PREFACE. THIS book is intended to be an index of the phraseology of Shakespeare; a concordance of phrases rather than of words. Its plan is to take every sentence from his dramatic works which contains an important thought, with so much of the context as preserves the sense, and to put each sentence under its principal words, arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the sentences it did not seem necessary to repeat as often as this plan might allow. The text of Messrs. Clark and Wright has been followed, with the exception of the change of the final 'd to ed. At the end of the book comparative readings are given from the texts of Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and Richard Grant White. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., May, 1881. THE SHAKESPEARE PHRASE BOOK. the society As You Like It, v. 1. ABANDON. -You clown, abandon, -which is in the vulgar leave, ABET. - This is abhominable, And you that do abet him in this kind Cherish rebellion which he would call abbominable ABHOR.- 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 With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it When you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave 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 Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. Any thing, my lord, That my ability may undergo ABJECT. To make a loathsome abject scorn of me V. I. . Romeo and Juliet, v. 3. . Henry V. ii. 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. ABJURE. Either to die the death, or to abjure For ever the society of men ABLE.- Be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use. 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 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, iii. 2. i. 3. iii. 3. 'Tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature. The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom For look, where my abridgement comes . This fierce abridgement Hath to it circumstantial branches 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 There is not one among them but I dote on his very absence. Winter's Tale, iv. 2. . Love's L. Lost, iv. 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 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 He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself. Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence iii. 2. iv. 5. Macbeth, iii. 6. Hamlet, v. 1. Ant. and Cleo. i. 2. Meas. for Meas. i. 3. 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 A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd. King John, ii. 1. Richard III. iv. 4. Hamlet, ii. 2. Ant. and Cleo. i. 4. 1 Henry VI. v. 4. Hamlet, i. 2. iii. 2. Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee ABUNDANCE. — -That deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath If your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are He may sleep in security; for he hath the horn of abundance 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? 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 Why hast thou abused So many miles with a pretence? ABUSER. King John, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, i. 2. 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. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. Hamlet, ii. 2. Othello, iii. 3. Winter's Tale, ii. 1. I therefore apprehend and do attach thee For an abuser of the world ACADEME. Othello, i. 2. iii. 3. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 6. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. A little Academe, Still and contemplative in living art The books, the academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world iv. 3. ACCENT.- You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the accent Action and accent did they teach him there. Throttle their practised accent in their fears . iv. 3. Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling As You Like It, iii. 2. A terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off The accent of his tongue affecteth him 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 II. v. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 1. Richard III. iv. 4. Coriolanus, iii. 3. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1. Macbeth, ii. 3. Hamlet, ii. 2. iii. 2. 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. I'll call aloud. - Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell. ACCEPT. If you accept them, then their worth is great |