These grey locks, the pursuivants of death, Nestor-like aged in an age
The arbitrators of despairs, Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries
Break a lance, And run a tilt at death within a chair

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we owe God a death
To end one doubt by death Revives two greater in the heirs of life
The block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath
Here was a royal fellowship of death!

2 Henry IV. i. 2.

i. 3. ii. 4.

iii. 2. iii. 2.

iv. I.

iv. 2.

Henry V. iv. 8.

Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes
Vexation almost stops my breath, That sundered friends greet in the hour of death
Thou antic death, which laughest us here to scorn
Now, by the death of Him that died for all.

Take hence that traitor from our sight; For by his death we do perceive his guilt
In the shade of death I shall find joy

With his soul fled all my worldly solace, For seeing him I see my life in death
What a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
O God, forgive him! So bad a death argues a monstrous life
Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound

Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life

In the downfall of his mellowed years, When nature brought him to the door of death.
Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!

Richard III. i. 2.

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks
Had you such leisure in time of death To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?

'T is death to me to be at enmity; I hate it, and desire all good men's love

But death hath snatched my husband from mine arms

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror

Get thee hence! Death and destruction dog thee at the heels

Prosperity begins to mellow And drop into the rotten mouth of death.

A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death

In such a desperate bay of death, Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft
After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions.
Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can

If any think brave death outweighs bad life

Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie

Being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death

They'll give him death by inches.

V. 4.

To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal; But sorrow flouted at is double death Tit. And. iii. 1.
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine
Well, death's the end of all .

The horrible conceit of death and night

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3.

ii. 6.

iii. 3.

iv. 3.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue

iv. 5.

iv. 5.

But one thing to rejoice and solace in, And cruel death hath catched it from my sight!
How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! .

Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

. V. 3.

. V. 3.

Seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death
This sight of death is as a bell, That warns my old age to a sepulchre

. v. 3.

. V. 3.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death

i. 2.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once

Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come

ii. 2. ii. 2.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death

iii..

You shall not come to them. Nothing but death shall stay me.
He died As one that had been studied in his death.

When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death

DEATH.-Joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition Julius Cæsar, iii. 2. When it shall please my country to need my death

.

Tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements.

To my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men
Like to a murdering piece, in many places Gives me superfluous death
And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe

He that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.

This fell sergeant, death, Is strict in his arrest.

O proud death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell?

Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause

But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live
Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds
Strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!
With twenty trenched gashes on his head; The least a death to nature

I will not be afraid of death and bane, Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death..
Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green

ii. 3

ii. 3. iii. 4.

v. 3.

iii. 2.

v. 5

. v. 8.

Hamlet, i. 2.

i. 4.

ii. 2.

iii. .

iii. 1. iv. 4. iv. 4iv. 5.

iv. 7

V. I.

V. 2.

V. 2.

V. 2.

Is wretchedness deprived that benefit, To end itself by death?

That we the pain of death would hourly die Rather than die at once

Then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

I will withdraw, To furnish me with some swift means of death For the fair devil
Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death, I hear him as he flattered

I do think there is mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon her

Like the tokened pestilence, Where death is sure

The next time I do fight, I'll make death love me

Where rather I'll expect victorious life Than death and honour

The hand of death hath raught him

Death of one person can be paid but once, And that she has discharged

I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into 't As to a lover's bed
I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile.
Then is it sin To rush into the secret house of death, Ere death dare come to us
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us
Where art thou, death? Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired
There cannot be a pinch in death More sharp than this is.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too
There's other work in hand: I see a thing Bitter to me as death
Think death no hazard in this enterprise

And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist For going on death's net, whom none resist
Death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life 's but breath.
Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow
The shipman's toil, With whom each minute threatens life or death
The seaman's whistle Is as a whisper in the ears of death.
Tie my treasure up in silken bags, To please the fool and death

1.

i. I.

i. 1.

3.

iii. I.

iii. 2.

iii. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

Death may usurp on nature many hours, And yet the fire of life kindle again DEATH-COUNTERFEITING sleep With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep. DEATH'S-HEAD.—I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth Mer.of Venice, i. 2.

Death's-head. — I make as good use of it as many a man doth of a Death's-head 1 Henry IV. iii. 3.
DEBATE. -I will debate this matter at more leisure
Com. of Errors, iv. 1.

King Lear, V. I.

My state Stands on me to defend, not to debate Debatement.-After much debatement, My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour Meas. for Meas.v.1. Debating. I am debating of my present store

Mer. of Venice, i. 3.

All's Well, ii. 3.

DEBILE. — In a most weak and debile minister, great power, great transcendence
DEBILITY.—Did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility As Y. L. It, ii. 3.
DEBONAIR. - As free, as debonair, unarmed, As bending angels
DEBT. He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee.

As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!
Knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it

Consciences, that will not die in debt.

For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe

My chief care Is to come fairly off from the great debts

All debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but see you at my death
Too little payment for so great a debt

And yet we should, for perpetuity, Go hence in debt

Who studies day and night To answer all the debt he owes to you
What nearer debt in all humanity Than wife is to the husband?

. Troi. and Cress. i. 3.

Tempest, iii. 2. Com. of Errors, iv. 2. iv. 4.

Love's L. Lost, v. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

ill. 2.

Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2.
Winter's Tale, i. 2.
1 Henry IV. i. 3.
Troi, and Cress. ii. 2.

iii. 2.

Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll bereave you o' the deeds too.
Demands of date-broke bonds, And the detention of long-since-due debts Timon of Athens, ii. 2.
The greatest of your having lacks a half To pay your present debts
If it be so far beyond his health, Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts
These debts may well be called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em
In like manner was I in debt to my importunate business
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt

Most necessary 't is that we forget To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.
Praises, which are paid as debts, And not as given

DECAY. Whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in
Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay

What comfort to this great decay may come Shall be applied
DECAYED. My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair
That takes pity on decayed men and gives them suits of durance
DECEASED. - Mourning for the death Of learning, late deceased in beggary
Deceased, or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased
DECEIT.-This deceit loses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or unduteous title
The doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof
Feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of
That time and place with this deceit so lawful May prove coherent
Though I will not practise to deceive, Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn
What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men are full of deceits?.
Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?

That is good deceit Which mates him first that first intends deceit.
Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes!

Mer. of Venice, ii. 2.

2 Henry IV. iii. 1. Merry Wives, v. 5. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. Com. of Errors, iii. 2.

The untainted virtue of your years Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit If that be called deceit, I will be honest, And never, whilst I live, deceive men so Titus Andron. iii. 1. O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 2. Who makes the fairest show means most deceit Pericles, i. 4. DECEIVE.-That which I would I cannot,-With best advantage will deceive the time Richard III. v. 3. What in the world should make me now deceive, Since I must lose the use of all deceit? King John, v. 4. O, she deceives me Past thought! . DECEIVED. -- I have deceived even your very eyes. I am much deceived but I remember the style The world is still deceived with ornament

DECEIVERS. - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever.

Much Ado, ii. 3.

DECEMBER. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
Exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.
He makes a July's day short as December .

Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat
When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December

DECERNS.

DECISION.

I would have some confidence with you that decerns you nearly.
Whose great decision hath much blood let forth

Ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision
The time approaches That will with due decision make us know
DECK. - Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!

As You Like It, iv. 1.
Much Ado, i. 1.
Winter's Tale, i. 2.
Richard II. i. 3.

Much Ado, iii. 5.

All's Well, iii. 1.
Troi. and Cress. ii. 2.
Macbeth, v. 4.

Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 1.
Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1.

Whiles he thought to steal the single ten, The king was slily fingered from the deck! 3 Henry VI. v. 1. Leaked is our bark, And, we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck

DECORUM. The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
DECREE. - So our decrees, Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead

Young blood doth not obey an old decree

.

Timon of Athens, iv. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, i. 1.
Com. of Errors, iii. 2.
Troi. and Cress. ii. 3.
Winter's Tale, ii. 3.
Othello, iii. 3.
Meas. for Meas. i. 3.
i. 3-

. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Mer. of Venice, i. 2.
All's Well, v. 3.
Coriolanus, i. 6.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree
On our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals

A man busied about decrees: Condemning some to death, and some to exile.
DECREED. It hath in solemn synods been decreed

Therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage.

. Com. of Errors, i. 1.
Much Ado, i. 3.
Twelfth Night, i. 5.
Meas. for Meas. ii. 2.

Ourselves we do not owe; What is decreed must be, and be this so
DEDICATE.- Fasting maids whose minds are dedicate To nothing temporal
Seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours to love
Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour Unto the weary and all-watched night
This night he dedicates To fair content and you

So many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined
I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure.

To the face of peril Myself I'll dedicate.

DEDICATED. All dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind
And his poor self, A dedicated beggar to the air

DEDICATION. - Love, without retention or restraint, All his in dedication
Deed. For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it

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When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not the punishment
Nature dispenses with the deed so far That it becomes a virtue

Much Ado, ii. 3. Henry V. iv. Prol. Henry VIII. i. 4. Macbeth, iv. 3. Cymbeline, i. 6.

V. I.

Tempest, i. 2. Timon of Athens, iv. 2. Twelfth Night, v. 1. Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. i. 3.

This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings

1 partly think A due sincerity governed his deeds, Till he did look on me

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word

That same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy

iii. I. iv. 4.

V. I.

Com. of Errors, iii. 2.
Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world
Little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality

Is it honest in deed and word? is it a true thing?

To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds

I will compound this strife: 'T is deeds must win the prize

If thou proceed As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed

When virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed
Which, if it speed, Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed

For my thoughts, you have them ill to friend Till your deeds gain them

v. 3.

How his piety Does my deeds make the blacker!

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that
To do this deed, promotion follows

Winter's Tale, i. z.

i. 2.

iii. 2.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done!

King John, iv. 2.

-The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name

DEED.

The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.

Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service

King John, iv. 2. iv. 3.

The devil, that told me I did well, Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.

Richard II. ii. 1.

V. 5.

An 't were not as good deed as drink, to break the pate on thee, I am a very villain 1 Henry IV. ii. 1.

Is now alive To grace this latter age with noble deeds

I beseech your grace let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds

His few bad words are matched with as few good deeds

Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake

I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind

God grant me too Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!

The deed you undertake is damnable.

He that set you on To do this deed will hate you for the deed

We have done deeds of charity; Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate
The tyrannous and bloody deed is done

.

V. 1.

2 Henry IV. iv. 3.

Henry V. iii. 2. 1 Henry VI. i. 1. 3 Henry VI. ii. 2. Richard III. i. 2.

i. 4.

i. 4.

ii. I.

iv. 3.

Henry VIII. iii. 2.

V. 5.

'T is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds
Many days shall see her, And yet no day without a deed to crown it
She is a theme of honour and renown, A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds Troi. and Cress. ii. 2.
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise
Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she 'll bereave you o' the deeds too.
Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured As fast as they are made
Matchless, firm of word, Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue
I'll endeavour deeds to match these words.

Rewards His deeds with doing them, and is content To spend the time to end it
Let deeds express What's like to be their words
Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.
Agree these deeds with that proud brag, of thine

Pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed
It presses to my memory, Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds
Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair
O monument And wonder of good deeds evilly bestowed

ii. 3.

iii. 2.

iii. 3.

iv. 5.

iv. 5.

Coriolanus, ii. 1.

ii. 2.

iii. 1.

v. 6.

Titus Andron. i. 1. iii. 2. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 2. Timon of Athens, i. 2.

He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men
Will purchase us a good opinion And buy men's voices to commend our deeds
Let no man abide this deed, But we the doers

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds

This foul deed shall smell above the earth

Our deeds are done! Mistrust of my success hath done this deed

Mistrust of good success hath done this deed

Slaying is the word; It is a deed in fashion.

Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us

I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise? I heard the owl scream
These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad
A little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it, then!

To know my deed, 't were best not know myself

'T is unnatural, Even like the deed that 's done There shall be done A deed of dreadful note

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed
We are yet but young in deed

What is 't you do? A deed without a name.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it
No boasting like a fool; This deed I'll do before this purpose cool
Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes

iii. 5.

iv. 3.

Julius Cæsar, i. 2.

ii. 1.

111. 1.

iii. 1.

ill. 1.

V. 3.

Vv. 3.

V. 5.

Macbeth, i. 7.

ii. 1.

ii. 2.

ii. 2.

ii. 2.

ii. 2.

11. 2.

ii. 4.

iii. 2.

iii. 2.

ill. 4.

iv. 1.

iv. 1.

iv. 1.

V. 1.

Hamlet, i. 2.