COURSE. Follow your envious courses, men of malice

Henry VIII. iii. 2.
Coriolanus, iv. 1.

Determine on some course, More than a wild exposture to each chance
Consider that a prodigal course Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable. Timon of Athens, iii. 4.
Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt.

Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.
Macbeth, ii. 2.

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast
They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course
In our circumstance and course of thought, 'T is heavy with him

He'll shape his old course in a country new

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course

I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course of love.
COURSED. We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose To be his purveyor
COURT.Our court shall be a little Academe, Still and contemplative in living art
The court awards it, and the law doth give it

The law allows it, and the court awards it

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Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?.
Wast ever in court, shepherd? No, truly. Then thou art damned.
If thou never wast at court, thou never sawest good manners
Good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country
You told me you salute not at the court, but you kiss
A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse
The art o' the court, As hard to leave as keep.

COURTEOUS. This is called the Retort Courteous

your hands

V. 7.

Hamlet, iii. 3. King Lear, i. 1. iii. 7. Othello, i. 3. Macbeth, i. 6.

Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.

iv. I.

As You Like It, ii. 1.

iii. 2.

iii. 2.

ill. 2.

iii. 2.

2 Henry IV. v. I. Cymbeline, iii. 3.

As You Like It, v. 4.

Tam. of the Shrew, ii. 1.

3 Henry VI. i. 2.

Thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, But slow in speech They are soldiers, Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit COURTESIES. - Outward courtesies would fain proclaim Favours that keep within Meas. for Meas. v. 1.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment

For your many courtesies I thank you: I must discontinue your company
You called me dog; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys

The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies

Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.

Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on courtesies.
These lowly courtesies Might fire the blood of ordinary men
Low-crooked courtesies and base spaniel-fawning.

Much Ado, iv. 1.

V. I.

Mer. of Venice, i. 3. iii. 2.

All's Well, v. 3. Timon of Athens, i. 2. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1. iii. 1. Meas. for Meas. iv. 2. Much Ado, i. 1. i. 1. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

COURTESY. You are to do me both a present and a dangerous courtesy
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies
These ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy
If you were civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.
Yet, in courtesy, in all reason, we must stay the time
He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy

It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
I was enforced to send it after him; was beset with shame and courtesy
The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born.
You have some hideous matter to deliver, when the courtesy of it is so fearful. Twelfth Night, i. 5.
I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy
How he did seem to dive into their hearts With humble and familiar courtesy.
Why, what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me
And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dressed myself in such humility.
If a man will make courtesy and say nothing, he is virtuous
It was more of his courtesy than your deserving

iv. 2. Richard II. i. 4. 1 Henry IV. i. 3.

Henry VIII. ii. 1.

My fear is, your displeasure; my courtesy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons
Deceive and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy
Call him bounteous Buckingham, The mirror of all courtesy
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy: his legs are legs for necessity Troi. and Cress. ii. 3.
I thank you for your pains and courtesy

In such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy

Julius Cæsar, ii. 2. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4.

COURTESY. Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Pink for flower

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He is not the flower of courtesy, but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb
This courtesy is not of the right breed.

Bond of childhood, Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude

Our power Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men May blame
They do discharge their shot of courtesy: Our friends at least

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4.

ii. 5. Hamlet, iii. 2. King Lear, ii. 4.

iii. 7.

Othello, ii. 1.

1 could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment
Aye hopeless To have the courtesy your cradle promised
How courtesy would seem to cover sin, When what is done is like an hypocrite
COURT-HAND. - · He can make obligations, and write court-hand
Courtier. O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier

As

ii. 1.

ii. 1.

ii. 3.

Cymbeline, iv. 4.

Pericles, i. 1.

2 Henry VI. iv. 2.
You Like It, ii. 7.
All's Well, i. 1.
Hamlet, v. 1.

Like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable. The toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe Our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the king Cymbeline, i. 1. COURTLY. I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning COURTSHIP. Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship One that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. COURTSIED When you have, and kissed, The wild waves whist COUSIN. My noble and well-warranted cousin

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another

COVENTRY. I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat
COVER. They have a good cover; they show well outward

Death is the fairest cover for her shame That may be wished for

Why seek'st thou to cover with excuse That which appears in proper nakedness?
How many then should cover that stand bare!

This unbound lover, To beautify him, only lacks a cover

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iv. 1.

iv. 1.

Mer. of Venice, ii. 9. Romeo and Juliet, i. 3.

The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web
COVERTLY. So covertly that no dishonesty shall appear in me
COVERTURE. - Who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture
Coveted. - Never was forsworn, Scarcely have coveted what was mine own.
COVETOUSNESS.-You to think that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness
They do confound their skill in covetousness

Cow. For it is said, 'God sends a curst cow short horns'

The cow's dugs that her pretty chopt hands had milked

COWARD. I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward
Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars?

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand

A swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have
I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward
He's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker
He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is
He hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling

A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it

We took him for a coward, but he 's the very devil incardinate

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany!

I do defy him and I spit at him; Call him a slanderous coward and a villain!

I know them to be as true-bred cowards as ever turned back.

A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!

A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.

I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call thee coward

Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct

He scorns to say his prayers, lest a' should be thought a coward

So cowards fight when they can fly no further.

Soft! I did but dream. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

COWARD. Conscience is but a word that cowards use

And by his rare example made the coward Turn terror into sport

Richard III. v. 3.
Coriolanus, ii. 2.
Julius Cæsar, i. 2.

'T is true, this god did shake: His coward lips did from their colour fly
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once
One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer

O, coward that I am, to live so long, To see my best friend ta'en before my face!
And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would'
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward
Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever Of hardiness is mother
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base

COWARDICE. Do me right, or I will protest your cowardice

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Macbeth, i. 7.

Hamlet, iii. 1. iv. 4.

Cymbeline, iii. 6.

iv. 2.

Much Ado, v. I.

iii. 2.

Falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent, Three things that women highly hold in hate Two G. of V. iii. 2.
Bootless speed, When cowardice pursues, and valour flies
Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1.
I am a right maid for my cowardice: Let her not strike me
That which in mean men we intitle patience Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts Richard II. i. 2.
Left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice 2 Henry IV. iv. 3.
They tax our policy, and call it cowardice

Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice

Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice - An honour in him
The gods do this in shame of cowardice.

COWISH. -It is the cowish terror of his spirit, That dares not undertake
COWSLIP. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie
Cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see

I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear
The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover

Like the crimson drops I' the bottom of a cowslip

Coy.

But she is nice and coy, And nought esteems my aged eloquence
I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock
Sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy
'T was told me you were rough and coy and sullen

COZENAGE. They say this town is full of cozenage
COZENED. I would all the world might be cozened; for I have been
What devil was 't That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
Thou art not vanquished, But cozened and beguiled.
Cozener. O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!
CRAB. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow

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I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives
Falleth like a crab on the face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl
Sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab
It is my fashion when I see a crab. - Why, here's no crab
Yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go
She's as like this as a crab 's like an apple.
CRABBED. Something too crabbed that way
CRAB-TREE.
CRACK.

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We have some old crab-trees here at home - My heart is ready to crack with impatience, A' were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.

Sits aloft Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash

backward

I must report they were As cannons overcharged with double cracks.
Start, eyes! What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

Not to crack the wind of the poor phrase

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

This crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack
Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack

O time's extremity, Hast thou so cracked and splitted my poor tongue?
O, madam, my old heart is cracked, is cracked!

CRACKER. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?

- Gives the crutch the cradle's infancy

Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell
Being ever from their cradles bred together.

In our country's cradle Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep.
And rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge.

No sooner was I crept out of my cradle

Rough cradle for such little pretty ones! Rude ragged nurse! .
Undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honour from his cradle

Pericles, i 2. King John, v. 7. Com. of Errors, v. 1. King Lear, ii. 1. King John, ii. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2. As You Like It, i. 1.

Richard II. i. 3.

2 Henry IV. iii. 1. 2 Henry VI. iv. 9. Richard III. iv. 1. Henry VIII. iv. 2.

Nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle Macbeth, i. 6.

He'll watch the horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle
Aye hopeless To have the courtesy your cradle promised .
CRADLED.- Withered roots and husks Wherein the acorn cradled
CRAFT against vice I must apply.

To signify, that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.
My integrity ne'er knew the crafts That you do charge men with
That taught me craft To counterfeit oppression of such grief

Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles

And, Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus!

Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion.

Which your modesties have not craft enough to colour

That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft

Othello, ii. 3. Cymbeline, iv. 4. Tempest, i. 2.

Meas. for Meas. iii. 2.

iii. 2. All's Well, iv. 2. Richard II. i. 4. i. 4.

Troi. and Cress. ii. 3.

iv. 4

Hamlet, ii. 2.

iii. 4.

O, 't is most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet

iii. 4.

King Lear, ii. 2.

In this plainness Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends CRAFTILY. - Either you are ignorant, Or seem so craftily; and that's not good Meas. for. Meas. ii. 4. CRAFTSMEN.

Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles

CRAM.- You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense
Do thou but think What 't is to cram a maw

Cram's with praise, and make 's As fat as tame things

CRAMMED. As much love in rhyme As would be crammed up in a sheet of paper
He hath strange places crammed With observation, the which he vents.
The best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies
With a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful
CRAMP. Thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up
I'll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones with aches
CRANKING.-See how this river comes me cranking in
CRANTS. Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments
CRAVE. - I shall crave your forbearance a little: may be I will call upon you
I crave no other, nor no better man

To the end to crave your assistance

I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond

Craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks.

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Richard II. i. 4. Tempest, ii. 1. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. Winter's Tale, i. 2. Love's L. Lost, v. 2. As You Like It, ii. 7. Twelfth Night, ii. 3. bread Henry V. iv. 1. Tempest, i. 2. i. 2. 1 Henry IV. iii. 1. Hamlet, v. 1. Meas. for Meas. iv. 1.

V. I.

Love's L. Lost, v. 1. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2. Coriolanus, ii. 3. Pericles, ii. 3.

Better it is to die, better to starve, Than crave the hire which first we do deserve
And gives them what he will, not what they crave
CRAVEN. -No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven
CREAKING my shoes on the plain masonry

CREAM. -Men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.
Your black silk hair, Your bugle eyebrows, nor your cheek of cream
Good sooth, she is The queen of curds and cream

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream

Tam. of the Shrew, ii. 1.
All's Well, ii. 1.

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Mer. of Venice, i. 1. As You Like It, iii. 5.

Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

1 Henry IV. iv. 2. Tempest, iii. 1. Coriolanus, iii. 2.

CREATED. O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Things created To buy and sell with groats.
CREATING.The most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had praise for creating All's Well, iv. 5.

CREATION. After this downright way of creation.

What demigod Hath come so near creation?

What great creation and what dole of honour Flies where you bid it?

A false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain

Othello, ii. 1.

The very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in . Hamlet, iii. 4. In the essential vesture of creation Does tire the ingener CREATURE.

Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 4.

How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Tempest, v. i. Let her be a principality, Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as I would desires.

A creature unprepared, unmeet for death

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak

It is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonable creature
Never did I know A creature, that did bear the shape of man, So keen
She was the fairest creature in the world

A wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood are

Merry Wives, iv. 1. Meas. for Meas. iv. 3. Com. of Errors, iii. 2 Much A do, i. 1

Mer. of Venice, iii. 1 Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 2 All's Well, i. 3

v. 3

Twelfth Night, v. 1

A fond and desperate creature, Whom sometime I have laughed with
An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin Than these two creatures
This is a creature, Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal Of all professors Winter's Tale, v. 1.
There was not such a gracious creature born
Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses

Then am I no two-legged creature.

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Here comes bare-bone. How now, my sweet creature of bombast

I do now remember the poor creature, small beer

So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order

Thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature!.

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures

To see how God in all his creatures works

The plainest harmless creature That breathed upon this earth a Christian
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings

2 Henry VI. ii. 1. Richard III. iii. 5.

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul shall pity me

. V. 2. v. 3.

You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings Follow such creatures

The primest creature That's paragoned o' the world

She is a gallant creature, and complete In mind and feature

The most needless creatures living, should we ne'er have use for 'em

Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home: Is this a holiday

Henry VIII. ii. 3.

ii. 4. iii. 2.

Timon of Athens, i. 2.

Julius Cæsar, i. 1.

Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his body, If Cæsar carelessly but nod on him. i. 2. Unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt

You jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures

We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots

Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element

Indeed, she 's a most fresh and delicate creature.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used
That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites
Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are
Such creatures as We count not worth the hanging.

CREDENT. For my authority bears of a credent bulk

Then 't is very credent Thou mayst co-join with something

If with too credent ear you list his songs, Or lose your heart
CREDIBLE. Nay, 't is most credible; we here receive it A certainty
Credit. Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie
Which is indeed almost beyond credit, -As many vouched rarities are
Were testimonies against his worth and credit.

Make us but believe, being compact of credit, that you love us.

Of credit infinite, highly beloved, Second to none that lives here in the city
To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit

Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour

My reliances on his fracted dates Have smit my credit