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As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller

Action and accent did they teach him there.

Do not fret yourself too much in the action.

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How many actions most ridiculous Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? As You Like It, ii. 4. Certainly a woman's thought runs before her actions

iv. I.

iv. 3.

As I guess By the stern brow and waspish action.

I'll bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way

Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2.

I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law

If powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do
Who hath read or heard Of any kindred action like to this?
Strong reasons make strong actions

Whilst he that hears makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods
The graceless action of a heavy hand, If that it be the work of any hand
And on our actions set the name of right With holy breath
Am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate?
Not a dangerous action can peep out his head but I am thrust upon it
The instant action: a cause on foot Lives so in hope

Twelfth Night, iv. 1.
Winter's Tale, iii. 2.
King John, iii. 4.

The undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on.
That action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days
Let another half stand laughing by, All out of work and cold for action
So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose.
When the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger
I cannot give due action to my words, Except a sword or sceptre balance it.
We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women
So much I am happy Above a number, if my actions Were tried by every tongue.
After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions.
Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest reared

111. 4. IV. 2.

iv. 3.

V. 2.

1 Henry IV. iii. 3. 2 Henry IV. i. 2.

i. 3.

ii. 4.

iv. 5.

Henry V. i. 2.

i. 2. ill. I.

Henry VI. v. 1. Henry VIII. i. 2.

ii. 3.

ill. I. iv. 2.

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As if The passage and whole carriage of this action Rode on his tide

Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action

Your helps are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous single

He hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly

For in such business action is eloquence

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified Rom. &» Jul, ¡ì. 3.

When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors

These indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play.

Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground
In action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

Macbeth, iv. 2.
.Hamlet, i. 2.

i. 4.

ii. 2. iii. 1.

111. I. 111. 2.

iii. 3.

iii. 4.

iii. 4.

Othello, i. 1.

i. 3.

ii. 3.

Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2.

That with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance
T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature.
Do not look upon me; Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects
To the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery
My outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart.
They have used Their dearest action in the tented field
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short

That which combined us was most great, and let not A leaner action rend us

But his whole action grows Not in the power on't

I never saw an action of such shame

If you will make 't an action, call witness to 't

My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relished of a base descent ACTIVITY. Doing is activity; and he will still be doing

She'll bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your activity in question ACTOR. These our actor, As I foretold you, were all spirits.

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it

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Mid. N. Dream, iii. 1.
As You Like It, iii. 4.
All's Well, ii. 3.
Richard II. v. 2.
Coriolanus, v. 3.

Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.

Hamlet, ii. 2.

I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome Then came each actor on his ass, - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy ii. 2. ACUTE. A most acute juvenal; volable and free of grace !.

Love's L. Lost, iii. 1.

But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it
ADAGE. Letting I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage
ADAM.What, have you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?

Not that Adam that kept the Paradise.

iv. 2. Macbeth, i. 7.

Com. of Errors, iv. 3.

iv. 3.

Much Ado, i. 1.

ii. 1. ii. 1.

He that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder, and called Adam
Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred
Though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve; A' can carve too, and lisp.
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference
Since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock 1 Henry IV. ii. 4.
Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell

Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim

Gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam's profession
The Scripture says Adam digged: could he dig without arms?

ADAMANT. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant

Love's L. Lost, v. 2. As You Like It, ii. 1.

iii. 3

Henry V. i. 1. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1. Hamlet, v. 1.

They supposed I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant

As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre

ADD.- It adds a precious seeing to the eye

.

ADDER. - O brave touch! Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?

With doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.

V. I.

Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1.

1 Henry VI. i. 4. Troi. and Cress. iii. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. ill. 2.

Is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye? Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf? Be poisonous too

Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!.

2 Henry VI. iii. 2. 3 Henry VI. i. 4. Troi. and Cress. ii. 2. Titus Andron. ii. 3.

Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
Even as an adder when she doth unroll To do some fatal execution
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.
My two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged
Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder
Were it Toad, or Adder, Spider, 'T would move me sooner

ADDICTED. Being addicted to a melancholy as she is

If 't be he I mean, he's very wild; Addicted so and so

ADDICTION. Since his addiction was to courses vain, His companies unlettered

Each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him
ADDITION. Yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends
It is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly

Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour
Hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions

To undercrest your good addition To the fairness of my power.
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition
Such addition as your honours Have more than merited.
ADDRESS. It lifted up its head and did address Itself to motion
ADHERE.Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both

And sure I am two men there are not living To whom he more adheres
ADIEU. You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu.
ADJUNCT.Learning is but an adjunct to ourself

Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it

Macbeth, iv. 1. Hamlet, iii. 4. King Lear, v. 1. Cymbeline, iv. 2. Twelfth Night, ii. 5.

Hamlet, ii. 1. Henry V. i. 1. Othello, ii. 2. Merry Wives, ii. 2. Much Ado, ii. 3. All's Well, ii. 3. Troi. and Cress. i. 2. Coriolanus, i. 9. Hamlet, i. 4. King Lear, v. 3.

Hamlet, i. 2. Macbeth, i. 7.

Hamlet, ii. 2. All's Well, ii. 1.

Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

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King John, iii. 3.

ACQUAINTED.

I was well born, Nothing acquainted with these businesses May be As things acquainted and familiar to us

ACQUITTANCE. - Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me

Now must your conscience my acquittance seal

ACRE.

-Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground My bosky acres and my unshrubbed down, Rich scarf to my proud earth

In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet.

If thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us.

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Now puts the drowsy and neglected act Freshly on me.

His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, And must be buried but as an intent
One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages

On us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act
Honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive
And would not put my reputation now In any staining act
He finished indeed his mortal act That day.

The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes
The better act of purposes mistook Is to mistake again.

Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it.
This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome.
If I in act, consent, or sin of thought Be guilty

Be great in act, as you have been in thought

The most arch act of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of
The honour of it Does pay the act of it

The desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit

The book of his good acts, whence men have read His fame unparalleled
So smile the heavens upon this holy act.

Thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast

My dismal scene I needs must act alone

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Hamlet, iv. 7.

Tempest, i. 1. iv. 1.

1 Henry IV. i. 1. Hamlet, v. 1. Tempest, ii. 1. Merry Wives, iv. 2. Meas. for Meas. i. 2.

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Richard III. iv. 3.

Henry VIII. iii. 2. Troi. and Cress. iii. 2. Coriolanus, v. 2.

. Romeo and Juliet, ii 6.

Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme
Even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done
Whilst they distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb
As he in his particular act and place May give his saying deed
Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act
About some act That has no relish of salvation in 't.

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty

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With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act

Ay me, what act, That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?

It argues an act: and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, to perform

My outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart.

When the blood is made dull with the act of sport

Though I am bound to every act of duty, I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.

We shall remain in friendship, our conditions So differing in their acts

Senseless bauble, Art thou a feodary for this act?

It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness

Few love to hear the sins they love to act

ACTED.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over! Till strange love, grown bold, Think true love acted simple modesty

I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted.

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iii.

4.

V. 1.

Othello, i. 1.

ii. 1.

il. 3.

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ACTING.-Or that the resolute acting of your blood Could have attained the effect Meas for Meas, ¡¡. 1. It is a part That I shall blush in acting.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion

ACTION.

The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance

I can construe the action of her familiar style

More reasons for this action At our more leisure shall I render you
In action all of precept, he did show me The way twice o'er

Coriolanus, ii. 2. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. Tempest, v. 1. Merry Wives, i. 3. Meas. for Meas. i. 3.

iv. I.

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Meas. for Meas. iv. 4.
Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller

Action and accent did they teach him there.

Do not fret yourself too much in the action

V. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1.

How many actions most ridiculous Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? As You Like It, ii. 4. Certainly a woman's thought runs before her actions

As I guess By the stern brow and waspish action.

I'll bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way

I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law

If powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do
Who hath read or heard Of any kindred action like to this?
Strong reasons make strong actions

iv. 1.

iv. 3.

Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2.

Whilst he that hears makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods
The graceless action of a heavy hand, If that it be the work of any hand

And on our actions set the name of right With holy breath

Am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate?

Not a dangerous action can peep out his head but I am thrust upon
The instant action: a cause on foot Lives so in hope

Twelfth Night, iv. 1.
Winter's Tale, iii. 2.
King John, iii. 4.

The undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on.
That action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days
Let another half stand laughing by, All out of work and cold for action
So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose
When the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger
I cannot give due action to my words, Except a sword or sceptre balance it.
We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women
So much I am happy Above a number, if my actions Were tried by every tongue.
After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions.
Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest reared

As if The passage and whole carriage of this action Rode on his tide

Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action

Your helps are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous single
He hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly

For in such business action is eloquence

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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified Rom. & Jul. ii. 3. When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors

These indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play.

Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground
In action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

That with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action

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Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance.
'Tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature.
Do not look upon me; Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects
To the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery
My outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart.
They have used Their dearest action in the tented field
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short

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That which combined us was most great, and let not A leaner action rend us
But his whole action 'grows Not in the power on't

I never saw an action of such shame

If you will make 't an action, call witness to 't.

My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relished of a base descent

ACTIVITY. Doing is activity; and he will still be doing

She 'll bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your activity in question ACTOR. - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits.

Condemn the fault, and hot the actor of it

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ACTOR. — I'll be an auditor; An actor too perhaps, if I see cause
And you shall say I'll prove a busy actor in their play

A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor

After a well-graced actor leaves the stage

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out

But bear it as our Roman actors do, With untired spirits

I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome

Mid. N. Dream, iii. 1.
As You Like It, iii. 4.
All's Well, ii. 3.
Richard II. v. 2.
Coriolanus, v. 3.

Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.

Hamlet, . 2.

Then came each actor on his ass, - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy ii. 2. ACUTE. A most acute juvenal; volable and free of grace !.

But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it

ADAGE.

ADAM.

Love's L. Lost, iii. 1.

Letting I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage
What, have you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?

Not that Adam that kept the Paradise.

iv. 2. Macbeth, i. 7.

Com. of Errors, iv. 3. iv. 3.

Much Ado, i. 1.

i. 1. ii. 1.

Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

He that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder, and called Adam
Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred
Though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve; A' can carve too, and lisp.
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference
Since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock 1 Henry IV. ii. 4.
Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell

As You Like It, ii. 1.

Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim

Gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam's profession
The Scripture says Adam digged: could he dig without arms?

ADAMANT. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant

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. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1. Hamlet, v. 1.

V. I.

.Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1.

They supposed I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant . 1 Henry VI. i. 4. As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre

ADD. It adds a precious seeing to the eye

ADDER. O brave touch! Could not a worm, an adder, do so much? .
With doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.

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Is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye? Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf? Be poisonous too

Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!.

2 Henry VI. iii. 2.

.3 Henry VI. i. 4. Troi. and Cress. ii. 2. Titus Andron. ii. 3.

Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
Even as an adder when she doth unroll To do some fatal execution
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.
My two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged
Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder

Were it Toad, or Adder, Spider, 'T would move me sooner
ADDICTED. Being addicted to a melancholy as she is

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If 't be he I mean, he's very wild; Addicted so and so

ADDICTION. -
- Since his addiction was to courses vain, His companies unlettered
Each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him
ADDITION. Yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends
It is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly

Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour

Hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions.

To undercrest your good addition To the fairness of my power
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition
Such addition as your honours Have more than merited.

ADDRESS.

It lifted up its head and did address Itself to motion

ADHERE. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both
And sure I am two men there are not living To whom he more adheres
ADIEU. - You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu
ADJUNCT.-Learning is but an adjunct to ourself

Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it

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