip the dogs of war. J.C. iii. 1.
To revenge is no valour, but to bear. T. A. iii. 5.
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge Had stomach for them all. O. v. 2.
REVERENCE. That angel of the world doth make distinction Of place 'twixt high and low. C. iv. 2
REVERSES. He seems Proud and disdainful ; harping on what I am ; Not what he knew I was : He makes me angry ; And at this
time most easy 'tis to do't ; When my good stars, that were my former guides, Have left their orbs, and shot their fires. Into the abysm of hell. A. C. iii. 11.
Against the blown rose may they stop their nose, That kneel'd unto the buds. A. C. iii. 11.
REVIEW. Here, here ; here's an excellent place ; here we may see most bravely : I'll tell you them all by their names as they pass by.
T. C. i. 2.
REVOLUTION. Such is the infection of the time, That for the health and physic of our right, We cannot deal but with the very hand
Of stern injustice and confused wrong. K. J. v. 2.
RHETORIC. Sweet smoke of rhetoric ! L. L. iii. 1.
RHYMSTER (See also Poet, Ballad-monger). Ha, Ha ; how vilely doth this cynic rhyme ! J. C. iv. 3.
Hang odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles. A.Y. iii. 2.
What should the wars do with the jigging fools ? J. C. iv. 3.
This is the very false gallop of verses ; why do you infect yourself with them ? A. Y. iii. 2.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. M. A. v. 2.
RHYME. There never was a truer rhyme. Let us cast away nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. T.C. iv. 3.
RICH. As is the ooze and bottom of the sea With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. H. V. i. 2.
RICHES and Goodness. The old proverb is pretty well parted between my master Shylock and you, Sir ; you have the grace of God,
Sir, and he hath enough. M. V. ii. 2.
RIDDANCE. Call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. M. A. iii. 3.
RIDICULE. Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour ?
M. A. ii. 3.
And in this fashion, All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, Severals and generals of grace exact, Achievements, plots, orders, preventions, Excitements to the field, or speech for truce, Success or loss, what is, or is not, serves As stuff for these two to make paradoxes. T.C. i. 3.
RIGOUR. There is no more mercy in him, than there is milk in a male tiger. C. v. 4.
RIOT. There is no fear of Got in a riot. M. W. i. 1.
RISIBILITY. He does smile his face into more lines, than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies. T.N. iii. 2.
ROAR. 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear ; To make an earthquake ! sure it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. T. ii. 1.
You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring. M. N. i. 2.
ROBBER. This is the most omnipotent villain' that ever cried, Stand, to a true man. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
ROGUE (See also Knave, Villain). Here's an overwheening rogue ! T. N. ii. 5.
ROSES (of York and Lancaster). This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple Garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night. H. VI. pt. I. ii. 4.
Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses That shall maintain what I have said is true : Ay, thou shalt find us ready for thee still, And know us by these colours for thy foes. H. VI. pt. I. ii. 4.
And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate, Will I for ever, and my faction, wear ; Until it wither
with me to the grave, Or flourish to the height of my degree. H. VI. pt. I. ii. 4.
ROTTENNESS. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. H. i. 4.
ROVERS. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be every thing, and their intent every where ; for
that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing. T. N. ii. 4.
ROYALTY in Subjection. To be a queen in bondage, is more vile Than is a slave in base servility ; For princes should be free.
H. VI. pt. I. v. 3.
RUDENESS. None of noble sort would so offend a virgin. M. N. iii. 2.
RUINS. The ruin speaks, that sometime it was a worthy building. Cym. iv. 2.
RULERS. He, who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing. Shame to him, whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking. M. M. iii. 2.
There be, that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps ; lords, that can prate As amply and unnecessarily, As this Gonzalo
T. ii. 1.
RUMOUR. Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd. H. IV. pt. II. iii. 1.
There's toys abroad ; anon I'll tell thee more. K. J. i. 1.
For so I have strew'd it in the common ear, And so it is receiv'd. M. M. i. 4.
By holy. Paul, they love his grace but lightly, That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours. R. III. i. 3.
Old men, and beldams, in the streets Do prophecy upon it dangerously. K. J. iv. 2.
Open your ears : for which of you will stop The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks ? I, from the orient, to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth : Upon my tongues continual slanders ride ; The
which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity, Under the smile
of safety, wounds the world : And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters, and prepar'd defence ; Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter ? Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ; And of so easy and so plain a stop, That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. H. IV. pt. II. i. Ind.
RUSHING of a Multitude. Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide, As the recomforted through the gates. C. v. 4.
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The cankers of a calm world. H. IV. pt. I. iv. 2.
I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat. H. IV. pt. I. iv. 2.
RADIANCE. Like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phoebus' front. K. L. ii. 2.
RAGE (See also Anger, Fury). Eyeless rage. K. L. iii. 1.
Lost in the labyrinth of thy fury. T. C. ii. 3.
He's in his fit now, and does not talk after the wisest. T. ii. 2.
In rage, deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. R. II. i. 1.
Darkness and devils ! Saddle my horses ; call my train together. K. L. i. 4.
When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted Even to falling. A. C. iv. 1.
The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar'd ; Which, as he breath'd defiance to my ears, He swung about his head, and cut the winds, Who, nothing hurt withal, hiss'd him in scorn. R. J. i. 1.
RAILING. Did you ever hear such railing ? A. Y. iv. 3.
Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one, that is neither known of thee, nor knows thee. K. L. ii. 2.
Why, what an ass am I ! — This is most brave ; That I, the son of a dear father, murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! H. ii. 2.
I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; but, I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration, than thou learn a prayer without book.
T. C. ii. 1.
Rails on our little state of war Bold as an oracle : and sets Thersites, (A slave, whose gall coins slander like a mint,) To match us in comparisons with dirt. T. C. i. 3.
And Reproof, when worthy, or unworthy, of Regard. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail ; nor no railing in
a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove. T. N. i. 5.
RAILLERY. We may carry it thus for our pleasure, and his penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to have mercy
on him. T. N. iii. 4.
RALLYING, in Battle. With their own nobleness (which could have turn'd A distaff to a lance,) gilded pale looks, Part, shame, part,
spirit renewed ; that some, turn'd coward But by example (0, a sin in war, Damn'd in the first beginners !) 'gan to look The way that they
did, and to grin like lions Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began A stop i' the chaser, a retire ; anon, A rout, confusion thick : Forthwith they fly Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles ; slaves The strides of victors made ; and now our cowards (Like fragments in hard voyages) became The life o' the need ; having found the back-door open Of the unguarded hearts, Heavens, how they wound ! Some,
slain before ; some, dying ; some, their friends O'erborne i' the former wave: ten, chas'd by one. Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty. Cym. v. 3.
RANCOUR. We have been down together in my sleep, Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat, And wak'd half dead with nothing. C. iv. 5.
RANT. Nay, an' thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. H. v. 1.
RAT. How now ? a rat ! H. iii. 4.
READER. How well he's read, to reason against reading ! L. L. i. 1.
READINESS. Here, man, I am at thy elbow. M. A. iii. 3.
REALITY. 'Tis in grain, Sir ; 'twill endure wind and weather. T. N. i. 4.
REASON. What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, He, that made
us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason, To fust in us unus'd.
H. iv. 4.
If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions. O. i. 3.
Strong reasons make strong actions. K. J. iii. 4.
Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. J. C. iv. 3.
The reasons you allege, do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free determination 'Twist right
and wrong. T. C. ii. 2.
Nay, if we talk of reason, Let's shut our gates, and sleep : Manhood and honour Should have hare hearts, would they but fat their thoughts With this cramm'd reason : reason and respect Make livers pale, and lustihood deject. T. C. ii. 2.
Larded with many several sorts of reasons. H. v. 4.
You fur your gloves with reason : here are your reasons : You know an enemy intends you harm You know a sword employ'd is perilous ; And reason flies the object of all harm. T. C. ii. 2.
No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons, You are so empty of them. T. C. ii. 2.
Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion.
H. IV. pt. I. ii. 4.
I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason good enough. T. N. ii. 3.
REBEL. An exhal'd meteor, A prodigy of fear, and a portent Of broached mischief to the unborn times. H. IV. pt. I. v. 1.
REBELLION. Hear me more plainly. I have in equal balance justly weigh'd, What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
And find our griefs heavier than our offences. We see which way the stream of time doth run, And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere By the rough torrent of occasion : And have the summary of all our griefs, When time shall serve, to show in articles : Which, long ere this, we offer'd to the king ; And might by no suit gain our audience : When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs, We are denied
access unto his person, Even by those men who most have done us wrong. The dangers of the days but newly gone, (Whose memory is written on the earth With yet-appearing blood,) and the examples Of every minute's instance, (present now,) Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms : Not to break peace, or any branch of it ; But to establish here a peace indeed, Concurring both in name and quality. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
Now let it work : Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt. J. C. iii. 2.
If that rebellion Came like itself, in base and abject routs, Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage, And countenanced by boys, and beggary ; You, reverend father, and these noble lords, Had not been here, to dress the ugly form Of base and bloody insurrection.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
O.pity, God, this miserable age ! What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural, This deadly quarrel
daily doth beget. H. VI. pt. III. ii. 5.
But now the Bishop Turns insurrection to religion: Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, He's follow'd both with body and with mind. H. IV. pt II. i.1.
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, When down the hill he holds his fierce career ? We may as bootless spend our vain command Upon th' enraged soldiers in their spoil, As send precepts to the Leviathan To come ashore. H. V. iii. 3.
You, lord Archbishop, — Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd ; Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd ; Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd ; Whose white investments figure innocence, The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, —
Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself, Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace, Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of
war ? Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, Your pens to lances : and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet, and a point of
war ? H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
The rebels are in Southwark ; Fly, my lord ! Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer, Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house, And calls your grace usurper, openly, And vows to crown himself in Westminster. His army is a ragged multitude Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless : Sir Humphrey Stafford, and his brothers' death, Hath given them heart and courage to proceed : All scholars,
lawyers, courtiers, .gentlemen, They call — false caterpillars, and intend their death. H. VI. pt. II. iv. 4.
Noble English, you are bought and sold; Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith. K. J. v. 4.
All the regions Do smilingly revolt ; and, who resist, Are only mock'd for valiant ignorance, And perish constant fools. C. iv. 6.
My lord, your son had only but the corps, But shadows, and the shows of men, to fight : For that same word, rebellion, did divide The action of their bodies from their souls ; And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd As men drink potions ; that their weapons only Seem'd on our side, but for their spirits and souls, This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, As fish are in a pond.
H. IV. pt. II. i. 1.
Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule, Nor ever will be rul'd. C. iii. 1.
Wherefore do I this ? so the question stands. Briefly to this end: — We are all diseas'd ; And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours, Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it : of which disease, Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.
H. IV. pt. II. iv. 1.
You may as well Strike at the heaven with your staves, as lift them Against the Roman state ; whose course will on The way it takes, cracking. ten thousand curbs Of more strong link asunder, than can ever Appear in your impediment. C. i. 1.
No kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ;
contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none. T. ii. 1.
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again, And make poor England weep in streams of blood. R. III. v. 4
RECITATION (See also Speech). 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken ; with good accent, and good discretion. H. ii. 2.
We'll have a speech straight : Come, give us a taste of your quality; come, a passionate speech. H. ii. 2.
RECKONING. I am ill at reckoning, it fitteth the spirit of a tapster. L. L. i. 2.
O Lord, Sir, it were a pity you should get your living by reckoning, Sir. L. L. v. 2
RECOGNITION. Most reverend signior, do you know my voice ? 0. i. 1.
Long is it since I saw him, But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour, Which then he wore. Cym. iv. 2.
Can virtue hide itself ? Go to, mum, you are he ; graces will appear, and there's an end. M. A. ii. 1.
RECOLLECTION, Painful. 0, it comes o'er my memory, As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all. 0. iv. 1.
RECOMPENCE. Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove. T.C. iii. 2.
RECOVERY. This feather stirs ; she lives ! if it be so, It is a chance that does redeem all sorrows That ever I have felt. K. L. v. 3.
RECREATION. Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, But moody and dull melancholy. (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,) And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life ? In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast. C. E. v. 1.
RECREANT Slave. Yet I am thankful : if my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this : Captain, I'll be no more ; But I will eat and drink,
and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass, That every braggart shall be found an ass : Rust, sword ! cool, blushes ! and, Parolles, live ! Safest in shame ! being
fool'd, by foolery thrive ! There's place, and means, for every man alive. A. W. iv. 3.
RECRUIT. In very truth, Sir, I had as lief be hanged, Sir, as go ; and yet, for mine own part, Sir, I do not care ; but rather, because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, I have a desire to stay with my friends ; else, Sir, I did not care, for mine own part, so much.
H. IV. pt. II. iii. 4.
REFINEMENT. By the lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken notice of it ; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, that he galls his kibe. H. v. 1.
I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man.
T. N. ii. 5.
REFORM. God amend us, God amend ! we are much out o' the way. L. L. iv. 3.
Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him Leaving his body as a paradise, To envelop and contain celestial spirits. H. V. i. 1.
The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy. K. L. i. 4.
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
I tell thee, Jack Cade, the clothier, means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it. H.VI. pt. II. iv. 2.
I must give over this life, and I will give it over ; by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
REGAL Ceremonies (See also Ceremony). This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart ; in grace whereof,
No jocound health, that Denmark drinks to-day, But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ; And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder. H. i. 2.
As he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out, The triumph of his pledge. H. i. 4.
There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangour sounds. H. IV. pt. II. v. 5.
The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath ; And in the cup an union shall he throw Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn ; — Give me the cups ; And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heavens,to earth, Now the king drinks to Hamlet. H. v. 5.
A garish flag, To be the aim of every dangerous shot : A sign of dignity, a breath, a bubble. R. III. iv. 4.
The flattering index of a direful pageant, One heav'd a high, to be hurl'd down below. R. III. iv. 4.
Ill-timed. In this, the antique and well noted face Of plain old form is much disfigured : And, like a shifted wind unto a sail, It makes the course of thought to fetch about : Startles and frights consideration ; Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, For putting on so new a fashion'd robe. K. J. iv. 2.
REGARD. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise : At fools I laugh, not fear them. Cym. iv. 2.
Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son and heir to Mars : set at upper end o' the table : no questions asked him by any of
the senators, but they stand bald before him. C. iv. 5.
Our general himself makes a mistress of him ; sanctifies himself with 's hand, and turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse.
C. iv. 5.
Devotional. I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted ; * * * an immortal spirit ; And to be talk'd with in sincerity As with a saint.
M. M. i. 5.
REGICIDE. To do this deed, Promotion follows : If I could find example Of thousands, that had struck anointed kings, And flourish'd
after, I'd not do't : but since Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one, Let villainy itself forswear't. W. T. i. 2.
As full of valour as of royal blood : Both have I spilt ; 0, would the deed were good ! For now the devil, that told me, — I did well, Says,
that this deed is chronicled in hell. R. II. v. 6.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all ; here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
— We'd jump the life to come.— But in these cases, We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th' inventor : This even handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed ; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. — I have no spur 'To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And
falls on t'other side. M. i. 7.
REGRET. I had rather Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty, To have turn'd my leaping time into a crutch, Than have seen this. Cym. iv. 2.
RELATION. A little more than kin, and less than kind. H. i. 2.
RELIGION .(See also Dissimulation, Hypocrisy, Quoting Scripture). It is religion that doth make vows kept. K. J. iii. 1.
I see you have some religion in you, that you fear. Cym. i. 5.
REMEDIES. Things without remedy Should be without regard. M. iii. 2.
Well of that remedy can no man speak, That heals the loss, and cures not the disgrace. Poems.
REMEDIES. Must be suited to the Case. Sir, these cold ways, That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous Where the disease
is violent. C. iii. 1.
REMEMBRANCE (See also Memory). Remember thee ? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there ; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within
the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter : yes, by heaven. H. i. 5.
By our remembrances of days foregone. A. W. i. 3.
I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. M. iv. 3.
Rivetted, Screw'd to my memory. Cym. ii. 2.
Beshrew your heart, Fair daughter ! you do draw my spirits from me, With new lamenting antient oversights. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 3.
His good remembrance, Sir, Lies richer in your thoughts, than on his tomb ; So in approof lives not his epitaph, As in your royal speech. A. W. i. 2.
So came I a widow ; And never shall have length of life enough, To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, That it may grow and sprout
as high as heaven, For recordation to my noble husband. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 3.
Whose remembrance yet Lives in men's eyes : and will, to ears and tongues, Be theme and hearing ever. Cym. iii. 1.
Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew their feats. H. V. i. 2.
Briefly thyself remember. K. L. iv. 6.
REMONSTRANCE. He must be told on't, and he shall : the office Becomes a woman best ; I'll tak't upon me : If I prove honey-mouth'd, let my tongue blister; And never to my red-look'd anger be The trumpet any more. W.T. ii. 2.
REMORSE (See also Compunction.) When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his
study of imagination ; And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed. M. A. iv. 1.
I'll go no more : I am afraid to think what I have done ; Look on't again I dare not. M. ii. 2.
Nothing in his life Became him, like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, As 'twere a careless trifle. M. i. 4.
How sharp the point of this remembrance is ! T. ii. 1.
0, would the deed were good ! For now the devil, that told me — I did well, Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell. R. II. v. 6.
Once a day I'll visit The chapel where they lie ; and tears shed there Shall be my recreation. W.T. iii. 2.
REMUNERATION. Remuneration ! 0, that's the Latin word for three farthings. L. L. iii. 1.
RENOVATION. Break up their drowsy grave and newly move, With casted slough and fresh legerity. H. V. iv. 1.
RENOUNCEMENT. Thy truth then be thy dower : For, by the sacred radiance of the sun ; The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ;
By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be : Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity, and
property of blood. And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever. K. L. i. 1.
RENOWN. In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him. C. ii. 1.
The man is noble ; and his fame folds in This orb o' the earth. C. v. 5.
RENUNCIATION. Legitimation, name, and all is gone. K. J. i. 1.
REPAYMENT. 0, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labour. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 3.
REPENTANCE. Who by repentance is not satisfied Is nor of heaven, nor earth ; for these are pleas'd ; By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. T. G. v. 4.
Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Before thy
face repent. A. C. iv. 9.
And begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. H. IV. pt. II. ii. 4.
Like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heavy current, scow'ring faults : Nor ever hydra-headed wilfulness So soon did lose his seat, and fall at once, As in this king. H. V. i. 1.
What is done, cannot be now amended : Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after hours give leisure to repent.
R. III. iv. 4.
Sadly I survive To mock the expectation of the world ; To frustrate prophecies ; and to raze out Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down After my seeming. The tide of blood in me Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now ; Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea ; Where it shall mingle with the state of floods, And flow henceforth in formal majesty. H. IV. pt. II. v. 2.
Hold up your hands ; say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, became much more the better For being a little bad ; so may my husband. M. M. v. 1.
The prince will, in the perfectness of time, Cast off his followers ; and their memory Shall as a pattern or a measure live, By which his
grace must mete the lives of others : Turning past evils to advantages. H. IV. pt. II. iv. 4.
I do not shame To tell you what I was, since my conversion So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am. A. Y. iv. 3.
Forgive me, Valentine ; if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here : I do as truly suffer, As e'er I did commit.
T. G. v. 4.
For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.
H. IV. pt. II. v. 5.
Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.
An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse : the inside of a church ! Company, villainous company, has been the spoil of me. H. IV. pt. I. iii. 3.
Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. M. W. iv. 5.
REPORT. There's gold for you ; sell me your good report. Cym. ii. 3.
Bring me no more reports. M. v. 3.
REPLY. Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this ? R. J. ii. 2.
REPOSE. Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. K. L. iv. 4.
REPRESENTATIVE. It is suppos'd, He, that meets Hector, issues from our choice : And choice, being mutual act of all our souls, Makes merit her election ; and doth boil, As 'twere from forth us all, a man distill'd Out of our virtues. T. C. i. 3.
REPROACH. 0, Lymoges ! 0, Austria ! thou dost shame That bloody spoil : Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward ; Thou little valliant, great in villainy ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous
ladyship is by To teach thee safety ! thou art perjur'd, too, And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool art thou, A ramping fool, to brag, and stamp, and swear, Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave, Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side ? Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength ? And dost thou now fall over to my foes ? Thou wear a lion's hide !
doff it for shame, And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs ! K. J. iii. 1.
REPROOF. Madam, I have a touch of your condition And cannot bear the accent of reproof. R. III. iv. 4.
REPROOF. Ill-timed. My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, And time to speak it in : you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster. T. ii. 1.
REPUGNANCE. No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the enmity o' the air ; To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, Necessity's sharp pinch ! K. L. ii. 4.
I'll never see't ; for, I am sure, my nails Are stronger than mine eyes. A. C. v. 2.
REPULSE. I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary out. T. N. iii. 4.
What ! Michael Cassio, That came a wooing with you ; and many a time, When I have spoke of you dispraisingly, Hath ta'en your part ; to have so much to do To bring him in ! 0. iii. 3.
REPUTATION (See also Honour). Good name, in man, and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he, that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. O. iii. 3.
The bubble reputation. A.Y. ii. 7.
The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted, and your name is great In mouths of wisest censure. 0. ii. 3.
Be not amazed . call all your senses to you : Defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever. M. W. iii. 3.
I see, my reputation is at stake ; My fame is shrewdly gor'd. T. C. iii. 3.
These wise men that give fools money, get themselves a good report, after fourteen years' purchase. T. N. iv. 1.
0, I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part, Sir, of myself; and what remains is bestial. O. ii. 3.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 0. ii. 3.
I have offended reputation ; A most unnoble swerving. A.C. iii. 9.
I would to God, thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
REQUEST, Unseasonable. Thou troublest me, Im not i' the vein. R. III. iv. 2.
RESEMBLANCE. Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face ; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral parts May'st thou inherit too ! A. W. i. 2.
RESERVE. Thou art all ice, thy kindness freezes. R. III. iv. 2.
Marry, before your ladyship, I grant, She puts her tongue a little in her heart, And chides with thinking. 0. ii. 1.
RESIGNATION. 0, you mighty gods ! This world I do renounce ; and in your sights, Shake patiently my great affliction off : If I could
bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, My snuff, and loathed parts of nature, should Burn itself out.
K. L. iv. 6.
Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubborness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. A. Y. ii. 1.
O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity. H. VIII. iv. 2.
Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom ! R. J. iii. 2.
I'll queen it no inch further ; But milk my ewes, and weep. W.T. iv. 3.
Cheer your heart : Be you not troubled with the time, which drives O'er your content these strong necessities ; But let determin'd things to destiny Hold unbewail'd their way. A. C. iii. 6.
Grieve not that I am fall'n to this for you : For herein fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom : it is still her use, To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, And view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow, An age of poverty ; from the ling'ring penance Of such a misery doth she cut me off. M. V. iv. 1.
God be with you ! — I have done. O. i. 3.
RESOLVE, Murderous. Come, come; you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here ; And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse ; That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my full purpose, nor keep peace between The effect, and it ! Come to my woman's breasts. And take my milk for gall, you
murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on Nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the
dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes : Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry hold !
hold !
M. i. 5.
RESOLUTION (See also Determination). We will not from the helm, to sit and weep ; But keep our course, though the rough wind say, No. H. VI. pt. III. v. 4.
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed, For what I will, I will, and there an end. T. G. i. 3.
The harder match' d, the greater victory: My mind presageth happy gain and conquest. H. VI. pt. III. v. 1.
Strike now, or else the iron cools. H. VI. pt. III. v. 1.
I should be sick, But that my resolution helps me. Cym. iii. 6.
The cause is in my will. J. C. ii. 2.
We must have bloody noses, and crack'd crowns, And pass them current too. Gods me, my horse ! . H. IV. pt. I. ii. 3.
RETIREMENT. To forswear the full stream of the world, and to live.in a nook merely monastic. A. Y. iii. 2.
Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and
say,— This is no flattery ; these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am. A. Y. ii. 1.
Let me not live, — Thus his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,— Let me not live,
quoth he, After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain ; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies Expire before their fashions : This he wish'd I, after him, do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room.
A. W. i. 2.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. A. Y. ii. 1.
For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. H. IV. pt. I. v. 1.
To shake all cares and business from our age ; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we, Unburden'd, crawl toward death.
K. L. i. 1.
RETREAT. A poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish. A. Y. ii. 1.
RETRIBUTION. That high All-seer which I dallied with, Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begg'd
in jest. R. III. v. 1.
Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice ; till now, myself and such As slept within the shadow of your power, Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and breath'd Our sufferance vainly : Now the time is flush, When crouching marrow, in the bearer strong, Cries of itself, No more : now breathless wrong, Shall sit and pant in your great
chairs of ease ; And pursy insolence shall break his wind, With fear and horrid flight. T. A. v. 5.
Thus hath the course of justice wheel' d about, And left thee but a very prey to time ; Having no more but thought of what thou wert, To torture thee the more, being what thou art. Thou didst usurp my place. And dost thou not Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow ?
R. III. iv. 4.
So just is God to right the innocent ! R. III. i. 3.
But it is no matter: Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, the dog will have his day. H. v. 1.
God ! I fear, thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours, for this. R. III. ii. 1.
For this down-trodden equity, we tread, In warlike march, these greens before your town. K.J. ii. 1.
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. T. N. v. 1.
RETROSPECTION. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many
a thing I sought, And with old woes, new waile my dear time's waste ; Then can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid
in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanisht sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I now pay, as if
not paid before. Poems.
REVELRY. Heavy-headed revel. H. i. 4.
Our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine ; when every room Hath blaz'd with lights, and bray'd with minstrelsy. T. A. ii. 2.
REVENGE. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? — revenge ; if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be, by Christian example ? — why, revenge. M.V. iii. 1.
0, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue ! — But, gentle heaven, Cut short all intermission ; front to front, Bring thou this fiend of Scotland, and myself; Within my sword's length set him ; if he 'scape, Heaven forgive him too !
M. iv. 3.
To weep, is to make less the depth of grief ; Tears, then, for babes ; blows, and revenge for me. H. VI. pt. III. ii. 1.
Haste me to know it ; that I, with wings as swift As meditation, or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. H. i. 5.
Had I thy brethren here, their lives, and thine, Were not revenge sufficient for me ; No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. The sight of any of the house of York Is as a fury to torment my soul ; And till I root out their accursed line, And leave not one alive, I live in hell. H. VI. pt. III. i. 3.
Up, sword ; and know thou a more horrid bent , When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage ; Or in the incestuous pleasures of his bed ; At gaming, swearing ; or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't : Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damn'd, and black As hell, whereto it goes. H. iii. 3.
To hell, allegiance ! vows, to the blackest devil ! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit ! I dare damnation : To this point I stand, — That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes ; only, I'll be reveng'd. H. iv. 5.
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here ; Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear ; The which no balm can cure, but his
heart's blood Which breath'd this poison. R. II. i. 1.
My bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow
them up. 0. iii. 3.
Cassar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With At'e by his side, come hot from hell, Shall, in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry
Havock ! and let slip the dogs of war. J.C. iii. 1.
To revenge is no valour, but to bear. T. A. iii. 5.
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge Had stomach for them all. O. v. 2.
REVERENCE. That angel of the world doth make distinction Of place 'twixt high and low. C. iv. 2
REVERSES. He seems Proud and disdainful ; harping on what I am ; Not what he knew I was : He makes me angry ; And at this
time most easy 'tis to do't ; When my good stars, that were my former guides, Have left their orbs, and shot their fires. Into the abysm of hell. A. C. iii. 11.
Against the blown rose may they stop their nose, That kneel'd unto the buds. A. C. iii. 11.
REVIEW. Here, here ; here's an excellent place ; here we may see most bravely : I'll tell you them all by their names as they pass by.
T. C. i. 2.
REVOLUTION. Such is the infection of the time, That for the health and physic of our right, We cannot deal but with the very hand
Of stern injustice and confused wrong. K. J. v. 2.
RHETORIC. Sweet smoke of rhetoric ! L. L. iii. 1.
RHYMSTER (See also Poet, Ballad-monger). Ha, Ha ; how vilely doth this cynic rhyme ! J. C. iv. 3.
Hang odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles. A.Y. iii. 2.
What should the wars do with the jigging fools ? J. C. iv. 3.
This is the very false gallop of verses ; why do you infect yourself with them ? A. Y. iii. 2.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. M. A. v. 2.
RHYME. There never was a truer rhyme. Let us cast away nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. T.C. iv. 3.
RICH. As is the ooze and bottom of the sea With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. H. V. i. 2.
RICHES and Goodness. The old proverb is pretty well parted between my master Shylock and you, Sir ; you have the grace of God,
Sir, and he hath enough. M. V. ii. 2.
RIDDANCE. Call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. M. A. iii. 3.
RIDICULE. Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour ?
M. A. ii. 3.
And in this fashion, All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, Severals and generals of grace exact, Achievements, plots, orders, preventions, Excitements to the field, or speech for truce, Success or loss, what is, or is not, serves As stuff for these two to make paradoxes. T.C. i. 3.
RIGOUR. There is no more mercy in him, than there is milk in a male tiger. C. v. 4.
RIOT. There is no fear of Got in a riot. M. W. i. 1.
RISIBILITY. He does smile his face into more lines, than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies. T.N. iii. 2.
ROAR. 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear ; To make an earthquake ! sure it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. T. ii. 1.
You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring. M. N. i. 2.
ROBBER. This is the most omnipotent villain' that ever cried, Stand, to a true man. H. IV. pt. I. i. 2.
ROGUE (See also Knave, Villain). Here's an overwheening rogue ! T. N. ii. 5.
ROSES (of York and Lancaster). This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple Garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night. H. VI. pt. I. ii. 4.
Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses That shall maintain what I have said is true : Ay, thou shalt find us ready for thee still, And know us by these colours for thy foes. H. VI. pt. I. ii. 4.
And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate, Will I for ever, and my faction, wear ; Until it wither
with me to the grave, Or flourish to the height of my degree. H. VI. pt. I. ii. 4.
ROTTENNESS. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. H. i. 4.
ROVERS. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be every thing, and their intent every where ; for
that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing. T. N. ii. 4.
ROYALTY in Subjection. To be a queen in bondage, is more vile Than is a slave in base servility ; For princes should be free.
H. VI. pt. I. v. 3.
RUDENESS. None of noble sort would so offend a virgin. M. N. iii. 2.
RUINS. The ruin speaks, that sometime it was a worthy building. Cym. iv. 2.
RULERS. He, who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing. Shame to him, whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking. M. M. iii. 2.
There be, that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps ; lords, that can prate As amply and unnecessarily, As this Gonzalo
T. ii. 1.
RUMOUR. Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd. H. IV. pt. II. iii. 1.
There's toys abroad ; anon I'll tell thee more. K. J. i. 1.
For so I have strew'd it in the common ear, And so it is receiv'd. M. M. i. 4.
By holy. Paul, they love his grace but lightly, That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours. R. III. i. 3.
Old men, and beldams, in the streets Do prophecy upon it dangerously. K. J. iv. 2.
Open your ears : for which of you will stop The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks ? I, from the orient, to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth : Upon my tongues continual slanders ride ; The
which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity, Under the smile
of safety, wounds the world : And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters, and prepar'd defence ; Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter ? Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ; And of so easy and so plain a stop, That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. H. IV. pt. II. i. Ind.
RUSHING of a Multitude. Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide, As the recomforted through the gates. C. v. 4.
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