BALANCE. - She shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance
Which hung so tottering in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt
If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
BALD. There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature Com.
Time himself is bald, and therefore to the world's end will have bald followers
I knew 't would be a bald conclusion

Much Ado, v. 1. All's Well, i. 3.

Othello, i. 3. of Errors, iì. 2.

ii. 2.

11. 2.

Meas. for Meas. v. 1.
Henry V. iv. 1.

BALDPATE. Come hither, goodman baldpate: do you know me?
BALL.-'T is not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace
Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball Rom.& Jul.ii.5.
BALLAD. Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?
The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since

I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow
For I the ballad will repeat, Which men full true shall find
A divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads.

He utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to his tunes
I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true
Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon the coast
The ballad is very pitiful and as true. - Is it true too, think you?
This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one

An I have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy tunes

I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top
A speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad
BALLAD-MAKER. Pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen
That ballad-makers cannot be able to express it
BALLAD-MONGERS. -Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers
BALLAST.Sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose

Love's L. Lost, i. 2. i. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. As You Like It, i. 7. All's Well, i. 3.

ii. 1.

Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

IV. 4

iv. 4

iv. 4

iv. 4.

iv. 4.

1 Henry IV. ii. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 3. Henry V. v. 2. Much Ado, i. t. Winter's Tale, v. 2. 1 Henry IV. iii. 1. Com. of Errors, iii. 2. Richard II. i. 1.

BALM. No balm can cure but his heart blood Which breathed this poison
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king
With mine own tears I wash away my balm.

'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast
The argument of your praise, balm of your age, Most best, most dearest .
As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle, O Antony!

BAN.

Henry V. iv, 1. Macbeth, ii. 2. King Lear, i. 1. Ant. and Cleo. v. 2. 2 Henry VI. ii. 4

And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine
Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban
You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?

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BAND. My kindness shall incite thee, To bind our loves up in a holy band
Chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful

11. 2.

iii. 2.

Much Ado, iii. t.

As You Like It, iv. 1.

Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, Which false hope lingers in extremity
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

BAN-DOGS. The time when screech-owls cry and bar-dogs howl.

BANDY. -I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o'er-run thee with policy
To bandy word for word and frown for frown

I will not bandy with thee word for word, But buckle with thee blows
BANG.- You'll bear me a bang for that, I fear

BANGED.- You should have banged the youth into dumbness.
BANISH plump Jack, and banish all the world

If thou dost love thy lord, Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts
BANISHED. To die is to be banished from myself; And Silvia is myself
Hence-banished is banished from the world, And world's exile is death.
BANISHMENT. Eating the bitter bread of banishment

Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit
Came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets!

Richard 11. iii. r. King Lear, i. t. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, v. 1. Twelfth Night, i. L

Macbeth, i. 7.

Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

BANK. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We 'ld jump the life to come.
BANKRUPT.— Dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits
Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth to season
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe.

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Com. of Errors, iv. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

As You Like It, ii. 1. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 2. Macbeth, i. 2.

V. 5.

Wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!.
BANNERS. Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold
Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, They come!'
BANQUET. - His words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes.
The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: Fat paunches have lean pates Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
My banquet is to close our stomachs up, After our great good cheer Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2.
We have a trifling foolish banquet towards
Romeo and Juliet, i. 5.

There is an idle banquet attends you: Please you to dispose yourselves.
In his commendations I am fed; It is a banquet to me.

BANQUETING. — If you know That I profess myself in banqueting
BANQUO. - Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down! .

BAPTISM. Is in your conscience washed As pure as sin with baptism

A fair young maid that yet wants baptism, You must be godfather.
BAPTIZED. - Cail me but love, and I'll be new baptized.
BAR.So sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends

O, these naughty times Put bars between the owners and their rights!

I will bar no honest man my house, nor no cheater.

Much Ado, ii. 3.

Timon of Athens, i. 2.
Macbeth, i. 4.
Julius Cæsar, i. 2.
Macbeth, iv. 1.
Henry V. i. 2.
Henry VIII. v. 3.

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2.
Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

2 Henry IV. ii. 4.

1 Henry VI. i. 4.

They supposed I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant
BARBARIANS. — I would they were barbarians, as they are, Though in Rome littered Coriolanus, iii. 1.
BARBAROUS. — Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singuled from the barbarous . Love's L. Lost, v. I.
For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl

BARBARY. He'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if her feathers turn back
I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen
BARBER. Hath any man seen him at the barber's?

No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him.

Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, As much in mock as mark
And cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop
This is too long. - It shall to the barber's, with your beard
BARE. - How many then should cover that stand bare!

Methinks they are exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die?
When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin
My name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit
BARE-BONE. Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone

Othello, ii. 3.

2 Henry IV. ii. 4. As You Like It, iv. 1. Much Ado, iii. 2. iii. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Hamlet, ii. 2. Mer. of Venice, ii. 9.

1 Henry IV. iv. 2. Romeo and Juliet, v. 1. Hamlet, iii. 1. King Lear, v. 3. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4. Othello, iv. 3.

1 Henry IV. iv. 2.

BAREFOOT. Would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip
BARENESS. — And for their bareness, I am sure they never learned that of me
You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves And mock us with our bareness All's Well, iv. 2.
BARGAIN. - Take you this. — And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.

The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in
Scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends.
No bargains break that are not this day made.

.

. Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 2. Love's L. Lost, iii. 1.

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
But in the way of bargain, mark ve me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair
Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.

BARGAINED. - 'Tis bargained twixt us twain, being alone

BARGE. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water
BARK.- Mine, as sure as bark on tree.

111. I.

V. 2.

Mer. of Venice, iii. 1.

Tam.

.

King John, iii. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 2. 111. I.

Cymbeline, i. 4.

of the Shrew, ii. 1. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2.

Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay! Mer. of Venice, ii. 6. Mar no more trees with writing love-songs in their barks

And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race

As You Like It, iii. 2.
Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

BARK.

Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we: This way fall I to death

I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft, Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom
In one little body thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind

The bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs
Now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Leaked is our bark, And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck.
Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up
Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tost
Prepare thyself: The bark is ready, and the wind at help.
Let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high
BARKING. The envious barking of your saucy tongue

Than dogs that are as often beat for barking As therefore kept to do so
BARKY.-The female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm
BARM. And sometime make the drink to bear no barm

BARN.

2 Henry VI. iii. 2. Richard III. iii. 7. iv. 4.

Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.

iii. 5. v. 3.

Timon of Athens, iv. 2.
Julius Cæsar, v. 1.
Macbeth, i. 3.
Hamlet, iv. 3.
Othello, ii. 1.

1 Henry VI. iii. 4. Coriolanus, ii. 3. Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. ii. 1.

. 1 Henry IV. ii. 3. Much Ado, iii. 4. Tempest, iv. I.

If your husband have stables enough, you 'll see he shall lack no barns BARNACLES. We shall lose our time, And all be turned to barnacles BARNE.-Mercy on's, a barne; a very pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

For they say barnes are blessings BARRABAS.

Would any of the stock of Barrabas Had been her husband!
BARRED. Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy?
Purpose so barred, it follows, Nothing is done to purpose

Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms

BARREN tasks, too hard to keep, Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!.

For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

Of that kind Our rustic garden 's barren.

All's Well, i. 3. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Com. of Errors, v. 1. Coriolanus, iii. 1. Hamlet, i 2. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Mer. of Venice, 1. 3. Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

That small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones Richard II. iii. 2. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all

I am not barren to bring forth complaints

I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus

The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse

2 Henry IV. v. 3. Richard III. i. 2. Coriolanus, i. 1. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Macbeth, ii. 1. Julius Cæsar, iv. 1.

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe BARREN-SPIRITED. — - A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds On abjects.

All's Well, i. 1. Twelfth Night, iv. 2. Ant, and Cleo. iii. 13. Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 7.

BARRICADO. Man is enemy to virginity: how may we barricado it against him?.
BARRICADOES. - Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes
BASAN.O, that I were Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar the horned herd!
BASE men, that use them to so base effect!

One more than two. Which the base vulgar do call three

Things base and vile holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form
The base is right; 't is the base knave that jars

Base men by his endowments are made great

I have sounded the very base-string of humility

Love's L. Lost, i. 2. Mid N. Dream, i. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 1. Richard II. ii. 3. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4. 2 Henry IV. v. 3. Henry V. ii.

A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys
Base is the slave that pays

1.

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base
There is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
The strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth
I should prove so base, To sue, and be denied such common grace
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend
Who is here so base that would be a boadman? If any, speak.
To what base uses we may return, Horatio

You base foot-ball player

'T is the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base.
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe.
Base and unlustrous as the smoky light That 's fed with stinking tallow

iii. 2. Hamlet, v. 1.

King Lear, i. 4.
Othello, iii. 3.

V. 2.

Cymbeline, i. 6.

BASE.-Cowards father cowards and base things sire base: Nature hath meal and bran Cymbeline, iv. 2. BASELESS. Like the baseless fabric of this vision

BASENESS.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone

Tempest, iv. 1.

iii. 1.

Meas. for Meas. iii. 1.

Twelfth Night, v. 1.
Coriolanus, iii. 2.

All the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness It is the baseness of thy fear That makes thee strangle thy propriety By my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness The blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions Othello, i. 3. My noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are From whose so many weights of baseness cannot A dram of worth be drawn BASHFUL. But, as a brother to his sister, showed Bashful sincerity and comely love Much Ado, iv. 1.

Hearing of her beauty and her wit, Her affability and bashful modesty. BASHFULNESS. -No modesty, no maiden shame, No touch of bashfulness BASILISK.-Make me not sighted like the basilisk.

Come, basilisk, And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight

iii. 4

Cymbeline, iii. 5.

Tam. of the Shrew, ii. 1.
Mid. N. Dream, ini. 2.
Winter's Tale, i. 2.

I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor.
It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on 't

BASIS. Build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour

Lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee
BASKED. I met a fool; Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
BASKET. Unpeg the basket on the house's top, Let the birds fly

And, like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep.
What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!
Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a barrow of butcher's offal?.
BASS-VIOL. He that went, like a bass-viol, in a case of leather
BASTARD. We shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.

And that is but a kind of bastard hope neither

Streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards

For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation
Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink

BASTINADO. I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel
He gives the bastinado with his tongue: Our ears are cudgelled

BAT. Ere the bat hath flown his cloistered flight.

Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
BATCH. - How now, thou core of envy! Thou crusty batch of nature
BATE. And breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories.

You do yourselves Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits
Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin

2 Henry VI. iii. 2. 3 Henry VI. iii. 2. Cymbeline, ii. 4. Twelfth Night, ii. 2. Macbeth, iv. 3. As You Like It, ii. 7. Hamlet, iii. 4.

ii. 4.

Merry Wives, iii. 3.
iii. 5.

Com. of Errors, iv. 3.
Meas. for Meas. iii. 2.
Mer. of Venice, iii. 5.
Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

King John, i. 1. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4. As You Like It, v. 1.

King John, ii. 1. Macbeth, iii. 2. iv. 1. Troi. and Cress. v. 1. 2 Henry IV. ii. 4. Timon of Athens, i. 2.

BATED. - Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say.
In a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness
BATH. Sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course
BATHE. - And the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods
BATTALIONS.-When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions

BATTEN.
BATTERY.

Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.

Tempest, iii. 3. Mer. of Venice, i. 3.

Macbeth, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. Hamlet, iv. 5. Coriolanus, iv. 5. Twelfth Night, iv. 1. 3 Henry VI. iii. 1. Coriolanus, v. 4. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 7. Richard II. i. 1. i. 3. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. 2 Henry IV. iv. 1. Henry V. i. 1.

I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law
She's a woman to be pitied much: Her sighs will make a battery in his breast
Able to pierce a corslet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery
Make battery to our ears with the loud music: The while I'll place you
BATTLE. Besides I say, and will in battle prove, Or here or elsewhere

My dancing soul doth celebrate This feast of battle with mine adversary
The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung By an Athenian eunuch to the harp
Our battle is more full of names than yours, Our men more perfect
You shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music . . . .

We would not seek a battle as we are; Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it
Through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle

To demonstrate the life of such a battle, In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
In plain shock and even play of battle, Was ever known so great and little loss?

iii. 6. iv. Prol.

iv. I.

iv. 2.

iv. 8.

BATTLE. - The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought

1 Henry VI. i. 1.
Coriolanus, ii. 3.

Of wounds two dozen odd; battles thrice six I have seen and heard of
Why do fond men expose themselves to battle, And not endure all threats? Timon of Athens, iii. 5.
The noise of battle hurtled in the air, Horses did neigh

Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, And something to be done immediately
When the hurly burly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won.

Now then we 'll use His countenance for the battle.

Julius Cæsar, ii. 2.

That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows
Little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed
His cocks do win the battle still of mine, When it is all to nought
BATTLEMENTS. Let all the battlements their ordnance fire.

The wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements
BAUBLE.

For that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god

V. J.

Macbeth, i. 1.
King Lear, v. 1.
Othello, i. 1.

i. 3. i. 3.

Ant. and Cleo. ii. 3.
Hamlet, v. 2.

Othello, ii. 1.

Titus Andron. v. 1.

That cap of yours becomes you not: Off with that bauble, throw it under foot Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2.
That runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole

Senseless bauble, Art thou a feodary for this act?

BAWCOCK. Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?

BAY. To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay

How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman

BAYED. Here wast thou bayed, brave hart; Here didst thou fall

We are at the stake, And bayed about with many enemies

BAY-TREES. The bay-trees in our country are all withered

Romeo and Juliet, 4.

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Cymbeline, iii. 2.
Twelfth Night, iii. 4.
Richard II. ii. 3.

Mer. of Venice, ii. 6.
Julius Cæsar, iv. 3.

111. I.
iv. 1.

Richard II. ii. 4.
Twelfth Night, iv. 2.
Meas. for Meas. ii. 4.
Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1.

BAY-WINDOWS. Why, it hath bay-windows transparent as barricadoes
BE that you are, That is, a woman; if you be more, you 're none .
Be as thou wast wont to be; See as thou wast wont to see
To be, or not to be; that is the question: Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer Hamlet, iii. 1.
Than be so better to cease to be

BEACH. - Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach Fillip the stars
The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice.
And the twinned stones Upon the numbered beach

BEACON.But modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise

The warm sun! Approach, thou beacon to this under globe

BEADLE. I, that have been love's whip; A very beadle to a humorous sigh

Have you not beadles in your town, and things called whips? Besides the running banquet of two beadles that is to come BEADS. With these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed

Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream 1 Henry IV. ii. 3.
Mine eyes, Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine. Began to water
BEAGLE. She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me.
BE-ALL. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here.
BEAM. Sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot, sometimes my portly belly Merry Wives, i. 3.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed.
But to the brightest beams Distracted clouds give way.

A rush will be a beam To hang thee on.

Whose bright faces Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun

Thy madness shall be paid by weight, Till our scale turn the beam BEAN-FED. When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile

BEANS.

Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog

BEAR. I am vexed; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled
Why do your dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?

Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted

Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

All's Well, v. 3.
King John, iv. 3.
Henry VIII. iv. 2.
Hamlet, iv. 5.
Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1.
. Henry IV. ii. 1.
Tempest, iv. 1.
Merry Wives, i. 1.
Com. of Errors, iii. 2.

As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife
The two bears will not bite one another when they meet

I am as ugly as a bear; For beasts that meet me run away for fear
Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound, A hog, a headless bear.

1:1. 2.

Much Ado, iii. 2.
Mid. N. Dream, ii. 2.

111. I.