THE

SHAKESPEARE PHRASE BOOK.

the society As You Like It, v. 1.

ABANDON.-You clown, abandon, — which is in the vulgar leave,
Abandon the society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest
ABANDONED. - Being there alone, Left and abandoned of his velvet friends
He hath abandoned his physicians.

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ABATEMENT. - Falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute

This 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays

ABEOMINABLE. - This is abhominable, which he would call abbominable

ABBOTS. See thou shake the bags Of hoarding abbots
A-BED. - Not to be a-bed after midnight is to be up betimes

But for your company, I would have been a-bed an hour ago
ABEL. - Be thou cursed Cain, To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries

AEET And you that do abet him in this kind Cherish rebellion
ABETTING him to thwart me in my mood
ABHOMINABLE. —- This is abhominable,
ABOR.

which he would call abbominable Whom she hath in all outward behaviours seemed ever to abhor

I abhor such fanatical phantasimes.

If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me

It doth abhor me now I speak the word

ABHORRED. But if one present The abhorred ingredient to his eye.

More abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice

Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorred

His name remains To the ensuing age abhorred

With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven

O abhorred spirits! Not all the whips of heaven are large enough

And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark

And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it

Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunned my abhorred society.

V. I.

11. 1.

All's Well, i. 1. Twelfth Night, i. 1. Hamlet, iv. 7. Love's L. Lost, v. 1.

King John, iii. 3. Twelfth Night, ii. 3. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 4. 1 Henry VI. i. 3. Richard II. i. x. ii. 3.

Com. of Errors, ii. 2.
Love's L. Lost, v. 1.

Much Ado, i. 3.
Love's L. Lost, v. 1.
Othello, i. 1.

iv. 2.

Winter's Tale, ii. 1. Troi. and Cress. v. 3. Coriolanus, i. 4.

v. 3.

Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

V. 1.

Romeo and Juliet, v. 3.
Hamlet, v. 1.
King Lear, v. 3.

It is I That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend By being worse than they. Cymbeline, v. 5.

ABIDE. — By my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since

When you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave
Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot Thou runn'st before me

A' could never abide carnation; 't was a colour he never liked

Let no man abide this deed, But we the doers.

If it be found so, some will dear abide it.

ABILITIES. Your abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.

All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, Severals and generals of grace exact

I will do All my abilities in thy behalf

ABILITY.Policy of mind, Ability in means and choice of friends
Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something.
Any thing, my lord, That my ability may undergo

ABJECT.To make a loathsome abject scorn of me

Merry Wives, i. 1. Much Ado, i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

Henry V. ii. 3. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.

111. 2. Coriolanus, ii. 1.

. Troi. and Cress. i. 3.
Othello, iii. 3.
Much Ado, iv. 1.
Twelfth Night, iii. 4.
Winter's Tale, ii. 3.
Com. of Errors, iv. 4.

ABJECT. - We are the queen's abjects, and must obey

Richard III, i. 1.

I read in 's looks Matters against me; and his eye reviled Me, as his abject object Henry VIII. i. 1.
ABJURE. Either to die the death, or to abjure For ever the society of men
ABLE. Be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use.

I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected.
None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em.

ABODE. - Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode

ABODEMENTS. - Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us

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Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. All's Well, i. 1. Romeo and Juliet, v. 3.

ABOMINABLE. Such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear

ABOMINABLY. They imitated humanity so abominably.

ABOVE. This above all: to thine ownself be true.

King Lear, iv, 6. Mer. of Venice, ii. 6.

.3 Henry VI. iv. 7.

.2 Henry VI. iv. 7. Hamlet, ii. 2.

i. 3.

111. 3.

'T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature. ABRAHAM.-Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom Of good old Abraham! Richard II. iv. 1.

The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom

ABRAM. O father Abram, what these Christians are!

ABRIDGEMENT. Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?

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For look, where my abridgement comes.

This fierce abridgement Hath to it circumstantial branches

ABROACH. Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? .

Richard III. iv. 3. Mer. of Venice, i. 3. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. Hamlet, ii. 2. Cymbeline, v. 5.

Romeo and Juliet, i. 1.

The secret mischiefs that I set abroach, I lay unto the grievous charge of others. Richard III. i. 3. ABROAD. - I have for the most part been aired abroad

What news abroad? No news so bad abroad as this at home
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad.

ABROGATE. - So it shall please you to abrogate scurrility
ABRUPTION. - What makes this pretty abruption?.

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- Which death or absence soon shall remedy

There is not one among them but I dote on his very absence.

Winter's Tale, iv. 2.

Richard III. i. 1. Hamlet, i. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2. Troi, and Cress. iii. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. Mer. of Venice, i. 2.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
By reason of his absence, there is nothing That you will feed on

I am questioned by my fears of what may chance or breed upon our absence
Our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge

V. 1.

As You Like It, ii. 4.
Winter's Tale, i. 2.

V. 2.

Thy grief is but thy absence for a time. - Joy absent, grief is present for that time Richard II. i. 3.

I hope, My absence doth neglect no great designs

His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise

I a heavy interim shall support By his dear absence.

ABSENT. - Attend upon the coming space, Expecting absent friends

They have seemed to be together, though absent.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed.

What pricks you on To take advantage of the absent time?

None serve with him but constrained things Whose hearts are absent too If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile. ABSEY.-Then comes answer like an Absey book

ABSOLUTE. So absolute As our conditions shall consist upon.

Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter
It is a most absolute and excellent horse.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His absolute 'shall'
You are too absolute; Though therein you can never be too noble
Most absolute sir, if thou wilt have The leading of thine own revenges
With an absolute Sir, not I,' The cloudy messenger turns me his back.

My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds
Sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas
ABSTINENCE. A man of stricture and firm abstinence

Your stomachs are too young; And abstinence engenders maladies
Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence
ABSTRACT. He hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places.

111. 2.

iv. 5.

Macbeth, iii. 6.
Hamlet, v. 1.
Othello, ii. 1.

Ant. and Cleo, i. 2.
Meas. for Meas. i. 3.

iv. 2.

Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Hamlet, iii. 4.
Merry Wives, iv. 2.

ABSTRACT. This little abstract doth contain that large Which died in Geffrey.
Brief abstract and record of tedious days, Rest thy unrest .

They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time

A man who is the abstract of all faults That all men follow

ABSURD. This proffer is absurd and reasonless

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King John, i. 1. Richard III. iv. 4.

Hamlet, ii. 2.

Ant. and Cleo. i. 4. 1 Henry VI. v. 4. Hamlet, i. 2. iii. 2.

King John, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, i. 2.

A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd.
Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
ABUNDANCE. — That deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath
If your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are
He may sleep in security; for he hath the horn of abundance
Such are the rich, That have abundance and enjoy it not
AFUSE - Lend him your kind pains To find out this abuse

Abuses our young plants with carving' Rosalind' on their barks
For the poor abuses of the time want countenance

Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep Over his country's wrongs

I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse.

Linger your patience on; and we 'll digest The abuse of distance

Why hast thou broken faith with me, Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?

2 Henry IV. i. 2. iv. 4.

Meas. for Meas. v. 1. As You Like It, iii. 2. 1 Henry IV. i. 2. iv. 3. .2 Henry IV. ii. 4. . Henry V. ii. Prol. .2 Henry VI. v. 1.

Strained from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. . Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3.

The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power.

As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me

I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses

ABUSED. - You are abused, and by some putter-on That will be damned for 't
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals That weaken motion
'Tis better to be much abused Than but to know 't a little

You are abused Beyond the mark of thought

Why hast thou abused So many miles with a pretence?

ABUSER. I therefore apprehend and do attach thee For an abuser of the world
ABUSING. — An old abusing of God's patience and the king's English
ABYSM. What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
And shot their fires Into the abysm of hell

ACADEME - A little Academe, Still and contemplative in living art

Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
Hamlet, ii. 2.
Othello, iii. 3.

Winter's Tale, ii. 1.
Othello, i. 2.
iii. 3.

Ant. and Cleo. iii. 6.
Cymbeline, iii. 4.
Othello, i. 2.
Merry Wives, i. 4.
Tempest, i. 2.

Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13.
Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

The books, the academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.
They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world
ACCENT. - You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the accent.
Action and accent did they teach him there.

Throttle their practised accent in their fears

iv. 3.

iv. 3.

iv. 2.

V. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, v. 1.

.Twelfth Night, iii. 4.

Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling As You Like It, iii. 2.
A terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off
The accent of his tongue affecteth him

The senseless brands will sympathize The heavy accent of thy moving tongue
To pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils.

I have a touch of your condition, Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.

Do not take His rougher accents for malicious sounds

Such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents
Our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
Prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion

Well spoken, with good accent and good discretion

King John, i. 1. Richard 11. v. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 1. Richard III. iv. 4. Coriolanus, iii. 3. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.

Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man
If but as well I other accents borrow, That can my speech defuse

I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave.
I'll call aloud. - Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell.

ACCEPT. - If you accept them, then their worth is great

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We will suddenly Pass our accept and peremptory answer
ACCEPTANCE. I leave him to your gracious acceptance.

ACCESS. Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse
ACCIDENCE. - Ask him some questions in his accidence

Macbeth, i. 3. Hamlet, ii. 2. iii. 2.

King Lear, i. 4.

ii. 2. Othello, i. 1.

Tam, of the Shrew, ii. 1.
Henry V. v. 2.
Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.
Macbeth, i. 5.
Merry Wives, iv. 1.

ACCIDENT.-'T is an accident that heaven provides

This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not

Meas. for Meas. iv. 3.
Much Ado, ii. 1.

Think no more of this night's accidents But as the fierce vexation of a dream Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1.

Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune So far exceed all instance

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do

'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced By need and accident

And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

Spirits that admonish me And give me signs of future accidents
As place, riches, favour, Prizes of accident as oft as merit.
Let these threats alone, Till accident or purpose bring you to't
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident

Even his mother shall uncharge the practice And call it accident
Delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents
This accident is not unlike my dream: Belief of it oppresses me
Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes .

The shot of accident, nor dart of chance, Could neither graze nor pierce

These bloody accidents must excuse my manners.

Do it at once; Orthy precedent services are all But accidents unpurposed

Twelfth Night, iv. 3.
Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

Do that thing that ends all other deeds; Which shackles accidents and bolts up change
All solemn things Should answer solemn accidents

Be not with mortal accidents opprest; No care of yours it is
ACCIDENTAL. Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.

Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils
ACCITE. What accites your most worshipful thought to think so?.
We will accite, As I before remembered, all our state
ACCLAMATIONS. - You shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical
ACCOMMODATED. -- A soldier is better accommodated than with a wife
Better accommodated! it is good; yea, indeed, is it

V. 2.

Cymbeline, iv. 2.

V. 4.

Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. Julius Cæsar, iv. 3. .2 Henry IV, ii. 2.

V. 2.

Coriolanus, i. 9.

2 Henry IV. iii. 2.

Othello, i. 3.

Meas. for Meas. iii. 1.
Macbeth, v. 3.

Accommodated! it comes of 'accommodo': very good; a good phrase
Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated
When a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated.
ACCOMMODATION. Such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding.
All the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness
ACCOMPANY. That which should accompany old age, As honour, love
ACCOMPLISHED. - Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished
They shall think we are accomplished With that we lack
Even so looked he, Accomplished with the number of thy hours
All the number of his fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction

Two Gen. of Verona, iv. 3.

Mer. of Venice, iii. 4. Richard II. ii. 1. iii. 3

Meas. for Meas. ii. 4.

ACCOMPLISHMENT. - Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass Henry V. Prol.
ACCOMPT,Our compelled sins Stand more for number than for accompt
He can write and read and cast accompt. -O monstrous!
ACCORD. Then let your will attend on their accords.

You must buy that peace With full accord to all our just demands
Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms
This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart
ACCORDING.-'Faith, my lord, I spoke it but according to the trick.
The 'ort is, according to our meaning, 'resolutely': his meaning is good
According to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings
Make it orderly and well, According to the fashion and the time
Clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed
According to the phrase or the addition Of man and country.
ACCOUNT. Only to stand high in your account.

Their speed Hath been beyond account

I will call him to so strict account, That he shall render every glory up
About his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes

Takes no account How things go from him, nor resumes no care

2 Henry VI. iv. 2. Com. of Errors, ii. I. Henry V. v. 2.

V. 2.

Hamlet, i. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Merry Wives, i. 1. Mer. of Venice, ii. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Macbeth, i. 1. Hamlet, ii. 1.

Mer. of Venice, iii. 2. Winter's Tale, ii. 3. 1 Henry IV. iii. a. Romeo and Juliet, v. 1. Timon of Athens, ii. 2.

ACCOUNT.-What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Macbeth, v. 1.

But sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head ACCOUNTANT. - His offence is so, as it appears, Accountant to the law ACCOUTRED as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow.

ACCOUTREMENTS. — You are rather point-device in your accoutrements.

Hamlet, i. 5. . Meas. for Meas. ii. 4.

Julius Cæsar, i. 2. As You Like It, iii. 2.

ACCURSED and unquiet wrangling days, How many of you have mine eyes beheld! Richard III. ii. 4. Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!.

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar

Romeo and Juliet, iv. 5.

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Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man!.
ACCUSATION. — My place i' the state Will so your accusation overweigh

Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall not shame me
With public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour
What I am to say must be but that Which contradicts my accusation
I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush.

Let not his report Come current for an accusation

We come not by the way of accusation, To taint that honour. ACCUSE May, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us .

Macbeth, iv. 1.

v. 8.

Meas. for Meas. ii. 4. Much Ado, ii. 2. iv. 1.

Winter's Tale, iii. 2.

1 Henry IV. i. 3. Henry VIII. iii. 1. Winter's Tale, i. 1. Hamlet, ii. 1. Richard 11. i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. Cymbeline, ii. 3. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. Much Ado, v. 1.

I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me
ACCUSER. -Ourselves will hear The accuser and the accused freely speak.
ACE. - Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing.

The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace
ACHE. That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature
Charm ache with air and agony with words.

A fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders.
Aches contract and starve your supple joints! .

ACHERON, With drooping fog as black as Acheron

ACHIEVE.-She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness

Some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em

That what you cannot as you would achieve, You must perforce accomplish ACHIEVEMENT is command; ungained, beseech

2 Henry IV. v. 1. Timon of Athens, i. I. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. All's Well, i. 1. Twelfth Night, ii. 5. Titus Andron. i. 1. Troi. and Cress. i. 2. Much Ado, i. 1. Troi, and Cress. iv. 5.

ACHIEVER. - A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers
ACHILLES. -What is your name? If not Achilles, nothing
ACKNOWLEDGED. — To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid

ACONITUM. — Though it do work as strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder
ACORN.

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Withered roots, and husks Wherein the acorn cradled

All their elves for fear Creep into acorn-cups

I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn

ACQUAINT. - Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows

ACQUAINTANCE. — Yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance

Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you

I do feast to-night My best-esteemed acquaintance

Is't possible, that on so little acquaintance you should like her?
Balk logic with acquaintance that you have, And practise rhetoric
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves So long as I could see

I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man
Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear

What, old acquaintance ! could not all this flesh Keep in a little life?
To see how many of my old acquaintance are dead

Let our old acquaintance be renewed

All that time, acquaintance, custom, and condition Made tame

I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops That we have bled together.
What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand, That I yet know not?
You shall not grieve Lending me this acquaintance

King Lear, iv. 7. 2 Henry IV. iv. 4. Tempest, i. 2. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. As You Like It, iii. 2. Tempest, ii. 2. Merry Wives, i. 1. ii. 2. Mer. of Venice, ii. 2. As You Like It, v. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1. Twelfth Night, i. 2.

Troi. and Cress. iii. 3. Coriolanus, v. I. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3.

King Lear, iv. 3. Merry Wives, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 1.

ACQUAINTED. — I'll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal
Are you acquainted with the difference That holds this present question?
One, Kate, that you must kiss, and be acquainted with.
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause of love

iv. 4.