These grey locks, the pursuivants of death, Nestor-like aged in an age By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we owe God a 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 Take hence that traitor from our sight; For by his death we do perceive his guilt With his soul fled all my worldly solace, For seeing him I see my life in death 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. Richard III. i. 2. What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks '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 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. Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine 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. iv. 5. iv. 5. But one thing to rejoice and solace in, And cruel death hath catched it from my sight! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty . V. 3. . V. 3. Seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death . 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. 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 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 After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die I will not be afraid of death and bane, Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane 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 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 By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist For going on death's net, whom none resist 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. 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 As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason! 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 And yet we should, for perpetuity, Go hence in debt Who studies day and night To answer all the debt he owes to you . 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. iii. 2. Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll bereave you o' the deeds too. Most necessary 't is that we forget To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt. DECAY. Whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in What comfort to this great decay may come Shall be applied That is good deceit Which mates him first that first intends deceit. 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. Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat DECERNS. DECISION. I would have some confidence with you that decerns you nearly. Ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision As You Like It, iv. 1. Much Ado, iii. 5. All's Well, iii. 1. Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 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. Young blood doth not obey an old decree . Timon of Athens, iv. 2. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. . Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree A man busied about decrees: Condemning some to death, and some to exile. Therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. . Com. of Errors, i. 1. Ourselves we do not owe; What is decreed must be, and be this so So many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined To the face of peril Myself I'll dedicate. DEDICATED. All dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind DEDICATION. - Love, without retention or restraint, All his in dedication - When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not the punishment 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. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world 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 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 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 . 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 Rewards His deeds with doing them, and is content To spend the time to end it Pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair 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 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 The attempt and not the deed Confounds us I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise? I heard the owl scream 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 What is 't you do? A deed without a name. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it 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. |