THE SHAKESPEARE PHRASE BOOK. the society As You Like It, v. 1. ABANDON.-You clown, abandon, — which is in the vulgar leave, . 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 But for your company, I would have been a-bed an hour ago AEET And you that do abet him in this kind Cherish rebellion 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. Much Ado, i. 3. 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. 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 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 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. 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. I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected. ABODE. - Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode ABODEMENTS. - Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us . 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? - 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 ABROGATE. - So it shall please you to abrogate scurrility - - 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. I am questioned by my fears of what may chance or breed upon our absence V. 1. As You Like It, ii. 4. 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 Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His absolute 'shall' My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds Your stomachs are too young; And abstinence engenders maladies 111. 2. iv. 5. Macbeth, iii. 6. Ant. and Cleo, i. 2. iv. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. ABSTRACT. This little abstract doth contain that large Which died in Geffrey. 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 . 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. Abuses our young plants with carving' Rosalind' on their barks 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 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 ACADEME - A little Academe, Still and contemplative in living art Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. Winter's Tale, ii. 1. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 6. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13. The books, the academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. 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. The senseless brands will sympathize The heavy accent of thy moving tongue 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 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 I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave. ACCEPT. - If you accept them, then their worth is great . We will suddenly Pass our accept and peremptory answer ACCESS. Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse Macbeth, i. 3. Hamlet, ii. 2. iii. 2. King Lear, i. 4. ii. 2. Othello, i. 1. Tam, of the Shrew, ii. 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. 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 Even his mother shall uncharge the practice And call it accident 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. Do that thing that ends all other deeds; Which shackles accidents and bolts up change Be not with mortal accidents opprest; No care of yours it is Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils 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. Accommodated! it comes of 'accommodo': very good; a good phrase 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. You must buy that peace With full accord to all our just demands Their speed Hath been beyond account I will call him to so strict account, That he shall render every glory up 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. . Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man!. Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall not shame me 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 The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace A fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders. 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 ACONITUM. — Though it do work as strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder - 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? I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man What, old acquaintance ! could not all this flesh Keep in a little life? 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. 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 iv. 4. |