m m fSm I BllJsi I nwiinnm * ■ Itrottt SB Wsm mm ffimWs mm m BH Sura NKhhI IBS * # £ 1 ' » * * / bo^ ^ v V /- ^0 o > \ ,0 o l> p -1 f J *v jy//"PROPRIATE SYNONYM BEING AFFIXED TO EACH EXTRACT, WITH A REFERENCE TO THE CONTEXT, THE WHOLE DESIGNED TO INTRODUCE THE BEAUTIES OF SHAKESPEARE, THE FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE OF SOCIETY. BY THOMAS DOLBY. LONDON : Published by SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65, Cornhill. 1832. OH iONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, BOUVERIE STREBT. PREFACE. The matchless genius of Shakespeare has furnished occupation for authors, from the very age in which he wrote, down to the pre- sent day ; so that, independent of the innumerable editions of his plays, from the original authentic copies, to the modern mutila- tions represented under his name upon the stage, we have more than two hundred works of which Shakespeare and his writings are the subject. Such being the case, it may be thought necessary, for one who ventures to add to the number, to offer some apology to the public for so doing. That tendered for the present compilation is founded on the belief, that among all these works, there does not exist one which effectively occupies the ground here taken, and very few which even attempt to connect Shakespeare's felicitous expressions —exhibiting as they do, a matchless insight into human nature — with the various casualties, motives, and objects of ordinary life. Such a task, if performed with judgment and faithfulness, could hardly fail to prove both pleasing and useful. In support of the opinion that this task yet remained to be accomplished, it will be n 3cessary to submit a few observations concerning the works which profess to have the same object, upon the comparative merits of vhich with the Shakespearian Dictionary, its pretensions to public favour must be founded. Ayscough's " Index to Shakespeare," is a work of great labour, and, as a verbal compilation, is doubtless of utility ; but it is a I dictionary of the poet's words, rather than of his expressions, giv- ing only so much of the context as was necessary to elucidate the IV PREFACE. peculiar sense wherein each word is to be understood, and con- necting this with remarkable speeches only by means of refer- ences. From almost any arrangement of the words of such an author, occasional scintillations will necessarily flash out ; but in this case, the pleasing effect, which thus occurs, is destroyed when we arrive at the next word in the catalogue. We may learn to number the occasions wherein each word recurs throughout the author's writings, but what have the imagination or the feelings to do with such a calculation ! We may, indeed, retain the con- sciousness we bring with us of treading on hallowed ground, but feel not the inspiring influence of the divinity. Certain smaller compilations, put forth under the captivating title of "Beauties of Shakespeare,'' contain only the more remark- able speeches, and, for the most part, are confined to such as are clothed in verse ; omitting altogether the thousands of expres- sions strewed profusely throughout the prose speeches and col- loquies, wherein are to be found all those most surprising flashes of description, alternating from the grotesque to the sublime, which peculiarly distinguish the Bard of Avon from all other writers, either ancient or modern. In this class of compilations must be included a work, pub- lished about ten years since, " by the author of the Peerage and Baronetage Chart," and called " A Dictionary of Quota- tions from Shakespeare ; " but the same objection that attends the " Beauties," must be made against the " Dictionary." The quotations are given exclusively from the measured poetry of the author, while the prose speeches and colloquies are wholly neglected. Fearful of being suspected of speaking unfairly, con- cerning a work which comes, perhaps, the nearest in collision with the present, a specimen is here introduced, whence the reader may form some opinion of the editorial discrimination which has been exhibited. Under the head of Drunkenness, the description of Danish regal ceremonies is introduced from Hamlet : — " 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." PREFACE. V Under the same head we find inserted the pledge of returning amity between Brutus and Cassius, taken from the play of Julius Caesar :— " Give me a bowl of wine ; In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius." As another illustration of the same subject, we have the expres- sion of Richard, endeavouring to rally his downcast spirits against the pressure of a guilty conscience : — " Give me a bowl of wine ; I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have." Now it is difficult to conceive how these different quotations relate to drunkenness, save only as they refer to the act of drinking ; without which, that wretched state or propensity which we express by the word drunkenness, cannot indeed have exis- tence. " The Aphorisms of Shakespeare," edited by Mr. Capel Lofft, and printed and published at Bury St. Edmund's about twenty years ago, formed a collection worthy of that highly-gifted gen- tleman. Mr. Lofft extracted sentences from Shakespeare, begin- ning with the play of Hamlet. To each extract he prefixed a synonym, or concisely descriptive sentence. Where he conceived the author to be obscure, from having used terms that have be- come obsolete, or encumbered by expletives, he took the liberty of altering the text, and of reducing any extract according to his own pleasure, into an aphoristic compass. The result proved, as might have been expected from so competent an editor, and such rich materials, one of the most choice collections of aphoristic wisdom that ever issued from the press. The defects of Mr. Lofft's book were, that he arranged each play separately, without any classification of subjects, or alphabetical order: hence its incon- venience as a work of reference. Suppose it were required to be known what Shakespeare had said on the subject of Grief, Man, Pride, or any other matter, a person would probably require to look for these in as many different places, as Shakespeare wrote plays. As a Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations, it could not, for obvious reasons, be of any use. VI PREFACE. In the compilation now submitted to the public, each extract will be found classed under its appropriate head ; and where the import could be expressed in a single word, it is so expressed ; but where such brevity was found impracticable, the drift or spirit of the extract is expressed in the fewest words possible. In cer- tain cases it has been found impracticable to express the import of an extract literally, either by a single word, or by a short sen- tence. In such cases the compiler has endeavoured to catch the spirit, and to prefix such a term as would best convey it to the reader's comprehension. If he has not in all such cases been successful, the candid will not hastily condemn, but refer for a better term to the context. Whatever the compiler's demerits maybe, the charge of altering the language of Shakespeare can- not be sustained, for the text is in no instance meddled with except with the view to reconcile slight variations which occur i the most authentic editions. The whole collection has been finall revised, and collated with the edition of Heminge and Condell, folio, Lond. 1632. As a table-book, it is presumed this work will be found no less pleasing, than as a book of reference it will be useful. Expres- sions, long and short, grave and gay, when read consecutively, will ever produce a pleasing effect ; and the devoted admirer of Shakespeare will not, it is hoped, be displeased at occasionally meeting beauties which had long been familiar to him, suddenly presenting themselves from behind coverts where he had not expected to see them. The Shakespearian Dictionary, being the result of some thought, as well as labour, is respectfully offered as a book of utility to foreigners, young persons, and others, engaged in en- quiries into the structure of our language ; the synonym and the extract being mutually illustrative, according to Locke's idea of a definition, London, January, 1832. EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATED REFERENCE TO THE CONTEXT, APPENDED TO EACH EXTRACT OR QUOTATION. A. C— Antony and Cleopatra. A. W.— All's Well that Ends WeU. A. Y.— As You Like It. C. — Coriolanus. C. E.— Comedy of Errors. Cym. — Cymbeline. H.— Hamlet. H.IV. pt. i.— Henry Fourth, Part First. H. IV. pt. ii.— Henry Fourth, Part Second. H. VI. pt. i.— Henry Sixth, Part First. H. VI. pt. ii.— Henry Sixth, Part Se- cond. H, VI. pt. in.— Henry Sixth, Part Third. J. C. — Julius Caesar. H. V.— Henry Fifth. H. VIII.— Henry Eighth. K. J. — King John. K. L. — King Lear. R. II.— Richard the Second. R. III.— Richard the Third. L. L. — Love's Labour Lost. M.— Macbeth. M. A.— Much Ado About Nothing. M. 31.— Measure for Measure. M. N.— Midsummer Night's Dream. II. V.— Merchant of Venice. M. PT.— Merry Wives of Windsor. 0.— Othello. P. P.— Pericles, Prince of Tyre. R. J.— Romeo and Juliet. T.— Tempest. T. A.— Timon of Athens. Tit. And.— Titus Andronicus. T. C— Troilus and Cressida. T. G.— Two Gentlemen of Verona. T. N.— Twelfth Night. T. S — Taming of the Shrew. W. T— Winter's Tale. *** The Act is expressed by Roman Numerals ; the Scene by Arabic figures- Example : — A. C. iv. 7, signifies, Antony and Cleopatra, Act the Fourth, Scene the Seventh. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. A. . ABILITY, Innate. There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace Chalks successors their way ; nor call'd upon For high feats done to the crown ; neither allied To eminent assistants ; but spider-like, Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note ; The force of his own merit makes his way ; A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king. . H, VI II. i. 1. .ABSENCE. I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd ; But I shall, in a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence. . 0. iii. 4. Lovers'. What ! keep a week away 1 seven days and nights 1 Eight score eight hours, — and lovers' absent hours, — More tedious than the dial eight score times 1 O weary reckoning ! . . 0. iii. 4. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest growing ruinous the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was. . T. G. v. 4 \ ABUSE, and Bad English (See also Vituperation). Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English 1 M. W. v. 5. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. . . M. W. i.4. Let them keep their limbs whole, and hack our English. M. W. iii. 1 . ADV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 2 ACCUSATION. To vouch this is no proof, Without more certain and more overt test, Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. . 0. i. 3. ACHIEVEMENT. Avery good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. M.N.D. i. 1. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds ; or I swear I will have it in a particular ballad, with mine own picture on the top of it. if. IV, pt. ii. iv. 1. ACQUITTAL. Now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith. . . M. W. iv. 4. ACTION, Dramatic. Let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so over- done is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere the mirror up to nature - 9 to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure : * * * O, there be players, that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly, — not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's jour- neymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. . • if. iii. 2. ADOPTION. 'Tis often seen, Adoption strives with nature ; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds . A.W. i.3. ADORATION, a Lover's. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering of your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function : Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens. • W. T. iv. 4. ADVERSITY (See also Misfortune), A man I am, cross'd with adversity. . T. G. iv. 1 . But myself, I Who had the world as my confectionary ; The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, the hearts of men d SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ADV ADVERSITY,— continued. At duty, more than I could frame employment ; That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare, For every storm that blows; I, to bear this, That never knew but better, is some burden. T. A. iv. 3. Such a house broke ! So noble a master fallen ! All gone ! and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him ! . T.A. iv. 2. ■ ■ Folly of Repining at. What think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, Will put thy shirt on warm ? Will these moist trees, That have out-lived the eagle, page thy heels, And skip when thou point'st out ? will the cold brook, Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit 1 Call the creatures ; Whose naked natures live in all the spight Of wreakful heaven ; whose bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements exposM, Answer mere nature, — bid them flatter thee. T. A. iv.3. its Uses. A. Y. ii. 1. Sweet are the uses of adversity $ Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head. 'Tis good for men to love their present pains, Upon example ; so the spirit is eas'd : And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt, The organs, though defunct and dead before, I Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move With casted slough, and fresh legerity. . H. V. iii, 1 . In poison there is physic ; and these news Having been well, that would have made me sick ; Being sick, have in some measure made me well. And as the wretch whose fever-weaken'd joints, Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire Out of his keeper's arms ; even so my limbs, Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with grief, Are thrice themselves. . *H,IV. pt.it. i. 1. ADVICE (See also Caution). Fasten your ear to my advisings. . M.M. iii. 1. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse ; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. . . . K.L. iii. 4. Take heed, be wary how you place your words. H. VI, pt.i. iii. 2. Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it ; but the great one that goes up b 2 ADV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 4 ADVICE,— continued. \ the hill, let him draw thee after* WhejLJL wise_inan gives thee » hetteOPJL&S^f -give me mine again. . K. L. ii. 4. Pray be counsel'd : I have a heart as little apt as yours, But yet a brain, that leads my use of anger To better 'vantage. . . C. iii. 2. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy ^jiather in ..powejUJhaJWaSft; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check' d for silence, But never tax'd for speech. . A, W. i. 1. Keep thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks, betray thy poor heart to women. . K. L. iii. 4 to a Young Woman. Fear it, my dear sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon ; Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth | Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then ; best safety lies in fear ; Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. H. i.3. _L, T0 A Young Man. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each unhatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. I Give ev'ry man thine'ear, but few thy voice : I Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man : — Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man- Farewell : — my blessing season this in thee ! H. i. 3. D SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. AGE ADVICE to a Statesman. Mark but my fall, ancU hat that r uin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels ; how can^ma^n^henj f The image of his Maker, hope to win^b^V^ Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou falPst, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. . H. VIII. iii. 2. ADULATION (See also Flattery). You shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical ; As if I lov'd my little should be dieted In praises sauc'd with lies. . . C i. 9. AFFECTED Speakers. These new tuners of accents. . R. J. ii. 4. AFFECTION, (See Parental Affection). AFFLICTION. I Affliction is enamonr'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. . \ R. J. iii. 3. AGE. The silver livery of advised age. . H, VI. pt. ii. v. 2. Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old, with all the characters of age ? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand"? a yellow cheek ? a white beard ? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly ? Is not your voice broken? your wind short ? your chin double ? your wit single ? and every part about you blasted with antiquity ? and will you yet call yourself young ? O fye, Sir John. . . H. IV. pt. ii. i. 2. Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. . H. iv. 7. Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up ; Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. . C. E. v. i. I would there were no age between ten and three-ancLtwenty ; -or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there is nothing between but wenching, wronging the ancientry, stealing, and fighting. W.T. iii. 3. His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds : AMA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. t> AGE, — continued. It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands ; Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity. . J. C. ii. 1. As you are old and reverend you should be wise. K.L. i. 4. When age is in the wit is out. . M. A. iii.5. Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age, And twit with cowardice a man half dead 1 H. VI. pt. i. iii.2. and Frailty. The blood of youth burns not with such excess As gravity's revolt to wantonness. . L. L. v. ii. Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been wise. . • . K.L. \. 5. and Grief. » I am old now, And these same crosses spoil me. . K, L. v. 3. O ! grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last -, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, Have written strange defeatures in my face. C. E. v. 1. and Loquacity. These tedious old fools ! . . H. ii. 2. AIM. Here is the heart of my purpose. . M. W. ii. 2. AIR. A bond of air, strong as the axle-tree On which heaven rides. . . T. C. i. 3. ALARM, What stir is this ? what tumult's in the heavens ? Whence cometh this alarum, and the noise ? H. VI. pt. i. i.4. What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house ? • M. ii. 3. Silence that dreadful bell, it frights the isle From its propriety. . . 0. ii. 3. ALLEGIANCE. Your highness' part Is to receive our duties : and our duties Are to your throne and state, children and servants ; Which do but what they should, by doing every thing Safe toward your love and honour. . M. i. 4. AMAZEMENT. But the changes I perceived in the king and Camillo, were very notes of admiration : they seemed almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes ; there was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture ; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. A notable pas- sion of wonder appeared in them : but the wisest beholder, that 7 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. AMB AMAZEMENT,— continued. knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow : but in the extremity of one it must be. W. T. v. 2. AMBITION. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. H . ii. 2. I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. . . F ii. 2. 'Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. . * J. C. ii. 4. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. . , J. C. i. 2. What see'st thou there ? King Henry's diadem, Enchas'd with all the honours of the world 1 If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face, Until thy head be circled with the same. Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold : — What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine : And, having both together heav'd it up, We'll both together lift our heads to heaven ; And never more abase our sight so low, As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground. H. VI. pt. ii. i. 2. That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. • . M. i. 4. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, 'And falls on t'other side. . . M. i. 7. The devil speed him ! no man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. . H. VIII. i. 1. Follow I must, I cannot go before, While Glo'ster bears this base and humble mind. Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, I would remove these tedious stumbling blocks^ And smooth my way upon their headless necks. H. VI. pt. ii. i. 2. Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ; Nor can one England brook a double reign, Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales. H. IV. pt. ii. v. 4. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was.ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it. J. C. hi. 2. ANG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 8 AMBITION Defeated. People , and senators ! be not affrighted ; Fly not ; stand still : — ambition's debt is paid. J. C. iii. 1. ALLOY, Universal, in thts Probationary Life. Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring, Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers ; The adder hisseth where the sweet birds sing ; What virtue breeds, iniquity devours. j Poems. AMEN. Let me say, Amen, betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer. M. V. iii. 1. AMENDMENT (See also Reform). God mend all. . . H. VIII. i. 3. ANCESTRY (See also Lineage). Look in the chronicles, we came in with Richard conqueror. T. S. Ind. i. ANGER (See also Fury— Rage). To be in anger is impiety, But who is man that is not angry. . T. A. iii. 5. 1 Never anger made good guard for itself. . A. C. iv. 1. This tyger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will, too late, Tie leaden pounds to his heels. . C. iii. 1. Stay, my lord ! And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like A full hot horse, who, being allowed his way, Self mettle tires him. . . H. VIII. i. 1 It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them that this world did equal theirs, Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught ; Patience is sottish ; and impatience does Become a dog that's mad. . . A.C. iv. 13. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood ! H. IV. pt. i. i. 3. Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from, Well could I curse away a winter's night, Though standing naked on a mountain top, Where biting cold would never let grass grow, And think it but a minute spent in sport. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 2. Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now. . JR. J. iii. J. What ! drunk with choler? stay, and pause awhile. H. IV. pt. i. i. 3. A plague upon them ! wherefore should I curse them ? Would curses kill as doth the mandrake's groan, 9 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ANN ANGER,— continued. I would invent as bitter-searching terms, As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear, Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth, With full as many signs of deadly hate, As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave : My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words ; Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint ; My hair be fix'd on end, as one distract ; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban : And even now my burdened heart would break, Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink ! Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste ! Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees ! Their chiefest prospect, murd'ring basilisks ! Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' stings ! Their music, frightful as the serpent's hiss ; And boding screech-owls make the concert full ! H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 2. Be advis'd ; Heat not a furnace for your foes so hot, That it do singe yourself : we may out-run, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor till't run o'er, In seeming to augment it, wastes it. Be advis'd. H. VIII. i. 1. O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth ! Then with a passion would I shake the world. K. J. iii. 4. I am about to weep ; but, thinking that We are a queen, (or long have dream'd so) certain, The daughter of a king, my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire. • H. VIII. ii. 4. O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. . J. C. iv. 3. Anger's my meat : I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. . 0. iv. 2* But anger has a privilege. . . K.L. ii. 2. By the gods You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you : for, from this day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish. . . J. C. iv. 3. ANGLING. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait. M. A. iii. 1. ANNOYANCE, Impertinent. The loose encounters of lascivious men. . T. G. ii. 6. b 3 APO SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY, 10 ANSWER. Definitively thus I answer you. • R. III. iii . 7. Your answer, Sir, is enigmatical. . M.A. v. 4. , General. But for me, I have an answer will serve all men. A. W. ii. 2. ANSWERING A LETTER. Any man, that can write, may answer a letter. R. J. ii. 4. ANT. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labour- ing in the winter. . . K. L. ii. 4, ANTICIPATION. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. . M. iv. 1. I smell it 3 upon my life, it will do well. H. IV, pt. i. i. 3. Excellent ! I smell a device. • T. N. ii. 3. A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. M. W, iii. 2. Great business must be wrought ere noon ; Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vapourous drop profound ; I'll catch it ere it come to ground. . M. iii. 5. I am giddy ; expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet, That it enchants my sense. , T. C. iii. 2„ ANTIQUITIES. What's to do ? Shall we go see the reliques of this town 1 T. N. iii. 3. APOLOGIST. I have laboured for the poor gentleman, to the extremest shore of my modesty. . . M. M. iii. 2. APOLOGY. What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse I Or shall we on without apology. . R* J* i« 4. APOPLEXY. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship ; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tin- gling. . . H. IV. pt. ii. i. 2* APOTHECARY. I do remember an apothecary, — And hereabouts he dwells, — whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, \ Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : i And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthern pots, bladders and musty seeds, 11 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ARM APOTHECARY,— continued. Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said, — An* if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him. R. J, v. 1. APPARITION (See also Ghosts, Spirits). I have heard (but not believ'd) the spirits of the dead May walk again : if such thing be, thy mother Appear'd to me last night ; for ne'er was dream So like a waking. . . W. T. iii. 3. APPEAL. And here I stand : — judge, my masters. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. APPELLATIONS of Juvenile Endearment. Adoptedly ; as school-maids change their names By vain, though apt affection. . M. M. i. 5. APPLAUSE, Popular, (See also Popularity, Mob). And there is such confusion in my powers, As, after some oration fairly spoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear Among the buzzing pleased multitude ; Where every something being blent together, Turns to a wild of nothing. . M. V. iii. 2. APPREHENSION. Heaven ! that I had thy head ! lie has found the meaning. P.P. i.l. 0F THE Worthless. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile ; Filths savour but themselves. . K. L. iv. 2. APTITUDE. Your spirits shine through you. . M. iii. 1. I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats ; If it be man's work, I will do it. . K. L. v. 3. ARDOUR, Military (See also War). O let the hours be short, Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport. H. IV. pt. r. i. 3. ARITHMETICIAN. Forsooth, a great arithmetician. . . 0. i. 1„ ARMAMENT, Sailing. Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed King at Hampton pier Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. Play with your fancies j and in them behold, ARM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 12 ARMAMENT,— continued. Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing : Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confus'd ; behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge : O do but think, You stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant billows dancing ; For so appears this fleet majestical, Holding due course to Harfleur. . H. V. ii. chorus. ARMY (See also War). A braver choice of dauntless spirits Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, Did never float upon the swelling tide, To do offence and scath in Christendom. The interruption of their churlish drums Cuts off more circumstance : they are at hand, To parley, or to fight ; therefore prepare. K. J. ii. 1 . England, impatient of your just demands, Hath put himself in arms ; the adverse winds, Whose leisure I have staid, have given him time To land his legions all as soon as I : His marches are expedient to this town, His forces strong, his soldiers confident. . K. J. Tell the Constable, We are but warriors for the working day ; IOur gayness, and our gilt, are all be-smirch/d With rainy marching in the painful field. There's not a piece of feather in our host, (Good argument I hope we shall not fly,) f And time has worn us into slovenry : But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim. H.V. Within a ken our army lies ; Upon mine honour, all too confident To give admittance to a thought of fear. H. IV, pt. ii. All the unsettled humours of the land, — Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens, — Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here. . K. J. ii, 1. Remember who you are to cope withal ; — A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run- away s, A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants, Whom their o'er-cloy'd country vomits forth To desperate ventures and assur'd destruction. R. III. v. 3. Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host, And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, 13 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ASS ARMY, — continued. With torch-staves in their hands ; and their poor jades Lob down their heads, drooping the hides and hips ; The gum down-roping from their pale dead eyes ; And in their pale dull mouths the gymold bit Lies foul with chaw'd grass, still and motionless ; And their executors, the knavish crows, Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. H. V. iv. 2* His army is a ragged multitude Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless. H. VI. pt. ii. iv. 4. ARRAIGNMENT. It shall be done, I will arraign them straight : — Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer. K. L. iii. 6. ARREST. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors : and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment. M. M. i. 3. ART and Nature. Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art . Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. . . . W. T. iv. 3. This is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. . . W. T. iv. 3. ARTS, Forbidden. I therefore apprehend and do attach thee, For an abuser of the world, a practiser Of arts inhibited, and out of warrant. . 0. i. 2. ASPECT, Martial. Say, what's thy name? Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face Bears a command in't ; though thy tackle's torn Thou show'st a noble vessel. , . »C. iv. 5. He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye ; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. . . C. v. 4. Sour. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. . C. iv. 4. ASPIRANT. A high hope for a low having : God grant us patience ! L. L. i. 1 . Sir, I lack advancement. . A H. iii. 2. ASS. Now, what a thing it is to be an ass ! Tit. And. iv. 2. O that he were here to write me down an ass ! but, masters, remember, that I am an ass ; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. . M. A. iv.*2. AUS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 14 ASS, — continued. I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. M. W. v. 5. If thou be'st not an ass, I am youth of fourteen. A. W. ii. 3. With the help of a surgeon he might recover, and prove an ass, M.N. v. 1. ASSASSINS. Kill men i' the dark ! where are these bloody thieves? 0. v. 1. ASSIMILATION. The mightiest space in fortune nature brings U To join like likes, and kiss like native things. A.W. i. 1. ASTRONOMERS. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights ; Than those that walk and wot not what they are. / Too much to know, is to know nought but fame, And every godfather can give a name. . L. L. i. 1. ATTACHMENT. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness. . 0. i. 3. I have forsworn his company hourly, any time this two-and« twenty years, and yet I'm bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged ; it could not be else. . H.IV. pt. i. ii.2. ATTENDANCE. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. A. W. ii. 1. ATTENTION. Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. H. i. 5. Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear ; till I may deliver, Upon the witness of these gentlemen, (^ This marvel to you. . . H. i. 2. ATTRACTIONS, Personal. But I can tell, that in each grace of these There lurks a still and dumb discoursive devil, That tempts most cunningly. . T.C. iv. 4. AVARICE. This avarice, Sticks deeper ; grows with more pernicious root Than summer-seeding lust. . M. iv.3. AVERSION. I think oxen and wain-ropes cannot hale them together. T.N. iii. 2. AUSTERITY. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants ; let thy tongue tang arguments of state ; put thyself into the trick of singularity. T. N. iii. 4. 15 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. AUT AUTHENTICITY. Five justices' hands to it, and authorities more than my pack will hold. . . . W.T. iv. 3. \AUTHOR (See also Poet, Rhymster). Nay, do not wonder at it : you are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't. And vent it for a mockery 1 . . Cym. v. 3. AUTHORITY (See also Office). O place ! O form ! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wisest souls To thy false seeming- Blood, thou still art blood : Let's write good angel on the devil's horn, 'Tis not the devil's crest. . . M. M. ii. 4. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur : There, There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority : A dog's obey'd in office. . . K. L. iv. f. Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o' the top. . M. M. ii. 2. I shall remember : V When Ciesar says, — Do this, it is perform'd. /. C. i. 2. Authority bears a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. . M* M. iv. 4. Who will believe thee, Isabel ! My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, Will so your accusation overweigh, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny. . . M. M. ii. 4, O, he sits high, in all the people's hearts ; h And that which would appear offence in us, ** His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. . J. C. i. 3. Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. A.W. ii. 3. And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the ^nose with gold. . . W. T. iv. 3. Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight. M. M. i. 3. «~- Insolence of. Could great men thunder, As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet j For every pelting petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder, Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, BAL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 16 AUTHORITY,— continued. Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. O, but man ! proud man ! Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. . M. M. ii. 2. AUTUMN. Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter. . . W. T. iv. 3. B. BABBLER (See also Talker). Fie, what a spendthrift he is of his tongue ! . 2*. ii. 1. Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate, Talkers are no good doers, be assur'd : We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. R. III. i. 3. BACKING. Call you that backing your friends 1 a plague upon such backing ! give me them that will face me. . H. IV. pt.i. ii. 4. BACKWARDNESS (See also Friends Cooling). Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull. R. III. iv. 2. BADNESS. Damnable, both sides rogue. . A. W. iv. 3. Abhorred slave ; Which any print of goodness will not take Being capable of all ill. . . T. i. 2. God keep the prince from all the pack of you ! A knot you are of damned blood-suckers. R. III. iii. 3. BALLADS. I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter merrily set down ; or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably. . . W. T. iv.3. Traduc'd by odious ballads. . . ^4. Tl^. ii. 1. An I have not ballads made on you all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison. . H. IV. pt. ii. ii. 2. I love a ballad in print a* life ; for then we are sure they are true. . . . W.T. iv. 3. BALLAD-MONGERS (See also Poetrv, Rhymsters). I had rather be a kitten, and cry, — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen can'stick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axletree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag. H. VI. pt. i. iii. 1. 17 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. BAS BALLAD-SINGEK, Itinerant. O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe ; no, the bag-pipe could not move you : he sings several tunes, faster than you'll tell money ; he utters them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grow to their tunes. . . W. T. iv. 3. BANISHMENT. Banish'd, is banish'd from the world, And world's exile is death -. then banish'd Is death misterm'd : calling death, — banishment, Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe, And smil'st upon the stroke that murders me. R. J. iii. 3. Then England's ground, farewell ; sweet soil, adieu ; My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet ! Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, — Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman. '^ R. II. i. 3. Banished? O friar, the damned use that word in hell ; Howlings attend it. . . R.J. iii. 3. I've stoopt my neck under your injuries, And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment. . R. II. iii. 1- Banish me? Banish your dotage ; banish usury, That makes the senate ugly, • T. A. iii. 5. BANTERING. With that, all laugh'd, and clapp'd him on the shoulder ; Making the bold wag, by their praises, bolder : One rubb'd hrs elbow, thus ; and fleer'd, and swore, A better speech was never heard before. . L. L. v. 2. Close, in the name of jesting ! . T.N. ii. 5. Girls. The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible, Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen ; Above the sense of sense : so sensible Seemeth their conference ; their conceits have wings, Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things. L.L. v.ii. BASENESS. Base and unlustrious as the smoky light That's fed with stinking tallow. . Cym. i. 7. 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 ; Whip me such honest knaves. . . 0. i. 1. BAT SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 18 BASENE&S,-rcontinued. Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone ; and most poor matters Point to rich ends. • • T. iii. 1. BASTARD. Bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour ; in every thing illegitimate. . . T. C. v. 8. Why bastard ! wherefore base 1 When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue 1 . K. L. i. 2. Ha ! Fie, these filthy vices ! It were as good To pardon him that hath from nature stolen A man already made, as to remit Their saucy sweetness, that do coin heaven's image In stamps that are forbid : 'tis all as easy Falsely to take away a life true made, As to put mettle in restrained means, To make a false one. . . M. M. ii. 4. Fine word^ — legitimate ! Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow : I prosper : — Now, gods, stand up for bastards. . K.L, i. 2. BATCHELOR. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none ; and the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a batchelor. . M. A, i. 1. Shall I never see a batchelor of three score again 1 M.A. i. 1. -'s Recantation. -. When I said I would die a batchelor, I did not think"! should live till I were married. • . M t A, ii. 3. BATTLE (See also War). With boisterous untun'd drums, And harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray, And grating shock of wrathful iron arms. L '■. II. i. 3. Being mounted, and both roused in their seats, Their neighing coursers daring of the spur, Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel, And the loud trumpet blowing them together. H.IV. pt. ii. iv. 1. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tyger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard- favour 'd rage; 19 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. BAT BATTLE,— continued. Then lend the eye a terrible aspect : Let it pry through the portals of the head, Like the brass cannon j let the brow overwhelm it, As fearfully as doth the galled rock O'er-hang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostrils wide, Hold hard the breath, and bead up every spirit To his full height ! On, on, you noble English. H. V. ii. 1. A thousand hearts are great within my bosom : Advance our standards ; set upon our foes ! Our ancient word of courage, fair St. George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons ! Upon them! . . it. III. v. 3. Fight, gentlemen of England ; fight, boldly, yeomen : Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head. Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood : Amaze the welkin with your broken staves. R. III. v. 3. This battle fares like to the morning's war, When dying clouds contend with growing light ; What time the shepherd blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day, or night. Now sways it this way like a mighty sea, Forc'd by the tide to combat with the wind ; Now sways it that way, like the self- same sea, Forc'd to retire by fury of the wind : Sometimes the flood prevails ; and then the wind : Now, one the better ; then, another best ; Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror nor conquered : So is the equal poize of the fell war. if. VI. pt. hi. ii. 5. My uncles both are slain in rescuing me ; And all my followers to the eager foe Turn back, and fly, like ships before the wind, Or lambs pursued by hunger- starved wolves. My sons, — God knows, — what hath bechanced them : But this I know, — they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown, by life, or death. Three times did Richard make a lane to me ; And thrice cried, — Courage, father ! Fight it out I And full as oft came Edward to my side With purple faulchion, painted to the hilt In blood of those that had encountered him. And when the hardest warriors did retire, Richard cried, — Charge J and give no foot of ground t And cried, — A crown, or else a glorious tomb ! A sceptre ! or an earthly sepulchre ! With this, we charg'd again. . H. VI. pt. hi. i. 4. Never did captive with a freer heart Cast ofT his chains of bondage, and embrace BAT SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 20 BATTLE,— continued. His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement, More than my dancing soul doth celebrate This feast of battle with mine adversary. . R. II. i. 3. Let each man do his best : and here draw I A sword, whose temper I intend to stain With the best blood that I can meet withal, In the adventure of this perilous day. Now, — Esperance ! Percy ! — and set on. Sound all the lofty instruments of war, And by that music let us all embrace : For heaven to earth, some of us never shall A second time do such a courtesy. H. IV. pt. i. v. 2. Heaven in thy good cause make thee prosperous ! Be swift like lightning in the execution ; And let thy blows, doubly redoubled, Fall like amazing thunder on the casque Of thy amaz'd pernicious enemy. . R. 11. i. 3. In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound the best part of an hour In changing hardiment with great Glendower : Three times they breath'd and three times did they drink, Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood ; Who then affrighted with their bloody looks, Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds, And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank, Blood-stained with these valiant combatants. H. IV. pt i. i.3. Prepare you, generals : The enemy comes on in gallant show ; Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, And something to be done immediately. • J. C. v. 1. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he, to-day, that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition ; And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here ; And hold their manhoods cheap, while any speaks, That fought with us upon St. Crispin's day. H. V. iv. 3. For the love of all the gods, Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers ; And when we have our armours buckled on, The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords. T. C. v. 3. Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again ; Lash hence these over-weening rags of France, These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives ; Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit, For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves. R. III. v. 3. I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other, Ere stay behind this business.. . C. i. 1. 21 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. BATTLE of Agincourt, Preparations for the. Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the poring dark, Fill the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch ; Fire answers fire ; and through their paly flames, Each battle sees the other's umbered face : Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armourers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. The country cocks do crow ; the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul, The confident and over-lusty French Do the low-rated English play at dice ; And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp So tediously away. The poor condemned English, Like sacrifices by their watchful fires Sit patiently, and inly ruminate The morning's danger ; and their gestures sad, Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats, Presenteth them unto the gazing moon So many horrid ghosts. . H. V. iv. chor. BEARD. He that hath a beard is more than a youth : and he that hath none, is less than a man. . . M. A. ii. 1 . Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard ! T.N, iii. 1. BEAU. This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve ; Had he been Adam he had tempted Eve : He can carve too, and lisp : Why this is he, That kiss'd away his hand in courtesy ; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That when he plays at tables, chides the dice In honourable terms. . . L.L. v. 2. BEAUX, Scented. Like many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like wo- men in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple-time. M. W. iii. 3. BEAUTY. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A shining gloss that vadeth suddainly, A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud, A brittle glass that's broken presently. BEA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 22 1 ^ BEAUTY,— continued. I A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead, wihin an hour. \, Poems, By Jupiter, an angel ! or, if not, An earthly paragon ! • . Cym, iii. 6. A wither'd hermit, five score winters worn, Might shake on° fifty looking in her eye. L, L. iv. 3. The most peerless piece of earth, I think, That e'er the sun shone bright on. . W, T, v. 1. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on : Lady, you are the cruellest she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. , . | T.N. i, 5. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. T. i. 2. Her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. M. V, i. 1 . As plays the sun upon the glassy streams ; Twinkling another counterfeited beam, So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. H. VI. pt. i. v. 3. This is such a creature, Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal Of all professors else ; make proselytes Of who she but bid follow. • W. T. v. 1. I saw her once Hop forty paces through the public street ; And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted, That she did make defect perfection, And breathless, power breathe forth. . AC. ii. 2. All hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negociate for itself, And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. M. A. ii. 1. She speaks : — O speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes Of mortals, that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air. . Ii. J. ii. 2. O she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear ; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. R.J, i. 5. Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. L, L, ii. 1. She's a most exquisite lady. . . 0. ii. 3. 1 23 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. BEE BEAUTY,— continued. She's beautiful ; and therefore to be woo'd : She is a woman ; therefore to be won. H. VI. pt. i. v. 3. It shall be inventoried ; and every particle, and utensil, labelled to my will ; as, item, two lips, indifferent red ; item, two grey eyes, with lids to them ; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. T.N i.4. I know a wench of excellent discourse, Pretty, and witty ; wild, and yet, too, gentle* C. E. iii. 1. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. * A. Y. i. 3. There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. K.L. iii. 2. When in the chronicle of wasted time, I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rime, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now. . Poems. — , AND Deceit. O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face ! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave 1 Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelieal ! Dove-feather'd raven ! wolvish-ravening lamb ! Despised substance of divinest show ! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, . A damned saint, an honourable villain ! — O, nature ! — what had'st thou to do in hell, When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh 1 Was ever book, containing such vile matter, So fairly bound ? 0, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace ! . . R. J. iii. 2. O beauty ! where's thy faith ! . T.C. v. 2, and Honesty. Honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey sauce to sugar. A. V. iii. 3. BEDLAM Beggars. The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices, Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms, Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary ; And with this horrible object, from low farms, Poor pelting villages, sheep cotes, and mills, Sometimes with lunatic bans, sometimes with prayers, Inforce their charity. . , K.L. ii. 3. BEES. So work the honey bees ; Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach BEN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 24 BEES, — continued. The art of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home, To the tent-royal of their emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum. Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. . . H. V. i. 2. BEGGARS. The adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death. H. VI. pt. in. i. 4. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say, — there is no sin, but to be rich ; And being rich, my virtue then shall be, To say, — there is no vice but beggary. . K. J. ii. 2. What ! a young knave, and beg ! Is there not wars ? is there not employment t Doth not the king lack subjects 1 Do not the rebels need soldiers 1 Though it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side, were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make it. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 2. Speak with me, pity me, open the door, A beggar begs that never begg'd before. . R. II. v. 3. You taught me first to beg ; and now, methinks, You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd. M. V. iv. 1 . BEGONE. Rogues, hence, avaunt ! vanish like hailstones, go ! Trudge, plod, away, o' th' hoof; seek shelter, pack ! M.W. i. 3. Hag-seed, hence ! . . T. i. 2. BENEDICTION (See also Salutation). The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew ! . Cym. v. 5. May he live ! Longer than I have time to tell his years ! Ever belov'd, and loving may his rule be ! And when old Time shall lead him to his end, Goodness and he fill up one monument ! H. VIII. ii. ] . Bless thy five wits. . . K. L. iii. 4. Parental. And make me die a good old man ! 25 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. BLO BENEDICTION, Parental— continued. That is the butt end of a mother's blessing ; I I marvel that her grace did leave it out. . \ R. III. ii. 2, — Military. Now the fair goddess, "Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee ; and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords ! Bold gentleman, Prosperity be thy page ! . "' .""— C. i. 5. "~ All the gods "go with you ! upon your sword Sit laurell'd victory ! and smooth success Be strew'd before your feet. . . A. C* i. 3. Mars dote on you for his novices. # A. W. ii. 1. BEWAILINGS (See also Lamentation). Where thou didst vent thy groans As fast as mill-wheels strike. . • T. i. 2. BILLOWS. What care these roarers for the name of king % T. i. 1 . BIOGRAPHY. I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely. * . jT. v. 1, BIRDS, Encaged. Such a pleasure as incaged birds Conceive, when, after many moody thoughts, At last, by notes of household harmony, They quite forget their loss of liberty. H. VI. pt. hi. iv. 6. BLACK. Black, forsooth, coal black as jet. H. VI. pt. ii. ii. 1. Coal black is better than another hue, In that it scorns to bear another hue. | Tit. And. iv. 2. All the water in the ocean Can never turn a swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood. Tit. And. iv. 2. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the scowl of night. L. L. iv. 3, BLAMEABLE. You shall not sin, If you do say, we think him over proud, And under honest. . . T. C. ii. 3. BLEMISHES. In nature, there's no blemish but the mind ; None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind : Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous-evil Are empty trunks, o'er-flourish'd by the devil. T. N. iii. 4. Read not my blemishes in the world's report : I have not kept my square ; but that to come Shall all be done by the rule. . A. C. ii. 3. BLOT (See also Stain). Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven. R. II. iv. 1. BON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 26 BLUNTNESS. This is some fellow, Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature. He can't flatter, he ! — An honest man and plain, — he must speak truth : An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain. This kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness, Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends Than twenty silly ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely. . K.L. ii. 2. I amno orator as Brutus is : But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words* nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood : I only speak right on J, C. Hi. 2. BLUSHES. The heart's meteors tilting in the face. C. E. iv. 2, 1 Now, if you can blush, and cry guilty, cardinal, You'll show a little honesty. • H. VIII. iii. 2. And bid the cheek be ready with ablush, Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus. . . T. C. i. 3. Come, quench your blushes ; and present yourself that which you are, the mistress of the feast. • W. T. iv. 3. BOASTING. And topping all others in boasting. . C. ii. 1. O, Sir, to such as boasting show their scars, A mock is due. • . T. C. iv. 5. Why, Valentine, what Braggardism is this ! T. G. ii. 4. fOLDNESS. What I think, I utter ; and spend my malice in my breath. Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, (When power to flattery bows ? To plainness honour's bound When majesty stoops to folly. . K. L. i. 1. BOLD EXTERIOR. We'll have a swashing and a martial outside ; As many other mannish cowards have, That do outface it with their semblances. . A. Y, i. 3. BOMBAST. These signs have mark'd me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. I if. IF. pt. i. iii. 1. BONDS (See also Inflexibility). I'll have my bond ; speak not against my bond : I have sworn an oath, that I will have my bond. M. V. iii. 3. 27 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. BRA BONES, Human. Chapless, and knock'd about the mazzard with a sexton's spadp : Here's a fine revolution, an' we had the trick to see't ! if. v. 1. BOOBY. Thou art bought and sold, among those of any wit, like a Bar- barian slave. . . . T.C. ii. 1. BOOKS, Consolation of. Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow. . Tit. And. iv. 1. BOOK-COVERS. That book, in raany's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps, locks in the golden story. R. J. i. 3. BOOK-WORMS. Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. . L,'L. i. 1. BORROWING. Timon is shrunk indeed ; And he, that's once denied, will hardly speed. T. A. iii.2. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse ; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incur- able. . . . H.IV. pt.ii. i. 2. BOUNTY. 'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind ; That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind. T. A. i. 2. Magic of bounty ! all these spirits thy power Hath conjur'd to attend. . . T. A. i. 1. For his bounty, There was no winter in't ; an autumn 'twas, That grew the more by reaping. . A. C. v. 2. LNo villainous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart ; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. . T. A. ii. 2. Ill-requited. Even so : As with a man by his own alms empoison'd, And with his charity slain. . . C. v. 5. BRAGGARTS. A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Jack, That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. T.S. ii. 1. I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple ; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go anticly, and show an outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies if they durst ; And this is all. . . M. A. v. 1. c2 BKI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 28 BRAGGARTS, — continued. He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke, and bounce ; He gives the bastinado with his tongue ; Our ears are cudgell'd ; not a word of his, But buffets better than a fist of France ; Zounds ! I was never so bethump'd with words. K. J. ii.2. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass. A, W. iv. 3. What cracker is this same, which deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath 1 K. J. ii. 1 . Here's a large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks and seas ; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs. . K. J. ii. 2. What art thou 1 Have not I An arm as big as thine 1 a heart as big 1 Thy words, I grant, are bigger ; for I wear not My dagger in my mouth. . . Cym. iv. 2, BRAINS. Not Hercules \^. Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none. Cym. iv. 2. Hector shall have a great catch, if he knock out either of your brains ; a' were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. T.C. ii.1. BRAWLS. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast, In opposition bloody. . . 0. ii. 3. I pray you to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls and prab- bles, and quarrels, and dissentions, and, I warrant you, it is the petter for you. . . H. V. iv. 8. What's the matter, That you unlace your reputation thus, And spend your rich opinion for the name * Of a night brawler 1 . . 0. ii. 3. Help, masters ! — Here's a goodly watch, indeed. 0. ii. 3. BREEDING. Highly fed, and lowly taught. . A. W. ii. 1. BREVITY. Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. . . . $. ii. 2. BRIBERY. Shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honours, For so much trash as may be grasped thus 1 29 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY.. BUT I BRIBERY, —continued. I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. . . J. C. iv. 3. You yourself Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm ; To sell and mart your offices For gold, To undeservers. • . J. C. iv. 3. BRITAIN (See also England). Britain is A world by itself; and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses. . Cym,. iii, 1. Which stands As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscaleable, and roaring waters. Cym, iii. 1. V the world's volume, Our Britain is as of it, but not in it j In a great pool, a swan's nest. . Cym, iii. 4. BROILS, Domestic. Wars are no strife To the dark house, and the detested wife. A, W, ii. 3. BRUTUS. This was the noblest Roman of them all ; All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; He, only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle ; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world : This was a man ! J. C. v. 5. BUBBLES. The earth hath bubbles, as the water hath, And these are of them. . J M. i. 3. On my life, my lord, a bubble. . A, W. iii. 6. BUTTON-HOLDER. Sometimes he angers me, With telling me of the mold-warp, and the ant, Of the dreamer Merlin, and his prophecies ; And of a dragon and a finless fish, A clip-wing'd griffin, and a moulten raven, A couching lion, and a rampant cat, And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. I'll tell you what, — He held me, but last night, at least nine hours, In reckoning up the several devils' names, That were his lackeys : I cried — humph, — and well — go to — But mark'd him not a word. O, he's as tedious As is a tired horse, a railing wife ; Worse than a smoky house : I had rather live With cheese and garlick, in a windmill, far, CAP SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 30 BUTTON-HOLDER,— continued. Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, In any summer-house in Christendom. H.IV- pt. i. iii. 1. BUT YET. I do not like but yet, it does allay The good precedence ; fie upon but yet ; But yet is as a jailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. Pr'ythee, friend^ Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and bad together. . A. C. ii. 5. r c. 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. . 0. v. 3. In simple and pure soul I come to you. . 0. 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 i / 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, 31 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. CAU 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 unstufT'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. it. 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 stuffd 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 aiiair. 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. U. II. Mi. 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 ; CER SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 32 CAUTION,— continued. 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, VVhich, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous j And kill him in the shell. . . J. C. ii. 1. Let me still take away the harms 1 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. CELEBRITY (See also Fame). Thiice-fam'd beyond all erudition. , CELERITY. Celerity is never more admir'd, Than by the negligent. . . A. C. Hi. 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 1 What woman in the city do I name. When that I say, The city woman bears The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders I Who can come in and say that I mean her, When such a one as she, such is her neighbour 1 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 1 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. 33 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. CHA CEREMONY,— continued. 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 place, To come and sport. . . . T. iv. 1, CHALLENGE. Here's the challenge, read it ; I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. . T. X. 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. 4o 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. X. Hi. 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. c 3 C HA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 34 CHALLENGE,— continued. 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, \^,y 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 ! MM. i. 2. And art thou come to this 1 . . 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. ti. 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 35 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. CHI T. iv.l. r. v.i. C. v. 3. Poems. R.J. i.l. C*/m. ii. 6. CHARM, — continued. 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. 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. CHASTITY. Chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. 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. I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor 'bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. . JR. J. i.l. 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.l. CJIIDING. 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. O, what a beast was I to chide him ! , U.J. iii. 2. CHILDREN, Undutiful (See also Filial Ingratitude). I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. K. L. iii. 7. CIR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 36 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 1 Or who should study to prefer a peace, If holy churchmen take delight in broils 1 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 1 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 : 1 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. 0. ii. 1. 37 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COA 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 M 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. pi. n. 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. iy, 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.l, COAST at Sun-rise. Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red, Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams Turns into yellow gold his salugreen streams. M. N. iii. 2. COM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 38 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 Qf 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, 39 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COM COMMODITY,— continued. 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. hi. i.4. COMPENDIUM. There are some shrewd contents in yon' same paper. M. V. iii.2. COMPLAINT. O, 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. ] . ., CON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 40 COMPUNCTION (See also Remorse). Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire 1 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. Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. . H, CONCLUSION. Indeed, without an oath, I'll make an end on't. H. iv. 5 . False. O 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 ; 41 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. CON CONJUROR,— continued. 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. y. 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? . . 0. 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 lock'd 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 witheis 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 CON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 42 CONSCIENCE,— continued. 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. Guilty. 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. ft, hi. v. 6. How smart A lash that speech doth give my conscience ! H. iii. 1. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ; 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, O, coward conscience, how dost thou affright me ! R. Ill, 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 1 , M. v. 3. Seared. 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 the strong in awe. R. III. v. 3. CONSPIRACY. While you here do snoring lie Open-ey'd conspiracy His time doth take : 43 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. CON CONSPIRACY,— continued. 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? O, then, by day, Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage 1 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 afnn'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, CON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 44 CONSTANCY, Conjugal,— continued. And ever will, — though he do shake me off To beggarly divorcement, — love him dearly, Comfort forswear me ! Unkiudness 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. . .if. 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. 45 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COR CONTEMPTIBLE. Put on him what forgeries you please ; marry, none so rank As may dishonour him. . . ff.'ii. 1. CONTENT (See also Moderation). Our content Is our best having. . . H. VIII. ii. 3. Verily, I swear His 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. , jj t 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. 'if. VI. pt. hi. 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. . jj m v# j # 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 delectable.° R. H, 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. if. v l' 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. . . C^ iv 2< COOLING. And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stew'd m 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 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 46 CORIOLANUS— continued. 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. COUNSEL. Is this ypur Christian counsel ? out upon ye ! Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt. 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. 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. Poems. II . VIIL iii. 1. P. P. i. 1. 47 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COU COURAGE,— continued. 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 1 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 3 H. VI. pt. in. 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 1 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 1 O, 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 . W 7 hen by and by the din of war 'gan pierce His ready sense ; then straight his doubled spirit COU SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 48 COURAGE, — continued. 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 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 1 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 9 . Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court 1 Re- ceiveth not thy nose court-odour from me ? Reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt 1 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 5 For nought but provender ; and when he's old, cashier'd. 0. i. 1. 49 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COU COURTIERS,— continued. But howsoe'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. VI. 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 j 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. 5. 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. in. 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. in. iii. 2. Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house : Write loyal cantons of contemned love, COU SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY, 50 COURTSHIP,— continued. 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 ! O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth, But you should pity me. . . . T. A 7 , 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. . Gym. ii. 3. 51 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COW COURTSHIP, —continued. 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 deny 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 1 Was ever woman in this humour won 1 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 j 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 damm'd With dead men, hurt behind, and cowards living To die with lengthen'd shame. . Cym. v. 3. d 2 COW SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 52 COWARDS,— dontinued. 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. hi. 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 abhorr'd 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, 53 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. COX COWARDS,— continued. 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. X. 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. hi. 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 differ- ences, of very soft society, and great showing : indeed, to speak feel- ingly 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.l. O murd'rous coxcomb ! what should such a fool Do with so good a wife 1 . . 0. 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 CRO SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 54 COXCOMB,— continued. 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 be- hoves 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 ! . . K.J. iv. 2. t Unpunished. For we bid this be done, When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not their punishment. ." M. M. i. 4. CRISIS. Ha ! 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. . . 0. 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, yetincaged in so small a verge, The waste is no whit lesser than thy land. R. II. ii. 1. DD SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. CRU CROWN,— continued. 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. VI. pt. hi. 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 medicine 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. O, 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, Governed 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. . 31. 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. hi. 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.hu i. 4. , CUS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 56 CRUELTY,— continued. 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 wahVd 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 f 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 com- panies ! 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 pre- cisely, — 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. 57 SPIAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DAN i CUSTOM, — continued. 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 honour'd in the breach than the observance. H. i. 4. D, DAGGERS. I will speak daggers to her, but use none. . H. iii. 2. DALLIANCE, Unseasonable. No, when light-wing'd toys Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dulness My speculative and active instruments, That my disports corrupt and taint my business, Let housewives make a skillet of my helm, And all indign and base adversities Make head against my estimation. • 0. i. 3. A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this ; They think, my little stomach to the war, And your great love to me, restrains you thus : Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. . . T, C. iii. 3. DANGER. There Monitaurs and ugly treasons lurk. H. VI. pt. i. v. 3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 1. France, thou mayest hold a serpent by the tongue, A cased lion by the mortal paw, A fasting tyger safer by the tooth Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. A'. J. iii. 1. n 3 DAW SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 58 DANGER, — continued, " The purpose you undertake is dangerous :" — why, that's cer- tain ; 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink ; — but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. . . H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. The welfare of us all Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man. H.VI. pt. n. iil. I. If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights — You pluck a thousand dangers on your head ; You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts, And prick my tender patience to those thoughts Which honour and allegiance cannot think. Blunt wedges rive hard knots : the seeded pride That hath to this maturity blown up In rank Achilles, must or now be cropp'd, Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil, To overbulk us all. There is more in it than fair visage. Old. JR. II. ii. 1. T.C. i.3. H. VIII. iii. 2. 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp Than with an old one dying. . A. C. iii. 11. DARING. As full of peril and adventurous spirit As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud On the uncertain footing of a spear. H. IV. I'll cross it though it blast me. I dare damnation : To this point I stand. DARKNESS, its Effect on the Faculty of Hearing. Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes ; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. . M. N. Mental, Madam, thou errest : I say, there is no darkness but ignorance ; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog. T.N. iv. 2. DAUGHTERS. Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters, By what you see them act. DAWN. The third hour of drowsy morning. The silent hour steals on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east. And yon grey lines that fret the clouds, Are messengers of day. 0. i. 1. H. V. iv. chorus. R.IIL v.3. J.C. ii. 1. 59 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY* DEA DAWN, — continued. This morning, like the spirit of youth That means to be of note, begins betimes. A. C. iv. 4. Swift, swift, you dragons of the night ! — that dawning May bare the raven's eye. . . Cym. ii. 2. But, look, the dawn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. . H. i. 1 . The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his ineffectual fire. . H . i. 5. Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast ; And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger ; At whose approach, ghosts wand'ring here and there, Troop home to church-yards : damned spirits all, That in cross-ways and floods have burial, Already to their wormy beds are gone. . M. N. iii. 2. The wolves have prey'd ; and look, the gentle day, • Before the wheels of Phcebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. 31. A. v. 3. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light ; And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path-way made by Titan's wheels. R.J. ii. 3. It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain's top. R. J. iii. 5. Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd. 31. M. iv. 2. DAY. Even from Hyperion's rising in the east Until his very downfall in the sea. . Tit. And. v. 2. The stirring passage of the day. . C. £. iii. 1. As when the golden sun salutes the morn, And having gilt the ocean with his beams, Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach, And overlooks the highest peering hills. Tit. And. ii. 1. 'Tis a lucky day, boy ; and we'll do good deeds on't. W.T. iii. 3. O, such a day, So fought, so followed, and so fairly won, Came not, till now, to dignify the times, Since Caesar's fortunes ! . H. IV. pt. ii. i. 1. DEATH (See also Man, Time, Mighty Dead, Life, Soldier s Death). The blind cave of eternal night. . . R, III. v. 3. Here is my journey's end ; here is my butt, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. 0. v. 2. DEA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 60 D E ATH, — continued. ruin'd piece of nature ! this great world Shall so wear out to nought. . K. L. iv. 6. Nay, nothing ; all is said : His tongue is now a stringless instrument ; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. R> II* ii. 1. Dead, for my life. Even so ; — my tale is told. . L. L. v. 2. Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound And lie full low, grav'd in the hollow ground. R. II. iii. 2. Art thou gone too ? all comfort go with thee ! For none abides with me : my joy is— death ; Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity. H. VI. pt. ii. ii. 4. O, I do fear thee, Claudio ; and I quake Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. . . M.M. iii. 1. 1 am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death ; the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me. M.V.iv.l. All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. . M. ii. 3. To-day, how many would have given their honours To have sav'd their carcasses ! took heel to do't, And yet died too ! I, in mine own woe charm'd, Could not find death, where I did hear him groan ; Nor feel him, where he struck. . Cym. v. 3. It is too late ; the life of all this blood Is touch'd corruptibly ; and his pure brain (Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling house,) Doth, by the idle comments that it makes, Foretel the ending of mortality. . K. J. v. 7. So now prosperity begins to mellow, And drop into the rotten mouth of death. R. III. iv. 4. Thou know'st 'tis common ; all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity. . H. i.2. This fell serjeant death Is strict in his arrest. . . H . v. 5. Dost fall ? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desir'd. Dost thou lie still? If thus thou vanishest, thou telFst the world It is not worth leave-taking. . A. C. v. 2. 61 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DEA D E ATH, — continued. O, our lives' sweetness ! That with the pain of death, we'd hourly die, Rather than die at once ! . . K. L. v. 3. We must die, Messala : With meditating that she must die once, I have the patience to endure it now. . J. C. iv. 3. O amiable, lovely death ! Thou odoriferous stench ! sound rottenness ! Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, Thou hate and terror to prosperity, And I will kiss thy detestable bones ; And put my eye-balls in thy vaulty brows: And ring these fingers with thy household worms ; And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, And be a carrion monster like thyself : Come, grin on me ; and I will think thou smil'st ; And buss thee as thy wife ! Misery's love, O, come to me ! . . K. J. iii. 4. Eyes, look your last ! Arms, take your last embrace ! and lips, O you, The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death. . R. J. v. 3. Stay but a little ; for my cloud of dignity Is held from falling with so weak a wind, That it will quickly drop. . H. IV. pt. n. iv. 4. Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with. . . M. iii. 4. O, my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there, R. J. v. 3. By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death Will seize the doctor too. . . Gym. v. 5. That we shall die, we know ; 'tis but the time, And drawing days out, that men stand upon. /. C. iii. 1. Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. . J. C. ii. 2. Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close, And let us all to meditation. . H. VI, n. u. iii. 3. Death remember'd, should be like a mirror, Who tells us, life's but breath ; to trust it, error. P. P. i. 1. DEA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 62 DEATH, — continued. Oft have I seen a timely parted ghost. Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, Being all descended to the labouring heait ; Who, in the conflict that it holds with death, Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy ; Which, with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth To blush and beautify the cheek again. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 2. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures : 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. . . M. ii. 2. Finish, good lady, the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. . . A. C. v. 2. Dar'st thou die 1 The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies. . . M . M. iii. 1 . Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. R, II. ii. 1 . O 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 part of nature, should Burn itself out. . . K.L. iv. 6. Her blood is settled and these joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated : Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. R. J. iv. 5. To die, is to be banish'd from myself. T. G. iii. 1. O, death's a great disguiser. . M. M. iv. 2. We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. K. J. iv. 2. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot : This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling ! — 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. . M, M. iii. 1. (53 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DEA DEATH, — continued. Where art thou, death ? Come hither, come ! come, come, and take a queen Worth many babes and beggars. . A. C. v. 2. Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die 1 Famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, Upon thy back hangs ragged misery, The world is not thy friend nor the world's law. R. J. v. 1. Receive what cheer you may ; The night is long that never finds a day. . M. iv. 3. Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence. H. VI. pt.i. ii.5. I am resolv'd for death or dignity. H. VI. pt. ii. v. 1. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible ! H. VI. pt. ii, iii.3. The Worst is, — death, and death will have his day. R. II. iii. 2. He has walk'd the way of nature. H. IV. pt. ii. v. 2. Pr'ythee, have done, And do not play in wench-like words with that Which is so serious. Let us bury him, And not protract with admiration, what Is now due debt. To the grave. . Cym.'iv. 2. of Buckingham, the Duke of. All good people, You that thus far have come to pity me, Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me. I have this day receiv'd a traitor's judgment, And by that name must die ; yet, heaven bear witness, And if I have a conscience let it sink me, Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful ! You few that lov'd me, And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham, His noble friends, and fellows, whom to leave Is only bitter to him, only dying, Go with me like good angels, to my end ; And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name. H. VIII. ii. 1. ' Falstaff. 'A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; 'a parted just between twelve and one ;— e'en at the turning of the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way ; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. How now, Sir John, quoth I : what, man ! be of good cheer. So 'a cried out, God ! — three or four times : now I, to comfort OE/V SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 64 DEATH, — continued. him, bid him 'a should not think of God ; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. H. V. ii. 3. Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of. But, see, his face is black and full of blood ; His eye-balls further out than when he liv'd, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man ; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued. Look on the sheets, his hair, you see, is sticking ; His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged, Like to the summer's corn by tempests lodg'd. H. VI. pt.ii. iii. 2. King Henry IV. By his gates of breath, There lies a downy feather, which stirs not : Did he suspire, that light and weightless down Perforce must move.— My gracious lord ! my father ! This sleep is sound indeed ; this is a sleep, That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings. . H. IV. pt ii. iv. 4. King Henry VI. I'll hear no more. — Die, prophet, in thy speech ; For this among the rest was I ordain'd. — What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground 1 I thought it would have mounted. See, how my sword weeps for the poor king's death ! O, may such purple tears be always shed From those that wish the downfall of our house ! If any spark of life be yet remaining, Down, down, to hell ; and say, — I sent thee thither. H. VI. pt. iii. v. 6. King John. Aye, marry, now my soul hath elbow room ; It would not out at windows nor,at doors. There is so hot a summer in my bosom, That all my bowels crumble up to dust : I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen, Upon a parchment ; and against this fire Do I shrink up. Prince Henry. — How fares your Majesty 1 King John. — Poison'd, — ill fare; — dead, forsook, cast off: And none of you will bid the winter come, And thrust his icy fingers in my maw ; Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course Through my burn'd bosom ; nor entreat the north To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips, And comfort me with cold : I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort. [Enter Falconbridge. O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye : 6b SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DEA DEATH, — continued. The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd ; And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail, Are turned to one thread, one little hair : My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be utter'd ; And then all this thou see'st is but a clod, And module of confounded royalty. . K, J. v. 7. Julius C^sar. Et tu Brute ?— Then fall, Caesar. . J. C. iii.l. How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown ! J, C. iii. 1. King Richard II. How now ? what means death in this rude assault? Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument* Go thou and fill another room in hell. That hand shall burn in never- quenching fire, That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand Hath, with the king's blood, stain'd the king's own land. Mount, mount, my soul ! thy seat is up on high ; Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to lie. JR. IL v. 5, Warwick, Earl of. Ah, who is nigh ? come to me, friend or foe, And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick ? Why ask I that? my mangled body shows, My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows, That I must yield my body to the earth, And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept : Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. These eyes that now are dimm'd with death's black veil, Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun, To search the secret treasons of the world : The wrinkles in my brows now fill'd with blood, Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres ; For who liv'd king but I could dig his grave. Lo, now my glory, smear'd in dust and blood ! My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, Even now forsake me ; and, of all my lands, Is nothing left me but my body's length ! Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet, die we must. H. VI, pt. iii. v. 2» W 7 olsey, Cardinal. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words,— 0, father abbot , DEA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 66 DEATH,— continued* 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 ! So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three days after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold should be his last,) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, — and slept in peace. H. VIII. iv. 2. ■ of the Illustrious, by vile hands. Great men oft die by vile bezonians : A Roman sworder and banditti slave, Murder'd sweet Tully ; Brutus' bastard hand Stabb'd Julius Csesar ; savage islanders Pompey the great : and Suffolk dies by pirates. H. VI. pt. ii. iv. 1. Contempt of. There spake my brother ; there my father's grave Did utter forth a voice ! Yes, thou must die : Thou art too noble to conserve a life In base appliances. . . M.M. iii. Levels Distinctions. Thersites' body is as good as Ajax' When neither are alive. . . Cym. iv. 2 Abides with the Luxurious. Being an ugly monster, 'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds, Sweet words ; or hath more ministers than we That draw his knives i' the war. . Cym. Relieves and Prevents Miseries. Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. A. C. v. 2. Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. . . M. iii. 2. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time, for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality. . M. ii. 3. Give me your hand, Bassanio ; fare you well ! Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you ; For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom : it is still her use, To let the v/retched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow, An age of poverty ; from which ling'ring penance Of such a misery doth she cut me off. . M. V .. iv. 1. 67 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DEC DEATH, — continued. Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life, Cuts off as many years of fearing death. . J. C. iii. 1. Untimely. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, nnanel'd ; No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. . H . i. 5. DEATH BED Injunction. O, but they say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony : Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain : For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. He, that no more may say, is listen'd more Than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze ; More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before: The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last ; Writ in remembrance, more than things long past : Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear, My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear. R. II. ii. 1. DEBT. They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves ; Creditors! — devils. . . T. A. iii. 4. DEBTS, Desperate. These debts may well be call'd desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. . . . T. A. iii. 4. DECAY. My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. . M. v. 3. DECEIT. You are abus'd, and, by some putter on That will be damn'd for't ; — would I knew the villain ! W.T. ii.1. Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast. . R.III. iii. 4. DECREPITUDE. You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age ; wretched in both. . K. L. ii. 4. I am old now, And these same crosses spoil me. . K. L. v. 3. Pray do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward ; and to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. . K. L. iv. 7. But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act. . . A. W* i. '2. DEF SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 68 DEFEATED. Thou art not vanquish'd, But cozen'd and beguil'd. . . K. L. v. 3. DEFIANCE. Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth. . J. C. v. 1. Marry, Thou, thou dost wrong me ; thou dissembler, thou : — Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword, I fear thee not. . . M. A. v. 1. What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tyger, Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble : Or, be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhibit thee, protest me The baby of a girl. . . M. iii. 4, And spur thee on, with full as many lies As may be holla'd in thy treacherous ear From sun to sun. . ♦ R. II. iv. 1 . Stand back, lord Salisbury, stand back, I say; By heaven, I think my sword as sharp as yours: I would not have you, lord, forget yourself, Nor tempt the danger of my true defence ; Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget Your worth, your greatness, and nobility. K. J. iv. 3. Who sets me else ? by heaven, I'll throw at all : I have a thousand spirits in one breast, To answer twenty thousand such as you. R. II. iv. 1. Health to you, valiant Sir, During all question of the gentle truce ; But when I meet you arm'd, as black defiance, As heart can think, or courage execute. - T.C. iv. 1. Win me and wear me, — let him answer me, — Come, follow me, boy ; come, boy, follow me : Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence ; Nay, as I am a gentleman, 1 will. • M. A. v. 1. What I did, I did in honour, Led by the impartial conduct of my soul ; And never shall you see that I will beg A ragged and forestall'd remission. H. IV. pt. ii. v. 2. There is my gage, the manual seal of death, That marks thee out for hell : I say, thou liest, And will maintain what thou hast said, is false, In thy heart blood, though being all too base To stain the temper of my knightly sword. R. II. iv. 1. If that thy valour stand on sympathies, There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine : 69 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DEF DEFIANCE,— continued. By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st, I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spak'st it, That thou wert cause of noble Glo'ster's death. If thou deny'st it, twenty times thou liest; And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. R. II. iv. 1. Shall I be flouted thus with dunghill grooms ! H, VI, pt. i. i. 3, Scorn, and defiance ; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. H. V, ii. 4. Though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. . . H . v. 1 . I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, And with the other fling it at thy face, Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee. H. VI. pt. hi. v. 1 . I will fight with him upon this theme, Until my eye-lids will no longer wag. . H. v. 1. Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, Vagabond exile, flaying ; pent to linger But with a grain a day, I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word. . C, iii. 3. You fools ! I and my fellows Are ministers of fate ; the elements Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish One dowle that's in my plume. . T. iii. 3. Thou injurious tribune ! Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths, In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say, Thou liest, unto thee, with voice as free As I do pray the gods. • . C. iii. 3. Let them come ; They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to the fire-ey'd maid of smoky war, All hot and bleeding will we offer them ; The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit Up to the ears in blood. . H. IV. pt. i. iv. 1. I do defy him, and I spit at him ; Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain. R. II, i. 1. Gentle heaven, Cut off 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. DEG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 70 DEFIANCE,— continued. Let him do his spite : My services, which I have done the signiory, Shall out-tongue his complaints. * 0. i. 2. DEFORMITY. Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb : And, for I should not deal in her soft laws, She did corrupt frail nature with a bribe To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub ; To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body ; To shape my legs of an unequal size ; To disproportion me in every part ; Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear- whelp, That carries no impression like the dam. And am I then a man to be belov'd? 0, monstrous fault to harbour such a thought ! if. VI. pt. in. iii. 2, But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive tricks. Nor made to court an amorous looking glass ; I that am rudely stampt, and want love's majesty, To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ; 1, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, urmnish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them : — Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity. R. III. i. 1 But, O, how vile an idol proves this god ! Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame. In nature there's no blemish but the mind ; None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind : Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'er-fiourish'd by the devil. T. N. iii. 4. DEGENERACY. But, woe the while ! our fathers' minds are dead, And we are govern'd by our mothers' spirits ; Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. J; C. i. .3. O, that a mighty man of such descent, Of such possessions, and so high esteem, Should be infused with so foul a spirit ! T. S. Ind. 2. What a falling off was there ! . H. i. 5. But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic ; And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands Against a falling fabric. . . C. iii. 1 . 71 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DEL DEGENERACY,— continued. For in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. . H. iii. 4. 'Twas never merry world, since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed, by order of law, a furred gown to keep him warm ; and furred with fox and lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing. . . M. M. iii. 2. Shall it, for shame, be spoken in these days, Or fill up chronicles in time to come, That men of your nobility and power, Did 'gage them both in an unjust behalf, — As both of you, God pardon it ! have done ? H. IV. pt.i. i. 3. The world is grown so bad, That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch ; Since every Jack became a gentleman, There's many a gentle person made a Jack. R. III. i. 3. DEGRADATION. Now I must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge And palter in the shifts of lowness. . A. C. iii. 9. DEGREES. So man and man should be ; But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike. . Cym. iv. 2. DELAY (See also Irresolution, Opportunity). Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger ; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Ev'n then when we sit idly in the sun. T. C. iii. 3. Sir, in delay We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. JR. J. i. 4. Come, — I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay ; Delay leads impotent and snail- pac'd beggary. R. III. iv. 3. Let's be revenged on him : let's appoint him a meeting ; give him a show of comfort in his suit ; and lead him on with a fine- baited delay. . . M.W.'ii.l. O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late ; 'Tis like a pardon after execution ; That gentle physic, given in time., had cur'd me ; But now I'm past all comfort here, but prayers. H. VIII. iv. 2. DELICACY of Idleness. The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. H. v. 1. DELIGHTS. All delights are vain ; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. L. L. i. 1. DEL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 72 DELIGHTS, — continued. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume ; the sweetest honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite : Therefore, love moderately ; long love doth so ; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. . R. J. ii. 6. DELIRIUM of the Dying. vanity of sickness ! fierce extremes, In their continuance will not feel themselves. Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts, Leaves them insensible ; and his siege is now Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds With many legions of strange fantasies ; Which, in their throng and press to that last hold, Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death should sing. 1 am the cygnet to this pale-fac'd swan, Who chaunts a doleful hymn to his own death ; And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. K. J. v. 7. DELUSION (See also Illusion). 'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing, Which the brain makes of fumes : our very eyes Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. Cym. iv. 2. Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. . . M. i. 3. And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. . . M. v. 7. Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that, when the image of it leaves him, he must run mad. . T. N. ii. 5. Thus may poor fools believe false teachers. Cym. iii. 4. This is the very coinage of your brain ; This bodiless creation extacy Is very cunning in. . . H. iii. 4. Alas, how is't with you 1 That you do bend your eyes on vacancy, And with the incorporal air do hold discourse 1 H. iii. 4. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place ; Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. . . H. iii. 4. Indeed, it is a strange disposed time : But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. J. C. i. 3. 73 , SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. UES DENIAL of Justice (See also Judgment, Justice). And is this all? Then, oh, you blessed ministers above, Keep me in patience ; and, with ripen'd time, Unfold the evil which is here wrapp'd up In countenance! . . . M. M. v. 1. DEPRAVITY, Youthful. You're a fair viol, and your sense the strings ; Who, fingered to make man his lawful music, Would draw heaven down, and all the gods to hearken ; But, being play'd upon before your time, Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime. P. P. i. 1, DEPRIVATION of things discloses their Value. What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. . . A, C. i. 2. DEPUTY. A substitute shines brightly as a king, Until a king be by ; and then his state Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. . . M. V. v. 1. f In our remove, be thou at full ourself ; Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart. . M. M. i. 1 . DERANGEMENT, Mental (See also Despondency, Madness). A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch ; Past speaking of in a king. . K. L. iv. 6. DESCRIPTION. I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs ; I have drawn her picture with my voice. • P. P. iv. 3. O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter! L. L, v. 2. DESDEMONA. A maid That paragons description, and wild fame ; One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation, Does bear all excellency. . . 0. iL 1 . Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds, The gutter'd rocks, and congregated sands, — Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel, — As having sense of beauty, do omit Their mortal natures, letting go safely by The divine Desdemona. . . 0. ii. 1. DESERT. Use every man according to his desert, and who shall escape whipping? use them after your own honour and dignity : the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. H. ii. 2. O, your desert speaks loud ; and I should wrong it, To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, When it deserves, with characters of brass, SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 74 M. M. v. Tit. And. i. H. IV. pt. ii. ii. 2. C. ii. 1. C/t/m. i. 7. Ctym. i. 7. PT. T. DESERT,— continued. A forted residence, 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. But let desert in pure election shine. DESERTION. Him did you leave, Second to none, unseconded by you. DESIGNATION. We call a nettle but a nettle ; and The faults of fools but folly. DESIRE. The cloyed will (That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, That tub both fill'd and running) ravening first The lamb, longs after for the garbage. Happy ! but most miserable Is the desire that's glorious. Blessed be those, How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills Which seasons comfort. DESOLATION. I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither'd bough ; and there My mate, that's never to be found again, Lament till I am lost. Then was I as a tree Whose boughs did bend with fruit ; but in one night, A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, And left me bare to wither. . Cym. iii. Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity, No friends, no hope ; no kindred weep for me, Almost no grave allow 'd me ;- — like the lily, That once was mistress of the field, and flourish'd, I'll hang my head and perish. . H. VIII. iii. Alack, and what shall good old York there see, But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls, Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones ? And what cheer there for welcome but my groans ? Therefore commend me, let him not come there, To seek out sorrow that dwells every where : Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die ; The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye. DESPAIR, There's nothing in this world can make me joy Life is as tedious as a twice told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. I will despair, and b r at enmity With cozening hope ; he is a flatterer, A parasite, a keeper back of death, 1. R. II. i. 2. K. J. iii. 4. 75 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DES 1 DESPAIR,— continued. Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, Which false hope lingers in extremity. R. II. ii. 2. Now let not Nature's hand Keep the wild flood confm'd ! Let order die ! And let this world no longer be a stage, To feed contention in a lingering act ; But let one spirit of the first-born Cain Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, And darkness be the burier of the dead. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 1. sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me ; That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me ; throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault ; Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder. And finish all foul thoughts. . . A. C. iv. 9. 1 pull in resolution ; and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth. . . M. v. 5. O, I am fortune's fool! . . R. J. iii. 1. I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me ; — Nay, wherefore should they t since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself. R. III. v. 3. For now I stand as one upon a rock, Environ'd with a wilderness of sea ; Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, Expecting ever when some envious surge Will, in his brinish bowels, swallow him. Tit. And. iii. 1. They have tied me to the stake, I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course. . M. v. 7. Take the hint Which my despair proclaims ; let that be left Which leaves itself. . . A. C. iii. 9. I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, And wish the estate of the world were now undone. M. v. 5. Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair. . . C. iii. 3. My very hairs do mutiny ; for the white Reprove the brown for rashness ; and they them For fear and doting. . . . A. C. iii. 9. DESPATCH. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. . . M. i. 7. Come, to the forge with it then ; shape it ; I would not have things cool. . M. W. iv. 2. e2 0. V. 1. K. L. ii. 1. K. L. i. 1. DES SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 76 DESPATCH,— continued. It makes us, or it mars us ; think on that, And fix most firm thy resolution. Briefness, and fortune, work. We must do something, and i' the heat. DESPERATION. Some say he's mad ; others, that lesser hate him, Do call it valiant fury ; but for certain, He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of rule. . . M. v. 2. Fortune knows, We scorn her most when most she offers blows. A. C. jii. 9. Whip me, ye devils, From the possession of this heavenly sight ! Blow me about in winds ! roast me in sulphur ! Wash me in steep- down gulfs of liquid fire ! Desdemona ! . . 0. v Our enemies have beat us to the pit : It is more worthy to leap in ourselves, Than tarry till they push us. . J. C. v. 5. Yet I will try the last : Before my body 1 throw my warlike shield ; lay on, Macduff; And damn'd be he that first cries " Hold ! Enough V* M. Ring the alarum bell : Blow wind, come wrack ! At least we'll die with harness on our back. M. v. 5 The time and my intents are savage wild ; More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers, or the roaring sea. , R. J. v. 3 Now could I drink hot blood, And do such business as the bitter day Would quake to look on. . . H. iii. 2. No, I defy all counsel, all redress, But that which ends all counsel, true redress, Death, death. . . K. J. iii. 4 all you host of heaven ! O earth !— what else 1 And shall I couple hell ? — O fie ! — Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. . . H. i. 5. Ah, women, women ! come ; we have no friend But resolution and the briefest end. A. C. iv. 13, DESPONDENCY (See also Derangement, Madness). 1 am not mad ; I would to heaven I were ! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself : O, if I could, what grief should I forget ! K. J. iii. 4, Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal ; For, being not mad, but sensible of grief, 7 77 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DESPONDENCY,— continued. My reasonable part produces reason How I may be deliver'd of these woes, And teaches me to kill or hang myself. I am sick of this false world ; and will love nought But even the mere necessities upon it. Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave ; Lie, where the light foam of the sea may beat Thy grave-stone daily. How stiff is my vile sense, That I stand up and have ingenious feeling Of my huge sorrows ! better I were distract ; So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs ; And woes, by wrong imaginations, lose The knowledge of themselves. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! Or, that the everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! fie on't ! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. Even here I will put of? my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Nothing I'll bear from thee But nakedness, thou detestable town ! Timon will to the woods ; where he shall find The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind. What say you now~ 1 what comfort have we now 1 By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly, That bids me be of comfort any more. DESTINY. All unavoided is the doom of destiny. The lottery of my destiny Bars me the right of voluntary choosing. The antient saying is no heresy : — Hanging and wiving go by destiny. 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. DESTITUTION. Who gives any thing to poor Tom ? DETERIORATION. When nobles are their tailors' tutors. The man was noble, But with his last attempt he wip'd it out. K. J. iii. 4. T. A. iv. 3. K. L. iv. 6. H. i. 2. T. iii. 3. R. III. v. 3. T.A. iv. 1. R. II. iii. 2. R.III. iv.4. ii. 1. M. V. M. V. 0. ii.9. iii. 3. A'. L. iii. 4.- iii. 2. v.3. AM. 0. 78 M. i.7. ' H i.2. ! J . C. ii.2. A. w. iii. 2. PT. III. iv.l. R. II. ii.l. DEV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DETERMINATION (See also Resolution). I have given suck ; and know How tender 'tis, to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as You have done to this. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. Cannot, is false ; and that I dare not, falser ; I will not come to-day : tell them so, Decius. Shall I stay here to do't ; no, no, although The air of paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all : I will be gone. It was my will and grant ; And for this once, my will shall stand for law. H. VI. Then all too late comes counsel to be heard, Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard. My resolution, and my hands I'll trust ; None about Caesar. . • A* C. iv. 13. I am fire and air ; my other elements I give to baser life. . . A. C. v. 2. DETRACTION. Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more detrac- tion at your heels than fortunes before you. . T.N. ii. 5. Happy are they that hear their detractions, and put them to mending. . . . M.A. ii. 3. DEVICE. What a slave art thou to hack thy sword as thou hast done ; and then say, it was in fight ! . H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. DEVIL. Heaven prosper our sport ! No one means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns. . M. W. v. 1. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all, quite lost; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. . . T. iv.l. DEVOTION. My heart's subdued Even to the very quality of my lord : I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; A nd to his honour and his valiant parts, Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. . 0. i.3. My best attires : — I am again for Cydnus, To meet Marc Antony. . . A. C. v. 2. 79 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DIR DEVOTION,— continued. Yours in the ranks of death. . K. L, iv, 2. A true devoted pilgrim is not weary- To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps. T. G. ii. 7, Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face, That we, like savages, may worship it. . L. L. v. 2. From the four corners of the earth they come, To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint. M . V. ii. 7. Pious. With modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneel'd, and saint-like Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and pray'd devoutly. H. VIII. iv. 1. DEW. And that same dew which sometime on the buds Was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, Stood now within the pretty flow'ret's eyes, Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. M. N. iv. 1. I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl on every cowslip's ear. M. A T . ii. 1. As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers. Tit. And. ii. 4. DIFFIDENCE. A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do. . . K.L.'i.l* DIGNITY. Master Robert Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land, 'tis thine. — Pistol, I will double charge thee with dignities. H.IV. pt.ii. v. 3. Nothing but death, Shall e'er divorce my dignities. . H. VIII. iii. 1, DIGRESSION. Shifted out of thy tale, into telling me of the fashion. M.A. iii. 3. DILIGENCE. He'll watch the horologe a double set. . 0. ii. 3. DINNER. He had not din'd : The veins unfill'd, the blood is cold, and then We pout upon the morning, are unapt To give or to forgive; but when we have stuff'd These pipes and these conveyances of our blood With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls Than in our priest-like fasts ; therefore I'll watch him Till he be dieted to my request, And then I'll set upon him. . . C. v. 1. DIRGE. I cannot sing : I'll weep, and word it with thee ; DIS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 80 DIRGE, — continued. For notes of sorrow, out of tune, are worse Than priests and fanes that lie. • Cym. iv. 2 DISASTERS. Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course and growth. T. C. i. 3, Why then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works ; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought else, But the protractive trials of great Jove. . T, C. i. 3. DISCLOSURE. You shall see, anon ; 'tis a knavish piece of work. H. iii. 2. DISCONTENT. What's more miserable than discontent? H, VI, pt. ii. iii. 1« Happiness courts thee in her best array ; But like a misbehav'd and sullen wench, Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love : Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. R. J. iii. 3. With what a majesty he bears himself; How insolent of late he is become, How proud, peremptory, and unlike himself ! H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 1. Popular. And the pretence for this Is nam'd, your wars in France : this makes bold mouths • Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze Allegiance in them ; their curses now, Live where their prayers did ; and it's come to pass, That tractable obedience is a slave To each incensed will. . . H.VIII. i. 2. DISCRETION. For 'tis not good that children-should know any wickedness : old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world. M. W. ii. 2. DISGUISE. Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness, Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. T. N. ii. 2. DISINTERESTEDNESS. O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion ; And having that, do choke their service up, Even with the having. . . A.Y. ii. 3. 81 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DIS DISLIKE. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowl'd to death with turnips. . If, W. Hi. 4. DISMAY (See also Fear, Terror). Thou tremblest. and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd. But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 1. His death (whose spirit lent a fire Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,) Being bruited once, took fire and heat away From the best temper'd courage in his troops ; For from his metal was his party steel'd ; Which once in him abated, all the rest Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead. And as the thing that's heavy in itself, Upon enforcement, flies with greater speed ; So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear, That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim, Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety, Fly from the field. . . HAV. pt.ii. i. 1. DISMISSAL. Cassio, I love thee ; But never more be officer of mine. . 0. ii. 3. How ! what does his cashier'd worship mutter] T. A, iii. 4. ■ Silent. Dismiss'd me Thus, wi,th his speechless hand. . C. v. 1. DISORDER. But they did no more adhere and keep place together, than the hundredth psalm to the tune of Green Sleeves. M. W. ii. 1. For night owls shriek, where mounting larks should sing. R.IL iii. 3. DISPERSION. Our army is dispers'd already ; Like youthful steers unyok'd, they take their courses East, west, north, south ; or, like a school broke up, Each hurries towards his home and sporting place. H.IV. pt.ii. iv.2. DISPLEASURE, Rash. Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious things we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave. Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, e3 DIS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 82 DISPLEASURE, Rash,— .continued. Destroy our friends, and after, weep their dust : Our own love waking cries to see what's done, While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon. A. W. v. 3. DISPROPORTION. O, the more angel she, And you the blacker devil. . . 0. v. 2. DISQUIET. Look where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever med'cine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday. . 0. iii. 3. Indeed, indeed, Sirs, but this troubles me. . H. i. 2. DISSIMULATION (See Hypocrisy, Quoting Scripture). We are oft to blame in this ; — 'Tis too much prov'd, — that with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. . . H. iii. 1. Divinity of hell! When devils will their blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows. 0. ii. 3. If I do not put on a sober habit, Talk with respect, and swear but now and then, Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely ; Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes Thus — with hat, and sigh, and say, amen ; Use all the observance of civility, Like one well studied in a sad ostent To please his grandam, never trust me more. M, V. ii, 2. Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile ; And cry content to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. H. VL pt.iii. iii. 2. Though I do hate him as I do hell pains, Yet, for necessity of present life, J must show out a flag and sign of love, Which is indeed but sign. . . O. i. I. Where we are There's daggers in men's smiles ; the near in blood, The nearer bloody. . • M. ii. 3. In following him I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love or duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after, But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, For daws to peck at. I am not what I am. 0. i. 1 . 83 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DIS DISSIMULATION,— continued. To beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. . . M. i. 5. Away, and mock the time with fairest show, False face must hide what the false heart doth know. M. i. 7. Good now, play one scene Of excellent dissembling ; and let it look Like perfect honour. . . A. C. i. 3. Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 2. And with a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts. . W. T. i. 2. You vow, and swear, and super-praise my parts, When I am sure you hate me in your hearts. M. N. iii. 2. As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. . • H. i. 5. DISTINCTION. Art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular'? H. V. iv. 1. Unbecoming. It lies as sightly on the back of him, As great Alcides' shoes upon an ass. K. J. ii. 1 . DISTRACTION. Contending with the fretful elements ; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease : tears his white hair ; Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of : Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. K. L. iii. 1. DISTRESS. The thorDy point Of bare distress hath ta 9 en from me the show Of smooth civility. . , A. Y. ii. 7. DISTURBERS. Who rather had, Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold Dissentious numbers pestering streets, than see Our tradesmen singing in their shops, and going About their functions freely. . . C. v. 6. DISUNION. When that the general is not like the hive, To whom the foragers shall all repair, What honey is expected 1 . . T. C. i. 3. How, in one house, Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity 1 *Tis hard, almost impossible* K. L. ii. 4, DRE SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 84 DOOM. Away ! By Jupiter, This shall not be revok'd. . . K. L. i. 1. DOTARD. The brains of my Cupid's knock'd out; and I begin to love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach. A. W. iii. 2. DOVER Cliffs. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes below ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy, Almost too small for sight : The murm'ring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down" headlong. . . K. L. iv. 6\ DRAMAS. The best of this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. M. N. v. 1. DREAMS. I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind, which wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. R. J. I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream ; — past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. . M. N. iv. 1. 'Tis still a dream ; or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain out ; either both, or nothing : Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such As sense cannot untie. Be what it is, The action of my life is like it, which I'll keep, if but for sympathy. . Cym. v. 4. By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, led on by shallow Richmond. R, III. v. 3. Poor wretches, that depend On greatness* favour, dream as I have done, Awake, and find nothing. . . Cym. v. 4. : 85 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. DRE DREAMS, — continued. This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep Did mock sad fools withal. . . P. P. v. L In thy faint slumbers, I by thee have watch'd, And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars : Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed ; Cry, Courage! — to the field! And thou hast talk'd Of sallies, and retires ; of trenches, tents, Of pahsadoes, frontiers, parapets; Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin ; Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain, And all the currents of a heady fight. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war, And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep, That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles on a late disturbed stream : And in thy face strange motions have appear'd, Such as we see when men restrain their breath On some great sudden haste. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. There is some ill a-brewing toward my rest, For I did dream of money bags to-night. M. V. ii. 5. Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. R. III. v. 3. There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. 0. iii. 3. ( DRESS (See also Advice to a Young Man). For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. T. S. iv. 3. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his leathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye? T. S. iv. 3. And now, my honey love, We will return unto thy father's house ; And revel it as bravely as the best ; With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings, With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things : With scarfs, and fans, and double change of bravery, And amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. The tailor stays thy leisure, To deck thy body with his rustling treasure. T. S. iv. 3. My dukedom to a beggarly denier, I do mistake my person all this while : Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot, Myself to be a marvellous proper man. I'll be at charges for a looking-glass ; And entertain a score or two of tailors, To study fashions to adorn my body. Since I am crept in favour with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost. R. III. i. 2. As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast. T. C. iii. 3. FOLLOWERS. I follow him to serve my turn upon him : We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. . . 0. i. 1. FOOL. Why, thou silly gentleman ! . O. i. 3. Let the doors be shut upon him ; that he may play the fool no- where but in his own house. . H. iii. 1. Fools on both sides ! . . T, C. i. 1 . , Alas, poor fool ! how have they baffled thee ! T. N. v. 1 . I dare not call them fools ; but this I think, When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink. L.L. v.2. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice, As full of labour as a wise man's art : For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit ; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit. ' T. N. iii. 1. A fool, a fool! — T met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; — a miserable world I As I do live by food, I met a fool ; Who laid him down, and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, — and yet a motley fool. A.Y. ii. 7. I am sprighted with a fool. . Cym. ii. 3. FOOLERY. Foolery, Sir, dees walk about the orb, like the sun ; it shines everywhere. . . T.N. iii. 1. Observe him for the love of mockery. . T. N. ii. 5, What folly I commit, I dedicate to you. T. C. iii. 2. FOOLING. I do not like this fooling. . . T. C. v. 2. They fool me to the top of my bent. . H. iii. 2. Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling. T. N. ii. 3. FOP. The soul of this man is in his clothes. . A. W. ii. 5. Foreign. Whose manners still our tardy apish nation, Limps after, in base imitation. . JR. JJ. il, 1. 113 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. *OR FORBEARANCE (See Strength). FOREBODING. Yet, again, methinks, Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb, Is coming toward me. . . R. II. ii. 2. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me. . M. ii 1 . I have an ill-divining soul : Methinks I see thee now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb : Either my eye- sight fails, or thou look'st pale. R. J. iii. 5. The skies look grimly, And threaten present blusters. In my conscience, The heavens with that we have in hand are angry, And frown upon us. . . W* T. iii. 3. For my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels ; and expire the term Of a despised life, clos'd in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death. . R. J. i.4. In what particular thought to work, I know not ; But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state. H. i. 1 . FORE-DOOM. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And, with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. . . M. iii 2. I will drain him dry as hay ; Sleep shall, neither night nor day, Hang upon his pent-house lid ; He shall live a man forbid. . . M. i. 3. Ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight; ere, to black Hecate's summons, The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. . . M. iii. 2. FORE-STALLER. Hang'd himself on the expectation of plenty. M. ii. 3. FORGETFULNESS. 'Tis far off; And rather like a dream than an assurance That my remembrance warrants. . T. i. 2. Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. . . C. v. 3. FORGIVENESS. The rarer action is FOR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 114 FORGIVENESS,— continued. In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. . . T. v. 1. Kneel not to me ; The power that I have on you, is to spare you ; The malice toward you, to forgive you : Live, And deal with others better. . Cym. v. 5. Then I'll look up ; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my tarn ? Forgive me my foul murder ! — That cannot be ; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, — My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardon'd, and retain the offence 1 H. iii. 3, His great offence is dead, And deeper than oblivion do we bury The incensing relicks of it. . A. W. v. 3. FORLORN. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be washed off the next tide. . . H. V. iv. 1 FORTITUDE. Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate To grace it with your sorrows ; bid that welcome Which comes to punish us, and we punish it, Seeming to bear it lightly. . A. C. iv. 12 In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men : The sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast, making their way With those of nobler bulk ! But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold The strong- ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, Bounding between the two moist elements, Like Perseus' horse : Where's then the saucy boat, Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now Co-rivalPd greatness 1 either to harbour fled, Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so, Doth valour's show, and valour's worth, divide In storms of fortune : for, in her ray and brightness, The herd hath more annoyance by the brize, Than by the tiger ; but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, And flies fled under shade, — why, then, the thing of courage, As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Returns to chiding fortune. . T. C. i. 3. Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate. . T. C. v. 3. 115 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. FOR FORTUNE. I have upon a high and pleasant hill, Feign'd Fortune to be thron'd : The base o' the mount Is rank'dwith all deserts, all kind of natures, That labour on the bosom of this sphere, To propagate their states : amongst them all, Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd, One do I personate of Timon's frame, Whom Fortune, with her ivory hand, wafts to her ; Whose present grace to present slaves and servants Translates his rivals. * * * All those which were his fellows but of late (Some better than his value,) on the moment Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance, Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear, Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him Drink the free air. * * * When Fortune, in her shift and change of mood, Spurns down her late belov'd, all his dependants, W r hich labour'd after him to the mountain's top, Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, Not one accompanying his declining foot. . 7'. A. i. 1. O Fortune, Fortune ! all men call thee fickle. R. J. iii. 5. Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters ? She either gives a stomach and no-food, — Such are the poor, in health ; — or else a feast, And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich, That have abundance, and enjoy it not, H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. Twinn'd brothers of one womb, — Whose procreation, residence, and birth, Scarce is dividant, — touch them with several fortunes, The greater scorns the lesser : Not nature, To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune, But by contempt of nature. Raise me this beggcr, and denude that lord ; The senator shall bear contempt hereditary, The beggar, native honour. It is the pasture lards ihe brother's sides, The want that makes him lean. . T. A. iv. 3. Here's the scroll, The continent, and summary, of my fortunes. M. V. iii. 2. W r hy, then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abash 'd behold our works ; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought else But the protractive trials of great Jove, To find persistive constancy in men 1 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 : FRA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 116 FORTUNE,— continued. 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. How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, While others play the idiots in her eyes ! How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness ! T. C. iii. 3. Many dream not to find, neither deserve, And yet are steep'd in favours. . Cym. v. 4. A thousand moral paintings I can show, That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune, More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well, To show lord Timon, that mean eyes have seen The foot above the head. . T. A. i. 1 1 see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes ; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. . . A. C. iii. 11 When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. K. J. iii. 4. Be cheerful ; wipe thine eyes : Some falls are means the happier to arise. Cym. iv. 2. A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. K. L. ii. 2. That strumpet, Fortune. .. . K.J. iii. 1. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd. Cym. iv. 3. Since you will buckle Fortune on my back, To bear her burden, whe'r I will or no, I must have patience to endure the load. R. III. iii. 7. Though Fortunes malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. H. VI. pt. iit. iv. 3 Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us any thing. J. C. iii. 2. A man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratch'd. A. W. v. 2 FORTUNE Telling (See also Conjuror). We do not know what is brought to pass under the profession of fortune- telling. . M. W. iv. 2. FRACTURED Limb, Healed, Stronger for the Accident. And therefore be assur'd, my good lord marshal, If we do now make our atonement well, Our peace will, like a broken limb united, Grow stronger for the breaking. H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 1. 117 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. FRI FRAILTY. Frailty, thy name is woman ! . H. i. 2. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. T. C. iv. 4. ]\ 7 ay, women are frail too : Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves, Which are as easy broke as they make forms. M. M. ii. 4. Look, here comes one ; a gentlewoman of mine, Who, falling in the flames of her own youth, Hath blistered her report. . M. M. ii. 3. FRIBBLES (See also Coxcombs). Ah, how the poor world is pestered with such water-flies ; dimi- nutives of nature ! . . T. C. v. 1. I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dressM, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble land at harvest home. He was perfumed like a milliner ; x\nd 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff; — and still he smil'd, and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. With many holiday and lady terms He question'd me : among the rest, demanded My prisoners, in your Majesty's behalf. I then, all smarting, with my wounds being cold, To be so pester'd with a popinjay, Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what ; He should, or should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman, Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark !) And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. FRI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 118 FRIBBLE,— confirmed. This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord, I answer'd indirectly, as I said ; And, I beseech you, let not this report Come current for an accusation, Betwixt my love and your high Majesty. H, IV, ft. i. i. 3* FRIEND. Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath seal'd thee for herself : for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks ; and bless'd are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please : Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. Who, in want, a hollow friend doth try. Directly seasons him an enemy. . H» ui« 2- O, you gods ! think I, what need we have any friends'? they were the most needless creatures living, if we should never have need of them 1 They would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases, that keep their sounds to themselves. We are born to do benefits. O what a precious comfort 'tis to have so many like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes ! T, A, i. 2. Commend me to him ; I will send his ransom ; Andj being enfranchis'd, bid him come to me ; — 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after. . . • . T. A, i. 1 The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best-condition'd and unweary'd spirit In doing courtesies ; and one in whom The antient Roman honour more appears, Than any that draws breath in Italy. M. V. iii. 2. I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul remembering my good friends ; And as my fortune ripens with my love, It shall be still my true love's recompense. R. II, ii. 3. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together ; And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans Still we went coupled and inseparable. A, Y. i. 3. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. M, N. iii. 2 1. 119 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. FRI FRIEND, — continued. Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond, Double six thousand, and then treble that, Before a friend of this description Shall lose a hair through my Bassanio's fault. M. V. iii. 2. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. T.C. ii.3. I should fear, those, who dance before me now, Would one day stamp upon me: It has been done ; Men shut their doors against a setting sun. T. A. i. 2. Every man will be thy friend While thou hast wherewithal to spend ; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. . Poems. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith ; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle ; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades, Sink in the trial. . . . J. C. iv. 2. Is all the counsel that we two have shard, The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty- footed time For parting us, — O, is all now forgot? All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? M. iY. iii. 2. The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies. And hitherto doth love on fortune tend ; For who not needs, shall never lack a friend ; And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him an enemy. . . H. iii. 2. Friendship's full of dregs. . . T. A. i. 2. Canst thou the conscience lack, To think I shall lack friends 1 Secure thy heart ; If I could broach the vessels of my love, And try the argument of hearts by borrowing, Men, and men's fortunes, could I frankly use, As I can bid thee speak. . . T, A. ii. 2. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wrong'd, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts. . . 0. iii. 3. O let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke, And scard the moon with splinters ! Here I clip The anvil of my sword ; and do contest FUN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 120 FRIEND, — continued. As hotly and as nobly with thy love, As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. . . C. iv. 5. Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. M. A. ii. 1. By heaven, I cannot flatter ! I defy The tongues of soothers ; but a braver place In my heart's love, hath no man than yourself ; Nay, task me to my word ; approve me, lord. H.IV. pt. i. iv.l. Brutus hath riv'd my heart : A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. /, C. iv. 3. Give him all kindness : I had rather have Such men my friends, than enemies. . J. C. v. 4. That we have been familiar, Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather Than pity note how much. . t C. v. 2. Now do I play the touch, To try if thou be current gold indeed. . R. IIL iv. 2, « Cooling. I have not from your eyes that gentleness, And show of love, as 1 was wont to have : You bear too stubborn, and too strange a hand, Over your friend that loves you. . J. C. i. 2. Thou hast describ'd A hot friend cooling : Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. . /. C. iv. 2. Mere fetches : The images of revolt and flying off. . K. L, ii. 4. FRIENDSHIP Assimilates Friends. For in companions That do converse and waste the time together, Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit. M. Y. iii. 4. FRIGIDITY (See also Coldness). What a frosty-spirited rogue is this ! H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. FROWN. He parted frowning from me, as if ruin Leap'd from his eyes. . H. VIII. iii. 2. FUNERAL RITES. Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd As we have warranty : Her death was doubtful ; And, but that great command o'er-sways the order, 121 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. GEN FUNERAL RITES,— continued. She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd Till the last trumpet ; for charitable prayers, Shards, flints, and pebbles, should be thrown on her ; Yet here she is allow'd her virgin rites, Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home Of bell, and burial. . . if. v. 1. Let it be so, and let Andronieus Make this his latest farewell to their souls. In peace and honour rest you here, my sons ; Rome's readiest champions, repose you here, Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Tit. And. i. 2. Tears. Though fond nature bids us ail lament, Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. R. J. iv. 5. But yet It is our trick ; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will. . . H. iv. 7. Comfort, dear mother; God is much displeas'd, That you take with unthankfulness his doing ; In common worldly things, 'tis call'd — ungrateful, With dull unwillingness to repay a debt, Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent. R. III. ii. 2. FURY. O, I warrant, how he mammock'd it ! . C. i. 3. Let me speak ; and let me rail so high, That the false housewife, Fortune, break her wheel, Provok'd by my offence. . . A. C. iv. 13. I understand a fury in your words, But not the words. . . . 0. iv. 2. FUTURITY. O that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! J. C. v. 1. G. GAIETY. See, where she comes, apparell'd like the spring. P.P. i. 1. Flora, peering in April's front. . W. T. iv. 3. GALLANTS. Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. L. L. v. 2. Travell'd gallants That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors. H. VIII. i. 3. GENTLEMAN. I'll be sworn thou art ; Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee five- fold blazon. . T. N. u 4. G GHO SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 122 GENTLEMAN,— continued. A gentleman born, master parson, who writes himself armigero j on any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, armigero. M.W. i.l. GENTLEMEN. We are gentlemen, That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, Envy the great, nor do the low despise. P. P. ii. 3. GEOGRAPHY. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. M. V. i. 1. GHOST (See also Apparition, Spirits, Terror, Guilt). For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. . H. i. 1* Angels, and ministers of grace, defend us ! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee. . . H. i. 4. But, soft: behold ! lo where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me. — Stay, illusion ! If thou hast any sound, or use a voice, Speak to me. . . . if. i.l. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous ; and we, fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this 1 . . if . i. 4. My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself. . . if . i. 5. O, answer me : Let me not burst in ignorance ! but tell, Why thy canoniz'd bones, hears'd in death, Have burst their cerements ! why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. . . if. i. Whv, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too, — If charnel-houses, and our graves, must send Those that we bury, back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. . . M. iii.4. The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me Two several times by night: at Sardis, once ; And, this last night, here in Philippi fields. I know, my hour is come. . . J. C. v. 5. 123 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. GOL GIFTS (See also Love Tokens). Well, God give them wisdom that have it : and those that are fools, let them use their talents. . T. N. i. 5. A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. L.L. iv. 1. Gifts then seem Most precious, when the giver we esteem. . Poems. Win her with gifts, if she respect not words \ Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More quick than words, do move a woman's mind. T. G. iii. 1 . She prizes not such trifles as these are : The gifts, she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd Up in my heart ; which I have given already, But not deliver'd. . . W. T, iv. 3. Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts. M. W. i.l. I am not in the giving vein to day. . R. III. iv. 2. GLORY. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 'Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. H.VI. pt.i. i.2. GOLD (See also Money). Saint-seducing gold. . . E.J. i.l. O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright denier Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, That solder'st close impossibilities, And mak'st them kiss ! that speak'st with every tongue, To every purpose ! . . T. A. iv. 3. For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care^ Their bones with industry ; For this they have engrossed and pil'd up The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold ; For this they have been thoughtful to invest Their sons with arts, and martial exercises : When, like the bee, tolling from every flower, The virtuous sweets ; Our thighs are pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, We bring it to the hive ; and, like the bees, Are murder'd for our pains. . H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. And 'tis gold Which makes the true man kilPd, and saves the thief; g 2 GOO SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 124 GOLD, — continued. Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man : what Can it not do, and undo 1 . . Cym. ii. 3. Thus much of this, will make black white ; foul, fair ; Wrong, right ; base, noble ; old, young ; coward, valiant. Ha, ye gods ! Why this 1 What, this, you gods! Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides \ Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accurs'd \ Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench : this is it, That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ; She, whom the spital house, and ulcerous sores, Would cast the gorge at ; this embalms and spices To the April day again. . . T. A. iv. & There is thy gold ; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayest not sell. R. J. v. 1. See, sons, — what things you are ! How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object. H. IV* pt. ii. iv. 4. Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Would tempt into a close exploit of death ? R. III. iv. 2. I know a discontented gentleman, Whose humble means match not his haughty mind : Gold were as good as twenty orators, And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing. R, III. iv. 2. O thou touch of hearts ! , -. T. A. iv. 3. GOOD MAN, Commercial Definition of a. My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you under- stand me, he is sufficient. . M. V. i. 3. GOOD MANNERS. When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's hands, and they unwash'd too, 'tis a foul thing. . R.J. i. 5, GOODNESS to be Always Preferred. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. M. iv. 3, GOOD THINGS. Well, I cannot last for ever : But it was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too com- mon. If you will needs say I am an old man, you should give me rest. I would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as it is. I were better to be eaten to death with rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 2. GOOD WOMEN. One in ten, quoth a' ! an we might have a good woman born but every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well : a man may draw his heart out ere he pluck one. A.W.'uZ. 125 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. GRA GOOD WORKS. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. M. V. v. i. GORMANDIZING. Fat paunches have lean pates ; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bank'rout quite the wits. L. L. i. 1. Make less thy body, hence, and more thy grace": Leave gormandizing. . H.IV. pt. ii. v. 5. Thou shalt not gormandize, As thou hast done with me : And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out. M. V. ii. 5. GRANDAM. A grandam's name is little less in love, Than is the doating title of a mother ; They are as children, but one step below ; Even of your mettle, of your very blood. R. III. iv. 4. GRATITUDE. I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father, "Which I did store to be my foster nurse, When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown ; Take that : and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to mine age. . . A. Y. ii. 3. Thou canst not in the course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of mine. . . . Cym. iii. 5. Kind gentleman, your pains Are register'd, where every day I turn The leaf to read them. . . M. i. 3. Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. H. VI. pt. ii. ii. 1. Would thou had'st less deserv'd ; That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine ! . . M. i. 4. GRAVE. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps ! Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, Here grow no damned grudges ; here are no storms, No noise, but silence and eternal sleep. Tit. And. i. 2. The grave doth gape, and doting death is near. H. V. ii. 1. Let us Find out the prettiest daisied spot we can, And make him, with our pikes and partizans, A grave. . . . Cym. iv. 2. GRAVE-Stone. And let my grave-stone be your oracle. T.A. v. 3. GRE SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 126 GRAVITATION. And you may know by my size, that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking ; if the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. . . M. W. iii. 5. GRAVITY, Affected. There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond ; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ; As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! M. V. i. 1. GREATNESS (See also Kings, Authority). Some are born great : — some achieve greatness ; — some have greatness thrust upon them. . . T.N+ iii. 4. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. . H. iv. 4. Would you praise Caesar, say, — Caesar; go no further. A. C. iii. 2. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about, To find ourselves dishonourable graves. . J. C. i.2. This man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod at him. . J. C. i. 2. The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power. . . J. C. ii. 1 . Great men may jest with saints : His wit in them ; But, in the less, foul profanation. That, in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. . M. M. ii. 2* GREETING (See also Salutation). A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep, And I could laugh ; I am light, and heavy : Welcome : A curse begin at very root of his heart, That is not glad to see thee ! . «. C. ii. 1. The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry ! H. V, iv. h God-a-mercy, old heart ! thou speakest cheerfully. H. V, iv. 1. Why have you stolen upon us thus! You come not Like Caesar's sister ; the wife of Antony Should have an army for an usher, and The neighs of horse to tell of her approach, Long ere she did appear ; the trees by the way, Should have borne men ; and expectation fainted, Longing for what it had not : nay, the dust 127 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. GRI GREETING,— continued. Should have ascended to the roof of heaven, Rais'd by your populous troops : But you are come A market-maid to Rome ; and have prevented The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, Is often left unlov'd : we should have met you By sea, and land ; supplying every stage With an augmented greeting. . A. C. iii, 6. — Simple. Trust me, sweet, Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome ; And in the modesty of fearful duty I read as much, as from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least, speak most, to my capacity. . M. N. v. 1. GRIEF (See also Lamentation, Sorrow, Tears). Men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness with a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words. No, no ; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under a load of sorrow ; But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, To be so moral, when he shall endure The like himself : therefore give me no counsel ; My griefs cry louder than advertisement. M. A. v. ]• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserv'd when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd, that smiles, steals something from the thief: He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. 0. i. 3. I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. . M. iv. 3. Why tell you me of moderation 1 The grief is fine, full, perfect, which I taste, And no less in a sense as strong As that which causeth it : How can I moderate it ? If I could temporize with my affection, Or brew it to a weak and colder palate, The like allayment could I give my grief ; My love admits no qualifying cross : No more my grief, in such a precious loss. T. C. iv, 4. GRI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 128 GRIEF,— continued. The heart hath treble wrong, When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue. Poems, Some grief shows much of love ; But much of grief shows still some want of wit. R, J, iii. 5. My grief lies all within, And these external manners and laments Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul. R, II, iv. 1 . A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a blad- der. . . H, IV, ft. i. ii. 4* The gods rebuke me, but it is a tidings To wash the eyes of kings. . A. C, v. 1. I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve : give not me counsel, Nor let no comforter delight mine ear, But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. M, A, v. 1. Give sorrow words : the grief that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and makes it break. M, iv. 3. Like the lily, That once was mistress of the field, and flourish'd, I'll hang my head, and perish. H, VIII* iii. 1. Your cause of sorrow Must not be measur'd by its worth, for then It hath no end. • . M. v. 7. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? R, J, iii. 5. Had he the motive and the cue for passion, That I have, he would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech ; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. . H, ii. 2, Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel : Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doating like me, and like me banished, Then might'st thou speak, then might'st thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave. jR. J, iii. 3. Grief softens the mind, and makes it fearful and degenerate. H, VI, pt. n. iv. 4. There she shook The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamour-moisten'd : then away she started, To deal with grief alone. . K\ L. iv. 3. 129 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. GRI GRIEF, — continued, O, insupportable ! O, heavy hour ! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration. . . 0. v. 2. Good, my lords, I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, Perchance, shall dry your pities ; but I have That honourable grief lodg'd here, which burns Worse than tears drown. . . W.T. ii. 1. Woe doth the heavier sit, Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. . R. II. i. 3. My lord ;— I found the prince in the next room, Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks ; With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow, That tyranny, which never quaff d but blood, Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife With gentle eye-drops. . H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. One of the prettiest touches of all, and that which angled for mine eyes (caught the water, though not the fish) was, when at the relation of the queen's death, with the manner how she came to it, (bravely confessed and lamented by the king), how attentiveness wounded his daughter: till, from one sign of dolour to another, she did, with an alas ! I would fain say, bleed tears ; for, I am sure, my heart wept blood. Who was most marble there, changed colour ; some swooned, all sorrowed : if all the world could have seen it, the woe had been universal. . W. T. v. 2. Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied. H. VI. pt. i. iii. 3. Why do you keep alone, K Of sorriest fancies your companions making 1 Using those thoughts, which should indeed have died With them they think on 1 Things without all remedy Should be without regard. . . M. iii. 2. These tidings nip me : and I hang the head, As flowers with frost, or grass beat down with storms. Tit. And. iv. 4. Nor doth the general care Take hold on me ; for my particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature, That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself. . . 0. i. 3. Many a morning hath he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs. R. J. i. 1 . O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue ! . M. iv. 3. g3 GRI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 130 GRIEF, — continued. Now my soul's palace is become a prison : Ah, would she break from hence ! that this my body Might in the ground be closed up in rest ; For never henceforth shall I joy again. H. VI. pt. hi. ii. 1. How now ! has sorrow made thee dote already 1 Tit. And. iii. 2. His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life Began to crack. , . K. L. v. 3. But let not therefore my good friends be griev'd, Nor construe any further my neglect, Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men. . J. C. i. 2. All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral : Our instruments, to melancholy bells : Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change ; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary. R.J. iv. 5 Once a day I'll visit The chapel where they lie : and tears, shed there, Shall be my recreation : so long as Nature Will bear up with this exercise, so long I daily vow to use it. » « W. T. iii. 2. O break, my heart ! — poor bankrupt, break at once ! To prison, eyes ! ne'er look on liberty ! Vile earth, to earth resign ; end, motion, here ; And thou, and Romeo, press one heavy bier. R. J. iii. 2. Sorrow, and grief of heart, Made him speak fondly, like a frantic man. R. II. iii. 3. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds ; And he, the noble image of my youth, Is overspread with them : therefore my grief Stretches itself beyond the hour of death. H. IV. pt. ii. iv.4. We must be patient : but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him i' the cold ground. . H. iv. 5. Bind up those tresses : O, what love I note In the fair multitude of those her hairs ! Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen, Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends Do glew themselves in sociable grief ; Like true, inseparable, faithful loves, Sticking together in calamity. . K.J. iii. 4. There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. » K.J. iii. 4. Every one can master a grief, but he that has it. M. A. iii. 2. 131 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. GRI GRIEF, — continued . What fates impose, that men must needs abide ; It boots not to resist both wind and tide. H. VI. pt. hi. iv. 3. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. H. VI. pt. in. v. 4. What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis 1 whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? . H. v. i. Friends, I owe more tears To this dead man, than thou shalt see me pay. J. C. v. 3* Strange it is, That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds. . . A. C. v. 1. Great griefs, I see, medicine the less. . Gym. iv. 2* What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief. . . W. T. iii. 2. Spirits of peace, where are ye ] Are ye all gone 1 And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye ? H. VIII. iv. 2. 0, that I were as great As is my grief! . . R. II. iii. 3. And but he's something stain'd With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st call him A goodly person. . * . T. i. 2. 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. H. IV. pt. it. iv. 1. All of us have cause To wail the dimming of our shining star ; But none can cure their harms by wailing them. R. III. ii . 2. Why, courage, then ! what cannot be avoided, 'Twere childish weakness to lament, or fear. H. VI. pt. in. v. 4. Maternal. And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven : If that be true, I shall see my boy again ; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born. But now will canker sorrow eat my bud, And chase the native beauty from his cheek ; And he will look as hollow as a ghost, As dim and meagre as an ague's fit ; And so he'll die ; and, rising so again, GUI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 132 GRIEF, Maternal — continued. When I shall meet him in the court of heaven I shall not know him : therefore, never, never, Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. . K.J. iii. 4. He talks to me that never had a son. . K. J. iii. 4. Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. Fare you well : had you such a loss as I,, I could give better comfort than you do. — I will not keep this form upon my head, When there is such disorder in my wit. O lord, my boy, my Arthur, my fair son ! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world 1 My widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure ! K, J. iii. 4, and Joy. The violence of either grief or joy, Their own enactures with themselves destroy i Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament ; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. H. iii. 2. GROUP. thus, quoth Dighton, lay the gentle babes, — Thus, thus, quoth Forrest, girdling one another, Within their alabaster innocent arms. R» III, iv. 3. GUILT. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt ► H, iv. 5. Guiltiness will speak Though tongues were out of use. . 0, v. \. Have you heard the argument ? Is there no offence in it ? H. iii. 2. And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. . . H. i. 1. The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. Poems, I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still, That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. X_ C. v. ii. Infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. M. v. 1. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. H, iii. 3. GUILTY Career, the Close of a. 1 have liv'd long enough ; my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 1 must not look to have ; but, in their steady 133 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. HAN GUILTY Career, the Close of a, — continued. Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not. M. v. 3. — Pursuits. What win the guilty, gaining what they seek 1 A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy ! For one sweet grape, who will the vine destroy 1 Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week 1 Or sells eternity to get a toy? Poems. H. HABIT (See also Custom). For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either curb the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. . . H. iii. 4, The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice driven bed of down. 0. i. 3. HABITATION. Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling, and a rich. ff, IV. FT. II. V. 3. — Humble. Stoop, boys : This gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens ; and bows you To morning's holy office : The gates of monarchs Are arch'd so high, that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on, without Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven ! We house i'the rock, yet use thee not so hardly As prouder livers do. . . Cym. iii. 3. HALTER. . A halter, gratis; nothing else, for God's sake. M. V. iv. 1. HAND. O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink, Writing their own reproach ; To whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense Hard as the palm of ploughmen. . T. C. i. 1. HANGER-OX. O Lord ! he will hang upon him like a disease : he is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad. M.A. i. 1. HANGING. O the charity of a penny cord ! it sums up thousands in a trice : you have no true debitor and creditor but it : of what's past, is, and to come, the discharge : Your neck, Sir, is pen, book, and counters, so the acquittance follows. . . Cym. v. 4. A heavy reckoning for you, Sir ; but the comfort is, you shall be called to no more payments, fear no more tavern bills : which HAT SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 134 HANGING, — continued. are often the sadness of parting, as the procuring of mirth : you come in faint for want of meat, depart reeling with too much drink j — * * * purse and brain both empty. Cym. v. 4. Hanging is the word, Sir ; if you be ready for that, you are well cook'd. . . .. Cym. v. 4. I have great comfort from this fellow : methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging ! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage ! If he be not born to be hang'd, our case is miserable. . T. i. 1. HANGMEN. Some of the best of them were hereditary hangmen. C. ii. 1. HAPPINESS. Hitting Each object with a joy ; the counterchange Is severally in all. . . Cym, v. 5. But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes ! Connubial. A.Y. If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. HARMONY of the Spheres. There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim : Such harmony is in immortal souls ;. — But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. HATRED. Were half to half the world by th' ears, and he Upon my party, I'd revolt, to make Only my wars with him : he is a lion That I am proud to hunt. Nor sleep, nor sanctuary, Being naked, sick : nor fane, nor capitol, The prayers of priests, nor times of sacrifice, Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst My hate to Marcius : where I find him, were it At home, upon my brother's guard, even there, Against the hospitable canon, would I Wash my fierce hand in 's heart. Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, That I may live to say, — The dog is dead ! M. V. v. 1 . C. i. 1. C. i. 10. B. III. iv. 135 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. HER HATRED,— continued. How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him, for he is a christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. 3/. V. i. 3. Alas, poor York ! but that I hate thee deadly, I should lament thy miserable state. I pr'ythee, grieve, to make me merry, York ; Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance. H. VI. pt. in. i. 4. I'll not be made a soft and dull-ey'd fool, To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield To christian intercessors. . . M. V. iii. 3. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the antient grudge I bear him. M. V. i. 3. HEART. A good leg will fall ; a straight back will stoop ; a black beard will turn white ; a curled pate will grow bald ; a fair face will wither ; a full eye will wax hollow : but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and moon ; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon ; for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly. H. V. v, 2. A light heart lives long. . . L. L. v. 2. Breaking* But his flaw'd heart, (Alack, too weak the conflict to support !) 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly. . . K. L. v. 3. HEIR-LOOaL Of six preceding ancestors, that gem Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue, Hath it been own'd and worn. . A. W. v. 3. It is an honour 'longing to our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, "Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world, In me to lose, . . . A. IV. iv. 2. HERjNTE'S O^k. There is an old tale goes, that Heme, the hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner. M. W> iv. 4. HERO, Military, Pretended. Such fellows are perfect in great commanders' names : and they will learn you by rote where services are done. H. V. iii 6. HOM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 136 HERO, Military, Pretended, — continued. What a beard of the general's cut, and a horrid suit of the camp, will do among foaming bottles, and ale -washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on ! . H. V. iii. 6. HEROISM. Either our history shall, with full mouth, Speak freely of our acts ; or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Nor worship'd with a waxen epitaph. . H.V. i.2. By his light, Did all the chivalry of England move To do brave acts : he was, indeed, the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. H.IV. pt. n. ii.3. A true knight ; Not yet mature, yet matchless ; firm of word, Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue ; Not soon provok'd, nor, being provok'd, soon calm'd : His heart and hand both open, and both free ; For what he has, he gives ; what thinks, he shows ; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty, Nor dignifies an impair thought with breath : Manly as Hector, but more dangerous ; For Hector, in his blaze of wrath, subscribes To tender objects, but he, in heat of action, Is more vindicative than jealous love. . T. C. iv. 5. HESITATION (See also Irresolution). Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought, which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom, And, ever, three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, — This thing's to do. H. iv. 4. HIGHWAYMEN. Gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. H. IV. pt. r. i. 2. HISTORIAN. Instructed by the antiquary times, He must, he is, he cannot but be wise. . T. C. ii. 3. HIT. A hit, a very palpable hit. . . H. v. 5. HOLIDAY. To solemnize this day, the glorious sun Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist ; Turning, with splendour of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold : The yearly course, that brings this day about, Snail never see it but a holyday. . K. J. iii. 1. HOMAGE of Simplicity. For never any thing can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. . M. N. v. 1. 137 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. HON HOME-BREEDING (See also Travelling). Out of your proof we speak : we, poor unfledg'd, Have never wing'd from view o' the nest j nor know not What air's from home. . . Cym. iii. 3. HONESTY. Ay, Sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. . . H. ii. 2. We need no grave to bury honesty ; There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth. . W. T, ii. 1. Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe. . 0. iii. 3. I am myself indifferent honest : but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me : I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious ; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in : What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven 1 We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. . . H. iii. 1. Let me behold Thy face. — Surely this man was born of woman. — Forgive my general and exceptless rashness, Perpetual- sober gods ! T do proclaim One honest man, — mistake me not, — but one ; No more, I pray, — and he's a steward. T. A, iv. 3. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats : For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not. . . J. C. iv. 3. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest. . . M. iv. 3. Ha, ha, w r hat a fool Honesty is ! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman ! . W. T. iv. 3. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. W.T. iv.3. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his ; I have told him on't, but I could never get him from it. . T, A . iii. 1 . Though honesty- be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt. A. W. i. 3. Mine honesty and I begin to square. . A. C. iii. 11. HONOUR (See also Titles, Reputation). The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten -times barr'd up chest, Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ; Take honour from me, and my life is done. R. II. i. 1 . HON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 138 HONO U R, — continued. For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ] Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye 1 T. S. iv. 3. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! H. IV. pt. i. i. 3. By Jove, I am not covetous of gold, Not care I, who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires ; But, if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. . H. V. iv. 3. Life every man holds dear ; but the dear man Holds honour far more precious-dear than life. T. C v. 3. For life, I prize it, A,s I weigh grief, which I would spare : for honour, "lis a derivative from me to mine, And only that I stand for. . W. T. iii. 2. The king has cur'd me, I humbly thank his grace : and from these shoulders, These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken A load would sink a navy, — too much honour. H. VIII. iii. 2. He sits 'mongst men, like a descended god : He hath a kind of honour sets him off, More than a mortal seeming. . Cym. i. 7. Your presence glads our days ; honour we love, For who hates honour, hates the gods above. P. P. ii. 3. For men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer ; And not a man, for being simply man, Hath any honour ; but honour for those honours That are without him ; as place, riches, favour, Prizes of accident as oft as merit : Which, when they fall, as being slippery standers, The love that lean'd on them as slippery too, Do one pluck down another, and together Die in the fall. . . T. C. iii. 3. Thou art a fellow of a good respect ; Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it. J. C. v. 5. 139 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. HON HONOUR,— continued. A scar nobly got,' Or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour. A. W. iv. 5. From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed : Where great additions swell, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour : good alone Is good ; without a name : vileness is so ; The property by what it is should go, Not by the title. . . A. W. ii. 3. For nought I did in hate, but all in honour. 0. v. 2. Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear honour Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover that stand bare ! How many be commanded that command ! How much low peasantry would then be glean'd From the true seed of honour ! and how much honour Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, To be new varnish'd ! M. V. ii. 9. By deed-achieving honour newly nam'd. C. ii. 1. If it be honour, in your wars, to ^eem The same you are not, (which for your best ends, You adopt your policy,) how is it less, or worse, That it^hall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war ; since that to both It stands in like request 1 C. in. 2. Who does i' the wars more than his captain can, Becomes his captain's captain : and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain, which darkens him. A. C. iii. 1. Meddle you must, that's certain ; or forswear to wear iron about you. . . . T.N. iii. 4. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of time. . . M. i. 3. You stand upon your honour! — Why, thou unconfinable base- ness, it is as much as I can do to keep the terms of mine honour precise. I, I, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch ; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and and your bold-beating oaths under the shelter of your honour ! ftf. W. ii. 2. I have heard you say, Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, V the war do grow together : Grant that, and tell me, HOP SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 140 HONOUR.,— continued. In peace, what each of them by the other lose, That they combine not there. . . C. iii* 2. You come Not to woo honour, but to wed it. . \A. W. ii. 1. Signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine On all deservers. . . . M. i. 4. Give me life ; which, if I can save, so ; if not, honour comes unlook'd for, and there's an end. . H. IV. pt. i. v. 3. Well, 'tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ; how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? — No. Or an arm ? — No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? — No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? — No. What is honour ? — A word. What is that word ? — Honour. What is that honour? — Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? — He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it 1 — No. Doth he hear j it?— No. Is it insensible then? — Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? — No. Why? — Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism. . H. IV. pt. i. v. 1. HONOURS. Worldly, Uncertainty of. The painefull warrior famosed for worth, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the booke of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Poems. HOPE. The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness : checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain, Tortive and errant from his course of growth. T. C. i. 3. A cause on foot Lives so in hope, as in an early spring We see the appearing buds ; which, to prove fruit, Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair, That frosts will bite them. . H. IV. pt. ii. i. 3. Like one that stands upon a promontory, And spies a far-offshore where he would tread, Wishing his foot were equal with his eye ; And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, — he'll lade it dry to have his way. H. VI. pt. hi. iii. 2. True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings, Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. JR. III. v. 2. The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. M. M. iii. 1 . Hope is a lover's staff ; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts. T. G. iii. 1. 141 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. HOR HOPE, — continued. There is a credence in thy heart, An esperance so obstinately strong, That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears ; As if those organs had deceptious functions, Created only to calumniate. T. C. v. 2. It never yet did hurt, To lay down likelihoods, and forms of hope. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 3. In that hope, I throw mine eyes to heaven, Scorning whate'er you cau afflict me with. H. VI. in. i. 4. I spy life peering ; but I dare not say How near the tidings of our comfort is. R.II. ii. 1 . O, out of that no hope, What great hope have you ! no hope, that way, is Another way so high an hope, that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond. T. ii. 1 . Do not satisfy your resolution with hopes that are fallible. M. M. iii. 1. I have lost my hopes, Perhaps even there, where I did find my doubts. M. iv. 3. And he that will not fight for such a hope, Go home to bed, and, like the owl by day, If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at. H. VI. pt. iii. v. 4. What I we have many goodly days to see ; The liquid drops of tears that you have shed, Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl y Advantaging their loan, with interest Of ten-times-double gain of happiness. R. III. iv. 4. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. . M. W> ii. 1 . I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope ; he is a flatterer, A parasite, a keeper-back of death, Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, W T hich false hope lingers in extremity. . R. II. ii. 2. (HOPELESSNESS (See also Despondency). Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time ; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, are dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. . . M. ii. 3. HORNS. Why, horns ; which such as you are fain to be beholden to your wives for. . . . A. Y. iv. 1. Horns ! even so : — Poor men alone 1— No, no ; the noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal. . A. Y. iii. 3. HUN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. HORROR. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. . H. i. 5. HUMILITY. Often to our comfort shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full- wing'd eagle. . Cym. iii.3. I have sounded the very base string of h umility. H. IV. pt.i. ii.4. I heard him swear, Were he to stand for consul, never would he Appear i' the market-place, nor on him put The napless vesture of humility. . C. ii. 1. Wilt thou, pupil-like, Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod, And fawn on rage with base humility? . R.II. v. 1. O happy Vantage of a kneeling knee. . R. II. v. 3. . HUMOUR. " The humour of it," quoth 'a ! here's a fellow frights humour out of its wits. . . M. W. ii. 1. I'll tell thee what, prince ; a college of wit-crackers cannot j flout me out of my humour. . M.A. v. 4. I am now of all humours, that have showed themselves humours, since the old days of goodman Adam, to the pupil a H.V. i. chorus. Soldier's. St. George, — that swing'd the dragon, and e'er since, Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door, Teach us some fence ! • . K. J. ii. 1. JOY. Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee : — Hoo ! Marcius is coming home ! . . C. ii. 1 . Why, hark you ; The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes, Tabors, and cymbals, and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance. . . C. v. 4. But that I see thee here, Thou noble thing ! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold. . ♦ C. iv. 5. There appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough, without a badge of bitterness. * * * A kind overflow of kindness : There are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy, than to joy at weeping ! . . * M.A.i.l. IRRESOLUTION (See also Hesitation). Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. . . M. M. i. 5. That we would do, We should do when we would ; for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents ; And then this should is like a spendthrift's sigh, That hurts by easing. . . if. iv. 7. 159 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. JUD IRREVERENCE. Quaff'd off the muscadel, and threw the sops all in the sexton's face. . - . T. S. iii. 2. IRRITABILITY (See also Quarrel). Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy. R.J. iii. 1. Being incens'd, he's flint ; As humorous as winter, and as sudden As flaws congealed in the spring of day. His temper therefore must be well observ'd : Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth ; But, being moody, give him line and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working. H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a gTeat deal of patience. . . . . C. ii. 1. JUDGES, Dilatory. You dismiss the controversy bleeding, the more entangled by your hearing. . . . C. ii. 1. JUDGMENT. Justice. I stand for judgment: answer ; shall I have it ? M. V, iv. ]. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 3. A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel ! M. V. iv. 1. To offend and judge, are distinct offices, And of opposed natures. . . M. V. ii. 9. O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. . J. C. iii. 2. The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. . . . R. III. i. 4. I charge you by the law, Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar, Proceed to judgment. . . M.V. iv. 1. Under your good correction, I have seen, When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. . • $1, M, ii. 2. This shows you are above, You justicers, that these poor nether crimes So speedily can venge ! . . K.L. iv. 2. O, I were damn'd beyond all depth in hell, But that I did proceed upon just grounds To this extremity. . . 0. v. 2. All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cud of their deservings. • K.L. v. 3. KIL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 160 JUDGMENT. Justice,— continued. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. .. K. L. v. 3. Thyself shalt see the act : For, asthou urgest justice, be assur'd, Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st. M. V. iv. 1. And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. H. iv. 5. Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate* sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. K. L. iv. 6. In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself Buys out the law : But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. . . H. iii. 3. I do believe, Induc'd by potent circumstances, that You are mine enemy ; and make my challenge, You shall not be my judge. . H. VIII. ii. 4 If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises ; all proofs sleeping else, But what your jealousies await ; I tell you, Tis rigour, and not law. . . W.T. iii. 2. Impartial are our eyes, and ears : Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir, Now by my sceptre's awe I make a vow, Such neighbour' nearness to our sacred blood Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize The unstooping firmness of my upright soul. R> II. i. 1. He shall have merely justice, and his bond. M.V. iv. 1. JUSTICE of Peace. He's a justice of peace in his county, simple though I stand here. . . . M.W. i. 1. K. KENT. Kent, in the commentaries Caesar writ, Is term'd the civil'st place of all this isle : Sweet is the country, because full of riches ; The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy. H. VI. pt. ii. iv. KILLING. To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust j But, in defence, by mercy, it is just. . T. A, iii. 5. 161 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. KIN KINDNESS. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkerchief about your brows, (The best 1 had, a princess wrought it me,) And I did never ask it you again : And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time ; Saying, — What lack you? — and, — Where lies your grief! K. J. iv. 1. What would you have 1 your gentleness shall force, More than your force move us to gentleness. A. Y. ii. 7. Blunt not his love ; Nor lose the good advantage of his grace, By seeming cold, or careless of his will, For he is gracious if he be observ'd. H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. You may ride us, With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere With spur we heat an acre. . . W. T. i. 2. KINGS (See also Authority, Crown, Fallen Greatness). He may not, as unvalu'd persons do, Carve for himself; for on his choice depends The safety and the health of the whole state ; And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd Unto the voice and yielding of that body, Whereof he is the head. hard condition, twin-born with greatness, Subject to the breath of every fool, Whose sense no more can feel but his own wringing ! What infinite heart's ease must kings neglect, That private men enjoy ! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony 1 And what art thou, thou idol ceremony 1 What kind of god art thou, that suflfer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents 1 what are thy comings in 1 0, ceremony, show me but thy worth ! What, is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men 1 Wherein thou art less happy, being fear'd, Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery 1 O, be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure ! Think'st thou, the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation ? Will it give place to flexure and low bending 1 Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, Command the health of it ? No, thou proud dream ; H. i.3> Z^f* KIN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 162 KINGS,— continued. That play'st so subtly with a king's repose ; I am a king, that find thee ; and I know, "lis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, and crown imperial, The inter -tissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp, That beats upon the high shore of this world : No, not all these, thrice gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave ; Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread ; Never sees horrid night, the child of hell j But, like a lackey, from the rise to set, Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night Sleeps in Elysium ; next day, after dawn, Doth rise, and help Hyperion to his horse ; And follows so the ever-running year With profitable labour, to his grave : And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, Winding up days with toil, and nights with sleep, Had the fore*hand and vantage of a king. H. V. iv. 1. Draw not thy sword to guard iniquity, For it was lent thee all that brood to kill. Poems. Ay, every inch a king, . . K, L. iv. 6. Kings are earth's gods : in vice their law's their will ; And if Jove stray, who dares say, Jove doth ill ? P. J?, i. 1. Princes are A model, which heaven makes like to itself : As jewels lose their glory, if neglected, So princes their renown, if not respected. P. P. ii. 2» Ha, majesty ! how high thy glory towers, When the rich blood of kings is set on fire t O, now doth death line his dead chaps with steel ; The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs ; And now he feasts, mouthing the flesh of men, In undetermin'd differences of kings. K. J. ii. 2. 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 9 VI. pt. hi. i. 2 . O majesty ! When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, That scalds with safety. . H. IV, pt. ii. iv. 4. Yet looks he like a king ; behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth 163 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. KIN K I N G S ,— co n tin ued. Controlling majesty : Alack, alack, for woe, That any harm should stain so fair a show. JR. II. iii. 3. Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ! R. II. iii. 2. Is not the king's name forty thousand names 1 R. II. iii. 2. There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. . . H. iv. 5. How long a time lies in one little word, Four lagging winters, and four wanton springs, End in a word ; such is the breath of kings. R, II. i. 3. High heaven forbid, That kir;gs should let their ears hear their faults hid. P. P. i. 2. When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person, Even by those men that most have done us wrong. H. IV. pt. n. iv. 1. The king is a good king ; but it must be as it may ; he passes some humours and careers. . H. V. ii. 1. He is a happy king, since from his subjects He gains the name of good, by his government. P. P. ii. 1. The hearts of princes kiss obedience, So much they love it ; but, to stubborn spirits, They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. H. VIII. iii. 1. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy, To kings that fear their subjects' treachery 1 O, yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth. And, to conclude, — The shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates ; His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason, wait on him. H. VI. PT.nr. ii. 5. Mulmutius, Who was the first of Britain, that did put His brows within a golden crown, and call'd Himself a king. . . Cym. iii. 1. Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown. P.P. i. 1 . Peace, peace, my lords, and give experience tongue. They do abuse the king that flatter him : KIN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 164 KINGS, — continued. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin ; The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark, To which that breath gives heat and stronger glowing ; Whereas reproof, obedient, and in order, Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate. 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. What? I will be jovial ; come, come ; lama king, My masters, know you thaU Landlord of England art thou now, not king : Thy state of law is bond-slave to the law. P.P. i.2. Poems. R.II. ii.l. K.L. iv.6. R. II. ii. , The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers. R. II. ii. 1. H. IV. pt. i. R. III. i. 4 The skipping king he ambled up and down, With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits. Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honour for an inward toil ; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares : So that, between their titles, and low name, ' There's nothing differs but the outward fame. For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court : and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ; Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchise, be fear'd, and kill with looks ; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, — As if this flesh, that walls about our life, Were brass impregnable ; and humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell, king. Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence ; throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live on bread like you, feel want like you, Taste grief, need friends, like you : subjected thus, How can you say to me — I am a king ! O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but serv'd my God, with half the zeal I serv'd the king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. . if. VIII. iii. 2. R. II. R. II. iii. 2. 165 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. KIN KINGS, — continued. I think the king is but a man, as I am : the violet smells to him as it doth to me ; the element shows to him as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions : his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man ; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing ; therefore, when he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish as ours are. H. V. iv. 1. Well, I perceive he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired he might know none of his secrets. Now do I see he had some reason for it: for if a king bid a man be a villain, he is bound by the in- denture of his oath to be one. . P. P. i. 3. But not a minute, king, that thou can'st give : Shorten my days, thou can'st, with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow : Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage ; Thy word is current with him for my death ; But, dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath. R. II. i. 3. Henry V. I saw young Harry with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — Rise from the ground, like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from^he clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship. H.IV. pt.i. iv. 1. England ne'er had a king until his time. Virtue he had, deserving to command ; His brandish 'd sword did blind men with his beams j His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings ; His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire, More dazzled and drove back his enemies, Than mid-day sun, fierce bent against their faces. What should I say 1 his deeds exceed all speech : He ne'er lift up his hand, but conquered. H. VI. pt.i. i. 1 . Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say — it hath been all-in-all his study ; List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd yon in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences. H. V. i. 1. KIN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 166 KING Henry VI. But all his mind is bent to holiness, To number Ave~Maries on his beads ; ' His champions are — the prophets and apostles ; His weapons, holy saws of sacred writ ; His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves Are brazen images of canoniz'd saints. H. VI. pt. u. i. 3. Richard III. Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious ; Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous ; Thy age confirm'd, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody. R. III. iv. 4. 's Absence and Return, Typified. Know'st thou not, That when the searching eye of heaven is hid Behind the globe, and lights the lower world, Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, In murders and in outrage, bloody here ; But when, from under this terrestrial ball, He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, And darts his light through every guilty hole, Then murders, treasons, and detested sins, The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves ? R. II. iii. 2, 's Adviser. That man, that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, Would he abuse the countenance of the king, Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach, In shadow of such greatness ! H* IV. pt. ii. iv. 2. Death of a. The cease of majesty Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw What's near it, with it : it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd ; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. . . H. iii. 3. 's Evil. 'Tis called the evil : A most miraculous work in this good king ; Which often, since my here-remain in England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows : but strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers ; and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. . . M. iv. 3. 167 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. KNA KING's Evil,— continued. Ay, Sir ; there are a crew of wretched souls, That stay his cure ; their malady convinces The great assay of art ; but, at his touch, Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand, They presently amend. . . M, iv. 3. KISS. O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge ! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear ; and my true lip Hath virgin'd it e'er since. . * C. v. 3. Very good ; well kissed ! an excellent courtesy. 0. ii. 1. This done, he took the bride about the neck ; And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack, That, at the parting, all the church did echo. T. S. iii. 2. Teach not thy lip such scorn ; for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. R. III. i. 2. KISSES, Cold. He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana ; a nun of winters sisterhood kisses not more religiously ; the very ice of chastity is in them. . . . A. Y. iii. 4. And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread. A. Y. iii. 4. Expressive. I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. H. IV. pt. i. iii. 1. KNAVES. A knave ; a rascal, an eater of broken meats ; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted- stocking knave ; a lily-liver'd, action-taking knave ; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue ; a one-trunk-inhe- riting slave : one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of thy additions. K. L. ii. 2. A shrewd knave, and an unhappy. . A. W. iv. 5. A slippery and subtle knave ; a finder out of occasions ; that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true ad- vantage never present itself : a devilish knave ! 0. ii. 1. What a pestilent knave is this same ! R. J. iv. 5. I grant your worship, that he is a knave, Sir ; but yet, God forbid, Sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request. An honest man, Sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your woiship truly, Sir, for this eight years ; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but very little credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, Sir ; there- fore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced. H. IV. pt. ii. v. 1. KNO SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 168 KNAVES,— continued. A beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave. • T. S. iv, 1. Use his men well, for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. H. IV. pt. ii. v. 1. That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse t' unloose. . K. L. ii. 2. By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery. H. VIII. v. 2. KNIGHTHOOD. Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in the realm. . . H. IV. pt. ii. v. 3. Well, now can I make any Joan a lady : Good-den, Sir Richard, — God-a-mercy , fellow ; — And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter ; For new-made honour doth forget men's names ; 'Tis too respective, and too sociable, For your conversion. . . K. J. i. 1 He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration. ♦ . T. N. iii. 4 There lay he stretch'd along, like a wounded knight. A. Y. iii. 2 KNIGHTS of the Garter, When first this order was ordain'd, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble birth ; Valiant, and virtuous, full of haughty courage ; Such as were grown to credit by the wars : Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes. He then that is not furnish'd in this sort, Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight, Profaning this most honourable order: H. VI. pt. i. iv. 1. KNOCKING. Here's a knocking, indeed ! If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. Who's there, i' the name of Belzebub? . M. ii. 3. KNOTS in Timber. As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain, Tortive and errant from his course of growth. T. C. i. 3. KNOWING Man. This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities with a learned spirit Of human dealings. . . 0. iii. 3. Is this the man 1 Is't you, Sir, that know things? A.C. i. 2. KNOWLEDGE. Too much to know, is to know nought but fame. L. L. i. 1. 169 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LABOUR in Vain. Numbering sands and drinking oceans dry. R. II. ii. 2. You may as well go about to turn the sun to ice, by fanning in his face with a peacock's feather. . H.V.ivA. I have seen a swan With bootless labour swim against the tide, And spend her strength with over-matching waves. H. VI. pt. in. i.4. LABYRINTH. Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights, and meanders ! . T. iii. 3. LAMENTATIONS (See also Sorrow, Tears). Why should calamity be full of words 1 R. III. iv. 4. Windy attorneys to their client v/oes, Airy succeeders of intestate joys, Poor breathing orators of miseries ! Let them have scope : though what they do impart, Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart, R. III. iv. 4. Alas, poor Yorick ! . . H. v. 1. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. H. VI. pt. hi. v. 4. Cry, Trojans, cry ! lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophetic tears. Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled elders, Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry, Add to my clamours ! let us pay betimes A moiety of that mass of moan to come. . T. C. ii. 2. LAND Owner. He hath much land, and fertile : — 'Tis a chough ; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirk . H. v. 2. LANGUAGE, Engaging. He speaks holiday. . . Jlf. W. iii. 2. LARK, The lark, whose notes do beat The vaulty heaven so high above our heads. R. /. iii. 5. LATE Hours, Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? . T. N. ii. 3. What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight ! H. IV. pt.i. ii. 4. LATIN. Away with him, away with him ! He speaks Latin. H. VI. pt. n. iv. 2. O, good, my lord, no Latin ; I am not such a truant since my coming, As not to know the language I have liv'd in. H. VIII. iii. 1. i SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 170 I LATIN, — continued. You do ill to teach the child such words : he teaches him to hick, and to hack, which they'll do fast enough of themselves ; and to call horum; — fye upon you ! . M. W, iv. 1. O, I smell false Latin. . . L. L. v. 1. LAUGHTER. With his eyes in flood with laughter. . Cym, i. 7 . O, you shall see him laugh, till his face be like a wet cloak, ill laid up. . . . H. IV, pt. n. v.l. With such a zealous laughter, so profound. L.L. v. 2. Stopping the career of laughter with a sigh. W, T. i. 2. Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes, And strain their cheeks to idle merriment, A passion hateful to my purposes. » K. J. iii. 3. O, I am stabb'd with laughter. . L. L. v. 2. More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed. M. JV. v. 1. LAW (See also Litigation). We have strict statutes and most biting laws. M. M. i. 4 When law can do no right, Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong. . K. J. iii. 1 ; In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? . . M. V, iii. 2. Help, master, help ; here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out. P. P. ii. 1. The brain may devise laws for the blood ; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree :. such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. » M. F. i. 2. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. . M, M. ii. 1. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded for a precedent ; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state : it cannot be. . M. V, iv. 1. We are for law, he dies. • . T.A. iii. 5w It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood, Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past depth To those that, without heed, plunge into it. T. A. iii. 5. Now, as fond fathers, Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, 171 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LEA LAW, — continued* Only to stick it in their children's sight, For terror, not to use ; in time the rod Becomes more mock'd than fear'd : so our decrees, Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ; And liberty plucks justice by the nose. . M. M. i. 4\ What's open made to justice, That justice seizes. What know the laws, That thieves do pass on thieves 1 'Tis very pregnant, The jewel that we find we stoop and take it, Because we see it ; but what we do not see, We tread upon, and never think of it. . M, M. ii. 1. The bloody book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter, After your own sense. . • 0. i. 3. If by this crime he owes the law his life, Why, let the war receiv't in valiant gore ; For law is strict, and war is nothing more. T. A. iii. 5. Faith, I have been a truant in the law ; And never yet could frame my will to it ; And, therefore, frame the law unto my will. H. VI, pt. i. ii. 4, But, I pr'ythee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king 1 — and resolution thus fobb'd as it is, with the rusty curb of old father antic, the law 1 H. IV. pt. i. i. 2. Abuse of. The usurer hangs the cozener. . E.L. iv. 6 V LAWYERS. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. H. VL pt. ii. iv. 2. Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, But eat and drink as friends. . . T. S. i. 2. LEADER. Another of his fashion they have not ; To lead their business. . . 0. i. 1. LEAN Visage. Would he were fatter : — But I fear him not: — Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music : Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease, Whiles they behold a greater than themselves ; And therefore are they very dangerous. J. C. i. 2. i 2 LIA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 172 LEARNING (See also Light, King Henry V., Study). O this learning ! what a thing it is ! . T. S. i. 2. Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. . L, L. iv. 3. A mere hoard of gold, kept by a devil ; till sack commences it, and sets it in use. . H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 3. LEEK, the. Will you mock at an antient tradition, begun upon an honour- able respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour, — and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words ? H. V. v.l. LEERING. I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. . M. W. i. 3. LEGITIMACY. Sirrah, your brother is legitimate : Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him : And if she did play false, the fault was her's ; Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands That marry wives, . . K. J. i. 1. LENITY. For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air 1 And what makes robbers bold, but too much lenity? H. VI. pt. in. ii. 6. My gracious liege, this too much lenity And harmful pity, must be laid aside. H. VI. pt. hi. ii. 2, LETTER. An' it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to signify. M. V. ii. 4. Why, what read you there, That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood, Out of appearance ? . H. V. ii.2. Let us see : — Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not. K. L. iv. 6. Read o'er this ; And after, this ; and then to breakfast, with What appetite you have. . H. VIII. iii. 2. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper. . M. V. iii. 2. Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot- worshippers, here's a letter for thee. . T. C. v. 1. LIAR. Lies. Lying. One that lies three-thirds, and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten. A. W. ii. 5. You told a lie ; an odious, damned lie ; Upon my soul, a lie ; a wicked lie. . 0. v. 2. He will lie, Sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool. . . A. W. iv.3. 173 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LIF LIAR, — continued. Two beggars told me, I could not miss my way ; Will poor folks lie, That have afflictions on them ; knowing 'tis A punishment, or trial 1 Yes ; no wonder, When rich ones scarce tell true : To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need ; and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. . Cym. iii. 6. Let me have no lying ; it becomes none but tradesmen. w:t. iv.3. Detested kite ! thou liest. . K. L. i. 4. These lies are like the father that begets them ; gross as a moun- tain, open, palpable. . H.IV. pt. i. ii. 4. This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turn- bull-street ; and every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. . H.IV. pt. ii. iii. 2. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou. . T. iii. 2. Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, Not truly speaks ; who speaks not truly, lies. K. J. iv. 3. A very honest woman, but something given to lie ; as a woman should not do, but in the way of honesty. A. C. v. 2. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying ! H. IV. pt.ii. iii. 4. his own Dupe. Like one, Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie. . . T. i. 2. LIBERTY. Blessed be those, How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills, Which seasons comfort. . . Cym. i. 7. LICENTIOUSNESS. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint. . . M. M. i. 3. LIFE (See also Illusion, Man, Death). Thy life's a miracle. . . K. L. iv. 6. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. . . ill. v. 5. O gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at th' arrival of an hour. H. IV. pt. i. v. 2. LIG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 174 LIFE, — continued, I see, a man's life is a tedious one. ♦ Cym. iii.6. Like madness is the glory of this life. . T. A. i. 2. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing, That none but fools would keep. M. M. iii. 1. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our vir- tues, A. W. iv. 3. The sands are number'd that make up my life. H. VI. ft. in. i. 4. Life is a shuttle. . . M. W. v. 1. Thus play I, in one person, many people, And none contented. • . JR. II. v. 5. excellent ! I love long life better than figs ! A. C. i. 2. Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, As they were living ; think, you see them great, And follow'd with the general throng, and sweat, Of thousand friends ; then, in a moment, see How soon this mightiness meets misery ! H. VIII. prologue. It is silliness to live, when to live is a torment : and then we have a prescription to die, when death is our physician. 0. i. 3. That life is better life, past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear. . M.M. v. 1. Thus, sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud ; And, after summer, evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold : So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. H. VI. pt.ii. ii. 4. Epitomized (See World). — Desire of. Camillo. — I very well agree with you in the hopes of him : it is a gallant child ; one that, indeed, physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh : they, that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life, to see him a man. Archi damns. — Would they else be content to die? Camilla. — Yes ; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Archidamus. — If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. . W. T. i. 1. LIGHT (See also Study). Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile : So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. L. L. i. 1. 175 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LON LIGHT Infantry. And this same half-fac'd fellow, Shadow, — give me this man ; he presents no mark to the enemy ; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a pen-knife : And, for a retreat, — how swiftly will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off ! O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones. H.IV. pt.ii. iii. 2. LIGHTNING (See also Quickness). Like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Eie one can say, — It lightens ! . JR. J. ii. 2. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth ; And ere a man can say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. . M. N* i. 1. To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. . „ K. L, iv. 7. LINEAGE (See also Ancestry). A plague of both your houses ! . R. J. iii. 1. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee, nor thou earnest not of the blood-royal, if thou dar'st not stand for ten shillings. . . H.IV. pt. i. i.2. LION. 'Tis The royal disposition of that beast, To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. A. Y. iv. 3. So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch, That trembles under his devouring paws : And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey ; And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. H. VI. pt. in. i.3. LITIGATION (See also Law). I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria. T. N. iv. 1. Persuade me not, I will make a star chamber matter of it. M. W. i. 1. I'll answer him by law : I'll not budge an inch. T. S. Ind. 1. LIVELIHOOD. You take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. M. V. iv. 1 . LONELINESS. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle ; for many miles about There's scarce a bush. . . K. L. ii. 4. Insupportable. But whate'er I am, Nor I, nor any man, that but man is, With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd With being nothing. . . R. II. v. 5. LOV SHAKESPEAREAN DICTIONARY. 17ft LONGEVITY. A light heart lives long. . X. X. v. 2. LONG Stories. Men, pleas'd themselves, think others will delight \ (In such like circumstance, with such like sport. Their copious stories, oftentimes begun, End without audience, and are never done. Poems* LORD. Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord. T. S, Ind. 2. Upon my life I am a lord, indeed ; And not a tinker, nor Christophero Sly. T. S, Ind. 2. LORD'S Anointed. A flourish, trumpets ! — strike alarum, drums ! Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed. . R. III. iv. 4*. LOVE (See also Courtship, Fidelity). . Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. no, it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although bis height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. . Poems.. To be wise, and love, exceeds man's might. T. C. iii. 2. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears, It is to be all made of faith and service, It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes ; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance. A. Y. v. 2. As love is full of unbefitting strains ; All wanton as a child, skipping, and vain - T Form'd by the eye, and, therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance. L.L. v. 2. But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain ; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power ; And gives to every power a double power s 177 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LOV LOVE, — continued. Above their functions and their offices, It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; . A lover's eyes. will gay.fi l ,?,^,f^e ll ^ijaAT-'^ ww ** t I A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stoppM • Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails; Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste : For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as Sphynx, as sweet and musical As bright i£pollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. L. L. iv. 3. Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs ; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in a lover's eyes ; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears : What is it else 1 a madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. JR. J. i. 1. Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pursues ; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. M. IF. ii. 2. Didst, thou but know the inly touch of love, Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, As seek to quench the fire of love with words. T. G. ii. 7. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind ; Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste ; And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd. M,N» i. 1. Love is a familiar : love is a devil : there is no evil angel but love. Yet Sampson was so tempted ; and he had an excellent strength : yet was Solomon so seduced ; and he had a very good wit. ♦ . . L.L. i.2. Adieu, valour ! rust, rapier ! be still, drum ! for your manager is in love ; yea, he loveth. . . L. L. i. 2. O king, believe not this hard-hearted man ; Love, loving not itself, none other can. R. II. v. 3. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! T. iV. i. L Come hither, boy : If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it, remember me ; For, such as i am, all true lovers are ; Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, i 3 LOV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 178 LOVE, — continued. Save in the constant image of the creature That is belov'd. . . .T.N. ii. 4. It is as easy to count atomies, as to resolve the propositions of a lover, . . . A.Y. iii. 2. The strongest, love will instantly make weak : Strike the wise dumb ; and teach the fool to speak. Poems. I Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, *T5uTl do love thee ! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. . . 0. iii. 3, I know I love in vain, strive against hope ; Yet in this captious and intenible sieve, I still pour in the waters of my love, And lack not to lose still : thus, Indian-like, Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more. . , A. W. i. 3. We, that are true lovers, run into strange capers ; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. A. Y. ii. 4. Love is merely a madness ; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip, as madmen do : and the reason why they are not so punished and cured, is, that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in love too. . A. Y. iii. 2, coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love ! But it cannot be sounded ; my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal. A.Y. iv. 1. Break an hour's promise in love ! . A. Y. iv. 1. By heaven, I do love ; and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy. . . . L.L. iv.3. If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs : he brushes his hat o' mornings ; — what should that bode 1 M.A. iii. 3. The greatest note of it is his melancholy. M. A. iii. 2. 1 found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn. A. Y. iii. 2. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit ; For, if they could, Cupid himself would blush. M. V. ii. 6. This is the very ecstacy of love : "Whose violent property foredoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings, As oft as any passion under heaven, That does afflict our natures. . . If. ii. 1. Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity, That the bless'd gods — as angry with my fancy, More bright in zeal than the devotion which Cold lips blow to their deities. . T. C. iv. 4. 179 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LOV LOVE, — continued. I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviour to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn, by falling in love. . M. A. ii. 3. The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns ; The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thouknow'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage: But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with th' enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so, by many winding nooks, he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean. . T, G. ii. 7. O, pardon me, my lord ; it oft falls out, To have what we'd have, we speak not what we mean : I something do excuse the thing I hate, For his advantage that I dearly love. . M, JJf . ii. 4. If I do not take pity of her, I'm a villain ; if I do not love her, I am a Jew : I will go get her picture. . M. A, ii. 3. Not only, Mistress Ford, in the simple office of love, but in all accoutrement, complement, and ceremony of it. M. W. iv. 2. Tell her, my love, more noble than the world, Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ; The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her, Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune ; But His that miracle, and queen of gems, That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. T. N. ii. 4. As the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Ev'n so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly ; blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes. . T. G. i. 1. O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by-and-by a cloud takes all away. . T. G. i. 3. As in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. . T. G. i. 1. Your brother and my sister no sooner met, but they looked ; no sooner looked, but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed ; no sooner sighed, but they asked one another the reason ; no sooner knew the reason, but they sought the remedy : and in these degrees they have made a pair of stairs to marriage. A. Y. v. 2. Indeed, he was mad for her, and talk'd of Satan, and of limbo, and of furies. . . A.W.v.3. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 180 LOVE, — continued. But if thy love were ever like to mine, How many actions most ridiculous Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy ! A, Y. ii. 4. He was wont to speak plain, and to the purpose, like an honest man, and a soldier ; and now he has turn'd orthographer ; his words Iare a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes. M.A. ii. 3. If thou remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not lov'd. . . A. Y. ii. 4. O ! — And I, forsooth, in love ! I, that have been love's whip ; A very beadle to a humorous sigh ; A critic ; nay, a night-watch constable ; A domineering pedant o'er the boy, Than whom no mortal so magnificent ! This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy ', This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid ; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents : * * * * What ? I ! I love ! I sue ! I seek a wife ! A woman, that is like a German clock, Still a repairing ; ever out of frame ; And never going aright, being a watch, But being watch' d that it may still go right ! L.L. iii. 1. i For aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth ; But, either it was different in blood ; O cross ! too high to be enthrail'd to low ! Or else misgraffed, in respect of years ; O spite ! too old to be engag'd to young ! Or else it stood upon the choice of friends : hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. M. N. i. 1. For know, I ago, But that I love the gentle Desdemona, 1 would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumspection and confine, For the sea's woi th. „ . . 0, i, 2. 181 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LOV LOVE, — continued. Love's reason's without reason. . I Cym. iv.2. The gods themselves, Humbling their deities to love, have taken The shapes of beasts upon them : Jupiter Became a bull, and bellow'd ; the green Neptune A ram, and bleated ; and the fire-rob'd god, Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain, As I seem now : Their transformations Were never for a piece of beauty, rarer ; Nor in a way so chaste : since my desires Run not before mine honour. . W. T. iv. 3. He says, he loves my daughter ; I think so too ; for never gaz'd the moon Upon the water, as he'll stand, and read, As 'twere, my daughter's eyes : and, to be plain, I think, there is not half a kiss to choose, Who loves another best. • . W. T. iv. 3. Still harping on my daughter- — yet he knew me not at first; he said, I was a fishmonger : He is far gone, far gone. H. ii. 2. Ever till now, When men were fond, I smil'd, and wonder'd how. M. M. ii. 2. All fancy-sick she is, and pale of cheer, With sighs of love. . . M. N. iii. 2. They are but beggars that can count their worth ; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth. R. J. ii. 6. Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful ; Mine ears, that heard her flattery ; nor mine heart, That thought her like her seeming ; it had been vicious To have mistrusted her. . . Cym. v. 5. Soft, let us see ;— W r rite, " Lord have mercy upon us " on these three ; They are infected, in the heart it lies ; They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes. L.L. v. 2. A lean cheek, — a blue eye, and sunken, — an unquestionable spirit, — a beard neglected: — Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation. A. Y. iii. 2. If he love her not, And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, Let me be no assistant for a state, But keep a farm and carters. • . H. ii.2. O then, give pity To her,whose state is such, that cannot choose But lend and give, where she is sure to lose ; LOV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 182 LOVE, — continued. That seeks not to find what her search implies, But, riddle-like, lives sweetly where she dies. A. W. i. 3. He is far gone, far gone : and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this. . H. ii. 2. Here comes the lady. — O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. A lover may bestride the gossamers That idle in the wanton summer air, And yet not fall. . . R.J. ii. 6. She never told her love. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought \ And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. . . T.N. ii. 4 r However we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unflrm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. • . T.N. ii. 4. f We men may say more, swear more : but indeed, Our shows are more than will ; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love. T. N. ii. 4. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of love but to a brother, How will she love, when the rich golden shaft Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else That live in her ! when liver, brain, and heart, These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fiUM (Her sweet perfections,) with one self king! — Away before me to sweet beds of flowers ; Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers. In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state, Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. I have done penance for contemning love ; Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, With nightly tears, and daily heart-sore sighs ; For, in revenge of my contempt of love, Love hath chas'd sleep from my enthralled eyes, And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. T. G. ii. 4. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, I love you ; then, if you urge me further than to say, Do you in faith ? I wear out my suit. Give me your answer ; i' faith do, and so clap hands, and a bargain. . . H.V. v. 2. She, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man. M.N. i. 1. 183 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LOT LOVE, — continued. So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face too roughly. . . H, i. 2. / Hang him, truant; there's no true drop of blood in him, to be truly touched with love : if he be sad, he wants money. M.A, iii. 2. Sweet love, I see, changing his property, Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. R. II, iii. 2. It is the show and seal of nature's truth, Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth. A, W. i. 3. To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. / Poems, I lov'd Ophelia ; forty thousand brothers ' Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. . . if. v. 1. My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers ; That love, which virtue begs, and virtue grants. H. VI, pt. tii. iii. 2. Why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water, nectar, and the rocks pure gold. T, G, ii. £, What dangerous action, stood it next to death, Would I not undergo for one calm look ? O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approv'd, When women cannot love where they're beloved. T, G, v. 4. Go to ; it is a plague That Cupid will impose for my neglect Of his almighty dreadful little might. Well ; I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan ; Some men must love my lady, and some Joan. L, L. iii. 1. Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter In such a righteous fashion as I do, Perforce, against all checks, rebukes, and manners, I must advance the colours of my love, And not retire. . . M, W. iii. 4. With adorations, and with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. T. N. i. 5. How now 1 Even so quickly may one catch the plague ? Methinks, I feel this youth's perfections, With an invisible and subtle stealth, To creep in at mine eyes. . . T, N. i. 5. A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon Than love that would seem hid j love's night is noon. T.N. iii. 1. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 184 LOVE, — continued. Fie, Fie ! how wayward is this foolish love, That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod! T, G. i. 2. What 1 do J love her, That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes 1 . M.M. ii. 2. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. A. C. i. 1. Drawn in the flattering table of her eye ! Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow ! And quarter'd in her heart ! . K. J. ii. 2. They are in the very wrath of love, and they will together ; clubs cannot part them. . . A. Y, v. 2. Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof ! R. J. i. 1. Love will suspect where is no cause of fear ; And there not fear where it should most distrust. Poems. Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see path-ways to his will ! R. J. i. 1. Were I crown'd the most imperial monarch, Thereof most worthy ; were 1 the fairest youth That ever made eye swerve ; had force and knowledge, More than was ever man's, — I would not prize them, Without her love : for her, employ them all ; Commend them, and condemn them, to her service, Or to their own perdition. . W. T. iv. 3. If thou be'st valiant, as (they say) base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures, more than is native to them,- listen to me. . . . 0. ii. 1. I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; And to his honours and his valiant parts, Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. . 0. i. 3. Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins. M. V. iii. 2. Thou art most rich, being poor ; Most choice, forsaken ; and most lov'd, despis'd. Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. . K. L. i. 1 In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my 'haviour light : But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange. R. J. ii. 2. Ah me ! how sweet is love itself possess'd, When but love's shadows are so rich in joy ! R. J. v. 1. Love's invisible soul. . . T. C. iii. 1. Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart. H. VI. pt. i. v. 5. f 185 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LOV LOVE, — continued. His love was an eternal plant ; Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground, The leaves and fruit maintained with beauty's sun. H. VI. pt. in. iii. 3. First you have learn'd, like Sir Proteus, to wreath your arms, like a malecontent ; to relish a love-song, like a robin -red -breast ; to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence ; to sigh, like a school-boy that had lost his A B C ; to weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam ; to fast, like one that takes diet ; to watch, like one that fears robbing • to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. . . T % G. ii. 1. Holy St. Francis, what a change is here ! Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken 1 Young men's love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. Jesu Maria ! what a deal of brine Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline ! How much salt water thrown away in waste, To season love, that of it doth not taste ! The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, Thy old groans ring yet in my antient ears ; Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet : If e'er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine, Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline ; — And art thou chang'd 1 . . R. J. ii. 3. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it : And nothing is at a like goodness still ; For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in its own too-much. . . H. iv. 7. O, gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully : Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo : but, else, not for the world. R. J. ii. 2. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! . R. J. ii. 2. She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd ; And I lov'd her that she did pity them. 0. i. 3. / Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. . . A. Y. iv. 1 . Ay, but hearken, Sir; though the cameleon love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat. ... T. G. ii. 1. LOV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 186 LOVE, — continued. Love is your master, for he masters you : And he that is so yoked by a fool Should not, methinks, be chronicled for wise. T. G. i. 1. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps ; Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with traps. M. A. iii. 1. For now my love is thaw' d ; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, Bears no impression of the thing it was. T. G. ii. 4. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls ; For stony limits cannot hold love out. . R. J. ii.2. Tut, man ! one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish • Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning ; One desperate grief cures with another's languish ; Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. . R. J. i. 2. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears ! • R, J. ii. 2. O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new made, than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited. . M. V, ii. 6. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. M. A. ii. 1. The wound's invisible That love's keen arrows make. . A, Y. iii. 5. Love is not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point. . . K. L. i. 1. Dove-drawn Venus. . . T. iv. 1. One woman is fair; yet I am well : another is wise ; yet I am well : another is virtuous ; yet I am well : but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come into my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain ; wise, or I'll none ; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her ; fair, or I'll never look on her ; mild, or come not near me ; noble, or not I for an angel ; of good discourse, an ex- cellent musician, and her hair shall be of what colour it please God. . . . . IH A. ii. 3. Eternity of. So that eternal love in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injuries of age, Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place, But makes antiquities for aye his page : Finding the first conceit of love there bred, Where time and outward forms would show it dead. Poems. Letter. ♦ As much love in rhyme, As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper, 187 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. LOV LOVE, — continued. Writ on both sides the leaf, margent and all • That he was fain to seal in Cupid's name. L. L. v. 2. She makes it strange ; but she would be best pleas'd To be so anger'd with another letter. . T.G.\. 2. n.j. li .5. R.J. ii. 1. L.L. v. 2. 4.Y. iii. 2. 's Messengers. Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. LOVERS' Poetry. Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied ; Cry but, — Ah me ! couple but— love and dove. Woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song. But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak ? Tokens. Wear this from me ; one out of suits with fortune, That could give more, but that her hand lacks means. A.Y. i. 2. But she so loves the token, (For he conjur'd her she would ever keep it,) That she reserves it evermore about her, To kiss and talk to. . , 0. iii 3. Sooth, when I was young, And handed love, as you do, I was wont To load my she with knacks : I would have ransack'd The pedlar's silken treasury, and have pour'd it To her acceptance. . , \y t y # [ Ym 2, Take these again ; for, to the noble mind, Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. H. iii. 1 . Vows (See also Oaths). Ay, springes to catch wood-cocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows : these blazes, daughter, Giving more light than heat,— extinct in both, Even in their promise, as it is a making, — You must not take for fire. . . H. i. 3. I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow • By his best arrow with the golden head ; By the simplicity of Venus' doves ; By that which knitteth souis and prospers loves ; And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen ; By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever woman spoke ; — In that same place thou hast appointed me, To-morrow truly will I meet with thee. M. A 7 , i. 1. Yet, if thou swear'st, Thou may'st prove false ; at lovers' vows, They say, Jove laughs. . p # j % [[ t 2. MAC SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 188 LOVERS' Vows, — continued. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops. E. /. ii, 2. Swearing, till my very roof was dry With oaths of love. . . M.V. iii. 2. Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move : Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love. . . H. ii. 2. Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. . . B.J. ii.2. Was is not is ; besides, the oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the confirmers of false reckonings. . . A. Y. iii. 4. Stealing her soul with many vows of faith, And ne'er a true one. . . M. V. v. 1. That suck'd the honey of his music vows. H. iii. 1. O, men's vows are women's traitors. Cym. iii. 4. LOVELINESS. She is full of most blessed conditions. . 0. ii. 1. Diana's lip Is not more smooth and rubious. . T. N. i. 4. Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose. . K. J. iii. 1 . LOVE-Wound. Shot, by heaven ! Proceed, sweet Cupid ; thou hast thump'd him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap. L. L. iv. 3. Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead ; stabbed with a white wench's black eye ; shot through the ear with a love-song ; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft. ^ R.J. ii. 4. LUCK. You're a made old man ; if the sins of your youth are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold ! all gold ! W. T. iii. 3. M. MACBETH. Yet I do fear thy nature ; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way : Thou would'st be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it. What thou would'st highly, That would'st thou holily ', would'st not play false, 189 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MAD MACBETH, — continued. And yet would'st wrongly win ; thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, " Thus thou must do, if thou have it ; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. " . M. i. 5. mad-Cap. Why, what a mad-cap hath heaven lent us here ! K. J. i. 1. Well, then, once in my days I'll be a mad-cap. H.IV. pt.i. i.2. MADNESS (See also Despondency, Derangement). Your noble son 'is mad : Mad, call I it : for, to define true madness, What is't, but to be .nothing else but mad? . H. ii. 2. A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch ; Past speaking of in a king. . . K. L. iv. 6. And he, repulsed, (a short tale to make,) Fell into a sadness ; then into a fast ; Thence to a watch ; thence into a weakness ; Thence to a lightness : and, by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves. . if. ii. 2. Alack, 'tis he ; why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea ; singing aloud ; Crown'd with rank fumitor, and furrow weeds, With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. . . K. L. iv. 4. Oh, he is more mad Than Telamon for his shield ; the boar of Thessaly Was never so imbost • . A.C. iv. 11. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ; quite, quite down. And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that sovereign and most noble reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth, Blasted with ecstacy : O, woe is me ! To have seen what I have seen, see what I see ! H. iii. 1 . This is mere madness : And thus awhile the fit will work on him ; Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclos'd, His silence will sit drooping. . . if. v. 1. Essentially mad, without seeming so. if. IV. pt i. ii. 4. MAG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. l^ADNESS,— continued. She speaks much of her father ; says, she hears, There's tricks i* the world ; and hems, and beats her heart; Spurns enviously at straws ; speaks things in doubt, That carry but half sense : her speech is nothing, Yet the un shaped use of it, doth move The hearers to collection. . . H, O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! How pregnant sometimes his replies are ! a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosper- ously be delivered of ! . • H, ii. 2. It is the very error of the moon ; She comes more near the earth than she was wont ; And makes men mad. . . 0. v. 2. O, matter and impertinency mix'd ! Reason in madness ! . . K. L. iv. 6. That he is mad, 'tis true ; 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true. . • Mad world, mad kings, mad composition. I am as mad as he, If sad and merry madness equal be. O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believ'st There is another comfort than this world, That thou neglect me not, with that opinion That I am touch'd with madness. . M. M. v. 1. It is not madness, That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from. . . H. iii. 4. Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. H. iii. 1. — , Methodical. By mine honesty, If she be mad, (as I believe no other,) Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, Such a dependency of thing on thing, As e'er I heard in madness. . M . M, v. 1 . MAGNANIMITY. Our spoils he kick'd at ; And look'd upon things precious, as they were The common muck o'the world : he covets less Than misery itself would give ; rewards His deeds with doing them ; and is content To spend the time to end it. . . C. ii. 2. Had I great Juno's power, The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up, And set thee by Jove's side. 191 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MAL MAGNANIMITY,— continued. Your honours' pardon ; I had rather have my wounds to heal again, Than hear say how I got them. . C. ii. 2. I had rather have one to scratch my head i' the sun, When the alarum was struck, than idly sit To hear my nothings monster'd. • C. ii. 2. He had rather venture all his limbs for honour, Than one of his ears to hear it. . C, ii. 2. Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse ; Revolving this will teach thee how to curse. R, Ill, iv. 4. And those that leave their valiant bones in France, Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills, They shall be fam'd ; for there the sun shall greet them, And draw their honours reeking up to heaven. H, V. iv. 3. If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. H, V. iv. 3. O ! the blood more stirs, To rouse a lion than to start a hare. H. IV, pt. i. i. 3. My noble girls ! — Ah, women, women ! look, Our lamp is spent, its out : Good Sirs, take heart : We'll bury him : and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us. . A. C. iv. 13. His valour, shown upon our crests to-day, Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds, Even in the bosom of our adversaries- H, IV, pt. i. v. 5. MALADMINISTRATION. I have misused the king's press damnably. H. IV. pt.i. iv. 2. MALEDICTION. All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you ! T, i. 2. The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue ! heaven bless thee from a tutor, and discipline come not near thee ! Let thy blood be thy direction till thy death ! then if she, that lays thee out, says, thou art a fair corse, I'll be sworn, and sworn upon't, she never shrouded any but lazars. Amen. . . T, C, ii. 3. You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames Into her scornful eyes ! Infect her beauty, You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun, To fall and blast her pride ! . K, L, ii. 4. Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth, Nor, with thy sweets, comfort his ravenous sense : But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom, And heavy-gaited toads, lie in their way ; MAL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 192 MALEDICTION,— continued. Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet, Which with usurping steps do trample thee. Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies ; And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower, Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder. R. II. iii. 2. As wicked dew, as e'er my mother brush'd, With raven's feather, from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both : a south-west blow on ye, And blister you all o'er. . . T. i. 2. Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer ; Only reserv'd their factor to buy souls, And send them thither : But at hand, at hand, Ensues his piteous and unpitied end ; Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray, To have him suddenly convey'd from hence ; Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, That I may live to say — The dog is dead ! R. III. iv. <■ The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord ! T. C. ii. 1 Hear, Nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! * * * Suspend thy purpose, if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful ! * * * If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her ! Let it stamp wrinkles on her brow of youth I With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks ; Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child f , The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul ! Thy friends suspect for traitors whilst thou liv'st, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends ! No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, Unless it be while some tormenting dream Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils ! You taught me language ; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : the red plague rid you For learning me your language. Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, And occupations perish ! All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top ! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, with lameness ! If heaven have any grievous plague in store, Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee, O, let them keep it, till thy sins be ripe, K. L. i. U.III. i.3. T. i.2. C. iv. 1. K.L. ii. 4. 193 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ' MALEDICTION,— continued. And then hurl down their indignation On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace ! R. Hi. 3. Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air Hang fated o'er men's faults, light on thy daughters. K. L. iii. 4. A plague upon your epileptic visage. K . L. ii. 2. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar ! . iW. iv. 1. All the infections that the sun sucks up, From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease ! . . T. ii. 2. If ever he have child, abortive be it, Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, Whose ugly and unnatural aspect May fright the hopeful mother at the view ; And that be heir to his unhappiness. R. III. i. 2. Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with an oath. K. L. i. 1. Why, thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest thou, to curse thus 1 . . T.C. v. 1. MALEVOLENCE. Had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth. • — . M. iv. 3. I will fight Against my canker'd country, with the spleen Of all the under hends. . . C. iv. 5. MALICE. Men, that make Envy, and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best. . . H. VIII. v. 2. MALIGNITY. A dagger of the mind ; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat- oppressed brain. M. ii. 1. MAN (See also Illusion, Life, Death). What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how in- finite in faculties ! in form, and moving, how express and admir- able ! in action, how like an angel ! in apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! H. ii. 2. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better, For being a little bad. . . M. M. v. 1. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clep'd, MAN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 194 MAN, — continued. All by the name of dogs : the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The house- keeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous Nature Hath in him clos'd ; whereby he doth receive Particular addition, from the bill That writes them all alike : and so of men. M. iii. 1. * We came crying hither. . . K. L. iv. 6. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. H. iv.5. Know thou this : — that men Are as the time is. . . K. L. v. 3. O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. . R. III. iii. 4. This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; He, only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle ; and the elements So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man ! J. C. Is man no more than this ? . . K. L. iii. 4 A breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences), That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict ; merely, thou art death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, And yet runn'st toward him still: Thou art not noble ; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st, Are nurs'd by baseness : Thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself ; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : Happy thou art not ; For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get : And what thou hast, forget'st : Thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : If thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, Till death unloads thee : Friend hast thou none ; For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, ..; 195 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MAN MAN, — continued. The mere effusion of thy proper loins, Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum. For ending thee no sooner : Thou hast nor youth, nor age ; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both ; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou art old, and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this, That bears the name of life 1 Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even. . M. M. iii. 1. Foolish wench ! To the most of men this is a Caliban, And they to him are angels. . . T. 1.2. the difference of man and man ! . K. L. iv. 2» God made him, therefore let him pass for a man. M. V. i. 2. There is no trust, No faith, no honesty in men ; all perjur'd, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. R. J. iii. 2. A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity : but you, gods, will give us Some faults to make us men. . A. C. v. 1. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools. . K.L. iv.6. He was not born to shame : Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit ; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd Sole monarch of the universal earth. . R. J. iii. 2. He was a man, take him for all in all, 1 shall not look upon his like again. ♦ H. i. 2. You rogue, here's lime in this sack too : There is nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man. II. IV. pt. t. ii. 4. Every man is odd. . . T. C. iv. 5. Who lives, that's not Depraved, or depraves ? who dies, that bears Not one spurn to their graves of their friends' gift 1 T. A. i. 2. Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion. M.A. v. 4. MANHOOD Deteriorated. But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are turned into tongue, and trim ones too : he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie, and swears to it. M.A. iv.l. Go thy ways, old Jack ; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. . . H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. k 2 MAR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 196 MANUSCRIPT. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. . H. v. 2. MARRIAGE (See also Espousal). A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Attested by the holy close of lips, Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings ; And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony. T. N. v. 1. Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship. For what is wedlock forced, but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife ? Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace. H. VI. pt. i. Earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. M. N. i. 1 She's not well married, that lives married long ; But she's best married, that dies married young. R< J. iv. 5 Pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids. . . W, T. iv. But, mistress, know yourself; down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love : For I must tell you friendly in your ear, — Sell when you can ; you are not for all markets. A. Y. iii. 5. MARRIAGES, Mercenary. The hearts of old, gave hands ; But our new heraldry is — hands, not heart*. 0. iii. 4. MARTLET. This guest of summer, The temple-hunting martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath, Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, buttress, Nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird hath made His pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they Most breed and haunt, I have observ'd the air Is delicate. . . . M. The martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty. . M. V. ii.9. 197 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MEL MASKED Ladies. Fair ladies, mask'd, are roses in their bud : Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels veiling clouds, or roses blown. L. L. v. 2. MATURITY. Mellow'd by the stealing hours of time. R. III. iii. 7. MEALS. Unquiet meals make ill digestions. . C.E. v. 1. MEANING. Take our good meaning ; for our judgment sits Five times in that, ere once in our five wits. R. J. i.4, MEDDLER, Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. . • H. v. 2. Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool ; farewell ! I took thee for thy better ; take thy fortune : Thou find'st, to be too busy, is some danger. H. iii. 4. Why, the devil, came you between us ? I was hurt under your arm. . . . R. J. iii. 1. MEDIATOR. I was hardly moved to come to thee ; but being assured none but myself could move thee, I have been blown out of your gates with sighs ; and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy petitionary countrymen. . . . C. v. 2. MEDITATION. Measuring his affections by my own, That most are busied w r hen they're most alone. R.J. i. 1. MEEKNESS. 'Beseech your majesty, Forbear sharp speeches to her : she's a lady So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, And strokes death to her. MEETING. Here is like to be a great presence of worthies. MELANCHOLY (See also Despondency, Madness). Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. Thick-ey'd musing, and curs'd melancholy. Besieged with sable-coloured melancholy. The sad companion, dull-ey'd melancholy. I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings. Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. My cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. . . . K.L. i.2. I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises : and, indeed, it goes so heavily Cym. iii. , 5. L.L. v, , 2. ass). T.S. Ind. 2. H.IV. FT. 1. ii. ,3, L.L. i .1. P.P. i. 2. A. W. V, ,3. i. M. N. i. 1. MER SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 198 MELANCHOLY,— continued. with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. H. ii. 2. Melancholy as a lover's lute. . H. IV, pt. i. i. 2. Boy, what sign is it, when a man of great spirit grows melan- choly ? . . . L. L. i. 2. We have been up and down to seek for thee ; for we are high proof melancholy, and would fain have it beaten away : Wilt thou use thy wit? . . M. A. v. 1. I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's, which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, com- pounded of many simples, extracted from many objects : and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me, is a most humourous sadness. A. Y t iv. 1. Why, he will look upon his boot, and sing ; mend the ruff, and sing ; ask questions, and sing ; pick his teeth, and sing : I know a man that had this trick of melancholy, sold a goodly manor for a song. . . A. W. iii. 2. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it. . . T. C. iii. 3. There's something in his soul, O'er which his melancholy sits on brood ; And, I do doubt, the hatch, and the disclose, Will be some danger. . . H. iii. 1. O, melancholy ! Who ever yet could sound thy bottom ? find The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare Might easiest harbour in 1 . Cym. iv. 2. MEMORY, the Stores of the (See also Remembrance), This is a gift that I have, simple, simple ; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mel- lowing of occasion. • . L. L. iv. 2. MEN, Destroyer of. Cannibally given. . . C. iv. 5. MERCENARY. Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it ; and cut the entail from all remainders. A. W. iv. 3. O, dishonest wretch ! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice 1 M. M. iii. 1 . 199 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MER MERCENARY,— continued. O fie, fie, fie ! Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. . M. M. iii. 1. Think'st thou, I'll endanger my soul gratis ? M. W> ii. 2. MERCHANTMEN. Your mind is tossing on the ocean ; There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,— Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings. M. V. i. 1. MERCY. Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them then in being merciful : Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Tit, And, i. 2. The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the heart of kings, It is an attribute to God himself: And earthly pow'r doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. . M.V,i\.l. Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that are, were forfeit once ; And He that might th' advantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If He, who is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are 1 O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. . • M. M. ii. 2. I am an humble suitor to your virtues ; For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. T, A, iii. 5. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye, When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, Appear before us 1 . . H. V. ii.2. Press not a falling man too far ; 'tis virtue : His faults lie open to the laws ; let them, Not you, correct him. . H. VIII. iii. 2. Well, believe this ; No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, MES SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 200 MERCY, — continued. Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does. . . M. M. ii. 2. Lawful mercy is Nothing akin to foul redemption. . M. M. ii. 4. Though justice be thy plea, consider this : — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. . . M. V. iv. 1. Mercy is not itself that oft looks so ; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. M. M. ii. 1. You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy ; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying them. H. V. ii. 2. MERIT. There is more owing her than is paid ; and more shall be paid her than she'll demand. . . A. W. i. 3. You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after. H. IV. pt. ii. ii. 4 Thou art so far before, That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee. . . . M. i. 4 _ Dependent. Better it is to die, better to starve, Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. C. ii. 3. MERRY Wives. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. M. W. iv. 2. MESSENGER (See also News). The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember' d knolling a departed friend. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 1. Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news : Give to a gracious message A host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell Themselves, when they be felt. . A. C. ii. 5. Here is a dear and true industrious friend, Sir Walter Blount, new lighted from his horse, Stain'd with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmedon, and this seat of ours ; And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news. H.IV. pt.i. i. 1. I have not seen So likely an ambassador of love ; A day in April never came so sweet, 201 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MIG MESSENGER,— continued. To show how costly summer was at hand, As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord. M, V. ii. 9. Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France ; For ere thou canst report, I will be there ; The thunder of my cannon shall be heard. K. J, i. 1, Why, he is dead. See what a ready tongue suspicion hath ! He, that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That which he fear'd is chanc'd. Yet speak, Morton, Tell thou thy earl, his divination lies \ And I will take it as a sweet disgrace ; And make thee rich for doing me much wrong, H.IV. ft. ii. i.l. How doth my son, and brother 1 Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd ; But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, — Your son did thus, and thus j Your brother thus ; so fought the noble Douglas ; Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds ; But in the end, to stop mine ear indeed, Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise, Ending with — brother, son, and all are dead. H. IV, pt. ii, i. 1. Yea, this man's brow, like to a title leaf, Foretells the nature of a tragic volume ; So looks the strond, whereon the imperial flood Hath left a witness'd usurpation. Say, Morton, didst thou conre from Shrewsbury 1 H.IV. pt.ii. i. 1. Pr'ythee, say on ; The setting of thine eye, and cheek, proclaim A matter from thee ; and a birth, indeed, Which throes thee much to yield. . T. ii. 1. If thou speak' st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee ; if thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. • M. v. 5. MIGHTY Dead (See also Life, Death, Man, Fallen Greatness). Here none but soldiers, and Rome's servitors, Repose in fame. . „ Tit. And. i. 2. His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied K 3 MIG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 202 MIGHTY Dead,— continued. As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in*t. • • A. C. v. 2. In his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets ; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pockets. • A. C. v. 2. The death of Antony Is not a single doom ; in the name lay A moiety of the world. • . A.C.x.l. Duke of Bedford. But yet, before we go, let's not forget The noble Duke of Bedford, late deceas'd, But see his exequies fulfUl'd in Rouen ; A braver soldier never couched lance, A gentler heart did never sway in court : But kings and mightiest potentates must die ; For that's the end of human misery. H. VI. pt. r. Brutus. Free from the bondage you are in, Messala ; The conquerors can but make a fire of him ; For Brutus only overcame himself, And no man else hath honour by his death. J. C. v. 5 According to his virtue let us use him, With all respect and rites of burial. Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie, Most like a soldier, order'd honourably. J, C. v. 5. Coriolanus. • Bear from hence his body, And mourn you for him ; let him be regarded As the noblest corse, that ever herald Did follow to his urn. • . C Julius Caesar. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man, That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophecy, — Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue ! A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury, and fierce civil strife, Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile, when they behold Their infants quarter'd by the hands of war : All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds ; 203 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MIR MIGHTY Dead,— continued. And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice. Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. . J. C. iii. 1. Salisbury. And, that hereafter ages may behold What ruin happen'd in revenge of him, Within their chiefest temple I'll erect A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr'd. H. VI. pt. i. ii. 2. MIND, W~hen the mind's free the body's delicate, K. L. iii. 4. MIRACLES. It must be so : for miracles are ceas'd ; And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected. . . H. V. i. 1 . Great floods have flown From simple sources ; and great seas have dried, While miracles have by the greatest been denied. A. W. ii. 1. MIRTH. Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth ; Turn melancholy forth to funerals, The pale companion is not for our pomp. . M. N. i. 1. Hostess, clap to the doors ; watch to-night, pray to-morrow Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellow- ship come to you ! What, shaU we be merry ? Shall we have a play extempore ? . . H,IV. pt. i. ii. 4. See, your guests approach : Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. . W. T. iv. 3. Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life. T. 5, Ind. 2. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. . L. L. ii. 1 . And then the old quire hold their hips, and loffe ; And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there. . M. N. ii. 1, Jog on. jog on, the foot-path way And merrily hent the stile-a \ A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. . W. T. iv. 3. He makes a July's day short as December; And, with his varying childness, cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood. . W. T. i. 2. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth ; he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little hang- MIS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 204 MIRTH, — continued, man dare not shoot at him : he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper : for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks. . — ££ " T- 7*~ ^M.A. Iii. 2. Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans* M. V. i. 1. I would entreat you rather to put on Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends That purpose merriment. . . M. V, ii.2. Had she been light like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might have been a grandam ere she died ; And so may you : for a light heart lives long, L. L. v. 2. Be large in mirth ; anon, we'll drink a measure The table round. . . M. iii. 4. MISANTHROPY. I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That 1 might love thee something. . T. A. iv. 3. Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree, From high to low throughout, that whoso please To stop affliction, let him take his haste, Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe, And hang himself. . . T. A. v. ii. MISCHIEF. mischief strangely thwarting ! . M. A, iii. 2. As prone to mischief, as able to perform it. H. VIII. i. 1 . O mischief ! thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ! R. J. v. 1. Ha ! what, so rank? Ah, ha ! There's mischief in this man. . H.VIII. i.2. O, this is full of pity ! — Sir, it calls, 1 fear, too many curses on their heads, That were the authors. . . H, VIII. ii. 1. MISER, Sick. Having no other pleasure of his gain But torment, that it cannot ease his pain. . Poems. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; that plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales I have heard of on land, who never leave gaping, till they have swallowed up a whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. . P. P. ii. 1. MISERY. Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. T. ii.2. Misery makes sport to mock itself. . R. II. ii. 1. 205 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MOB MISERY, Appeal of. O, let those cities, that of Plenty's cup And her prosperities so largely taste, With their superfluous riots, hear these tears ! P. P. i. 4. MISFORTUNE. My stars shine darkly over me. . T. N. ii.l. I am now, Sir, muddied in fortune's moat, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. . A. W. v. 2. A most poor man, made tame by fortune's blows : Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, Am pregnant to good pity. . . K.L, iv. 6. When we were happy, we had other names. K. J. v. 4. Sometimes brings Contentment. My long sickness Of health and living, now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. • T. A, v. 2. MISNOMER. Benefactors 1 Well ; what benefactors are they 1 are they not malefactors'? . . . M. M. ii. 1. MISRULE. Beaten for loyalty, Excited me to treason. . . Cym. v. 5. MISTAKE. Then my dial goes not true ; I took this lark for a bunting. A.W. ii. 5. What a thrice double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool ! . . T. v. 1. MISTRUST. I hold it cowardice, To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love, H. VI. pt. hi. iv. 2. MOB (See also Commotion, Popularity.) Here come the clusters. . . C. iv. 6. The mutable, rank -scented many. . C. iii. 1. There's a trim rabble let in : Are all these Your faithful friends o' the suburbs'? . H. VIII. v. 3. They threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon, Shouting their emulation. . . C. i. 1. He that will give good words to thee, will flatter Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace, nor war 1 The one affrights you, The other makes you proud. He that trusts you, Where he should find you lions, finds you hares ; Where foxes, geese : You are no surer, no, Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, MOB SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 206 MOB, — continued. To make him worthy, whose offence subdues him, And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness, Deserves your hate : and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye 1 With every minute you do change a mind ; And call him noble, that was now your hate ; Him vile, that was your garland. . . C. i. 1. You are they That made the air unwholesome, when you cast Your stinking, greasy caps, in hooting at Coriolanus' exile. C. iv. 6. What work's, my countrymen, in hand ? Where go you With bats and clubs 1 The matter? Speak, I pray you. C. i. 1. You common cry of curs ! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens ; whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air. . . C. iii. 3. Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view ; in their thick breaths, Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded, And forc'd to drink their vapour. . A. C. v. 2. The fool multitude, that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach ; Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet, Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty. . M. V. ii. 9. The rabble should have first unroof d the city, Ere so prevail'd with me : it will in time Win upon power, and throw forth greater themes For insurrection's arguing. . . C. i. 1. The beast With many heads butts me away. . C. iv. 1. You have made good work, You, and your apron-men. . C. iv.6. Hence ; home, you idle creatures, get you home : Is this a holiday 1 What ! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk, Upon a labouring day, without the sign Of your profession ? Speak, what trade art thou 1 J. C. i. 1. I will not choose what many men desire, " Because I will not jump with common spirits, And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. J M. V. ii. 9. Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth, As I can of those mysteries which heaven Will not have earth to know. • C. iv. 2. 207 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MOB, — continued. They said they were an-hungry, sigh'd forth proverbs ; That, hunger broke stone walls ; that, dogs must eat ; That, meat was made for mouths ; that, the gods sent not Corn for the rich men only : — With these shreds They vented their complainings. . C. i. 1. Whose rage doth rend Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear What they are us'd to bear. . The shouting varletry. This inundation of mistemper'd humour. ■ Leader. The horn and noise o' the monsters. The tongues o' the common mouth. The herdsman of the beastly plebeians. MOCKERY. By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff. L, L. v. 2. But who dare tell her so 1 If I should speak, She'd mock me into air ; O, she would laugh me Out of myself, press me toUeath with wit. •Xtoefonr let Benedick, like cover'd fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly : i It were a better death than die with mocks ; Which is as bad as die with tickling. . M. A. iii. 1. Never did mockers waste more idle breath. M. N. iii. 2. How my achievements mock me. . T. C. iv. 2. A pestilence on him ! — now will he be mocking. T. C. iv. 2. H. IV. pt. n. v. 2. C. iii. 1. A.C. v 2. K.J. v 1. C. iii. 1. C. iii 1. C. ii. 1. To mock the expectation of the world. They da it but in mocking merriment ; And mock for mock is only my intent. Solemn. O, such a deed L.L. v. 2. As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul ; and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words. . • H. iii. 4. MODERATION. Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, Not to out- sport discretion. . • 0. ii. 3. For aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as -they that starve with nothing ; it is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. . M. V. i. 2. What's amiss, May it be gently heard : When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit Murder in healing wounds : Thou, noble partner, MON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 208 MODERATION,— continued. , l (The rather, for I earnestly beseech,) j Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, J Nor curstness grow to the matter. . A> C. ii. 2. MODESTY. It is the witness still of excellency, To put a strange face on his own perfection. M. A, ii. 3. Bashful sincerity and comely love. . M. A. iv. 1. Can it be, That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness ? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary, And pitch our evils there } . M. M. ii. 2. Too modest are you ; More cruel to your good report, than grateful To us that give you truly. . . C. i. 9. * its Influence. I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in ; therefore it charges me in manners the rather to express myself. T. JV. ii. 1. MONEY. For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. M. W. ii. 2. Money is a good soldier, Sir, and will on. M. W. ii. 2. I O what a world of vile, ill-favour'd faults, Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year ! M. W. iii. 4 But, by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the money. H.IV. pt.i. ii. 4 Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on. K. J, iii. 1 All gold and silver rather turn to dirt ! As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those Who worship dirty gods. . Cym. iii. 6. MONSTER. By this good light this is a very shallow monster : I afeard of him 1 — a very weak monster : The man in the moon 1 — a most poor credulous monster: — well drawn, monster, in good sooth. T. ii. 2. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster ! A most scurvy monster. . . T. ii. 2. Attractiveness of, in England. Were I in England now, (as once 1 was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man ; when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. T. ii. 2. 209 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MOU MOODY. I cannot hide what I am : I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests ; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure ; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend to no man's business ; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour. • M.il. i.3. I love to cope him in these sullen fits, For then he's full of matter. . 1 A. Y. ii. 1. MOON. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy. A.C. iv. 9. The moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And, through this distemperature, we see The seasons alter. " * . M.N. ii. 2. The pale-fac'd moon. . . R.II. ii. 4. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears. . . M.V.v.l. Lingering. Methinks, how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue. M. 2$. i, 1. MORNING. See, how the morning opes her golden gates, And takes her farewell of the glorious sun ! How well resembles it the prince of youth, Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love ! H. VI. pt. in. ii. 1. The busy day, Wak'd by the lark, hath rous'd the ribald crows. T. C. iv. 2. The sun is on the heaven j and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton. . . K.J. iii. 3. MORTALITY. Even so must I run on, and even so stop. This muddy vesture of decay. MOTION. Things in motion sooner catch the eye, Than what not stirs. MOURNING. 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father : But, you must know, your father lost a father ; That father lost his ; and the survivor bound In filial obligation, for some term K.J. v. 7. M. V. V. 1. T. C. iii. 3, MUR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 210 MOURNING,— continued. To do obsequious sorrow : But to persever In obstinate condolement, is a course Of impious stubbornness ; His unmanly grief : It shows a will most incorrect to heaven \ A heart unfortified, a mind impatient ; An understanding simple and unschoord : For what we know, must be, and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, Why should we, in our peevish opposition, Take it to heart 1 Fie ! 'tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd ; whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse, till he that died to-day, "This must be so." • . H. i. 2. Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly : These, indeed, seem, For th #y are actions that a man might play ; Bn < have that within, which passeth show ; .ies"), but the trappings and the suit of woe. H. i. 2. MUCH Ado about Nothing. To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air, And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt That should but rive an oak. . C. v. 3. MUNIFICENCE. The best ward of mine honour, is, rewarding my dependents. L. L. iii. 1. MURDER. The great King of kings Hath in the table of his law commanded, That thou shalt do no murder ; Wilt thou then Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man's ? Take heed ; for he holds vengeance in his hand, To hurl upon their heads that break his law. R, Ill, i. 4. There is no sure foundation set on blood ; No certain life achiev'd by others' death. K, J, iv. 2. Not afraid to kill him, having a warrant for it ; but to be damned for killing him, from the which no warrant can defend me. R. III. i. 4. This is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savag'ry, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-ey'd wrath, or staring rage, Presented to the tears of soft remorse. . K, J, iv. 3. 211 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MUR M U R D ER, — continued. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. . . M. ii. 1 . The tyrannous and bloody act is done ; The most arch deed of piteous massacre, That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton, and Forrest, whom I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery, Albeit they were flesh 'd villains, bloody dogs, Melting with tenderness, and mild compassion, Wept like two children, in their death's sad story. R, Ill, iv. 3. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. R. J, iii. 1. Ko place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize. H, iv. 7. Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the general weal ; Ay, and since, too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear; the times have been, That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end : but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools : This is more strange Than such a murder is* . . M. iii. 4. It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood ; Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augures, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood. • . M. iii. 4. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. . . H. ii. 2. Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh, And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter 1 Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest, But may imagine how the bird was dead, Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak ? Even so suspicious is this tragedy, if. VI, pt. ii. iii. 2. Wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus, with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. . . . M, ii. 1. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand r t No ; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one, red. . . M. ii. 2. MUR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 212 MURDER,— continued. Butchers and villains, bloody cannibals ! How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd ! You have no children, butchers ! if you had, The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse. H". VL pt. in. v. 5. Murder most foul, as in the best it is ; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. H. i. 5. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. M. ii. 1 . Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head ; The least a death to nature. . M. iii. 4. The Duke of Clarence. Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul, To counsel me to make my peace with God, And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind, That thou wilt war with God, by murd'ring me 1 Ah, sirs, consider, he, that set you on To do this deed, will hate you for the deed. Not to relent, is beastly, savage, devilish. Which of you, if you were a prince's son, Being pent from liberty, as I am now, If two such murderers as yourselves came to you, Would not entreat for life 1 My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks ; O, if thine eye be not a flatterer, Come thou on my side, and entreat for me, As you would beg, were you in my distress. A begging prince what beggar pities not 1 2nd Murderer. — Look behind you, my lord. 1st Murderer. — Take that, and that, (Stabbing him*) R. III. i. 4 Young Princes (Wales and York). O thus, quoth Dighton, lay the gentle babes, — Thus, thus, quoth Forrest, girdling one another Within their alabaster innocent arms ; Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which, in tjieir summer beauty, kiss'd each other. A book of prayers on their pillow lay ; Which, once, quoth Forrest, almost chang'd my mind ; But, O, the devil — there the villain stopp'd ; When Dighton thus told on, — we smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature, That, from the prime creation, e'er she fram'd. R. III. iv. 3. Richard the Second. Exton. — From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed. Bolingbroke. — They love not poison that do poison need, Nor do I thee ; though I did wish him dead, 213 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. MUS MURDER, RrcHARD the Second, — continued. I hate the murderer, love him murdered. The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, But neither my good word, nor princely favour ; With Cain go wander through the shade of night, And never shew thy head by day, nor light. ' R. II. v. 6. Prince Arthur. Hubert — Here is your hand and seal for what I did. King John — O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal Witness against us to damnation ! How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes deeds ill done ! Hadst not thou been by, A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame, This murder had not come into my mind : But, taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect, Finding thee fit for bloody villany, Apt, liable, to be employ'd in danger, I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death ; And thou, to be endeared to a king, Made it no conscience to destroy a prince. Hadst thou but shook thy head, "or made a pause, When I spake darkly what I purposed ; Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face, As bid me tell my tale in express words ; Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off, And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me : But thou didst understand me by my signs, A.nd didst in signs again parley with sin ; Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent, And, consequently, thy rude hand to act The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name Out of my sight, and never see me more ! K. J. iv. 2. ■ ■ Suspicion of. If thou didst but consent To this most cruel act, do but despair, And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread That ever spider twisted from her womb Will serve to strangle thee ; a rush will be A beam to hang thee on ; or would'st thou drown thyself, Put but a little water in a spoon, And it shall be as all the ocean, Enough to stifle such a villain up.— I do suspect thee very grievously. . j£ t j % } v# 3 MUSIC. Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, And draw her home with music. . M. V. v. 1. Let music sound while he doth make his choice ; Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, MUS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 21 4 MUSIC,— continued. Fading in music. That the comparison May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream, And wat'ry death-bed for him : He may win ; And what is music then 1 Then music is Even as the flourish when true subjects bow To a new- crowned monarch ; such it is, As are those dulcet sounds in break of day, That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear, And summon him to marriage. . . M. V, iii. 2. Come on ; tune : If you can penetrate her with your fingering, so ; we'll try with tongue too : if none will do, let her remain ; but I'll never give o'er. First, a very excellent good-conceited thing ; after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich words to it, — and then let her consider. . Cym. ii. 3. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. . M. V. v. 1. Sitting on a bank, Weeping against the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters ; Allaying both their fury and my passion, With its sweet air. . . . T. i. 2. 'Tis good : tho' music oft hath such a charm, To make bad good ; and good provoke to harm. M. M. iv. 1. And it will discourse most eloquent music. H. iii. 2. Preposterous ass ! that never read so far, To know the cause why music was ordain'd ! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, After his studies, or his usual pain 1 Then give me leave to read philosophy, And, while I pause, serve in your harmony. T. S. iii. 1. I'm never merry, when I hear sweet music. — The reason is, your spirits are attentive : For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood : If they perchance but hear a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music : Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods ; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. M. V. v. 1 . The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 215 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIOxNARY. MUT MUSIC, — continued. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted. • M. V. v. 1. For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones 3 Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. T. G. iii. 2. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er mine ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. . . T.X. i. 1. Once 1 sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. . M. A T . ii. 2. Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends ; f Unless some dull and favourable hand Will whisper music to my weary spirit. H. IV. pt. n. iv. 4. Then music, with her silver sound, With speedy help doth lend redress. . R.J. iv. 5. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. M.A. ii. 3. But, masters, here's money for you : and the general so likes your music, that he desires you, of all loves, to make no more noise with it. 0. iii. 1. Wilt thou have music ? hark ! Apollo plays, And twenty caged nightingales do sing. T. S. Ind. 2. Give me some music ; music, moody food Of us that trade in love. The music, ho ! A. C. ii. 5. I am advised to give her music o'mornings : they say it will penetrate. . . . Cym. ii. 3. The choir, With all the choicest music of the kingdom, Together sung Te Deum. . H. VIII. iv. 1. MUSICIAN. He plays o' th' viol-de-gambo. . T. N. i. 3. MUSTERING. Call forth your actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves. M.N. i.2. MUTABILITY. How chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! . H. IV. pt. ii. iii. 1. NAM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 216 MUTABILITY,— continued. To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stop- ping a bung-hole 1 . . if. v. 1. Imperious Caesar, dead, and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away : O, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! if. v. 1. All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral : Our instruments, to melancholy bells ; Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast ; Oar solemn hymns, to sullen dirges change ; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary. it. J. iv. 5 This world is not for aye ; nor 'tis not strange, That even our love should with our fortunes change : For tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. H. iii. 2. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be ! H, iv.5. MYSTERIES. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. . if. i. 5. Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell 1 K. L. i. 5. MYSTERIOUS. It was not brought me, my lord, there's the cunning of -it ; I found it thrown in at the casement of my eloset. K. L. i. 2. N., NAIADS. You nymphs, calPd Naiads, of the wand'ring brooks, W r ith your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless looks, Leave your crisp'd channels, and on this green land Answer your summons. . . T. iv. 1. NAME. Brutus and Caesar : what should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours 1 Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Now in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great. . . J. C. i. 2. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy,— Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. 217 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. NAT NAME, — continued. What's Montague 1 it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name ! What's in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet. R. J. ii. 2. I do beseech you, (Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers,) What is your name ? . . T. iii. 1. Borneo, doff thy name ; And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself. . . R.J. ii, 2. Go back ; the virtue of your name Is not here passable. . . C. v. 2. NARRATION, Long. No more yet of this ; For 'tis a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast, nor Befitting this first meeting. . . T.v.l. NATURE. Nature hath meal, and bran ; contempt, and grace. Cym. iv. 2. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. T. C. iii. 3. How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature ! Cym. iii. 3. Nature, what things there are, Most abject in regard, and dear in use ! What things again most dear in the esteem, And poor in worth ! . . T.C. iii. 3. Labouring art can never ransom Nature From her inaidable estate. . . A* W. ii. 1. NATURAL Productions. Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some, and yet all different. O, mickle is the powerful grace, that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities : For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied : And vice sometime's by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence, and med'cine power : For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed foes encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace, and rude will ; And, where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. R. J. ii. 3. L NEW SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 218 NECESSITY. Need. Necessity's sharp pinch. . . K. L. ii. 4. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity. . R. II. i. 3. Where is this straw, my fellow ? The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. . K. L. iii. 2. Necessity will make us all forsworn. . L. L. i. 1. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. . K. L. ii. 4. But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience : patience I need. K. L.ii. 4. I am sworn brother, sweet, To grim Necessity ; and he and I Will keep a league till death. . R. II. v. 1. NEGLECT (See also Delay, Opportunity). O, then, beware ; Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves : Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger ; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun. . T. C. iii. 3. O neslisrence Fit for a fool to fall by ! . H. VIII. iii. 2. And you are now sailed into the north of my lady's opinion, where you will hang like an icicle in a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt, either of valour, or policy. . . . T.N. iii. 2. They pass'd by me As misers do by beggars. . . T.C. iii. 3. Omittance is no quittance. . A.Y . iii. 5. NEWS (See also MessencxEr). Let me speak, to the yet unknowing world, How these things came about ; so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts ; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters ; Of deaths put on by cunning, and forc'd cause ; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads ; all this can I Truly deliver. . . H.v.2. But I have words, That should be howl'd out in the desert air Where hearing should not latch them. M. iv. 3. 219 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. NEW NEWS, — continued. And there are twenty weak and wearied posts, Come from the north ; and, as I came along, I met, and overtook, a dozen captains, Bareheaded, sweating, knocking at the taverns. H. IV. pt. ii. ii. 4. Is thy news good, or bad 1 answer to that : Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance ; Let me be satisfied, — Is't good or bad 1 R. J. ii. 5. Old men, and beldams, in the streets Do prophesy upon it dangerously ; Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths : And when they talk of him, they shake their heads, And whisper one another in the ear : And he that speaks, doth gripe the hearer's wrist ; Whilst he that hears, makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst the iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death. K. J. iv. 2. Tell him, there's a post come from my master, with his horn full of news. . . . M. V. v. 1 . Ere I was risen from the place that show'd My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post, Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth, From Goneril, his mistress, salutations; Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission, Which presently they read. „ . K« L. ii. 4. After him, came spurring hard, A gentleman almost forspent with speed ; That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse ; He ask'd the way to Chester, and of him I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. He told me, that rebellion had bad luck, And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold ■ With that, he gave his able horse the head, And, bending forward, struck his armed heels Against the panting sides of his poor jade, Up to the rowel head ; and, starting so, He seem'd in running to devour the way, Staying no further question. . II. IV. pt. ii. i, 1. Seek him, Titinius ; whilst I go to meet The noble Brutus, thrusting this report l 2 NEW SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 220] NEWS, — continued. Into his ears : I may say, thrusting it ; For piercing steel, and darts envenomed, Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus, As tidings of this sight. . . J. C. v. 3. Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear. T. S. iii. 2. My ears are stopp'd, and cannot hear good news, So much of bad already hath possess'd them. T. G. iii. 1. I drown'd these news in tears. . H. VI. pt, hi. ii. 1. News, fitted to the night : Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. K. J. v. 6. Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of. T. S. iii. 2. Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. . . A. C. ii. 5. Such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour, that. the ballad-makers cannot be able to express it. W.T. v. 2. Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever, Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound, That ever yet they heard. . . M. iv. 3. My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered. K. J. v. 7. There's villanous news abroad. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. 0, slaves, I can tell you news ; news, you rascals. C. iv. 5. There might you have beheld one joy crown another ; so, and in such manner, that, it seemed, sorrow wept to take leave of them ; for their joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes, hold- ing up of hands ; with countenance of such distraction, that they were to be known by garment, not by favour. W. T. v. 2. Thy father's beard is turn'd white with the news ; you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackarel. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. Pr'ythee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and bad together. . . A. C. ii. St Where have you lurk'd, that you make doubt of it 1 C. v. 4. What news, Lord Bardolph ? every minute now Should be the father of some stratagem ; The times are wild. . ' H. IV. pt. ii. i. 1.1 Like an old tale still ; which will have matter to rehearse, though credit be asleep, and not an ear open. . W. T. y. 2. How goes it now, Sir ? this news, which is called true, is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. W. T. v. 2. The nature of bad news infects the teller. A. C. i. 2. 221 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. NIG NEWS, — continued. With news the time's with labour ; and throes forth Each minute, some. . . A. C. iii. 7. Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. . . M. i. 5. What a haste looks through his eyes ! So should he look, That seems to speak things strange. . M. i. 2. , Stale. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, To tell us this. . . HA. 5. NEW Governor. Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness ; Or whether that the body public be A horse whereon the governor doth ride, Who, newly in the seat, that it may know He can command, lets it straight feel the spur : Whether the tyranny be in his place, Or in his eminence that fills it up, I stagger in : — But this new governor Awakes me all the enrolled penalties, Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall So long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone round, And none of them been worn ; and, for a name, Now puts the drowsy and neglected act Freshly on me. . . M. M. i. 3. NICETY. Here's goodly gear ! . . R.J. ii. 4. NIGHT. When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fill the wide vessel of the universe. H. V. iv. chorus. The dragon wing of night o'er-spreads the earth. T. C. v 9. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea ; And now loud howling wolves arouse the jades That drag the tragic melancholy night ; Who with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty jaws Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. H.VI. pt.ii. iv. 1. Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus, with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. . . M. ii. 1. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 222 Stumbling night. . . K. J. v. 5. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubim. M. V. v. 1. Vaporous night approaches. . M. M. iv. 1. Now the hun gry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fore-done. Xow the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe, In remembrance of a shroud. Xow it is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite. In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run, By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Xow are frolic ; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'" d house : I am sent, with broom, before, To sweep the dust behind the door. M. A 7 , v. 2. Come, gentle night ; come, loving, black-brow'd night, Give me my Borneo ; and, when he shall die, Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he shall make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. R- •/. iii. 2. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve : — Lovers, to bed ; 'tis almost fairy time. M. N. v. 1. To bed, to bed : Sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought. . T, C. iv. 2, Beshrew the witch : with venomous wights she stays, As tediously as hell ; but flies the grasps of love, With wings more momentary-swift than thought. T. C. iv. 2. Pitchy night. . . A. W. iv. 4. 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to the world. . . H. iii. 1. The time when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs howl. H. VI. pt.ii. i.4. 223 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. NUN NIGHT,— continued. Hark ! peace ! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bell-man, Which gives the stern'st good night. . M. ii. 2. Come, civil night, Thou sober- suited matron, all in black. R. J. iii. 2. NIGHTINGALE. And to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. T. G. v. 4. NOBILITY. He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical : a great man, I'll warrant. . . W. T. iv. 3. O, that your young nobility could judge, What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable ! They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them ; And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. R. III. i. 3. NOSE. A good nose is requisite, to smell out work for the other senses. W. T. iv. 3. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes, but blind men ; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. . . . K.L.ii.4. Fool. — Canst tell, why one's nose stands i* the middle of his face? Lear. — No. Fool. — Why, to keep his eyes on either side his nose ; that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into. K. L. i. 5. There is a fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty of the dog-days now reign in's nose ; all that stand about him are under the line, they need no other penance. . H . VIII. v. 3. NOTES. I will make a prief of it in my note book. M. W. i. 1. NOVELTIES. That all, with one consent, praise new born gawds., Though they are made and moulded of things past ; And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. T. C. iii. 3. New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. if. VIII. i. 3. NUN. Question your desires ; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun ; SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 224 NUN, — continued. For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon» Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage ; But earthlier happy is the rose distilPd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted ; By your renouncement, an immortal spirit ; And to be talk'd with in sincerity, As with a saint. M. N. i. I. M. M. i. 5- O. OAK. The unwedgeable and gnarled oak, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaksv Aged. Under an oak whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity. OATHS (See also Lovers' Vows). No, not an oath : If not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse, — If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed ; So let high-sighted tyranny range on, Till each man drop by lottery : But if these, As I am sure they do* bear fire enough To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour The melting spirits of women ; then, countrymen,. What need we any spur, but our own cause, To prick us to redress 1 what other bond, Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter ? and what other oath Than honesty to honesty engag'd^ That this shall be, or we will fall for it ? Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls That welcome wrongs ; unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt ; but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise, Nor the unsuppressive metal of our spirits, To think, that, or our cause, or our performance* Did need an oath ; when every drop of blood* That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, M. M. ii. 2. J. C. i. X A. Y. iv. 3. 225 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. OAT OATH S. — continued. Is guilty of a several bastardy, If he do break the smallest particle Of any promise that hath pass'd from him. /. C. ii. 1. 'lis not the many oaths that make the truth ; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. A. W. iv. 2. Not yours, in good sooth ! 'Heart, you swear like a comfit-maker's wife ! Not you, in good sooth; and, As true as I live ; and, As God shall mend me ; and, As sure as day ; And giv'st such sarce- net surety for thy oaths, as if thou never walk'dst further than Fins- bury. Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, a good mouih-filling oath ; and leave in sooth, and such protest of pepper gingerbread, to velvet-guards, and Sunday citizens. if. IV, pt. i. iii. 1. Trust none ; For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck; Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor. • H. V. ii. 3. Myself, myself confound ! Heaven, and fortune, bar me happy hours ! Day, yield me not thy light : nor night, thy rest ! Be opposite, all planets of good luck, To my proceeding, if, with pure heart's love, Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts, I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter ! R, III. iv. 4. An oath, an oath ; I have an oath in heaven : Shall I lay perjury upon my soul 1 No, not for Venice. . . M. V. iv. 1. I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath ; Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both. P. P. i. 2. Do not believe his vows ; for they are brokers, Not of that die which their investments show, But mere implorators of unholy suits, Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, The better to beguile. . . H. i, 3. Your oaths are past, and now subscribe your name, That his own hand may strike his honour down, That violates the smallest branch herein. L. L. i. 1. Come, swear it, damn thyself, Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves Should fear to seize thee : therefore be double-damn'd, Swear — thou art honest. . . 0. iv. 2. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. JR. J. ii. 2. Look thou be true ; do not give dalliance Too much the rein ; the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i'the blood ; be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow. • . T. iv. 1. l 3 OBS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 226 OATH, — continued. Thou see'st that all the grace that she hath left, Is, that she will not add to" her damnation A sin of perjury. She not denies it. . M. A. iv. 1. I have no cunning in protestation ; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. H. V. v. 2. He professes not keeping of oaths ; in breaking them, he is stronger than Hercules. . . . A. W. iv. 3. It is a great sin, to swear unto a sin ; But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. Who can be bound by any solemn vow To do a murderous dee*d, to rob a man, To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To 'reave the orphan of his patrimony, To wrong the widow from her custom'd right ; And have no other reason for this wrong, But that he was bound by a solemn oath ? H. VI. pt.ii. v. 1. By mine honour, I will ; and when I break that cath, let me turn monster. . . . A. Y. i.2. But if you swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn : no more was the knight, swearing by his honour, for he never had any. . . . . A. F. i. 2. By all pretty oaths that are not dangerous. A. Y. iv. 1. OBJECT. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye. . H . i. 1 . Old and Familiar. Now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by, like a wea- ther-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns. W. T. v. 2. OBLIVION. iln the swallowing gulf Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion. \ R. III. iii. 7. And all the clouds that lowr'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. R. III. i. 1. When time is old and hath forgot itself, When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallow 'd cities up, And mighty states characterless are grated To dusty nothing. . . T. C. iii. 2. The dark backward and abysm of Time. T. i. 2. He no more remembers his mother now, than an eight year old horse. . . . C. v. 4. OBSEQUIOUSNESS. So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons, Come all to help him, and so stop the air By which he should revive : and even so, The general, subject to a well-wish'd king, 227 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. OFF OBSEQUIOUSNESS,— continued. Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love Must needs appear offence. . M. M. ii. 4. OBSERVATION. For he is but a bastard to the time, That doth not smack of observation. . K. J. u I. There is a history in all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophecy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet to come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. H. IV. pt.ii. iii. 1. Squandering glances. . . A. Y. \\. 7. ODDITY. What a Herod of Jewry is this ! . M. W. ii. 1. I have lived fourscore years and upward ; I never heard of a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own res- pect. . . . M.W. iii. 1. How oddly he is suited ! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour every where. . . M. V. i. 2. ODIUM. You are smelt Above the moon. . . C. v. 1. ?FENCE. I The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. . , \ 0. i. 3 . How have I offended 1 All's not offence that indiscretion finds, And dotage terms so. . . K. L. ii. 4. What is my offence 1 Where is the evidence that doth accuse me 1 What lawful quest have given their verdict up Unto the frowning judge. . R. III. i. 4. In such a time as this, it is not meet That every nice offence should bear its comment. J. C. iv. 3. OFFICE. Having both the key of officer and office. . T. i. 2. He was a fool ; For he would needs be virtuous : That good fellow, If I command him, follows my appointment ; I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother, We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons. H. VIII. ii. 2. Fear not your advancement ; I will be the man yet that shall make yon great. H.IV. pt. ii. v. 5. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 228 OFFICE, its Evils. If I am traducM by tongues, which neither know My faculties, nor person, yet will be The chronicles of my doing, — let me say, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers ; which ever. As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new trimm'd ; but benefit no further Than vainly longing. What we oft do best, By sick interpreters, (once weak ones) is Not ours, or not allow'd ; what worst, as oft, Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act. If we shall stand still, In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, We should take root here where we sit, or sit State statues only. . . H. VIII. Insolence of. I'd have beaten him like a dog, but for disturbing the ■ within. . . . . C. OMENS (See also Portents). The bay trees in our country are all wither'd, And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven ; The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change ; Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap. R. II. ii. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money bags to-night. M. V. ii. OMNIPOTENCE, Inscrutable. He that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister : So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes. . A. W. ii. I, OPENNESS. I must be found ; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, Shall manifest me rightly. . . 0. i. 2. OPHELIA Drowning. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream °, There, with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies, and herself, Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide j And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up : 229 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. OPP OPHELIA Drowning,— continued. Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes ; As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and endu'd Unto that element : but long it could not be, Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. . . H. iv. 7. OPINION (See also Censure). I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses, reckon up their owne, I may be straight though they themselves be bevell, By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be showne ; Unless this general evil they maintaine, All men are bad, and in their badness raigne. Poems, Because you want the grace that others have, You judge it straight a thing impossible To compass wonders, but by help of devils. H. PL pt. i. v. 4. Thei.e is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. H. ii. 2. Our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time. . C. iv. 7, Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. . 0. i. 3, But fish not with this melancholy bait, For this fool's gudgeon, this opinion. . M. V. i. 1. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit for the inward man. . P. P. ii. 2. A plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin. . . T. C. iii. 3. OPPORTUNITY (See also Delay, Irresolution, Neglect). There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune \ Omitted, all. the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat ; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. , . J.C. iv. 3. Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more. . A. C. ii. 7. When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams, C. E. ii. 2. A little fire is quickly trodden out : Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. H. VI. pt. in. iv. 8. The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, And not neglected ; else, if heaven would, And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse. R.II. iii. 2« ORA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 230 OPPORTUNITY,— continued. I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. . . T. i. 2. OPPOSITION, Back, I say, go ; lest I let forth your half pint of blood; — back, — that's the utmost of your having :— back. C. v. 2. OPPRESSION. I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd, And duty in his service perishing. . M, N. v. 1. I am an ass, indeed ; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service, but blows : when I am cold, he heats me with beating ; when I am warm, he cools me with beating : I am awak'd with it, when I sleep ; raised with it, when I sit ; driven out of doors with it, when I go from home ; welcomed home with it, when I return : nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar her brat ; and, I think, when he hath lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door. . C. E. iv. 4. Each new morn, New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face. . . M. iv. 2. THE NATURAL DlJTY OF RESISTANCE TO. To whom do lions cast their gentle looks 1 Not to the beast that would usurp their den. Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick 1 Not his, that spoils her young before her face. Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting 1 I Not he, that sets his foot upon her back. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood. H. VI. pt.iii. ii. 2. The poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in the nest, against the owl. M. iv. 2. OPTICS (See Eye). ORATION, Pedantic Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, ^ Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical ; these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. L. L. v. 2. ORATOR. Doubt not, my lord ; I'll play the orator, As if the golden fee, for which I plead, Were for myself, . . R. III. iii. 5. ORATORY, Popular. For in such business, Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than their ears. . . C. iii. 2. 231 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ORD ORATORY, Popular,— continued. Pray, be content ; Mother, I am going to the market-place ; Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd Of all the trades in Rome. . . C. iii. 2. ORDER. Degree being vizarded, The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order : And therefore is the glorious planet, Sol, In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and w T hat portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture ! O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder of all high designs, The enterprise is sick ! How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from divided shores, The primogeniture and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place 1 Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or, rather, right and w r rong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon ; This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking : And this neglection of degree it is, OTH SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 232 ORDER, — continued. That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd By him one step below ; he, by the next ; That next, by him beneath : so every step, Exampled by the first pace that is sick Of his superior, grows to an envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation. . T. C. i. 3. The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? M. V. iii. 2. ORNAMENT. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea ; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty ; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. . . M. V. iii. 2. OTHELLO'S Apology. Rude am I in speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself: Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love ; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic, (For such proceeding I am charg'd withal) I won his daughter with. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me ; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and desarts wild, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak. Such was my process ; 233 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. OVE OTHELLO'S Apology, — continued. And of the cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. These things to hear, Would Desdemona seriously incline : But still the house affairs would draw her thence ; Which ever as she could with haste despatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour ; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not distinctively. I did consent ; And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke, That my youth suffer'd. 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 : This only is the witchcraft I have us'd ; Here comes the lady, let her witness it. 0. i. 3» — - Farewell. O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And, O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! — Othello's occupation's gone ! 0. iii. 3. ■ Handkerchief. There's magic in the web of it : A sybil, that had number'd in the world The sun to make two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work : The worms were hallow'd, that did breed the silk ; And it was dy'd in mummy, which the skilful Conserv'd of maidens' hearts. . . 0. iii. 4. OVERMATCHED. If there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, I am no two-legged creature. . H, IV, pt. i. ii. 4. PAI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 234 OUTCAST. I am one my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd, that I am reckless what I do, to spite the world. . . M. iii. 1. So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance To mend it, or be rid on't. . . M. iii, 1. Sick in the world's regard, wretched, and low, A poor unminded outlaw. • H. IV. pt. i. iv. 3. OUTRAGEOUSNESS. Why, this passes, Mister Ford : you are not to go loose any longer, you must be pinioned. . M. W. iv. 2. Why, this is lunatics. . . M.W.iv.2. OUTWITTED. Thou art not vanquish'd, But cozen'd and beguil'd. P. PACIFICATION. Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart A root of antient envy. .... C O, let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke, And scarr'd the moon with splinters ! , C. iv. 5. PAINTING (See also Portrait). Dost thou love pictures 1 We will fetch thee straight Adonis, painted by a running brook : And Cytherea, all in sedges hid ; Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving sedges play with wind. We'll shew thee Io, as she was a maid ; And how she was beguiled and surpris'd, As lively painted as the deed was done. Or Daphne, roaming through a thorny wood ; Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds ; And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn. T. 5. Ind. 2. Painting is welcome, The painting is almost the natural man ; For since dishonour trafficks with man's nature, He is but outside : These pencii'd figures are Ev'n such as they give out. . . T. A. i. I. It is a pretty mocking of the life. . T. A. i. 1 . I'll say of it It tutors nature : artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. T. A. i. 1. 235 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PAR PAINTING,— continued. How this grace Speaks his own standing ! what a mental power This eye shoots forth ! How big imagination Moves in this lip ! to the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. . . T. A. i. 1. Timon. — Wrought he not well that painted this ? Apemantus. — He wrought better that made the painter ; and yet he's but a filthy piece of work. . T. A. i. I. PALLIATION. Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth your's. . . K. J. i. 1. PALPABILITY. Day-light and champian discovers not more. T. N. ii. 5. PANIC. Norweyan banners flout the sky,— And fan our people cold. . . M. i. 2. PARADOX. You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. . T. A. iii. 5. PARADOXES. These are old fond paradoxes, to make fools laugh i' the alehouse. 0. ii. 1. PARASITES (See also Flatterers). That, Sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the storm. . . K. L. ii. 4. O, you gods ! what a number Of men eat Timon, and he sees them not ! It grieves me, to see so many dip their meat In one man's blood ; and all the madness is, He cheers them up too, . . T, A. i. 2. 'Tis such as you, — That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh At each his needless heavings, — such as you Nourish the cause of his awakings : I Do come with words as med'cinal as true, Honest, as either ; to purge him of that humour That presses him from sleep. . . W. T. ii. 3. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humour for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon honour than advis'd respect. . K. J. iv. 2. PAR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 236 PARASITES,— continued. Feast-won, fast- lost; one cloud of winter showers; These flies are couch'd. . . T. A." ii. 2. To me you cannot reach, you play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me ; But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I am sure Thou hast a cruel nature, and a bloody. H. VIII. v. 2. villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption ! Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man ! Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart ! R. II. iii. 2. When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter ; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding ; there 1 found them, there I smelt them out. Go to, they are not men o' their words : they told me I was every thing ; — 'tis a lie ; I'm not ague-proof. . . K. L. iv. 6. May you a better feast never behold, You knot of mouth-friends ! Smoke and luke-warm water Is your perfection. This is Timon's last ; Who stuck and spangled you with flatteries, Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces Your reeking villany. Live loath'd, and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meak bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time's flies, Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks ! Of man, and beast, the infinite malady Crust you quite o'er ! . . T. A. iii. 6* PARDON. Yes, I do think that you might pardon him, And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy. M. M, PARENTAL Affection (See also Affection). How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms ! Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, methought I did recoil Twenty- three years, and saw myself unbreech'd, In my green velvet coat ; my dagger muzzled, Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. • W. T. i. 2. You have no children, butchers ! if you had, The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse. H. VI. pt. in. v. 5 And my young boy Hath an aspect of intercession, which Great Nature cries, deny not. . . C. v. 3 Unreasonable creatures feed their young : And though man's face be fearful to their eyes, : 237 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PAR PARENTAL Affection, — continued. Yet, in protection of their tender ones, Who hath not seen them (even with those wings Which sometime they have us'd with fearful flight) Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest, Offering their own lives in their young's defence 1 H. VI. pt.iii. ii.2. PARLIAMENT. God speed the parliament ! . H, VI. pt. i. iii. 2. PARRYING. Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end, as well as a man in his case may do. . . T. A T . v. 1. Thou knowest my old ward ; — here I lay, and thus I bore my point. . . - . H . IV, pt. i. ii. 4. PARTING. Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow. R. J. ii. 2. For so long As he could make me with this eye or ear Distinguish him from others, he did keep The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief, Still waving, as the fits or stirs of his mind Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on, How swift his ship. . . Cym. i. 4. Farewell ! The leisure and the fearful time Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love, And ample interchange of sweet discourse, Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon ; God give us leisure for these rites of love ! Once more, adieu ! . R> HI* v. 3. 0, my Lord, Must I then leave you 1 Must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master 1 Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, W T ith what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers, For ever, and for ever, shall be yours. H. VIIL iii. 2. Farewell ! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. . R. J. ii. 2. And even there, his eye being big with tears, Turning his face, he put his hand behind him, And with affection, wondrous sensible, He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. M. V. ii. 8. I would have broke mine eye-strings ; crack'd them, but To look upon him ; till the diminution Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle ; PAR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 238 PARTING,— continued. Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from The smallness of a gnat, to air ; and then Have tum'd mine eye, and wept. . Cym. i. 4. What ! gone without a word 1 Ay, so true love should do : it cannot speak ; For truth had better deeds than words, to grace it. T. G. ii. 2. We make woe wanton with this fond delay ; Once more, adieu ! the rest let sorrow say. R. II. v. 1. And whether we shall meet again, I know not. Therefore, our everlasting farewell take : — For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! If ever we do meet again, why we shall smile ; If not, why then this parting was well made. J. C v. 1 . Should we be taking leave As long a term as yet we have to live, The loathness to depart would grow. . Cym. i. 2. We two, that with so many thousand sighs Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves With the rude brevity and discharge of one. Injurious time, now, with a robber's haste, Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how ; As many farewells as be stars in heaven, With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them, He fumbles up into a loose adieu ; And scants us with a single famish'd kiss, Distasted with the salt of broken tears. . T. C. iv. 4. Portia, adieu ! I have too griev'd a heart To take a tedious leave. • . M. V. ii. 7. At once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. . . M. iii. 4. Come ; Our separation so abides, and flies, That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me, And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. A. C. i. 3. And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands and part ; You, as your business, and desire, shall point you : — For every man hath business, and desire, Such as it is, — and for mine own poor part, Look you, I will go pray. 'Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone : And yet no further than a wanton's bird ; Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving jealous of his liberty. . . R,. J. 239 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PAS PARTING,— continued. Here is my hand for my true constancy ; And when that hour o'er-slips me in the day, Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake, The next ensuing hour some foul mischance Torment me for my love's forgetfulness. T. G. ii. 2. Wilt thou begone 1 it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree ; Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. R. J. iii. 5. I did not take my leave of him, but had Most pretty things to say : ere I could tell him, How I would think on him, at certain hours, Such thoughts, and such ;*'**■* * * * * * or have charg'd him, At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, T* encounter me with orisons ; for then I am in heaven for him ; or ere I could Give him that parting kiss, which I had set Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father, And, like the tyrannous breathing of the north, Shakes all our buds from growing. . Gym. i. 4. Tend me to-night ; May be, it is the period of your duty ; Haply, you shall not see me more ; or if, A mangled shadow : perchance, to-morrow, You'll serve another master. I look on you, As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends ; I turn you not away ; but, like a master, Married to your good service, stay till death. A. C. iv. 2. PARTY Rancour. These days are dangerous ! Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition, And charity chas'd hence by rancour's hand. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 1. PASSION. iUl the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. . . T. iii. 1 . PASSIONS, Conflicting (See also Emotions^). Thou think'st His much that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin : so 'tis to thee ; But where the greater malady is fix'd, The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear : But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea, Thou'dst meet a bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free, The body's delicate : the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else, Save what beats there. . . K. L. iii. 4. PAT SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 240 PASSIONS, Guilty. Poor chastity is rifled of her store, And lust, the thief, far poorer than before. . Poems. PASTIME. This will be pastime passing excellent, If it be husbanded with modesty. . T. S. Ind. 1. Say, what abridgment have you for this evening 1 What mask 1 what music 1 How shall we beguile The lazy time, if not with some delight? . M. N. v. 1. Courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy, As bombast, and as lining to the time. . L. L. v. 2. PATCHING. Any thing that's mended, is but patched ; virtue, that trans- gresses, is but patched with sin ; and sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue. . • T. N. i. 5. | PATIENCE. He, that would have a cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding. . . . T. C. i. 1. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. H. V. ii. 1. How poor are they that have not patience ! What wound did ever heal but by degrees ? Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft ; And wit depends on dilatory time. . 0. ii. 3. Thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim. . 0. iv. 2. I do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Mingle their spurs together. . Cym. iv. 2. Grow, patience ! And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine ' His perishing root, with the increasing vine. Cym. iv. 2. Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help from that which thou lament'st. Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. T. G. iii. 1. So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile ; We lose it not, so long as we can smile. He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears But the free comfort which from thence he hears : But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow, That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow. 0. i. 3. j Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. T. A T . ii. 5. j That which in mean men we entitle patience, Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. . E. II. i. 2. O, gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, Sprinkle cool patience. . . H. iii. 4. 241 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PEA PATIENCE,— continued. Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, On the Rialto, you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : • Still I have borne it with a patient shrug : 1 For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. I M. V. i. 3. Patience, unmov'd, no marvel though she pause ; They can be meek that have no other cause. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry ; But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. C. E. ii. 1. I have her sovereign aid, And rest myself content. . T. v. 1. I do oppose My patience to his fury ; and am arm'd To suffer with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his. • M. V. iv. 1. Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction, till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die. . K. L. iv. 6. PATRIOTISM. If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently : For, let the gods so speed me, as I love The name of honour, more than I fear death. X C. i. 2. I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho ! A foe to tyrants and my country's friend. J.C. v. 4. There was a Brutus once, that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome, As easily as a king. . . J. C. i. 2. Our subjects, Sir, Will not endure his yoke. . Cym, iii. 5. PATRONAGE. O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! R. III. iii. 4. PAUSING. Look, he is winding up the watch of his wit ; by and by it will strike. . . . . T. ii. 1. PAYMENT. He is well paid, that is well satisfied. . M. V. iv. 1. Fair payment for foul words, is more than due. L. L. iv. 1. PEACE. Fie, lords ! that you, being supreme magistrates, Thus contumeliously should break the peace, H. VI. ft. i. i. 3. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. L. L. v. 2. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 242 PEACE, — continued. In her days, every man shall eat in safety, Under his own vine, what he plants ; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours, Peace be to France ; if France in peace permit Our just and lineal entrance to our own ! If not ; bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths ; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front • And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. A peace is of the nature of a conquest ; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. The sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast, making their way With those of nobler bulk ! Keep peace, upon your lives ; He dies, that strikes again. What is the matter ? H. VIII. v. 4, K.J. ii. 1. R.III. i.l. H.IV. pt.ii. iv. 2. R.IIL i.l. T. C. i. 3. K. L. ii. 2. If I unwittingly, or in my rage, Have aught committed that is hardly borne By any in this presence, I desire To reconcile me to his friendly peace : J Tis death to me, to be at enmity ; I hate it, and desire all good men's love. R. III. ii. 1. Who should study to preserve a peace If holy churchmen take delight in broils'? H. VI. pt. t. iii. 1, Peace be to me, and every one that dares not fight. L. L. i. 1. In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility. . H. V. iii. 1. W^hat, drawn, and talk of peace ? . R.J.i.]. This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers. C. iv. 5. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy : mulled, deaf, sleepy, insen-^ sible. . . C. iv. 5. Still, in thy right hand, carry gentle peace. My tongue shall hush again this storm of war, And make fair weather in your blust'ring land. H. VIII. iii. 2. K. J. v. 1. 243 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PER PEACE, — continued. Thy threatening colours now wind up, And tame the savage spirit of wild war ; That, like a lion foster'd up at hand, It may lie gently at the foot of peace, And be no further harmful than in show. K. J. v. 2 PEDANT. Like a pedant, that keeps a school i' the church. T. K. iii. 2. PEDANTRY. Idle words, servants to shallow fools, Unprofitable sounds, weak arbitrators! Busy yourselves in skull-contending schools ; Debate, where leisure serves, with dull debators. Poems. PEDLAR. He hath ribands of all the colours i' the rainbow ; points, more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by the gross ; inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns : why, he sings them over, as they were gods or goddesses ; you would think, a smock were a she-angel ; he so chaunts to the sleeve hand, and the work about the square on't. W. T. iv. 3. PENITENCE. By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. T. G. v. 4. The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out, And strew'd repentant ashes on his head. K. J. iv. 1. PEOPLE. The people are the city. . . C. iii. 1. PERCEPTION, Human. What ! are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt The fiery orbs above, and the twinn'd stones Upon the unnumber'd beach ; and can we not Partition make, with spectacles so precious, 'Twixt fair and foul ? . . Cym. i. 7. PERDITION. I'll be damned for ne'er a king's son in Christendom. H.IV. pt. i. i. 2. O thou sun, Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in ! darkling stand The varying shore o' the world ! . A. C. iv. 13. PERFECTION. More than report can promise, fancy blazon, Is true perfection. . . . Poems. Is this your perfectness? — begone, you rogue. L. L. v. 2. , Female. She that was ever fair, and never proud ; Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud ; m 2 PER SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 244 PERFECTION, Female,— continued. Never lack'd gold, and yet went never gay ; Fled from her wish, and yet said, Now I may ; She that, being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay, and her displeasure fly : * * * * * % She that could think, and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following, and not look behind. 0. ii. 1 . PERIL. Now happy he, whose cloak and cincture can Hold out this tempest. . . . K. J. iv. 3. For mine own part, I have not a case of lives : the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain -song of it. H. V. iii. 2. PERJURY. Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury ! L. L. v. 2. PERPLEXITY. Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well ; that you are so crossed. . • . M. W. iv. 5. PERSECUTION. O God, defend me ! — how am I beset ! — What kind of catechizing call you this? M. A. iv. 1. Disloyal ? No : She's punish'd for her truth ; and undergoes, More goddess-like than wife -like, such assaults As would take in some virtue. . . Cym. iii, 2. PERSEVERANCE. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. . • T. C. iii. 3. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolv'd to effect. . . T. iii. 3. PERSPECTIVE. These things seem small, and undistinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds. M. N. iv. 1 . PERTINACITY, Nay, I will ; that's flat : — He said, he would not ransom Mortimer ; Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer ; But I will find him when he lies asleep, And in his ear I'll holla, — Mortimer! H. IV. ft. i. i. 3. Let them pull all about mine ears ; present me Death on the wheel, or at wild horses' heels ; Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock, That the precipitation might down stretch Below the beam of sight, — yet will I still Be thus to them. C. iii. 2. 245 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PHI PERTINACITY,— continued. You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh, than to receive Three thousand ducats : I'll not answer that : But say, it is my humour ; — Is it answer'd 1 M. V. iv. 1. Speak of Mortimer ! Zounds, I will speak of him : and let my soul Want mercy, if I do not join with him : Yea, on his part, I'll empty all these veins, And shed my dear blood, drop by drop, i' the dust, But I will lift the down- trod Mortimer As high i' the air as this unthankful king, As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. H. IV. pt. i. i. 3. Pent to linger But with a grain a day, I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word ; Nor check my courage for what they can give, To hav't with saying, — Good morrow. . C. iii. 3. Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, To keep his anger still in motion. H. IV. pt. i. i. 3. Thou injurious tribune ! Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths, In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say, Thou liest, unto thee, with a voice as free As I do pray the gods. . C. iii. 3. Choler ! Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, By Jove, 'twould be my mind. . C. iii. 1. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. . A. W. iii. 7. PHANTASY. This is the very coinage of your brain : This bodiless creation ecstacy Is very cunning in. • . H. iiL 4. PHILOSOPHY. Philosophers. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. . R. J. iii. 3. Brave conquerors, — for so you are, That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires. L. L. i. 1. Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils. . /. C. iv. 3. Blest are those, Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger, To sound what stop she please. . H. iii. 2. PIC SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 246 PHILOSOPHY. Philosophers, — continued. Hang up philosophy ! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom ; It helps not, it prevails not, talk no more. R» J, iii. 3. I For there was never yet philosopher, That could endure the tooth- ach patiently ; However they have writ the style of gods, And made a pish at chance and sufferance. M, A. v. 1. O, cry your mercy, Noble philosopher, your company. . K. L. iii. 4. First, let me talk with this philosopher : — What is the cause of thunder 1 . K. L. iii. 4. , Pretended. We make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. A. W. ii. 3. We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. . A. W. ii. 3. PHRASES. Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable- H. IV, pt. ii. iii. 4. The tevil and his tam ! what phrase is this 1 M. W. i. 1, PHYSIC. Throw physic to the dogs, 1*11 none of it. . M. v. 3. , State. If thou could'st, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. — Pull't off, I say. — What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug, Would scour these English hence. PHYSICIAN. Whose skill was almost as great as his honesty ; had it stretched so far, 'twould have made Nature immortal, and Death should have played for lack of work. . A.W.i.l. PHYSIOGNOMY. There's no art, To find the mind's construction in the face : He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. . . M. i. 4. PICTURE. Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your picture. T. C. iii. 2. But we will draw the curtain, and show you the picture. T. N. i. 5. 247 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PIT PILGRIMAGE. Which holy undertaking, with most austere sanctimony, she accomplished. . . A. W. iv. 3. PIPING (See also Tool). Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music. H. iii.2. Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played upon than a pipe 1 . . if. Hi. 2. PIRATES' Piety. Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the ten commandments, but scraped one out of the table : — Thou shalt not steal. . . M. M. i. 2. PITY. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear 3 The subject will deserve it. . H. VIII. prologue. But if there be Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity, As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it ! Cym. iv. 2. 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. . M. i. 7. It is a pity Would move a monster. . H. VIII. ii. 3. If ever you have look'd on better days ; If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church ; If ever sat at any good man's feast ; If ever from your eye- lids wip'd a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied ; Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. A. Y. ii. 7. A begging prince what beggar pities not 1 R. III. i. 4. Had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him. . R. II. v. 2. If thou tell'st this 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. hi. i. 4. PLA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 248 PITY, — continued. I show it most of all when I show justice ; For then I pity those I do not know, Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall ; And do him right, that, answering one foul wrong, Lives not to act another. . . M. M. ii. 2. Pity's sleeping : Strange times, that weep with laughing^ not with weeping ! T.A. iv. 3. But, I perceive, Men must learn now with pity to dispense ; For policy sits above conscience. . T. A. iii. 2. The dint of pity. . . J. C. iii. 2. Tear-falling pity.' . . R. III. iv. 2. O dearest spul ! your cause doth strike my heart With pity, that doth make me sick. . Cym. i. 7. PLACE and Greatness. O place and greatness, millions of false eyes Are struck upon thee ! volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings ! thousand 'scapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dreams, And rack thee in their fancies ! . M. M. iv. I. PLANETARY Influence. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary in- fluence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! , . . K. L, i. 2. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. A. W. i. 1. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. J. C. i. 2. ifLAYS. Players. Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy, Therefore, they thought it good you hear a play, And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life. T % S. Ind. 2. Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour 1 M. N. v. 1. 249 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. POE PLAYS. Players, — continued, Shall's have a play of this ? . . Cym. v. 5. What, a play toward 1 I'll be an auditor. M. N. iii. 1. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. H. ii. 2. Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestowed 1 Do you hear, let them be well used ; for they are the abstract, and brief chro- nicles, of the time : After your death, you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live. H. ii. 2. The players cannot keep counsel ; they'll tell all. H. iii. 2. PLEA. Since what I am to say, must be but that Which contradicts my accusation ; and The testimony on my part, no other But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me To say, — Not Guilty : — mine integrity Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, Be so receiv'd. But thus, — If powers divine Behold our human actions (as they do,) 1 doubt not then, but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience. . . W. T. iii. 2. PLEASURE and Revenge, Recklessness of. Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. . . T. C. ii. 2. PLEDGE. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. J. C. iv. 3. PLODDING. Why, universal plodding prisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries ; As motion, and long-during action, tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller. . L. L v iv. 3. PLOT. By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid ; our friends true and constant : a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation : an excellent plot, very good friends. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. Who cannot be crush'd with a plot ! A. W. iv. 3. So, so ; these are the limbs of the plot. H. VIII. i. 1. PLUNDERERS. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out In sharing that which you have pill'd from me. B. III. i. 3. POETRY. Poet (See also Ballad-Monger, Rhymstlr). Our poesy is a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd : the fire i'the flint m 3 POL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 250 POETRY, Poet,— continued. Shows not, till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Each bound it chafes. . . T. A. i.l. • Own'st thou the heavenly influence of the muse, Spend not thy fury on some worthless song ; Dark'ning thy power to lend base subjects light. Poems. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for, I am sure, I shall turn sonneteer. Devise, wit ; write, pen ; for I am for whole vo- lumes in folio. . . . L. L. i. 2. The elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy. L. L. iv. 2. And wait the season, and observe the times, And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes. L. L. v. 2. The force of heaven-bred poesy. . T. G. iii. 2. Audrey. — I do not know what poetical is : Is it honest in deed and word 1 Is it a true thing ? Touchstone. — No, truly ; for the truest poetry is the most feign- ing. . . . . A. Y. iii. 3. POISON. Let me have A dram of poison ; such soon-speeding geer As will disperse itself through all the veins, That the life-weary taker may fall dead ; And that the trunk may be discharg'd of breath As violently, as hasty powder hr'd Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. R.J. v. 1. No cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death, That is but scratch'd withal. . H. iv. 7. POLICY. The devil knew not what he did, when he made man politic. T. A. iii. 3. Plague of your policy ! You sent me deputy for Ireland ; Far from his succour, from the king, from all That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him ; Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity, Absolv'd him with an axe. . H. VIII. iii. 2. POLITICIANS. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. . K. L. iv. 6. They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know What's done i'the Capitol : who's like to rise, Who thrives, and who declines ; side factions, and give out Conjectural marriages ; making parties strong, And feebling such as stand not in their liking, Below their cobbled shoes. . . C. i. 1. 251 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. POP POLISHED Man. Behaviour, what wert thou Till this man show'd thee 1 and what art thou now 1 L> L. v. 2. POMP. Why, what is pomp. rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. H. VI. pt. in. v. 2. and Poverty. Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; That thou may est shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. . K. L. iii. 4, POPULARITY (See also Applause, Mob). All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him. . . C. ii. 1. Stalls, bulks, windows, Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd With variable complexions ; all agreeing In earnestness to see him. . . C. ii. 1. Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common hackney'd in the eyes of men, So stale and cheap to vulgar company ; Opinion, that did help me to the crown, Had still kept loyal to possession, And left me in reputeless banishment, A fellow of no mark, nor likelihood. By being seldom seen, I could not stir, But, like a comet, I was wonder'd at : That men would tell their children, That is he ; Others would say, Where ? ivhich is Bolingbroke ? And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dress'd myself in such humility, That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Loud shouts and salutations from men's mouths, Even in the presence of the crowned king. Thus did I keep my person fresh, and new ; My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen, but wonder'd at : and so my state, Seldom, but sumptuous, showed like a feast ; And won, by rareness, such solemnity. The skipping king, he ambled up and down, With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, Soon kindled, and soon burn'd : carded his state ; Mingled his royalty with carping fools ; Had his great name profaned with his scorns ; And gave his countenance, against his name, To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push Of every beardless vain comparative : Grew a companion to the common streets, Enfeoff'd himself to popularity : That being daily swallow'd by men's eyes, POP SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 252 POPULARITY,— continued. They surfeited with honey ; and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded ; seen, but with such eyes, As, sick and blunted with community, Afford no extraordinary gaze, Such as is bent on sun-like majesty When it shines seldom in admiring eyes. H, IV, pt. r. iii.2. I have seen The dumb men throng to see him, and the blind To hear him speak : the matrons flung their gloves, Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchiefs, Upon him as he pass'd : the nobles bended, As to Jove's statue ; and the commons made A shower, and thunder, with their caps and shouts. C. ii. 1. He's lov'd of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes ; And, where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence. . . H. iv. 3. He returns, Splitting the air with noise. . . C. v. 5. It hath been taught us from the primal state, That he, which is, was wish'd until he were ; And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd, till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body, Like a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. . . A. C. i. 4. Such a noise arose As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, As loud, and to as many tunes : hats, cloaks, (Doublets, I think,) flew up ; and had their faces Been loose, this day they had been lost. H. V11I. iv. 1. Every wretch, pining and pale before, •Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks ; A largess universal, like the sun, His lib'ral eye doth give to every one, Thawing cold fear. . . H. V. iv. chimin. Then, as I said, the Duke, great Bolingbroke, Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed, Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, With slow, but stately pace, kept on his course ; While all tongues cry'd, — God save 'thee, Bolingbroke ! You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage j — and that all the walls, 253 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. POP POPULARITY,— continued. With painted imag'ry, had said at once, — Jesu preserve thee ! Welcome, Bolingbroke ! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus : — I thank you, countrymen : And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. R. II. v. 2. If the tag-rag people did not clap him, and hiss him, according as he pleased, and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true man. . J. C. i. 2. Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope his doublet, and offered them his throat to cut. An I had been a man of any oc- cupation, if I would not have taken him at his word, I would I might go to hell, among the rogues : — and so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said, If he had done, or said any thing amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried, Alas, good soul, — and forgave him with all their hearts. . J. C. i. 2. Since the wisdom of their choice, is rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise the insinuating nod, and be off to them most counterfeitly ; that is, Sir, I will counterfeit the bewitch- ment of some popular man, and give it bountifully to the de- sirers. . . C. ii. 3. The rabble call him lord : And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry, — Choose we ; Laertes shall he king ! H. iv. 5. Now, when the lords, and barons of the realm Perceiv'd Northumberland did lean to him, The more and less came in with cap and knee ; Met him in boroughs, cities, villages ; Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes, Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths, Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him, Even at his heels, in golden multitudes. He presently, — as greatness knows itself, — Steps me a little higher than his vow Made to my father, while his blood was poor, Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurg ; And now, forsootji, takes on him to reform Some certain edicts, and some strait decrees, That lie too heavy on the commonwealth : Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep Over his country's wrongs ; and, by this face, This seeming brow of justice, did he win The hearts of all that he did angle for. H. IV, pt. i. iv. 3. You see, how all conditions, how all minds, (As well of glib and slippery creatures, as POP SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 254 POPULARITY,— continued. Of grave and austere quality,) tender down Their services to Lord Timon ; his large fortune, Upon his good and gracious nature hanging, Subdues and properties to his love and tendance All sorts of hearts. . . T.A.'ul. The wisdom of their choice is, rather to have my hat than my heart. C. ii. 3. Ourself Observ'd his courtship to the common people : How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles, And patient underbearing of his fortune, As 'twere to banish their effects with him. Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench ; A brace of draymen bid — God speed him well ! And had the tribute of his supple knee, With — Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends. R. II. i. 4. Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro, as this multitude 1 H. VI. pt. ii. iv. 8. Look, as I blow this feather from my face, And as the air blows it to me again, Obeying with my wind when I do blow, And yielding to another when it blows, Commanded always by the greater gust ; Such is the lightness of you common men. H. VI. pt. in. iii. 1. The common people swarm like summer flies, And whither fly the gnats but to the sun 1 H. VI. pt. in. ii. The commonwealth is sick of their own choice, . Their over-greedy love hath surfeited : — I / A habitation giddy and unsure I Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart. ] O thou fond many ! with what loud applause Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke, Before he was what thou wouldst have him be ! And being now trimm'd in thine own desires, Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him, That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up. H. IV. pt. ij When he had done, some followers of mine own, At lower end o' the hall, hurl'd up their caps, And some ten voices cried, God save King Richard ! And thus I took the 'vantage of those few, — Thanks, gentle citizens, and friends, quoth I ; This general applause, and cheerful shout, Argues your wisdom, and your love to Richard : And even here broke off, and came away. R. III. iii. 7. 255 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. POR POPULARITY,— -corcti/u^. I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun, When the alarum were struck, than idly sit To hear my nothings monster'd. . C. ii. 2. Faith, there have been many great men who have flattered the people, who ne'er lov'd them ; and there be many that they have lov'd, they know not wherefore : so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground. C. ii. 2. I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands, Nor posted off their suits with slow delays ; My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs, My mercy dry'd their water-flowing tears : I have not been desirous of their wealth. Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies, Nor forward of revenge, though they much err'd ; Then why should they love Edward more than me 1 H. VI. pt.iii. iv. 8. I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes : Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause, and aves vehement ; Nor do I think the man of safe discretion, That does affect it. . . M. M. i. 1. Like one of two contending in a prize, That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes, Hearing applause, and universal shout, Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt Whether those peals of praise be his or no. M. V. iii. 2. PORTENTS (See also Prodigies). The owl shriek' d at thy birth, an evil sign ; The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time ; Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempests shook down trees ; The raven rook'd her on the chimney top, And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. H. VI. pt. hi. v. 6. Before the days of change, still is it so : By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust f Ensuing danger ; as, by proof, we see j , The water swell before aboist'rous storm. R. till, ii. 3. When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks ; \ When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand ; \ When the sun sets who doth not look for night 1 Untimely storms make men expect a dearth. R. III. ii, 3. Warnings, and portents, and evils ominous. J. C. ii. 2. The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest, and a blustering day. H. IV. pt. i. v. 1. POV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 256 PORTENTS,— continued. How bloodily the sun begins to peer Above yon busky hill ! the day looks pale At his distemperature. . H. IV. pt. i. v. 1. Truly, the hearts of men are full of fear : You cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily, and full of dread. R. III. ii. 3. PORTRAIT (See also Painting). SSee, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove himself ; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station, like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven -kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. H. iii. 4. O thou senseless form, Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, lov'd, and ador'd. T. G. iv. 4. What demi-god Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes? Or whether, riding on the balls of mine. Seem they in motion 1 Here are sever'd lips, Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends : Here in her hairs The painter plays the spider ; and hath woven A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men, Faster than gnats in cobwebs : But her eyes, — How could he see to do them ? . ill. V. iii. 2. The counterfeit presentment. . . H. iii. 4. POSSESSION. Have is have, however men do catch. K. J. i. 1. and Deprivation. For it so falls out, That what we have, we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue, that possession would not shew us Whiles it was ours. . . M. A. iv. 1. POSTCRIPT. Jove and my stars be prais'd, here is yet a postcript ! T. N. ii. 5. POVERTY. No matter what : He's poor, and that's revenge enough. T. A. iii. 4. Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other station ; here's no place for you ; pray you, avoid. . C. iv. 5. As we do turn our backs From our companion, thrown into his grave ; So his familiars to his buried fortunes Slink all away ; leave their false vows with him, 257 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. POW POVERTY,— continued. Like empty purses pick'd ; and his poor self, A dedicated beggar to the air, With his disease of all shunn'd poverty, Walks, like contempt, alone, . T. A. iv. 2. Anon, a careless herd Full of the pasture, jumps along by him ; Ay, quoth Jaques, Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens ; 'Tis just the fashion : wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there 1 A. Y. ii. 1. Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die 1 famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression stareth in thine eyes, fUpon thy back hangs ragged misery, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. R. J. v. 1. Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in 1 — Such may rail against great buildings. T. A. iii. 4. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear. K. L. iv. 4. A most poor man, made tame by fortune's blows; Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, Am pregnant to good pity. . . K. L. iv. 6. No, Madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor ; though many of the rich are damned. .__ . A. W, i. 3. A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 1. They say, poor suitors have strong breaths. . C. i. 1. POWER. O perilous mouths, That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Either of condemnation or approof ! Bidding the law make court'sey to their will ; Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, To follow as it draws ! M. M. ii. 4. We had need pray, And heartily, for our deliverance ; Or this imperious man will work us all From princes into pages : all men's honours Lie in one lump before him, to be fashion'd Into what pitch he please. . H. VIII. ii. 2. In his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets ; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket. • A. C. v. 2. The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power. . . J.C.ii.l. Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart. . M. M. i. 1. PRA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 258 PRAISE. The worthiness of praise distains his worth If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth : But what the rip'ning enemy commends, That breath fame follows ; that praise, sole pure, transcends. T. C. i. 3. Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon ! Ah ! when the means are gone, that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. T. A. ii. 2. Do not smile at me, that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind her. . T. iv. 1. You shall not be The grave of your deserving ; Rome must know The value of her own : 'twere a concealment Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, To hide your doings. . . C. i. 9. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things: One good deed, dying tongueless, Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that: Our praises are our wages. t . W. T. i. 2. Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. . A.W. v. 3 Cautious they praise, who purpose not to sell. Poems, To things of sale a seller's praise belongs. L. L. iv. 3. and Censure. Marry, Sir, they praise me and make an ass of me ; now my foes tell me plainly, I'm an ass ; so that by my foes, Sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself. . T. N. v. 1 . PRAYERS. Not with fond shekels of the tested gold ; Or stones, whose rates are either rich, or poor, As fancy values them : but with true prayers, That shall be up at heaven and enter there, Ere sun-rise. . . M. M. ii. 2. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit By losing of our prayers. • A. C. ii. 1. When I would pray and think, I think and pray To several subjects : heaven hath my empty words ; Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, Anchors on Isabel : Heaven in my mouth, As if I did but only chew his name ; And in my heart, the strong and swelling evil Of my conception. • . M. M. ii. 4. 259 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PRE PRAYERS,— continued. When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation. . R. III. iii. 7. A thousand knees, Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting, Upon a barren mountain, and still winter In storm perpetual, could not move the gods To look that way thou wert. . * W. T. iii. 2. I pray thee leave me to myself to-night ; For I have need of many orisons \ To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin. R. J. iv. 3. Lovers, And men in dangerous bonds, pray not alike. Cym. iii. 2. Get him to say his prayers ; good Sir Toby, get him to pray. T.N. iii. 4. PREACHING and Practice. Fie, uncle Beaufort ! 1 have heard you preach, That malice was a great and grievous sin ; And will not you maintain the thing you teach, But prove a chief offender in the same 1 H. VI. pt. i, iii. 1. PRECIPICE. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles o'er his base into the sea 1 And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason, And draw you into madness 1 think of it : The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain, That looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath. . . H. i. 4. PRECISE Man. Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see If power change purpose, what our seemers be. M. M. i. 4. A man whose blood Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense ; But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge With profits of the mind, study, and fast. M. M. i. 5. PRE-EMINENCE. The observed of all observers. . . H, iii. 1. PREFERMENT. 'Tis the curse of service ; Preferment goes by letter, and affection, * "J Not by the old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. . . O. i. 1. PRE SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 260 PREJUDICE. Oft it chances, in particular men, That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose its origin,) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ; Or by some habit, which too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; — that these men, — - Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect ; Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, — Their virtues else, (be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man can undergo,) Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : The dram of base Doth all the noble substance often dout, To his own scandal, . « if. i. 4. Which warp'd the line of eveiy other favour ; Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen ; Extended or contracted all proportions, To a most hideous object. • . A. W. v. 3. a • — Religious. I am a Jew : Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, or- gans, dimensions, senses, affections, passions 1 fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is 1 if you prick us, do we not bleed 1 if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die 2 and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. . M. V. iii* 1. PREPARATION. Your vessels, and your spells, provide, Your charms, and every thing beside. . M. iii. 5. PRESENTATION. ♦Here's a gentleman, and a friend of mine. M, M. iii. 2. PRESENT Pleasures and Pains. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. . Poems, PRESUMPTION. Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd : It is not so with him that all things knows, As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows ; But most it is presumption in us, when The help of heaven we count the act of men. A, W. ii. 1. PRETEXT. My pretext to strike at him admits A good construction. . . C. v. 5. PREVARICATION. You boggle shrewdly, every feather starts you. A.W. v. 3. 261 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PRI PRIDE. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads. r. C. ii. 3. world, how apt the poor are to be proud ! T. N. iii. 4. He that is proud, eats up himself ; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle ; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. . T. C, ii. 3. He is so plaguy proud, that the death tokens of it Cry, — No recovery. • . 7\ C. ii. 3. Harsh rage, Defect of manners, want of government, Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain ; The least of which, haunting a nobleman, Loseth men's hearts. . H.IV. pt.i. iii. 1. 1 am too high-born to be property'd, To be a secondary at controul, Or useful serving-man, and instrument, To any sovereign. . . K. J. v. 2. An he be proud with me, I'll pheeze his pride. T. C. ii. 3. I cannot tell What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that ; but I can see his pride Peep through each part of him : Whence has he that 1 If not from hell, the devil is a niggard ; Or has given all before, and he begins A new hell in himself. . • H. VIII. i. 1. Things small as nothing, for request's sake only, He makes important : Possess'd he is with greatness ; And speaks not to himself, but with a pride That quarrels at self-breath. . . T.C. ii. 3. Small things make base men proud : this villain, here, Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more Than Burgulus, the strong Illyrian pirate. H. VI. pt. ii. iv. 1. Pride hath no other glass To show itself, but pride ; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. T. C. iii. 3. Offended. Yes, lion- sick, sick of proud heart : you may call it melancholy if you will favour the man ; but, by my head, 'tis pride. T. C. ii. 3. Eats up Gratitude. Very well ; and could be content to give him good report for't, but that he pays himself with being proud. C. i. 1. PRINCE, Degenerate. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take purses ! H, IV. pt. i. ii. 4. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 262 PRISONERS. r prisoners to be too silent in their words. L. L. i. 2. ISONERS. It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their words. PRODIGALITY. What will this come to 1 He commands us to provide, and give great gifts, And all out of an empty coffer ; Nor will he know his purse ; or yield me this. To show him what a beggar his heart is, Being of no power to make his wishes good ; His promises fly so beyond his state, That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes For every word ; he is so kind, that he now Pays interest for it. . . . T. A. i. 2. PRODIGIES (See also Portents.) In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Ii. i. 1. Stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday, with eclipse. H. i. 1. No natural exhalation in the sky, No scape of nature, no distemper'd day, No common wind, no customed event, But they will pluck away his natural cause, And call them meteors, prodigies, and signs, Abortives, presages, and tongues of heaven, Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John. K. J. in. 4. Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, In ranks, and squadrons, and right form of war, W r hich drizzled blood upon the capitol : The noise of battle hurtled in the air, Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan. Jo C ii. 2. . When beggars die, there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. J.C. PROFLIGACY. His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last ; For violent fires soon burn out themselves : Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short ; He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes ; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder : Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. R. II. PROGNOSTICS. Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness fore-runs the good event. H. IV, pt. ii. iv. 2. 263 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PRO PROLIXITY. The date is out of such prolixity. ► . R. J. i. 4. PROMISES. Promising is the very air o' the time : it opens the eyes of expectation : performance is ever the duller for his act : and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed is quite out of use. To promise, is most courtly and fashionable ; performance is a kind of will and testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. . . T. A. v. 1. His promises were, as he then was, mighty ; But his performance, as he now is, nothing. H. VIII. iv. 2. I see, Sir, you are liberal in offers : You taught me first to beg ; and now, methinks, You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd. M. V. iv. 1. Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, That one day blooin'd, and fruitful were the next. H. VI. pt. i. i. 6. The king is kind ; and, well we know, the king Knows at what time to promise, when to pay. H. IV. pt. i. iv. 3. PROMOTION. Many so arrive at second masters, upon their first lord's neck. T. A. iv. 3. PROMPTITUDE. Anticipating time with starting courage. T. C. iv. 5. For at hand, Not trusting to this halting legate here, Whom he hath us'd rather for sport than need, Is warlike John. . . . K. J. v. 2, PROOF. Let the end try the man. . . H t IV. pt. ir. ii. 2. Let proof speak. . . . Cym. iii. 1. PROPERTY. What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong 1 You have among you many a purchas'd slave ; Which, "like your asses, and your dogs, and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them : shall I say to you, Let them be free, marry them to your heirs 1 Why sweat they under burdens 1 let their beds Be made as soft as yours, and let their palates Be season'd with such viands. You will answer, The slaves are ours : — so do I answer you. M. V. iv. 1. PROPELLING. As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust, Command an argosy to stem the waves. H. VI. pt. hi. ii. 6. PRU SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 264 PROSCRIPTION. No port is free ; no place, That guard, and most unusual vigilance, Does not attend my taking. . K. L. ii. 3. PROSECUTOR, Public. He puts transgression to't. . . M, M. iii. 2. PROSPERITY. Prosperity's the very bond of love ; Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together, Affliction alters. . . W.T. iv. 3. "When mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests. . . A. C. iii. II. PROVERBS. Come hither, Fabian ; we'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws. . . T. A T . iii. 4. PROVIDENCE (See also Omnipotence). Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. . H. v. 2. PROVOCATION. Have you not set mine honour at the stake, And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think t . T. N, iii. 1. PRUDENCE. Take up this mangled matter at the best : Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands. . . 0. i. 3. When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection : Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices ; or, at least, desist To build at all ] Much more, in this great work, (Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down, And set another up) should we survey The plot of situation, and the model ; Consent upon a sure foundation ; Question surveyors, know our own estate, How able such a work to undergo, To weigh against his opposite ; or else, We fortify in paper, and in figures, Using the names of men, instead of men : Like one, that draws the model of a house Beyond his power to build it ; who, half through, Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost 265 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. PUR P RUDENCE,— continued. A naked subject to the weeping clouds, And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 3. PRUDERY. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale 1 . . T. N. ii. 3. PRUNING. All superfluous branches We lop away, that bearing boughs may live. R. II. iii. 4. PURGATORY. Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night, And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away. H. i. 5. PURITY. The very ice of chastity is in them. A. Y. iii. 4. He's honourable, And, doubling that, most hoJy. . Cym. iii. 4. Who can blot that name With any just reproach ? . M.A. iv. 1. PURPOSE. In every thing, the purpose must weigh with the folly. H. IV. pt.ii. ii.2. PURSUIT. Let us score their backs, And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind ; 'Tis sport to maul a runner. . . A. C. iv. 7. Mount you, my lord, tow'rd Berwick post amain ; Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds, Having the fearful flying hare in sight, With fiery eyes, sparkling for very wrath, And bloody steel, grasp'd in their ireful hands, Are at our backs ; and therefore hence amain. H. VI. pt. in. ii. 5. and Possession. All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker, or a prodigal, The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind ! How like the prodigal doth she return, ' With over-weather'd ribs, and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind ! M.V.u.6. Women are angels, wooing : Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing : That she belov'd knows nought, that knows not this, Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is. T. C. i. 2. SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 266 Q. QUALITY. The rich stream of lords and ladies. . H, VIII, iv. 1. She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies. H, VI, pt. ii. i. 3. What a sweep of vanity comes this way ! . T, A, i. 2. QUARREL. Good lord ! what madness rules in brain-sick men ; When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such factious emulations shall arise ! H, VI. pt. i. iv. 1. I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. . . O. ii. 3. I heard the clink and fall of swords, And Cassio high in oath. . 0, ii. 3. Thou ! why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. . . R, J. iii. 1. He'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog. . . 0. ii. 3. — . Incipient. There is division, Although as yet the face of it be cover'd With mutual cunning. . . K. L, iii. 1. I dare say This quarrel will drink blood another day. H. VI. pt. i. ii. 4. QUEEN. She had all the royal makings of a queen ; As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems, Laid nobly on her. . . H. VIII, iv. 1. A queen in jest, only to fill the scene. . R. III. iv. 4. ■ Mab. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone, On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of crickets' bone ; the lash, of film . Her waggoner, a small gray-coated gnat, 267 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY- QUO QUEEN Mab,— continued. Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops, night by night, Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love : On courtiers' knees, that dream on courtesies straight : O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream ., Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are, Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit : And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as he lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice : Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear ; at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. . . R,J. i. 4. QUIBBLING. O, dear discretion, how his words are suited ! The fool hath planted in his memory An army of good words : and I do know A many fools, that stand in better place, Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word Defy the matter. . . M. V. iii. 5. To see this age ! A sentence is but a cheverill glove to a good wit • how quickly the wrong side may be turn'd outward ! t.n. iii. i. This is a riddling merchant for the nonce. H. VI. pt.i. ii. 3. How every fool can play upon the word ! I think, the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence ; and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. . M. V. iii. 5. QUICKNESS. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-out-running were not. . T. i. 2. QUIPS. How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy quips, and thy quiddities 1 . . H.IV. pt. i. i. 2. QUOTING Scripture (See also Dissimulation, Hypocrisy). But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them, — that God bids us do good for evil : n 2 RAI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 268 / QUOTING Scripture, — continued. And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil. R* III* i. 3. In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? M. V. iii. 2. The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart : O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! M. V. i. 3. O thou hast damnable iteration ; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. H . IV. ft. i. i. 2. Re> 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 m RADIANCE. Like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phoebus' front. . K* L * »• 2 « RAGE (See also Anger, Fury). Eyeless rage. . • • K.L.iii.l. 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. . &. 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. 1. 1. RAILING. . . Did you ever hear such railing 1 . A. i . iv. J. 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. I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat. H. IV. pt. i. iv. 2. 269 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. RAT RAILING, — continued. 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 ! . . . if. 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,) jlo match us in comparisons with dirt. T, C, and Reproof, when worthy, or unworthy, of Regard. . i. 3. 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 distafTto a lance,) gilded pale looks, Part, shame, part, spirit renewed ; that some, turn'd coward But by example (O, 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. . . if. v. 1. RAT. How now? a rat! . . . if. iii. 4 • REB SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 2/0 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 7 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. X 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 'Twixt 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 v €. ii, 2, Larded with many several sorts of reasons* H. v. 4, You far 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. if. IV. ft. i. v. I. 271 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. REB 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. . I J.C. iii. 2, If that rebellion Came like itself, in base and abject routs, Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage, And countenanc'd 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 9 VI. pt. hi. 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 ; REB SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 272 REBELLION,— continued. 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 : IAll 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 j And they did fight with queasiness, constraint 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, L Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule, Nor ever will be rul'd. . . C. Hi. 1. Wherefore do I this 1 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 273 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. REC RE BELLION, — continued. 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). Tore God, my lord, well spoken ; with good accent, and good discretion. . . , if . ii. 2. We'll have a speech, straight : Come, give us a taste of your quality ; come, a passionate speech. . if. 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 reckon- ing, Sir. . . . L.L. v. 2. RECOGNITION. Most reverend signior, do you know my voice 1 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.l. RECOLLECTION, Painful. O, 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. P. 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. . . iT. 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. n 3 REG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY, 274 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 ! I 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. if. 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 1 we are much out o' the way. L. L. iv. 3. Consideration like an angel carme, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him ; Leaving his body as a paradise, To envelop and contain celestial spirits. II. 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 common- wealth, 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, an 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 jocund 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. . if. i.2. 275 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. REG REGAL Ceremonies, — continued. 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. • if. 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. v . 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 villany itself forswear't. . W.T.i.2. REM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 276 REGICIDE. As full of valour as of royal blood : Both have I spilt ; O, 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 bat 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 I To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'eiieaps itself, And falls on t'other side. . . M. i. 1. 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. if. i. 2. RELIGION (See also Dissimulation, Hypocrisy, Quoting Scrip- ture). 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. . . Well of that remedy can no man speak, That heals the loss, and cures not the disgrace. M. iii. 2. Poems. 277 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. REM 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. — . r — . . 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 ; REP SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 278 REMORSE,— continued. 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. L I 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 O, 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 ! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings. L. L. iii. 1 RENOVATION. 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 &ENOWN. 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. O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labour. #. IV. ft. i. iii. 3. 279 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. REP 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 heady 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. ill. 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. REP SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 280 REPENTANCE,— continued. 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. 11. 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 ! Com- pany, villanous company, hath 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 1 R. J. ii. 2. REPOSE. Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. . K. L, 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. REPROACH. O, Lymoges! O, Austria! thou dost shame That bloody spoil : Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward ; Thou little valiant, great in villany ! 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 1 Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength 1 And dost thou now fall over to my foes ? I 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, / 281 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. REQ REPROOF, Ill-timed, — continued. 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 mine 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 j 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he, that niches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. . 0. iii. 3. The bubble reputation. . A. Y. ii. 7. The gravity and stillness of your youth The worid 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. jV". iv. 1. O, I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part, Sir, of myself; and what remains is bestial. . 0. 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, I'm not i'the vein. R. III. iv. 2. RES SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 282 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. O, 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 part of nature, should Burn itself out. . . K. L. iv. 6 Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness 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 ofT. . M, V. iv. 1. God be with you ! — I have done. . 0. 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 283 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. RET RESOLVE, Murderous, — continued. 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 A T ature'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. in. 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. in. v. 1. Strike now, or else the iron cools. H. VI. pt. hi. 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. hi. 2. Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court 7 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. RET SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 284 RETIREMENT,— continued. 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. li 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. I 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. O God I 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. 1. 285 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 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 1 drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancelPd 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 hissufTerance be, by Christian example 1 — why, revenge. . M. V. iii. 1, O, 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 ! . . AT. iv. 3. To weep, is to make less the depth of grief ; Tears, then, for babes ; blows, and revenge for me. H. VI. pt. in. 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. hi. 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 : REV SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 286 REVENGE,— continued. 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. Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate 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. 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. . . 0. REVERENCE. That angel of the world doth make distinction Of place 'twixt high and low. . Cym. 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. 287 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ROA RHETORIC. Sweet smoke of rhetoric ! . L.L. iii. 1. RHYMSTER (See also Poet, Ballad-monger). Ha, Ha ; how vilely doth this cynic rhyme 1 J. C. iv. 3. Hangs 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 your- self with them ? ' . . J.F/Si.2. I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. . . M.A.x.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. iJ. V. i. 2. RICHES and Goodness. The old proverb is pretty well parted between my master Shy- lock and you, Sir ; you have the grace of God, Sir, and he hath enough. . . M. F, 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. O '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. RUL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 288 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 . 289 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SAC 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. I JR. 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 1 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. it. 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. S. SACK. A good sherris-sack has a two -fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish, and dull, and crudy vapours which environ it : makes it apprehensive, quick, and for- getive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes ; which delivered o'er to the voice, (the tongue) which is the birth, becomes excel- lent wit. The second property of your excellent sherris is, — the warming of the blood ; which, before cold, and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice ; but the sherris warms it, and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme. It illuminateth the face ; which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm : and then the vital commoners, and inland petty spirits, muster me SAR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 290 SACK, — continued. all to their captain, the heart ; who, great, and puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage ; and this valour comes of sherris : So that skill in the weapon is nothing, without sack ; for that sets it a-work : and learning, a mere hoard of gold, kept by a devil ; till sack commences it, and sets it in act and use. Hereof comes it, that prince Harry is valiant : for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, steril, and bare land, manured, husbanded, and tilled, with excellent endeavour of drinking good^ and good store of fertile sherris ; that he is become very hot, and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them, shouldbe, — to forswear thin potations, and addict themselves to sack. . H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 3. SADNESS. In sooth, I know not why I am so sad; It wearies me ; you say, it wearies you : But how I caught it, found it, or came by't, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn. . . . M. V. i. 1. Howe'er it be, I cannot but be sad ; so heavy sad, As, though, in thinking, on no thought I think, — Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink. R. II. ii Such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. . M. V. i I do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Mingle their spurs together. . Cym. iv. 2. There is no measure in the occasion that breeds it, therefore the sadness is without limit. . . M. A. i. SAGACITY. This learned constable is too cunning to be understood. M. A. v. 1 SALUTATION (See also Benediction). Rest you fair, good Signior. . M. V. i. 3. The heavens rain odours on you. . T. N. iii. 1. Hail to thee, lady ! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round. . . 0. ii. 1 ■ Clerical. Jove bless thee, master parson. t T. N. iv. 2 Military. ' Most military Sir, salutation. . L. L. v. 1 SARCASMS. She speaks poignards, and every word stabs ; if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect the north star. . M. A. ii. 1. / 291 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SCH SATIETY. They surfeited with honey, and began To loath the taste of sweetness, whereof little More than a little is by much too much. H, IV. pt. i. iii. 2. Who rises from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down 1 Where is the horse that doth untread again His tedious measures with th' unbated fire That he did pace them first 1 All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy 'd. M. V. ii. 6. O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly, To seal love's bonds new made, than they are wont, To keep obliged faith unforfeited. . M. V. ii. 6. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. • 0. i. 3. SATIRE. Satire, keen and critical. . M.N. v. 1. Wit larded with malice. . T. C. v. 1. I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please ; for so fools have ; And they that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh : And why, Sir, must they so ? The why is plain as way to parish church 3 He, that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob ; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomis'd Ev'n by the squandering glances of the fool. A. Y. ii. 7. SATIRIST. The world's large tongue, Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks ; Full of comparisons and wounding flouts 3 Which you on all estates will execute, That lie within the mercy of your wit. . L. L. v. 2. A very dull fool 3 his only gift is in devising impossible slanders ; none but libertines delight in him 3 and the commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany ; for he both pleases men, and an- gers them, and then they laugh at him, and beat him. M.A. ii. i. SAVAGE. Fit for the mountains, and the barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd. . T. N. iv. 1. SCHEMER. What impossible matter will he make easy next? T. ii. K I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions. T. S. iii. 1 . SCHOLAR. Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio. . H. i. 1. 2 SEA SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 292 SCHOOLBOY Simplicity. The flat transgression of a school-boy ; who, being overjoyed with finding a bird's nest, shews it to his companion, and he steals it. .... M.A. ii. 1. SCHOOLMASTER. Sir, I praise the Lord for you ; and so may my parishioners ; for their sons are well tutored by you, and their daughters profit very greatly under you ; you are a good member of the commonwealth. L. L. iv. 2. SCOLD. Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears t Have I not in my time heard lions roar ? Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds, Rage like an hungry boar, chafed with sweat ? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies ? Have I not in pitched battles heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to the ear As will a chesnut in a farmer's fire? . T. S. i. 2. SCORN. You speak o'the people, as if you were a god, To punish ; not a man of their infirmity. . C. iii. ] . You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. A. W. ii. 3. O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges ! H. VI. pt. ii. iv. 1. Scorn at first, makes after-love the more. . T. G. iii. 1. I will not do't : Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth, And, by my body's action, teach my mind A most inherent baseness. . C. iii. 2. SCULPTURE. He so near to Hermione hath done Hermione, that, they say, one would speak to her, and stand in hope of answer. W. T. v. 2. Still, methinks, There is an air comes from her : what fine chizzel Could ever yet cut breath. . . W. T. v. 3. SEA. The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head Spits in the face of heaven. . . M, V, ii. 6. Bed of the. Methought, I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd on the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's sculls ; and, in those holes I 293 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SEC SEA, Bed of the, — continued. Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead-bones that lay scatter'd by. R. III. i. 4. Perils of the (See also Shipwreck). Our hint of woe Is common ; every day, some sailor's wife, The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, Have just our theme of woe. . T. ii. 1. SEASONS. The seasons alter ; hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems' chin, and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set : The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries ; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. M. N. ii. 2, SEASON. Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in it. A. C. ii. 2. SEASONABLE. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise, and true perfection. M. V. v. 1. SECLUSION. If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper, Lo, Caesar is afraid? . . J.C. ii. 2. SECRECY. Stall this in your bosom. . A. W. i. 3. Masking the business from the common eye. M. iii. 1 . When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the grave of it. A. W. iv. 3. Give it an understanding, but no tongue. . H. i. 2. 'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. . H. i. 3. Thou wilt not trust the air with secrets. Tit. And. iv. 2. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. . H. iii. 4. I know you wise ; but yet no further wise, Than Harry Percy's wife : constant you are ; SED SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 294 SECRECY,— .continued. But yet a woman : and for secrecy, No lady closer ; for I well believe, Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. . II . i. 5. This secret is so weighty, 'twill require A strong faith to conceal it. . H. VIII. ii. 1 . Two may keep counsel, putting one away. R. J. ii. 4. A juggling trick to be secretly open. . T. C. v. 2. SECURITY. Whole as the marble, founded as the rock; As broad and general as the casing air. . M. iii. 4. Shut doors after you : Fast bind, fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. . M. V» ii. 5. But yet I'll make assurance doubly sure, And take a bond of fate. • . M. iv. 1. I look'd he should have sent me two-and-twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he sends me, — security. H. IV. pt. ii. i. 5a. A rascally, yea-forsooth knave! to bear a gentleman in hand, and then stand upon security ! . H.IV. pt. ii. i. 2. SEDITION. Here do we make his friends Blush, that the world goes well ; who rather had, Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold Dissentious numbers pestering streets, than see Our tradesmen singing in their shops, and going About their functions friendly. . C. iv. 6. These things, indeed, you have articulated, Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches ; To face the garment of rebellion With some fine colour, that may please the eye Of fickle changelings, and poor discontents, Which gape, and rub the elbow, at the news Of hurly-burly innovation : And never yet did insurrection want Such water-colours to impaint his cause ; Nor moody beggars, starving for a time, Of pell-mell havoc and confusion. . H. IV. pt. i. v. .1. The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who, Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger And lack of other means, in desperate manner Daring the event to th' teeth, are all in uproar, And danger serves among them. . II. VIII, i. 2. 295 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. i>EE SEDUCTION. Then if he says he loves you ; It fits your wisdom so far to believe it, As he, in his particular act and place, May give his saying deed ; which is no further, Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs ; Or lose your heart ; or your chaste treasure open To his unmaster'd importunity. . • H. u 3. Ay, so you serve us, Till we serve you : but when you have our roses, You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us with our bareness. • A, W. iv. 2. This man hath witch'd the bosom of my child : Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes. And interchang'd love tokens with my child ; Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, With feigning voice, verses of feigning love ; And stol'n th' impression of her phantasy With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits, Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats ; messengers Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth : With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart, Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness. . M. N. i. 1. cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook ! . M. M. ii. 2. Many a maid hath been seduced by them ; and the misery is, example, that so terribly shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they are lim'd with the twigs that threaten them. . . A. W. iii. 5. Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. L. L, iv. 3. Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers ; Or as the snake, roll'd in a flowering bank, With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child, That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 1. SEEING. 1 have a good eye, uncle ; I can see a church by day-light. M. A. ii. 1. SEEMING. Out on th£ seeming ! I will write against it : You seem to me as Dian in her orb ; As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown ; But you are more intemperate in your blood Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals That rage in savage sensuality. ♦ M. A. iv. 1* SET SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 296 SELF-Conceited. The best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his ground of faith, that all, that look on him, love him. . . T.N. ii. 3. Look, how imagination blows him. . T.N. ii. 5. SELF-Denial. The greatest virtue of which wise men boast, Is to abstain from ill, when pleasing most. . Poems. SELF-GOVERNMENT. Virtue 1 a % ! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our own wills. , . 0. i. 3. SELFISHNESS. Torches are made to burn ; jewels to wear ; Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse. Poems. SELF-Love. Self-love is not so vile a sin As self- neglecting. . . . H. V. ii. 4. O villanous ! I have lived upon the world four times seven years ; and since I could distinguish between a benefit and an injury, I never found a man that knew how to love himself. O. i. 3. SENATORS. These old fellows Have their ingratitude in them hereditary : Their blood is eak'd, tis cold, it seldom flows ; 'Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind ; And nature, as it grow s s again towards earth, Is fashioned for the journey, dull, and heavy. T. A. ii. 2. SENTENTIOUS. By my faith he is very swift and sententious. A. Y. v. 4. SEPULCHRE. The sacred storehouse of his predecessors, And guardian of their bones. . . M. ii. 4. SERVANT, Unprofitable. The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit. . . M. V. ii. 5. SET Phrases. O ! never will I trust to speeches penn'd, Nor to the motion of a school-boy's tongue ; Nor never come in visor to my friend ; Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song ; Taffata phrases, silken terms precise, Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, 297 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SHE SET Phrases, — continued. Figures pedantical ; these summer-flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation : I do forswear them. . . L, L, v. 2. SEVERITY. Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. R. Ill, iv. 2. SHAME. Heaven stops the nose at it, and the moon winks ; The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets, Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth, And will not hear it. . . 0. iv. 2. Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. H, VI, pt. in. i. 4. A sovereign shame so elbows him. . K. L. iv. 3. O shame ! where is thy blush 1 . H. iii. 4. The shame itself doth speak for instant remedy. K, L. i. 4. He is unqualified with very shame. . A, C. iii. 9. Heaven's face doth glow ; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act. . . H, iii. 4. He was not born to shame ; Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit ; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd Sole monarch of the universal earth. . R. J, iii. 2. Fie, fie, they are Not to be nam'd, my lord, not to be spoke of; There is not chastity enough in language, Without offence to utter them. . M, A. iv. 1. SHEPHERD'S Philosophy. I know, the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is ; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends : — That the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn : That good pasture makes fat sheep ; and that a great cause of the night, is lack of the sun : That he, that hath learned no wit by na- ture, nor art, may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. . . . A.Y. iii. 2. SHERIFF'S Officer, One, whose hard heart is button'd up with steel ; A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough ; A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff; A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands ; A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well ; One that, before the judgment, carries poor souls to hell. C. E. iv. 2. o3 SIC SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 298 SHIPWRECKS (See also Sea), The king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring, (then like reeds, not hair,) Was the first man that leap'd ; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark ; Bore us some leagues to sea ; where they prepar'd A rotten carcase of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast ; the very rats Instinctively had quit it : there they hoist us, To cry to the sea that roar'd to us ; to sigh To the winds, whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong. To comfort you with chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When you, and that poor number sav'd with you, Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice) To a strong mast, that liv'd upon the sea, Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves, So long as I could see. And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch Of merchant-marring rocks. Yet the incessant weepings of my wife, Weeping before for what she knew must come, And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, Thatmourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear, Forc'd me to seek delays for them and me. T. i. 2. 2. M. V. iii. C.K Described by a Clown. I would, you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the shore ! but that's not to the point : O, the most pite- ous cry of the poor souls ! sometimes to see 'em and not to see 'em : now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast ; and anon swallowed with yeast and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogs- head. And then for the land service, — To see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone ; how he cried to me for help, and said his name was Antigonus, a nobleman : — But to make an end o' the ship : — to see how the sea flap-dragon'd it : — but, first, how the poor souls roar'd, and the sea mock'd them ; — and how the poor gentleman roar'd, and the bear mock'd him, both roaring louder than the sea, or weather. . W. T. iii. 3. SICK. Zounds ! how has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time 1 H. IV. tt. i. iv. 1. 299 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SIL SIEGE (See also Cannonade). Tell us, shall your city call us lord, In that behalf which we have challeng'd it, Or shall we give the signal to our rage, And stalk in blood to our possession ? . K. J. ii. 1 . Girdled with a waist of iron, And hemm'd about with grim destruction. H. VI. pt. i. iv. 3. These flags of France, that are advanced here, Before the eye and prospect of your town, Have hither march'd to your endamagement : The cannons have their bowels full of wrath ; And ready mounted are they to spit forth Their iron indignation 'gainst your wails, K. J. ii. 1. SIFTING. See you now : Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth ; / And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlaces, and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. . H. ii. 1 . SIGHS. He rais'd a sigh, so piteous and profound, As it did seem to shatter all his bulk, And end his being. Blood-drinking sighs. . H. ii. 1. H *VI. PT . II. iii .2. H. VI. PT. III. iv. 4 Blood-sucking sighs. Her sighs will make a battery in his breast ; Her tears will pierce into a marble heart ; The tiger will be mild while she doth mourn ; And Nero will be tainted with remorse, To hear, and see, her plaints. H. VI. pt. hi. iii. 1. For heaven shall hear our prayers ; Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim, And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds, When they do hug him in their melting bosoms. Tit. And. iii. 1. Blood-consuming sighs. . H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 2. I could drive the boat with my sighs. T.G. ii. 3. Heart-sore sighs. . . T.G. ii. 4. Cooling the air with sighs. . . T. i. 2. SIGNS of the Times. And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large. . T. C. i. 3. SILENCE. Hear his speech, but say thou nought. » M. iv. 1. With silence, nephew, be thou politic. H. VI. pt. i. ii. 5. SIN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 300 SILENCE, — continued. Silence only is commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. M. V. i. 1. I like your silence, it the more shows off Your wonder. . . W. T. v. 3. Persuasive. The silence, often, of pure innocence, Persuades, when speaking fails. . W. T. ii. 2. See, see, your silence, Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws My very soul of counsel. . . T. C. iii. 2. There was speech in their dumbness. W. T. v. 2 . SIMILIES. A good swift simile, but something currish. T, S. v. 2. Thou hast the most unsavoury similies. H. IV. pt. i. i. 2. SIMPLICITY. It is silly sooth. . . W.T. iv. 3. By the pattern of mine own thoughts, I cut out The purity of his. . * . W.T. iv. 3. How green are you, and fresh in this old world ! K. J. iii. 4. SIN. Few love to hear the sins they love to act. P. P. LI. O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, The damned'st body to invest and cover In princely guards. . . M. M. iii. 1. SINCERITY. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. . W. T. LI. SINFUL. Smacking of every sin that has a name. . M. iv. 3. SINGING. She will sing the savageness out of a bear. . 0. iv. 1. " ■ Bad. An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him ; and I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. . . . M. A. ii. 3. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. M. A. ii. 3^ SINGULARITY. Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously. SINNERS, Refined. M ' W ' U * 2# Some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the ever- lasting bonfire. . . j|f § j} # 3^ 301 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SLA SLANDER (See also Calumny). No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. . M. M. iii. 2. For haply, slander, Whose whisper o'er the earth's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. . . H. iv. I. One doth not know, How much an ill word may empoison liking. M. A. iii. 1. I see, the jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty ; and though gold 'bides still, That others touch, yet often touching will Wear gold : and no man, that hath a name, But falsehood and corruption doth it shame. C. E. ii. 1. 'Tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting wind, and doth belie All corners of the world ; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. . Cym. iii. 4. Many worthy and chaste dames even thus (all guiltless) meet reproach. . . 0. iv. 1. Calumny will sear virtue itself. . W. T. ii. 1. I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devis'd this slander. . 0. iv. 2. For he The sacred honour of himself, his queen's, His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander, Whose sting is sharper than the sword's. W. T. ii. 3. Abus'd by some most villanous knave ! Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow : — O, heaven, that such companions thou'd'st unfold ; And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascal naked through the world! 0. iv. 2. So thou be good, slander doth but approve. . Poems. If thou dost slander her, and torture me, i Never pray more : abandon all remorse ; \ On horror's head horrors accumulate : \ Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amaz'd, For nothing canst thou to damnation add, Greater than that. . . 0. iii. 3. A slave, whose gall coins slanders like a mint. T. C. i. 3. SLE SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 302 SLANDERERS. 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. Smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers. H. IV, pt. i. iii. 2. SLAVE at Large. I am trusted with a muzzle, and enfranchised with a clog. M. A. i. 3. SLAVISHNESS. Milk-liver'd man ! That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs, Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honour from thy suffering ; that not know'st Fools do those villains pity, who are punish'd Ere they have done their mischief. . K. L. iv. 2. How this lord's follow'd ! . T, A. i. 1. With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats ; Whilst thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and cry'st, Alack! Why does he so? . K. L. iv. 2. O, behold, How pomp is follow'd ! . A. C. v. 2. Seeking sweet savours for this hateful fool. M. N. iv. 1. To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes With one that ties his points'? . A. C. iii. 2. To say ay, and no, to every thing I said ! Ay and no too, was no good divinity. . . K. L. iv. 6. SLEEP. The innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. . . M. ii. 2. Please you, Sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it : It seldom visits sorrow ; when it doth, It is a comforter. . . . T. ii. 1. Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth Finds the down pillow hard. . Cym. iii. 6. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh mine eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, v Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies, to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, ' 303 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SME SLEEP, — continued. And luird with sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch, A watch-case, or a common 'larum-bell 1 Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains, In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them W^ith deaf 'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes 1 Canst thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy, in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest, and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king 1 Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears" a crown. H. IV. pt. ii. iii. 1. The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity. . /. C. iv. 3. Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep. M. A T . iii. 2. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. R. J, ii. 3. To bed, to bed : Sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought. . T. C. iv. 2. Fast asleep 1 It is no matter ; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber ; Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men ; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. . J.C. ii. 1. Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. M. N. iii. 2. So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow, For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe. M. A T . iii. 2. O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her. Cym. ii. 2. SLOTH. What pleasure, Sir, find we in life, to lock it from action and adventure ? . Cym, iv. 4. Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss. H. VI. pt. i. iv. 3. SMELL. What have we here 1 a man or a fish ? Dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish : a very antient and fish-like smell. T. ii.2. Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villanous smells, that ever offended nostril. . M. W. iii. 5. SOL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 304 SMILES. When time shall serve, there shall be smiles. H. V. ii, 1. Some, that smile, have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischief. . J. C. iv. 1. . — and Tears. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and tears Were like a better day : Those happy smiles, That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes ; which parted thence, As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief, sorrow Would be a rarity most belov'd, if all Could so become it. . . K. L. iv. 3. SMITTEN. I am pepper'd, I warrant, for this world. R. J. iii. 1. SMOOTHNESS. Smooth as monumental alabaster. . 0. v. 2. SNAIL. Though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head, and brings his destiny with him, his horns ; he comes armed in his for- tune, and prevents the slander of his wife. A.Y. iv. 1. SNORING. Thou dost snore distinctly ; There's meaning in thy snores. . T. ii. 1. SOCIETY. Society is no comfort To one not sociable. . Cym. iv. 2. SOLDIER. A try'd and valiant soldier. . J. C. iv. 1. Soldiers should brook as little wrongs, as gods. T. A, iii. 5. Consider this : He hath been bred i' the wars Since he could draw a sword, and is ill-school'd In boulted language ; meal and bran together He throws without distinction. . C. iii. 3. He that is truly dedicate to war, hath no self-love. H. VI. pt. ii. v. 2. Consider further, That when he speaks not like a citizen, You find him like a soldier : Do not take His rougher accents for malicious sounds, But, as I say, such as become a soldier. . C. iii. 3. The armipotent soldier. . A. W. iv. 3. 'Tis the soldiers' life To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. 0. ii. 3. 305 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SOL SOLDIER, — continued. 'Tis much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety. . . . M. iii. 1. A braver soldier never couched lance, A gentler heart did never sway in court. H. VI, pt. i. iii. 2. I am a soldier ; and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness. H, VI, pt. i. v. 3. Fye, my lord, fye ! a soldier and afraid ? M, v. 1. Trailest thou the puissant pike ? . H, V. iv. 1. Go to the wars, would you 1 where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough at the end to buy him a wooden one 7 . . P. P. iv. 6. Faith, Sir, he has led the drum before the English tragedians, — to belie him I will not, — and more of his soldiership I know not • except, in that country, he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile End, to instruct for the doubling of files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of this I am not cer- tain. . A, W, iv. 3. All furnish'd, all in arms, All plum'd like estridges that wing the wind ; Bated like eagles having lately bath'd ; (Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. H. IV, pt.i. iv.l. Tut, tut ; good enough to toss ; food for powder, food for pow- der ; they'll find a pit as well as better. H, IV, pt. i. iv. 2. • in Love. I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye, That lik'd, but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love : But now I am returned, and that war-thoughts Have left their places vacant, in their rooms Come thronging soft and delicate desires. M. A, i. 1. May that soldier a mere recreant prove, That means' not, hath not, or is not in love. T, C, i. 3, -'s Death. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt : He only liv'd but till he was a man j The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd, In the unshrinking station where he fought, But like a man he died. . . M. v. 7. They say he parted well, and paid his score ; So God be with him. „ . M. v. 7. SON SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 306 SOLDIER'S Death,— continued. I pray you, bear me hence From forth the noise and rumour of the field ; Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts In peace, and part this body and my soul With contemplation and devout desires. . K.J. v. 4. So underneath the belly of their steeds, That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood, The noble gentleman gave up the ghost. H. VI. pt. in. ii. 3. Why then, God's soldier be he! Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death : And so his knell is knoll' d. . M. v. 7, SOLDIER, a passive Instrument. To be tender-minded Does not become a sword ; — Thy great employment Will not bear question. . K. L. v. 3. It fits thee not to ask the reason why, Because we bid it. . • P. P. i. 1 . Unpractised. That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster. „ . O. i. 1. < Mere prattle, without practice, Is all his soldiership. . . 0. i. 1. SOLICITATION. Frame yourself To orderly solicits ; and be friended With aptness of the season. . Cym. ii. 3. SOLITUDE. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. . T. G. v. 4. SOMNAMBULISM. A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and to do the effects of watching. . M. v. 1. SONG. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs : More, I pr'ythee, more. . . . A. Y. ii. 5. My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of Willow, An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it. . . O. iv. 3. 307 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SOU SONG, — continued. She bids you Upon the wanton rushes lay you down, And rest your gentle head upon her lap, And she will sing the song that pleaseth you. And on your eye-lids crown the god of sleep, Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep, As is the difference betwixt day and night, The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east. H. IV. pt. i. iii. 1. 'Fore heaven, an excellent song. . 0. ii. 3. Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other. 0. ii. 3. Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, That old and antique song we heard last night ; Methought it did relieve my passion much ; More than light airs and recollected terms, Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times. T. N'. ii. 4. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember eves, and holy ales ; And lords and ladies of their lives Have read it for restoratives. . P. P. i. chorus. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain ; The spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. . . T. X. ii. 4. SONG, Popular. No hearing, no feeling, but my Sir's song ; and admiring the nothing of it. . . IT. T. iv. 3. There's scarce a maid westward but she sings it : 'tis in request, I can tell you. . . W. T. iv. 3. SONG-Book. I had rather than forty shillings, I had my book of songs and sonnets here. . . M. IV. i. 1. SONGSTERS, Nocturnal. Shall we rouse the night owl in a catch ? . T. N. ii. 3. SORROW (See Grief, Lamentation, Tears). Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night. P. III. i. 4. Go, count thy way with sighs ; — I mine with groans. P. II. v. 1. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. . . H. iv. 5. One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. . P. P. i. 4. SOR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 308 SORROW, — continued. } Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow shoots Out of the mind. . . A. C. iv.2. A cypress, not a bosom, Hides my poor heart. . . T. JV. iii.l. O, if you teach me to believe this sorrow, Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die ; And let belief and life encounter so, As doth the fury of two desperate men, Which, in their very meeting, fall, and die. K. J. iii. 1 How ill all's here about my heart! • H. v. 2. I will instruct my sorrows to be proud ; For grief is proud and makes his owner stout, To me, and to the state of my great grief, Let kings assemble ; for my grief's so great, That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up ; here I and sorrow sit j Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. K. J. iii. 1 . Cure her of that : 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 1 . . M. v. 3. Impatience waiteth on true sorrow. H. VI, pt. hi. iii. 3. For gnarled sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. R. II. i. 3. Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. R. IL i. 2. All strange and terrible events are welcome, But comforts we despise ; our size of sorrow, Proportion^ to our cause must be as great, As that which makes it. . A. C. iv. 13. Weep I cannot, But my heart bleeds. • . W. T, iii. 3. This she deliver'd in the most bitter touch of sorrow, that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in. . . A^W. i. 3. Down, thou climbing sorrow, thy element's below. K. L. ii. 4. But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness, Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. T. C. i. 1. This sorrow's heavenly, It strikes where it doth love. . . 0. v. 2. And now and then an ample tear trill'd down Her delicate cheek ; it seem'd, she was a queen Over her passion ; who, most rebel-like, Sought to be king o'er her. . . K. L. iv. 3. 309 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SPE SORROW,— continued. Her nature became as a prey to her grief ; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and now she sings in heaven. A. W. iv. 3. Parental. My grief Stretches itself beyond the hour of death ; The blood weeps from my heart, when I do shape, In forms imaginary, the unguided days, And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors. H. IV. pt. ir. iv. 4. Manly. One, whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees, Their medicinal gum. . . 0. v. 2. Mocked. These miseries are more than may be borne ! To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal, But sorrow flouted at is double death. . Tit. And. iii. 1. Uncalled The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. A. C. i. 2. SOUL. Though that be sick, it dies not. . H. IV, pt. ii. ii. 2. Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. . . H. V. iv. 1. Mount, mount, my soul, thy seat is up on high. R. II. v. 5. Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, And with our sprightly sport, make the ghosts gaze. A. C. iv. 12. Since thou hast far to go, bear not along The clogging burden of a guilty soul. R. II. i. 3. Swift-wing'd souls. . . R. III. ii. 3. SOUR Looks. How tartly that gentleman looks ! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after. . M. A. ii. 1. SPARE Figure. He was the veiy genius of famine. H. IV. pt. ii. iii. 4. You might have truss'd him, and all his apparel, into an eel- skin ; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court ; and now has he land and beeves. H. IV. pt. ii. iii. 2. SPEECH (See also Recitation). Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. C. i. 1, His speech sticks in my heart. . A. C. i. 5. I would be loath to cast away my speech ; for, besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it. r. n. i. 5. 'Tis well said again ; And 'tis a kind of good deed, to say well : And yet words are no deeds. • H. VIII. iii. 2 # SPL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 310 SPEECH,— continued. Spoke like a spriteful noble gentleman. . K. J. iv. 2. Disordered. And when he speaks 'Tis like a chime a mending ; with terms unsquar'd, Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, Would seem hyperboles. . . T. C. i. 3. SPEED. O, I am scalded with my violent motion And spleen of speed to see your majesty. K. J. v. 7. Bloody with spurring ; fiery red with haste. R. II. ii. 3. SPIRITS (See also Apparitions, Ghosts, Elves, Fairies). Why, now I see there's mettle in thee ; and even, from this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than ever before. 0. iv. 2. Forth at your eyes, your spirits wildly peep. H. iii. 4. That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds. R. J. iii. 1. The spirit of the time shall teach me speed. K. J. iii. 4. — Infernal. Black spirits and white, Red spirits and grey ; Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may. . M. iv. 1. Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd • Out of the powerful regions under earth, Help me this once. . H. VI. pt. i. v. 3. Glendower. — I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur. — Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them 1 H. IV. pt. i. iii. 1. Show his eyes, and grieve his heart ; Come like shadows, so depart. . . M. iv. 1. Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damn'd all those that trust them, . M. iv. I. SPIRITING. Pardon, master : I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently, . T. i, 2. SPITE. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to conjure and raise devils, but I'll see some issue of my spiteful execrations. k , T. C. ii. 3. SPLEEN. Out, you mad-headed ape ! A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen As you are toss'd with. . H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. With the spleen of all the under fiends. . C. iv. 1 . 311 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SPR SPLENDOR. As gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. H. IV, pt. i. iv. 1. It stuck upon him, as the sun In the grey vault of heaven. • H, IV, pt. ii. ii. 3. SPORT. Sport royal, I warrant you. . • T. N, ii. 3. Nay, I'll come ; if I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to death with melancholy. . . T, N, ii. 5. Very reverend sport, truly ; and done in the testimony of a good conscience. . L, L, iv. 2. That sport best pleases, that doth least know how : Where zeal strives to content, and the contents Die in the zeal of them which it presents, Their form confounded makes most form in mirth ; When great things labouring perish in their birth. L. L, v. 2. It is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries. M, W, iv. 4. There's no such sport, as sport by sport o'erthrown ; To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own : So shall we stay, mocking intended game, And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame. L, L. v. 2. I'll make one in a dance, or so ; or I will play on the tabor to the worthies, and let them dance the hay. L, L 4 v. 1. — for Ladies* Thus men may grow wiser every day ! it is the first time that ever I heard, breaking of ribs was sport for ladies. A, Y, i. 2. SPOT (See also Blot, Stain). With a spot I damn him. . . J, C. iv. 1. SPRING. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver- white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks. The cuckoo then, &cv . Ii, L, v, 2. When well-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter treads. . .JR. J. i. 2. SPRING Flowers. O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils J STR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 312 SPRING Flowers, — continued. That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a maladv Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. . W. T. iv. 3. STAIN (See also Blot, Spot). Out, damned spot : out, I say. . M. v. 1. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand, M. v. 1. It doth confirm Another stain, as big as hell can hold. Cym. ii. 4. The more fair and crystal is the sky, The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. R. II. i. 1. STALKING. I shall stalk about her door, Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks, Staying for waftage. . . T. C. iii. 2. STARE. Now he'll outstare the lightning. . A. C. iii. l\. STARS (See also Planetary Influence). The stars above us govern our condition. K. L. iv. 3. Diana's waiting women. . . T.C. v. 2. STEALING. Convey, the wise it call : Steal ! foh ; a fico for the phrase. M. W. i. 3. Away. Therefore, to horse ; And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away : There's warrant in that theft, Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left. M. ii. 3. STRANGE Occurrence. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. . • T.N. iii. 4. STRATAGEM. Saint Dennis bless this happy stratagem. H. VI. pt. i. iii. 2. STRENGTH. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. . . M.M. ii. 2. STRIPLINGS, Military. Worthy fellows ; and like to prove most sinewy swordsmen. y ■ 313 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SUB STRIKING. This cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. T.S. iv. 1. STUDY (See also Light). Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, . That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks ; \ Small have continual plodders ever won, I Save base authority, from others' books. . L. I Why, universal plodding prisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries ; As motion, and long-daring action, tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. . L. L. iv. 3. So study evermore is overshot ; While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should : And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won, as towns with fire ; so won, so lost. L. L. i. 1, Biron. — What is the end of study 1 King. — Why, that to know, which else we should not know. Biron. — Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense 1 King. — Ay, that is study's god-like recompense. L. L. i. 1. STUPEFACTION. I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them Whether they live or die. . . ill. ii. 2. How runs the stream 1 Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. . T. N. iv. 1. STYLE. Why, 'tis a boisterous and cruel style, A style for challengers. . . A. Y. iv. 3. SUBJECTION. Condition ! What good condition can a treaty find F the part that is at mercy 1 . C. i. 10. Why this it is, when men are ml'd by women. R. III. i. 1. SUBMISSION. You shall be as a father to my youth ; My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear ; And I will stoop and humble my intents To your weil-practis'd, wise directions. if. IV. tr. n. v. 2. My other self, my counsel^ consistory, My oracle, my prophet ! — My dear cousin, I, as a child, will go by thy directions. JR. III. ii. 2. to the Laws. If the deed were ill, Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have a son set your decrees at nought ; SUI SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 314 SUBMISSION to the Laws, — continued. To pluck down justice from your awful bench ; To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword That guards the peace and safety of your person : Nay, more ; to spurn at your most royal image, And mock your workings in a second body. Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours ; Be now the father, and propose a son : Hear your own dignity so much profan'd ; See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted, Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd ; And then imagine me taking your part-, And, in your power, soft silencing your son. H. IV. pt. ii. v. 2. SUFFERANCE. Of sufferance comes ease. . H. IV. pt. ii. v. 4. SUFFERING, Unjust. Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense. . K. L. v. 3. Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee, When triumph is become an ale-house guest? R. II. v. 1. SUICIDE (See also Conscience). Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. . Cym iii. 4. To be, or not to be, that is the question : — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind , to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or, to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them 1 To die, — to sleep, — No more ; — and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ;-*-to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; ay, there's the rub : For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause : there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life : For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — That undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, (/' 315 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SUN SUICIDE,— continued. Than fly to others, that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. . . if. hi. I. Even by the rule of that philosophy, By which I did blame Cato for the death Which he did give himself : — I know not how, But I do find it cowardly and vile, For fear of what might fall, so to prevent The time of life : — arming myself with patience, To stay the providence of some high powers, That govern us below. . . J. C. v. 1. He is dead ; Not by a public minister of justice, Nor 'by a hired knife ; but that self hand Which writ his honour in the acts it did, Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, Splitted the heart. . • A. C. v.l. All's but naught ; Patience is sottish ; and impatience does Become a dog that's mad : Then is it sin, To rush into the secret house of death, Ere death dare come to us ? . • A. C. iv. 13. The more pity, that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even Chris- tian. . . . . H. v. 1. My desolation does begin to make A better life : 'Tis paltry to be Caesar ; Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will : And it is great To do that thing which ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. A. C. v. 2. Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit ; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself* . J. C. i. 3. Every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. . J. C. 1. 3. SUN Setting. The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. R. HI. v. 3. p 2 SUS SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 316 SUN Setting, — continued. * But even this night, — whose black contagious breath Already smokes about the burning crest Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun, — Even this night your breathing shall expire. K. J. v. 4. SUPERFLUITY. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth, the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper- light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. . K. J. iv. 2. SUPERSCRIPTION. To the snow-white hand of the most beautiful Lady Rosaline. L. L. iv. 2. SUPERSTITION. Look how the world's poor people are amaz'd At apparitions, signs, and prodigies ! . Poems. The superstitious idle-headed eld Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Heme the hunter for a truth. M. W. iv. 4. SUPPLICATION. A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears : Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd \ With them, upon her knees, her humble self, Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them, As if but now they waxed pale for woe. . T. G. iii. SURETYSHIP. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? That parchment, being scrib- bled o'er, should undo a man 1 Some say, the bee stings : but I say, 'tis the bee's wax : for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since. H. VI. pt.ii. iv. 2. SURFEIT. A surfeit of the sweetest things, The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. M. N. ii. 3. SURGES. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. , K. L. iv. 6. SURLY Countenance. The image of a wicked heinous fault Lives in his eye. . . K.J. iv. 2. SUSPICION. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. H. VI. pt. hi. v. 6. Indeed ! ay, indeed : Discern' St thou aught in that 1 Is he not honest 1 . . 0. iii. 3. 317 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. SWO SUSPICION,— continued. It is a damned ghost that we have seen ; And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. . . H. iii. 2. Shall be all stuck full of eyes. . H. IV, pt. i. v. 2. I, perchance, am vicious in my guess, As, I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses ; and, oft, my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. . 0. iii. 3. Foul whisperings are abroad. • M. v. 1. SWEARING. For it comes to pass oft, that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. T. K. iii. 4. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers by to curtail his oaths. . . Cum. ii. 1. And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing- ; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure. . . Cym. ii. 1. I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly. ... T. ii. 2. SWEETNESS. Your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless. . J. C. v. 1. Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. R. II. i. 3. SWIMMING. I saw him beat the surges under him, And ride upon their backs ; he trod the water, Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoln that met him ; his bold head 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd, As stooping to relieve him ; I not doubt, He came alive to land. . . T. ii. ] . Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy. J. C. i. 2. SWORD. A sword employ 'd is perilous. . T. C. ii. 2. I have a sword, and it shall bite upon necessity. 31. W. ii. 1 . SYM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 318 SWORDSMEN. Bodykins, master Page, though I now be old, and of the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to make one : though we are justices, and doctors, and churchmen, master Page, we have some salt of our youth in us. . . M. W. ii. 3. SYMPATHY. You are merry, and so am I ; Ha ! ha ! then there's more sym- pathy : you love sack, and so do I ; — would you desire better sympathy? . M. W. ii. 1. Grief best is pleas'd with griefs society. True sorrow then is feelingly surpris'd When with like feeling it is sympathised. . Poems. Companionship in woe, doth woe assuage. . Poems. Sweets with sweets war not ; joy delights in joy. Poems. Ay, sooth ; so humbled, That lie hath left part of his grief with me ; I suffer with him. Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops. O I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel (Which had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her) Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very heart ! Poor souls ! they perish'd. Was this a face To be expos'd against the warring winds ? To stand against the deep, dread -bolted thunder 1 And wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack ! Alack ! 'Tis wonder, that thy life, and wits, at once Had not concluded all. . • All bless'd secrets, All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth Spring with my tears ! be aidant, and remediate, In the good man's distress. The mind much sufferance doth o'er-skip, When grief hath mates. That I am wretched, Makes thee the happier : Heavens, deal so still ! Let the superfluous, and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough. . K. L. iv. 1. If sorrow can admit society Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine. P. III. iv. 4. K. L, K.L. iv.7. K. L. iv. 4. K. L. iii. 6. 319 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. TAL SYMPATHY,— continued. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ! 0,1 have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, And shew the heavens more just. K. L. iii. 4. TABLE Talk. Pray thee, let it serve for table talk ; Then, howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it. . . Af. V* iii. 5. TAILOR. O, monstrous arrogance ! Thou liest, thou thread, Thou thimble, Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou : — Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread ! Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant ; Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard, As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st ! I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown. T. S. iv. 3. TAINT. The dram of base Doth all the noble substance often dout To his own scandal. . . H. i. 4. TALE. I shall tell you C. i. 1. 0. i. 3. Tit. And. iii. 2. A pretty tale. I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver. I'll to thy closet ; and go read with thee Sad stories, chanced in the times of old. A sad tale's best for winter : I have one of sprites and goblins. * * * I will tell it softly ; yon crickets Shall not hear it. But it is true, — without any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plain highway of talk. . * . M.V. iii. 1. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. R. III. iv. 4. Mark how a plain tale shall put you down. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. W. T. ii. 1. TAX SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 320 TALE of Woe. Floods of tears will drown my oratory And break my very utterance. Tit. And. v. 3. In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks ; and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid ; And, ere thou bid good night, to quit their grief, Tell them the lamentable fall of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds. R. II. v. 1. TALKER (See also Babbler). Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood ; Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own ! H. IV. pt. i. i. 3. If you be not mad, be gone ; if you have reason, be brief; 'tis not that time of the moon with me, to make one in so skipping a dialogue. . . T. N. i. 5. A knave very voluble. • 0. ii. 1. TAPSTER. Five years ! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking of pewter. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman ! His industry is — up stairs, and down stairs ; and his eloquence, the parcel of a reckoning. H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. TAXATION. We must not rend our subjects from our laws, And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each? A trembling contribution ! Why, we take, From every tree, lop,' bark, and part o' the timber ; And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd, The air will drink the sap. . H. VIII. i. 2. Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law. . . T. A* iv. 1. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to w ing From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. . . J. C. iv. 3. Come, there is no more tribute to be paid : our kingdom is stronger than it was at that time ; and, as I said, there is no more such Caesars : other of them may have crooked noses; but, to owe such straight arms, none. . Cym. iii. 1 . The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes, And lost their hearts. . R. II. ii. 1 . If Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light. Cym. iii. 1 . TAL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 338 VACANCY,— continued. Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature. . A. C. ii. 2. VALOUR (See also Courage). He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe ; and make his wrongs His outsides ; wear them, like his raiment, carelessly ; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. . T. A. iii. 5. Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes ; Dexterity so obeying appetite, That what he will, he does ; and does so much, That proof is call'd impossibility. . T. C, v. 5. 1 Engaging and redeeming of himself, With such a careless force, and forceless care, As if that luck, in very spite of cunning, Bade him win all. . . T. C. v. 5. It is held, That valour is the chiefest virtue, and ' Most dignifies the haver : if it be, The man I speak of cannot in the world Be singly counterpois'd. . . C. ii. 2. His valour shown upon our crests to-day, Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds, Even in the bosom of our adversaries. H. IV. pt. i. v. 5. O, this boy Lends mettle to us all ! . H. IV. pt. i. v. 4. Methought he bore him in the thickest troop, As doth a lion in a herd of neat : Or as a bear encompass'd round with dogs, Who, having pinch'd a few, and made them cry, The rest stand all aloof and bark at him. H. VI. pt. hi. ii. 1. | When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with. . A. C. iii. 11. In a false quarrel there is no true valour. M. A. v. 1. I told you, Sir, they were red hot with drinking ; So full of valour, that they smote the air For breathing in their faces ; beat the ground For kissing of their feet. . . T, iv. 1. Plague on't ; an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him. T. N. ii. 4. What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, When he might spurn him with his foot away 1 H. VI. pt. in. i. 4. 339 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. YEN VALOUR, — continued. The Douglas, and the Hotspur, both together, Are confident against the world in arms. H. IV. ft. r. v. 1. Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smok'd with bloody execution, Like valour's minion Carv'd out his passage, till he fac'd the slave. M. i. 1. The better part of valour is discretion ; in the which better part I have saved my life. . H. IV. pt. i. v. 4. Why, thou knowest I'm as valiant as Hercules : but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life • I, for a valiant lion, and thou, for a true prince. . H. IV. pt. i. ii. 4. VALUATION. Their fortunes both are weigh'd : In your lord's scale is nothing but himself, And some few vanities that make him light. R. II. iii. 4. VALUE. What is aught, but as 'tis valued 1 . T. C. ii. 2. But value dwells not in particular will ; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer : 'tis mad idolatry, To make the service greater than the god ; And the will dotes, that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects, Without some image of the affected merit. T. C. ii. 2. VANITY. We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with asleep. . . T. iv. 1. To worship shadows and adore false shapes. T. G. iv. 2. Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. R. II. ii. 1. By the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion. . M. iii. 5. Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. R. III. i. 2. VENERATION. There is an old poor man, Who after me hath many a weary step Limp'd in pure love ; till he be first suffic'd, Oppress'd with two great evils, age and hunger, I will not touch a bit. . . A. Y. ii. 1. Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) Q 2 u/ VIC SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 340 VENERATION,— continued. And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue. . . J. C. iii. 2. VENETIAN Women. I know our country disposition welt ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best conscience Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown. O. iii. 3. VENGEANCE. Are there no stones in heaven But what serve for the thunder? . 0. v. 2. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell I Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne, To tyrannous hate ! swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics' tongues ! . . 0. iii. 3. VERACITY. If Jupiter Should from yond' cloud speak divine things And say 'tis true, I'd not believe them more Than thee, all noble Marcius. . C- iv. 5. VERBOSITY (See also Words). He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. . . L.L. v. 1. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. T. C. v. 3. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chafif; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have found them, they are not worth the search. M. F. i. 1 VERILY. Verily ! You put me ofT with limber vows : But l r Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths, Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, You shall not go ; a lady's verily is As potent as a lord's. . . W. T. i. 2. VETERAN. He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest ; he lasted long ; But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act. . . A. W, i. 2. VICE, Prevalent. All seels, all ages, smack of this vice. M, M. ii. 2. cJ/CLi 341 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. VIR VICE, Prevalent — continued. Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred ; it is well allied. . . " M. M. iii. 2. VICISSITUDE. Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd, Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst. The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune., Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear : The lamentable change is from the best ; The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then, Thou unsubstantial air, that I embrace ! The wretch, that thou hast blown unto the worst, Owes nothing to thy blasts. . K. L. iv. 1. World, world, O world ! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age. . K. L. iv. 1 . VICTORY. To whom God will, there be the victory. H. VI. pt„ hi. ii. 5. A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home full numbers. . . . M. A. i. 1. Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. H. VI, pt, hi. v. 3. O, such a day, So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won, Came not, till now, to dignify the times, Since Caesar's fortunes. . H, IV, pt. ii. i. 1. Mine enemies are all knit up In their distractions. . . T, iii. 3. VILLAIN (See also Knave, Rogue). Slave, soulless villain, dog ! rarely base ! . . A, C, v. 2. W r hen rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. . . M. A, iii. 3. He hath out-villained villany so far, that the rarity redeems him. A. W, iv. 3. 1 like not fair terms, and a villain's mind. M. V, i. 3. In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied that I am a plain-dealing villain. M.A. i. 3. VIRAGO. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed : she would have made Hercules have turned spit ; yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. * * I would to God, some scholar would conjure her ; for, certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell, as in a sanctuary. . M.A, ii. 1. J/C !JND SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 342 VIRGINITY. Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up. Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men 1 A. W. i. 1. VIRTUE. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. iVf. M«, iii. 1. But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven ; So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. . . H. i. 5. Never could the strumpet, With all her double vigour, art, and nature, Once stir my temper ; but this virtuous maid Subdues me quite : Ever, till now, When men were fond, I smil'd, and wonder'd how. M. M. ii. 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 ; That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock, or livery, That aptly is put on. t . H. iii. 4. Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times, that true valour is turned bear- herd. . H.1V. pt. ii. i. 2. — and Ability. I held it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god, . . P. P. iii. 2. Rewarded. Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. P. P. v. Ep, VITUPERATION (See also Abuse). What man of good temper could endure this tempest of excla- mation? . . if. IV. pt. ii. ii. 1. The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. R. II. i. 1. UNANIMITY. I would we were all of one mind, and one mind, good : O, there were desolation of jailers and gallowses. Cym. v. 4. UNDERLINGS. Shallow Use his men well, Davy ; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Davy. — No worse than they are back. bitten, Sir ; for they have marvellous foul linen. . H. IV. pt. ii. v. 1. cist 343 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. UNW UNFITNESS. There is but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. . . TF. T. iv. 2. On old Hyems' chin, and icy crown, An od'rous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. . . M. A T . ii. 2. UNFORTUNATE. Thou, whom the heaven's plagues, Have humbled to all strokes. . K t L. iv. 1 . UNION. Unity. \ So we grew together, 1 1 Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, 1 But yet a union in partition ; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one Heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. M, N. iii. 2. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. T. C. ii. 3. Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands : When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. P. P. ii. 4. He, that parts us, shall bring a brand from heaven, And fire us hence, like foxes. . K. L. v. 3* UNKINDNESS. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? K. L. iii. 6. UNMASKING. Your leavy screens throw down, And show like those you are. . . M. v. 6. UNSOUNDNESS. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. H. i. 4. Gilded tombs do worms infold. . M. V. ii. 7. Nay, not as one would say, healthy ; but so sound, as things that are hollow. . M. M. i. 2. UNVEILED. To the greedy touch Of common-kissing Titan. . Cym, iii. 4. UNWORTHINESS. You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. . K. L. iv. 2. Thou wert dignified enough, Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made Comparative for your virtues to be styl'd The under hangman of his kingdom, and hated For being preferr'd so well. . Cym. ii. 3. URG SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 344 VOCATION. Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal ; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. . H. IV. pt. i. i.2. VOICE. The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor, More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue, From every meaner man's. . C. i. 6. Melodious. Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, The more she gives them speech. . P. P. v. 1. VOWS (See also Lovers' Vows, Oaths). Riotous madness, To be entangled with those mouth-made vows Which break themselves in swearing. . A, C. i. 3. The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows ; They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. . T. C. v. 3. °> Men's vows are women s traitors ! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villany ; not born, wher't grows ; But worn, a bait for ladies. . Cym. iii. 4. It is the purpose that makes strong the vow ; But vows to every purpose must not hold. T. C. v. 3. Unheedful vows may needfully be broken. T. G. ii. 6. Connubial, Falsified (See also Incontinence). Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue, hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there ; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths. . H. iii. 4. UPSTART. A man, they say, that from very nothing, beyond the imagina- tion of his neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate. W. T. iv. 1 . URGENCY. The affair cries, — haste, And speed must answer it. . 0. i. 3. The time will not allow the compliment, Which very manners urges. • K. L. v. 3. A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! R. III. v. 4. Her business looks in her With an importing visage. . A. W. v. 3. cJ/t ' & 345 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WAN USURY. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan. Poems, Banish usury, that makes the senate ugly. T, A» iii. 5. USURERS. Poor rogues, and usurers' men ! bawds between gold and want ! r. A.M. 2. USURPER. A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand, Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd : And he that stands upon a slippery place, Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. K. J. iii. 4. In the name of God, How comes it then, that thou art call'd a king, When living blood doth in these temples beat, Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest 1 K. J. ii. 1 . Those he commands, move only in command, Nothing in love : now does he feel the title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. . . M. v. 2. A vice of kings ; A cut-purse of the empire and the rule; That from a shelf the precious diadem stole And put it in his pocket. . H. iii. 4. No hand of blood and bone Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre, Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp. R. II. iii. 3, UTILITY and Dignity. A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. . T« C. ii. 3, W. WAGER. Though't be a sportful combat, Yet in the trial much opinion dwells. T. C. i. 3. Nothing can seem foul to those that win. H. IV. pt. i. v. 1« WAGGERY. . A waggish courage ; Ready in gibes, quick- answer 'd, saucy, and As quarrelous as the weasel. - , Cym. iii. 4„ WANDERER. He that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get : I to the world am like a drop of water, That in the ocean seeks another drop ; Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself. . C £» i. 2 q3 J> WAR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 346 WANT. Where nothing wants, that want itself doth seek. L. L. iv. 3. WANTON. Your worship's a wanton. • M. W. ii. 2. WANTONNESS. The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him ; if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again. M. W. iv. 2. WAR (See also Battle). The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. J, C. v. 1. Slaves for pillage fighting, Obdurate vassals, fell exploits effecting, In bloody deaths and ravishments delighting ; Nor children's tears, nor mothers' groans respecting. Poems. Put armour on thine ears, and on thine eyes ; Whose proof, nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes, Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding, Shall pierce a jot. . T. A. iv. 3. The grappling vigour, and rough frown of war. K. J. iii. 1 . The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy, and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot, Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause ; Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain. . . IT. iv. 4. Giving our holy virgins to the stain Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war. T. A. v. 2. Let it not disgrace me, If I demand, before this royal view, What rub, or what impediment, there is, Why that the naked, poor, and mangled peace, Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births, Should not, in this best garden of the world, Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage ? Alas ! she hath from France too long been chas'd ; And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, Corrupting in its own fertility. IHer vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned, dies : her hedges even-pleach'd, — Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, Put forth disorder'd twigs : her fallow leas The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory, Doth root upon ; while that the coulter rusts, That should deracinate such savagery : The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness ; and nothing teems, 347 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WAR WAR, — continued. But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility. And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, Defective in their natures, grow to wildness ; Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children, Have lost, or do not learn, for want of time, The sciences that should become our country ; But grow, like savages, — as soldiers will, That nothing do but meditate on blood, — To swearing, and stern looks, diffus'd attire, And every thing that seems unnatural. . H . V. v. 2. Now, for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty, Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace : Now powers from home, and discontents at home, Meet in one line ; and vast confusion waits (As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast) The imminent decay of wrested pomp. Now happy he, whose cloak and cincture can Hold out this tempest. . JSF. A iv. 3. Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire. -— -— - — H. VI. pt. i. iv. 2. Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ; Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man : They sell the pasture now to buy the horse ; Following the mirror of all Christian kings, With winged heels, as English Mercuries. H. V. ii. chorus. Accursed and unquiet wrangling days ! How many of you have mine eyes beheld ! My husband lost his life to get the crown ; And often up and down my sons were toss'd, For me to joy, and weep, their gain and loss ; And, being seated, and domestic broils Clean overblown, themselves, the conquerors, Make war upon themselves ; brother to brother, Blood to blood, self 'gainst self. O preposterous And frantic outrage ! end thy damned spleen ; Or let me die, to look on death no more ! R. III. ii. 4, Two thousand souls, and twenty thousand ducats, Will not debate the question of this straw : This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace ; That inward breaks, and shows no cause without, Why the man dies. . . H. iv. 4. The toil of the war, A pain that only seems to seek out danger I'the name of fame, and honour ; which dies i'the search. Cyyn, iii. 3, J/\ SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 348 WA R, — continued. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch ; A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand : And hence, thou sickly quoif ; Thou art a guard too wanton for the head, Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit. H. IV. pt. ii. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up ; And the flesh'd soldier, — rough and hard of heart, — \ In liberty of bloody hand, shall range With conscience wide as hell ; mowing like grass Your fresh fair virgins and your flow'ring infants. 1. ~~~H. V. Hi. 3. IV. PT, I. V. 1. This churlish knot of all-abhorred war. H, O war, thou son of hell, W T hom angry heavens do make their minister, Throw in the frozen bosoms of our parts Hot coals of vengeance ! Let no soldier fly : He that is truly dedicate to war, Hath no self-love ; nor he, that loves himself, Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, The name of valour. . H. VI. pt. ii. v. 2. In a moment, look to see The blind and bloody soldier, with foul hand, Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters ; Your fathers taken by the silver beards, And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls ; Your naked infants spitted upon pikes ; Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confus'd Do break the clouds. The nimble gunner With linstock now the devilish cannon touches. H. V. iii. 3. H. V. iii. chorus. See a siege : Behold the ordnance on their carriages. With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. H. V. iii. chorus. Follow thy drum ; With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules : Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel ; Then what should war be 1 , Mortal staring war. God forgive the sins of all those souls, That to their everlasting residence, Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet, In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king. Why have they dar'd to march So many miles upon her peaceful bosom ; Frighting her paie-fac'd villages with war, And ostentation of despightful arms 1 T. A. iv. 3. R. III. v. 3. K.J. ii. 1. R. II. ii. 3. CM I 349 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WAR WAR, — continued. He is their god ; he leads them like a thing, Made by some other deity than nature, That shapes man better ; and they follow him, Against us brats, with no less confidence, Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, Or butchers killing flies. . C. iv. 6. Sword, hold thy temper ; heart, be wrathful still : Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. H. VI. pt. ii. v. 2. Alas, poor country ! Almost afraid to know itself ! It cannot Be call'd our mother, but our grave : where nothing, But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile ; Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks that rend the air, Are made, not mark'd ; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstacy ; the dead man's knell, Is there scarce ask'd, for who ; and good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying, or ere they sicken. . . M. iv. 3. Therefore, my Harry, 1 Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels ; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days. H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me : Witness, this army of such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, by divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. . . H. iv. 4. England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, The father rashly slaughter'd his own son, The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire. R. III. v. 4. He is come to ope The purple testament of bleeding war ; But ere the crown he looks for live in peace, Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons Shall ill-become the flower of England's face ; Change the complexion of her maid-pale face, To scarlet indignation, and bedew Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood. R. II. iii. 3. Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous ! Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition, And charity chas'd hence by rancour's hand : Foul subornation is predominant, And equity exil'd your highness' land. H. VI. pt. ii. iii. 1. WAR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 350 WAR,— continued. Shall we go throw away our coats of steel, And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns, Numb'ring our Ave-Maries with our beads'? Or shall we, on the helmets of our foes, Tell our devotion with revengeful arms? H. VI. pt. hi. ii. 1. I'll use the advantage of my power, And lay the summer's dust with show'rs of blood, Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englisnmen. R. II. iii. 3. Let confusion of one part, confirm The other's peace ; till then, blows, blood, and death. Ii. J. ii. 2. At this time, We sweat and bleed : the friend hath lost his friend ; And the best quarrels, in the heat, are curs'd By those that feel their sharpness. . K. L. v. 3. Your own ladies, and pale-visag'd maids, Like Amazons, come tripping after drums ; Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change, Their neelds to lances, and their gentle hearts To fierce and bloody inclination. ♦ K. J. v. 2. It is war's prize to take all vantages, And ten to one is no impeach of valour. H. VI. pt. hi. i. 4. Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain. . C. v. 3. O, now doth death line his dead chaps with steel ; The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs ; And now he feasts, mouthing the flesh of men, In undetermin'd differences of kings. K. J. ii. 2 Let them come ; They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to the flre-ey'd maid of smoking war, All hot and bleeding, will we offer them : The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit, Up to the ears in blood. • H. IV, Come, let us make a muster speedily : Doomsday is near ; die all, die merrily. II. IV, It may well serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. The gallant monarch is in arms ; And like an eagle o'er his aiery towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. Away, you trifler ! Love ? I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate ; this is no world, To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips : PT. i. iv. 1 ' PT i. iv 1 A. IF i. 2 K. J. v. 2 I] 351 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WEE WAR, — continued. We must have bloody noses, and crack'd crowns, And pass them current too : — Gods me, my horse ! H. IV. pt. i. ii. 3. I do believe, Statist though I am none, nor like to be, That this will prove a war. . Cym. ii. 4. Let me have war., say I ; it exceeds peace, as far as day does night ; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent, C. iv. 5. They shall have wars, and pay for their presumption. H. VI. pt. in. iv. 1. How now, lad 1 is the wind in that door, i' faith ! must we all march 1 . H. IV. pt. i. iii. 3, O virtuous fight, When right with right wars, who shall be most right ! T. C Prognostics of. The bay-trees in our country all are wither'd, And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven : The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change ; "Kich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap, The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other, to enjoy by rage and war. . R. II. ii. 4. WASTE. To paint the lily is wasteful. • K. J. iv. 2. WATCHMAN. Why, you speak like an antient and most quiet watchman ; for I cannot see how sleeping should offend. M. A. iii. 3. WEAKNESS. This milky gentleness, and course of yours, Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon, You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom, Than prais'd for harmful mildness. . K„L. i. 4. I am weaker than a woman's tear, Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance ; Less valiant than the virgin in the night, And skilless as unpractis'd infancy. . T. C. i. 1 . WEALTH. How i' the name of thrift doth he rake this together ? H. VIII. The assumed and assigned Privileges of. Faults that are rich, are fair. . T. A. i. 2. WEEPING (See also Grief, Lamentation, Sorrow, Tears). Give me no help in lamentation, I am not barren to bring forth laments : All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, That I, being govern'd by the wat'ry moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world ! B. III. ii. 2. ,, \ i i/ I I 8 f LJSS |> V «> f / I WEL SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 352 WEEPING,— continued. To weep is to make less the depth of grief. H. VI. pt. hi. ii. 1. And the remainder mourning over them, Brim full of sorrow, and dismay ; but chiefly, Him you term'd, Sir, the good old lord Gonzalo ; (His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds. . . T. v. 1. No, I'll not weep :— I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep. . . K, L, ii. 4. I cannot weep : for all my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart. H. VI. pt. in. ii. 1. 'Twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. T, G. ii. 3. WELCOME. A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep, And I could laugh ; I am light, and heavy : welcome : A curse begin at very root of his heart, That is not glad to see thee ! , C, ii. 1. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy Be heap'd like mine, and that thy skill be more To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue Unfold the imagin'd happiness that both Receive in either by this dear encounter. R, J, ii. 6. Sir, you are very welcome to our house : It must appear in other ways than words. Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. M, V. v. 1. 1 reckon this always, — that a man is never undone till he be hanged ; nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid, and the hostess say, welcome. , T, G. ii. 5. If thou wantest any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. H. IV. pt. ir. v. 3. WELL Doing, Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear. H. VIII, i. 2. —— the Duty of. We are born to do benefits. . T, A. i. 5. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. . M.M.i.l. M 16 353 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WIF WELSH. But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learn'd thy language ; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen, in a summer's bower, With ravishing division to her lute. H. IV. pt. i. iii. 1. Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh ; And 'tis no marvel he's so humorous. H. IV. pt. i. iii. 1. WHISPERERS. Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm, But thus his simple truth must be abus'd By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks 1 . \ R. Ill, i. 3. WHITE. Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. R. J, iii. 2. I take thy hand ; this hand, As soft as doves-down, and as white as it ; Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd snow, That's bolted by the northern blasts twice o'er. W. T. iv. 3. — and Red. If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale-white shown : Then, if she fear, or be to blame, By this you shall not know ; For still her cheeks possess the same, Which native she doth owe. L. L. i. 2. WIFE (See also Espousal). My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty : To you I am bound for life and education ; My life and education both do learn me How to respect you ; you are the lord of duty ; I am hitherto your daughter : But here's my husband ; And so much duty as my mother show'd To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor, my lord. . 0. i. 3. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, Is it excepted, I should know no secrets That appertain to you 1 Am I yourself But, as it were, on sort, or limitation ; To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, And talk to you sometimes ? Dwell I but in the suburbs Of your good pleasure 1 If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. J. C. ii. 1. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband : And, when she's froward, peevish, sullen, sour, J/ U L ■ I WIF SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 354 WIFE, — continued. And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel, And graceless traitor to her loving lord 1 T. S. v. 2. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe ; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience. T. S. v. '2. I will be master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household-stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything; And here she stands, touch her whoever dare ; I'll bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua. . T, $. iii. 2. Go thy ways, Kate : That man i' the world, who shall report he has A better wife, let him in nought be trusted. For speaking false in that : Thou art, alone, (If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness, Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government, — Obeying in commanding, — and thy parts Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out,) The queen of earthly queens. . H. VIII. ii. 4. You are my true and honourable wife ; j As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops, \ That visit my sad heart. (O, ye gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife ! . J. C. ii. 1. I grant I am a woman ; but, withal, A woman that lord Brutus took to wife : I grant I am a woman ; but, withal, •A v "woman well reputed ; Cato's daughter. Think you, I am no stronger than my sex, Being so father'd and so husbanded 1 . J. C. ii. 1. J. C. ii. 1. She is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. T. G. ii. 4. Should all despair, That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none ; It is a bawdy planet, that will strike Where 'tis predominant. . . W. T. i. 2. J/L 355 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WIF WIFE, — continued. As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another ; The third 'o the world is yours : which, with a snaffle, You may pace easy, but not such a wife. A, C. ii. 2. But the full sum of me Is sum of something ; which, to term in gross, Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd : Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn ; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours, to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king. M, V. iii. 2. I am asham'd, that women are so simple To offer war where they should sue for peace ; Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. T. 5. v. 2. Fye, fye, unknit that threat'ning unkind brow ; And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor ; It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads ; Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds ; And in no sense is meet, or amiable. . T. S. v. 2. Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust 1 to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marie? . . . M. A. ii. 1. Alas, poor lady ! 'Tis a hard bondage, to become the wife Of a detesting lord. A. W. iii. 5. I do think, it is their husbands' faults, If wives do fall ; Say, that they slack their duties, And pour our treasures into foreign laps ; Or else break out in peevish jealousies, Throwing restraint upon us ; or, say, they strike us, Or scant our former having in despight ; Why, we have galls; and, though we have some grace, Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know, Their wives have sense like them : they see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have. What is it that they do, When they change us for others 1 Is it sport 1 I think it is ; And doth affection breed it ? I think it doth ; Is't frailty, that thus errs 1 It is so too : And have not we affections 1 Desires for sport 1 and frailty, as men have 1 Then, let them use us well ; else, let them know, The ills we do, their ills instruct us to. 0. iv. 3. WIN SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 356 WILFULNESS. O, Sir, to wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure Must be their schoolmasters. . K. L. ii. 4. WILL. For death remember 'd, should be like a mirror, Who tells us, life's but breath ; to trust it, error. I'll make my will then ; and, as sick men do, Who know the world, see heaven, but feeling woe, Gripe not at earthly joys, as erst they did. P. P. i. 1. Thou mak'st a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much. ♦ A. Y. ii. 1. Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine How to cut off some charge in legacies. J. C. iv. 1. Ay, who doubts that ? a will ! a wicked will ; "A woman's will ; a canker'd grandam's will ; K, J. ii. 1. My will ? Od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest, indeed ! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven \ I am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise. • M. W. iii. 4. WIND. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. H+ VI, pt. hi. ii. 5. WINE (See also Drunkard). Drunk! and speak parrot 1 and squabble? swagger? and speak fustian with one's.own shadow 1 O, thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee — devil ! 0. ii. 3. Come, come ; good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used ; exclaim no more against it. . 0. ii. 3. WINNING. Winning would put any man into cou*rage. Cym. ii. 3. WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit ! to-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw ; When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly, &c. . L. L. v. 2. &s 357 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WIT WISDOM. Ay, marry; now unmuzzle your wisdom. A. Y. i. 2. To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield. P. P. ii. 4. WISHERS. Wishers were ever fools. . A. C. iv. 13. WIT. We will spare for no wit, I warrant you. M. A. iii. 5. He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the presenta- tion of that, he shoots his wit. . A. Y. v. 4. Odd quirks and remnants of wit. . M.A, ii. 3. Since the little wit that fools have, was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have, makes a great show. A. Y. i. 2. But a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth -moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, !So sweet and voluble is his discourse. . L.L. ii. 1. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. If* v. 1. Muster your wits : stand on your defence ; Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence. L.L. v. 2. Those wits that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools ; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man : for what says Quinapalus 1 Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. T.N. i.5. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. . . H.IV. pt. ii. i. 2. It is no matter, if I do halt ; I have the wars for my colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable : A good wit will make use of any thing ; I will turn diseases to commoditv. H.IV. ft. ii. i. 2. By my troth, we that have good wits, have much to answer for ; we shall be flouting ; we cannot hold. . A. Y. v. 1. Sir, your wit ambles well ; it goes easily. M. A. v. 1. Dart thy skill at me ; Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout ; Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance ; Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit. L. L. v. 2. You should then have accosted her ; and with some excellent jest, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness. . . T. N. iii. 2. WIT SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 358 WIT, — continued. Have you not set mine honour at the stake, And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think ? . T. N. iii. 1. (Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters ! T. C. ii. 1. O, she would laugh me Out of myself, press me to death with wit, M. A. iii. 1. He wants wit that wants resolved will. . T. G. ii. 6. He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit. M.A. ii. 3. Good wits will be jangling : but, gentles, agree. L. L. ii. 1. None are so surely caught when they are catch'd, As v/it turn'd fool : folly, in wisdom hatch'd, Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school ; And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool. L. L. v. 2. Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise when wit doth dote ; Siuce all the power thereof it doth apply, To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. . L.L.y.2. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? L. L. v. 2. Thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing in the middle. . . . K. L. i. 4. His wit is as thick as Tewkesbury mustard. H. IV. pt. ii. ii. 4. Hector shall have a great catch, if he knock out either of your brains ; 'a were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. T, C. ii. 1. Are his wits safe ? is he not light of brain ? 0. iv. 1. See now, how wit may be made a Jack-a-lent, when 'tis upon ill employment. . . M. W. v. 5. Well, better wits have worn plain statute caps. L. L. v. 2. When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded by the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. A. Y. iii. 3. God help me ! how long have you profess'd apprehension? M. A. iii. 4. He'll but break a comparison or two on me ; which, peradven- ture, not marked, or not laughed at, strikes him into melancholy ; and then there's a partridge's wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper that night. . . M. A. ii. 1. an Unconscious. Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it. . . A. Y. ii. 4. (J/t — f 359 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WOL WIT, Reflections on the Scull of a. Where be your gibes now! your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. H. v. 1. , Women's. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the case* ment ; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole : stop that, 'twill (fly with the smoke out at the chimney. A. Y. iv. 1. Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait, And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown. Tic. And. ii. 1. WITLING. This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons, pease ; And utters it again when God doth please : He is wit's pedlar ; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs ; And we that sell by the gross, the Lord doth know, Have not the grace to grace it with such show. L. L. v. 2. WITCHES. What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't ? Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. . . AT. i. 3. I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders' heads ; Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope Their heads to their foundations ; though the treasure Of nature's germins tumble altogether, Ev'n till destruction sicken, — answer me To what I ask. . . M. iv. 1. WITHDRAWING. So to your pleasures ; I am for other than for dancing measures. A. Y. v. 4. WOE. O, what a sympathy of woe is this ! As far from help as limbo is from bliss ! Tit. And. iii. 1. WOLSEY, Cardinal. You are meek and humble mouth'd ; WOM SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 360 WOLSEY, Cardinal, — continued^ You sign your place, and calling, in full seeming, With meekness and humility : but your heart Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride. You have, by fortune, and his highness' favours, Gone slightly o'er low steps ; and now are mounted, Where powers are your retainers ; and your words (Domestics to you) serve your will, as't please Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you, You tender more your person's honour, than Your high profession spiritual. . H. VIIL ii. 4. He was a man Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking Himself with princes : one, that by suggestion Tied all the kingdom : simony was fair play ; His own opinion was his law ; I 'the presence He would say untruths ; and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning : He was never (But where he meant to ruin) pitiful ; His promises were, as he then was, mighty ; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. . H. VIII. iv. 2 . This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer : And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet, in bestowing, Madam, He was most princely. Ever witness for him Those twins of learning, that he rais'd in you, Ipswich, and Oxford : one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it. The other, though unfmish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little: And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died, Fearing God. . . H. VIII. iv. 2. WOMAN. Ah me ! how weak a thing The heart of woman is ! . . J, C. ii. 4. When maidens sue Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel, All their petitions are as freely theirs As they themselves would have them. M. M. i. 5. 361 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY/. WOM WOMAN, — continued. We cannot fight for love, as men may do ; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. M. A 7 , ii. 2. Women are not In their best fortunes, strong ; but want will perjure The ne'er touch'd vestal. . A. C. iii. 10. These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues. H. VI. pt. i. i. 2. O most delicate fiend ! Who is't can read a woman 1 . Cym. v. 5. She's beautiful ; and therefore to be woo'd : She is a woman ; therefore to be won. H. VI. pt. t. v. 3. Come on, come on : You are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens, Saints in your injuries,, devils being offended, Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds. 0. ii. 1. A woman mov'd, is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty, Will deign to dip or touch one drop of it. T. S. v, 2. Can my sides hold, to think, that man, — who knows By history, report, or his own proof, What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose But must be, — will his free hours languish for Assured bondage 1 . . Cym. i. 7. The bountiful blind woman [Fortune] doth most mistake in her gifts to women. For those that she makes fair, she scarce makes honest ; and those that she makes honest, she makes very ill-fa - vouredly. . . A. Y. i. 2. Ah ! poor our sex ! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind. T. C. v. 2. That we can call these delicate creatures ours. And not their appetites ! . 0. iii. 3. General invective against. Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half workers 1 We are bastards all ; And that most venerable man, which I Did call my father, was I know not where W T hen I was stampt ; some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit : yet my mother seem'd The Dian of that time : so doth my wife The nonpareil of this. O vengeance ! vengeance ! Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd, . And pray'd me, oft, forbearance ; did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't Might well have warm'd old Saturn ; that I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow : O, all the devils ! Could I find out The woman's part in me ! For there's no motion R WOO SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 362 WOMAN, General Invective against, — continued. That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part : Be it lying, note it, The woman's ; flattering, hers ; deceiving, hers ; Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers j revenges, hers ; Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain, Nice longings, slanders, mutability : All faults that may be nam'd, nay, that hell knows, Why, hers, in part, or all ; but, rather, all : — For even to vice They are not constant, but are changing still One vice, but of a minute old, for one Not half so old as that. I'll write against them, Detest them, curse them : — Yet 'tis greater skill, In a true hate, to pray they have their will : The very devils cannot plague them better. ■ Cym. ii. 5. WONDER. Masters, I am to discourse wonders. . M. N. iv. 2. They spake not a word ; But, like dumb statues, or breathless stones, Star'd on each other, and look'd deadly pale. R. III. iii. 7. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange, Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, While mine are blanch'd with fear. . M. iii. 4. For my part, I am so attir'd in wonder, I know not what to say. . M. A. iv. 1. Why, His the rarest argument of wonder, that hath shot out in our latter times. . . A.W. ii. I. One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens. 0. ii. 1. These are not natural events ; they strengthen, From strange to stranger. . T. v. 1. Bring in the admiration ; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take ofT thine, By wond'ring how thou took'st it. . A. W. ii. 1. WOOING, Wedding, and Repenting. Wooing, wedding, and repenting, are as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace : the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical ; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a mea- sure fall of state and ancientry ; and then comes repentance, and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. . . M. A. ii. 1. 363 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WOE WORDS (See also Verbosity). A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. T. G. ii. 4. And tire the hearer with a book of words. M. A. i. 1. Good words are better than bad strokes. . J.C. v. 1. You have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers ; for it appears by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words. -. T. G. ii. 4. Words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them. T. A 7 , iii. 1. Words are erown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them. T.N. iii. 1. His plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them To grow there, and to bear. . A. W. i. 2. I will maintain the word with my sword, to be a soldier-like word, and a word of exceeding good command. H. IV. pt. ii. iii. 2. O, they have lived long in the alms- basket of words. Let not his smoothing words Bewitch your hearts ; be wise, and circumspect. and Blows. L. L. v. 1. H. VI. pt. ii. i. 1. Brutus. — Sir, I hope, My words disbench'd you not. Coriolanus. — No, Sir ; yet oft, When blows have made me stay, I fled from words. Meretricious Abuse of They that dally nicely with words, may quickly make them wanton. . . T. X. iii. 1. WORLD. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women, merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant; Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms : And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school : And then, the lover ; Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress' e} 7 e-brow : Then, a soldier ; Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the paid, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Ev'n in the cannon's mouth : And then, the justice ; In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances, And so he plays his part : The sixth age shifts r 2 WOR SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 364 WORLD, — continued. Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in the sound : Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. A. Y. ii. 7. Under the canopy. ... C. iv. 5. The varying shore o' the world. . A. C. iv. 13. This wide and universal theatre Presents more woful pageants, than the scene Wherein we play. . . A. Y. ii. 7. O, world, thy slippery turns ! Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise, Are still together: who twin, as 'twere, in love, "(Inseparable, shall^within this hour, On a dissention of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity : So, fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep, To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends, And interjoin their issues. . C. iv. 4. A bad world, I say ! I would, I were a weaver ; I could sing all manner of songs. . H. IV. pt. i, ii. 4. How you speak ! Did you but know the city's usuries, And felt them knowingly : the art o' the court, As hard to leave, as keep ; whose top to climb Is certain falling ; or so slippery, that The fear's as bad as falling : the toil of the war, A pain that only seems to seek out danger V the name of fame, and honour, which dies i' the search ; And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph, As record of fair act ; nay, many times, Doth ill deserve by doing well ; what's worse, Must court'sey at the censure : — O, boys, this story The world may read in me. . Cym. iii. 3. A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears : See how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : Change places ; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? . K. L. iv. 6. It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord. R. III. iii. 2. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. . . M. V. i. 1 . 365 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. WOR WORLD, — continued. Fie, fie, fie ! Pah, pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination : there's money for thee. K. L. iv. 6. ruin'd piece of nature ! This great world Shall so wear out to nought. . K. L. iv. 6. Come, let's away to prison : We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask my blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses, and who wins,.; who's in, who's out 3 — AOTTalce'upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies : And we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon. . K. L. v. 3. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit : No more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show, which, God he knows, Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart. R. III. iii. 1. 1 am in this earthly world ; where, to do harm, Is often laudable : to do good, sometimes Accounted dangerous folly. . M. iv. 2. You have too much respect upon the world : They lose it that do buy it with much care. M. V. i. 1. I am amaz'd, methinks ; and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world. K. J. iv. 3 's Report. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We write in water. . . H. VIII. iv. 2. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones. J. C. iii. 2, WORMS. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us ; and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service ; two dishes, but to one table ; that's the end. . H. iv. 3. A man may fish with a worm that eat of a king ; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. . H. iv. 3. WORST. gods ! who is't can say, I'm at the. worst 1 1 am worse than e'er I was. . K. L. iv. 1. The worst is not, So long as we can say, — This is the worst. A^. L. iv. 1. YOU SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. 366 WOUND. The private wound is deepest. * T. G. v. 4. WOUNDED Spirit. A discontented friend, grief-shot With his unkindness. . . C. v. 1 . WRONGS. If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, 'Twill come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, (Like monsters of the deep. . . K. L. iv. 2. O heavens, can you hear a good man groan, And not relent, or not compassion him 1 Tit. And. iv. 1. Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong. H. IV. pt. i. iv. 3. Y. YEOMEN. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not •; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. H. V. iii. I. YOUTH. A most acute juvenal ; voluble and free of grace. L. L. iii. 1. He capers, he dances, he has the eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holyday, he smells April and May : he will carry't, he wijl carry't ; 'tis in his buttons ; he will carry't. M. W. iii. 2. A violet in the youth of primy nature. . H. i. 3. She is young, and apt : Our own precedent passions do instruct us What levity's in youth. . . T. A. i. 1. Young blood doth not obey an old decree. L. L. iv. 3. For in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect, Such as moves men ; besides, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade. . M. M. i. 3. Briefly die their joys, That place them on the truth of girls and boys. Cym. v. 5. We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. . . W.T. i. 2. A proper stripling, and an amorous ! T. S. i. 2. 367 SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. ZED YOUTH, Melancholy. He hears merry tales, and smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unman- nerly sadness in his youth. . . M. V. i. 2. Unrestrained. When his headstrong riot hath no curb, When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, When means and lavish manners meet together ; O, with what wings shall his affections fly Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay . H. IV. pt. ii. iv. 4. Z. ZANIES. 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