CONVERSATION. - Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation - Ant. and Cleo. ii. 6. ii. 3. As You Like It, v. 4. I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have. CONVERSE.-A proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse with a dumb-show? Mer. of Ven. i. 2. Converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning Coriolanus, ii. 1. To love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little King Lear, i. 4. CONVERSED.-From our infancy We have conversed and spent our hours together Two Gen, of Ver. ii. 4. Converted. May I be so converted and see with these eyes?—I cannot tell Much Ado, ii. 3. CONVERTING all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny CONVERTITES. — Out of these convertites There is much matter to be heard CONVEY, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! Did but convey unto our fearful minds A doubtful warrant Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. CONVEYANCE. - Huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me When we have stuffed These pipes and these conveyances of our blood CONVOCATION. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him CONVOY. As the winds give benefit And convoy is assistant, do not sleep CONY. - So doth the cony struggle in the net CONY-CATCHING. -- Come, you are so full of cony-catching! . COOKED. Coops. I love to cope him in these sullen fits, For then he's full of matter COPED. Thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal. My brother hath a daughter, Almost the copy of my child that 's dead Such a man Might be a copy to these younger times. Although the print be little, the whole matter And copy of the father But in them nature's copy 's not eterne . COPY-BOOK. -Fair as a text B in a copy-book CORAL. Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes. Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor . Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense CORDIAL. - This affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort That hast thus lovingly reserved The cordial of mine age to glad my heart! CORE. Were not that a botchy core? . . Most putrefied core, so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. . Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself Sowed cockle reaped no corn; And justice always whirls in equal measure. CORN. The green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard 2 Henry VI. i. 2. iii. 2. Even our corn shall seem as light as chaff, And good from bad find no partition 2 Henry IV. iv. 1. Like over-ripened corn, Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load Rough and rugged, Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not Corn for the rich men only Coriolanus, i. 1. First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down Shall of a corn cry woe, And turn his sleep to wake. CORNER. All corners else o' the earth Let liberty make use of . I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband! Is 't possible? Sits the wind in that corner? . From the four corners of the earth they come, To kiss this shrine Titus Andron. ii. 3. Romeo and Juliet, i. 5. . Macbeth, iv. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. King John, v. 7. Tempest, iv. I. Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. CORPULENT. - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look And wilt thou, pupil-like, Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod, And fawn? - The power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Bending down His corrigible neck, his face subdued To penetrative shame. CORRIVAL. Might wear Without corrival all her dignities. Many moe corrivals and dear men Of estimation and command in arms CORROBORATE. His heart is fracted and corroborate CORROSIVE. Though parting be a fretful corrosive ii. 3. V. I. Tempest, i. 2. Ant. and Cleo. iv. 14. 1 Henry IV. i. 3. iv. 4. Henry V. ii. 1. 2 Henry VI. iii. 2. CORRUPT.-Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season Meas. for Meas. ii. 2. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt? My son corrupts a well-derived nature With his inducement O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able to corrupt a saint I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o'er-run the stew Meas. for Meas. v. 1. No man that hath a name, By falsehood and corruption doth it shame I fear will issue thence The foul corruption of a sweet child's death The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head, Shall break into corruption Cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. CORSE. By St. Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse; Pale, pale as ashes That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon Hamlet, i. 4. Corslet. He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye; talks like a knell. Hamlet, i. 4. iii. 4. Richard III. i. 2. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 2. Coriolanus, v. 4. COST.-The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. Much Ado, i. 1. As You Like It, ii. 7. Or what is he of basest function That says his bravery is not of my cost? Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy sword Costermonger. Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times COSTLY. Your grace is too costly to wear every day Henry V. iv. 3. Love's L. Lost, i. 2. Richard III. i. 4. . 2 Henry IV, i. 2. Much Ado, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, ii. 9. A day in April never came so sweet, To show how costly summer was at hand Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Hamlet, i. 3. COTE. Come every day to my cote and woo me As You Like It, iii. 2. Hamlet, ii 2. COTED. - We coted them on the way; and hither are they coming COULD.-Some doubtful phrase, As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would' Hamlet, i. 5. COULTER. -The coulter rusts That should deracinate such savagery COUNCIL. Draw near And list what with our council we have done Two Gen. of Verona, i. 1. i. J. Much Ado, iii. 3. But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee, That art a votary to fond desire? Give not me counsel; Nor let no comforter delight mine ear. Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel To her white hand see thou do commend This sealed-up counsel To trust the opportunity of night And the ill counsel of a desert place. Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet iv. 1. V. 1. V. I. Love's L. Lost, iii. 1. ii. 1. Such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple Mer. of Venice, i. 2. You know yourself, Hate counsels not in such a quality Our prerogative Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness Imparts this Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, That know'st the very bottom of my soul Henry V. ii. 2. Friendly counsel cuts off many foes Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing The close enacts and counsels of the heart iv. 2. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em How hard it is for women to keep counsel!. I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale in telling it Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counsellor? You are a counsellor, And, by that virtue, no man dare accuse you. This counsellor Is now most still, most secret, and most grave Is he not a most profane and liberal counsellor? Cymbeline, i. 4. Meas. for Meas. i. 2. As You Like It, ii. 1. 2 Henry VI. iv. 2. Henry VIII. i. 3. Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing, To the smothering of the sense V. 3. Macbeth, v. 3. Hamlet, iii. 4. Othello, ii. 1. Cymbeline, iii. 2. COUNT. Never trust thee more, But count the world a stranger for thy sake Two Gen. of Verona, v. 4. Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect Than in their countenance O, the father, how he holds his countenance! His countenance enforces homage Merry Wives, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Love's L. Lost, v. 2. As You Like It, ii. 7. iv. 1. iv. 3. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 2. 1 Henry IV. i. 2. ii. 4. Henry V. iii. 7. i. 3 If I have veiled my look, I turn the trouble of my countenance Merely upon myself Julius Cæsar, i. 2. We did sleep day out of countenance, and made the night light with drinking. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2. COUNTERCHECK. This is called the Countercheck Quarrelsome COUNTERFEIT. - How ill agrees it with your gravity To counterfeit thus grossly! There was never counterfeit of passion came so near the life of passion Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you! Puppet? why so?. Well, then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man. They are busied about a counterfeit assurance. You have beguiled me with a counterfeit Resembling majesty Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit I am no counterfeit: to die is to be a counterfeit He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man As You Like It, iv. 3. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 4. King John, iii. 1. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4. v. 4. V. 4. If I could have remembered a gilt counterfeit, thou wouldst not have slipped out Troi. and Cress. ii. 3. The counterfeit presentment of two brothers COUNTERPOISE. Too light for the counterpoise of so great an opposition. COUNTERS. So covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends Which in our country's cradle Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep COUNTRY. Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep Over his country's wrongs If we are marked to die, we are enow To do our country loss. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. Henry IV. iv. 3. Henry V. iv. 3. Henry VIII. iii. 2. If any think brave death outweighs bad life And that his country's dearer than himself Coriolanus, i. 6. He hath deserved worthily of his country You have deserved nobly of your country, and you have not deserved nobly I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound Who is here so vile that will not love his country? When it shall please my country to need my death That a swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure Our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds Yet my poor country Shall have more vices than it had before COUNTRYMEN. -Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends COUPLES. In the temple, by and by, with us These couples shall eternally be knit For courage mounteth with occasion Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well With men of courage and with means dependent My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage ii. 2. ii. 3. iii. 3. Julius Cæsar, iii. 2. iii. 2. Macbeth, iii. 6. iv. 3. iv. 3. iv. 3. iv. 3. Hamlet, ii. 1. iii. 1. King Lear, i. 1. Richard II. i. 4. Julius Cæsar, iii. 2. As You Like It, i. 3. Troi. and Cress. v. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. As You Like It, v. 4. Twelfth Night, iii. 4. Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit, More than in women commonly is seen We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we 'll not fail COURAGEOUS. -Doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat Thy spirit which keeps thee, is Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable By industry achieved And perfected by the swift course of time Two Gen. of Verona, i. 3. When his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamelled stones ii. 7. Dangerous to be aged in any kind of course. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. Therefore homeward did they bend their course .Com. of Errors, i. 1. What is the course and drift of your compact? ii. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. All's Well, iv. 4. v. 3. With the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power The course of true love never did run smooth That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation The fine's the crown; Whate'er the course, the end is the renown All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy His addiction was to courses vain, His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow |