Com. of Errors, iv. 2. Meas for Meas. ii. 4. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1 AUSTERELY. If I have too austerely punished you, Your compensation makes amends Tempest, iv. 1. Crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 4. All's Well, i. 3. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. ill. 2. Twelfth Night, 5. V. I. When we know the grounds and authors of it, Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge - After all comparisons of truth, As truth's authentic author to be cited Henry V. Epil. 3 Henry VI. iv. 6. Troi. and Cress. Prol. iii. 2. iii. 3 Coriolanus, v. 3. Titus Andron. i. 1. Hamlet, ii. 2. iv. 5. The strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance Ant. and Cleo. ii. 6. AUTHORITY. Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves . Meas. for Meas. i. 2. ii. 2. ii. 2. ii. 2. iv. 2. Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself If law, authority, and power deny not, It will go hard with poor Antonio I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority By his great authority; Which often hath no less prevailed iv. 4. Much Ado, iv. 1. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. i. 2. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2. iv. 1. All's Well, n. 3. Winter's Tale, ii. 1. From that supernal judge, that stirs good thoughts In any breast of strong authority King John, ii. 1. 'Gainst the authority of manners, prayed you To hold your hand more close Timon of Athens, ii. 2. The power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing AUTHORIZED. - A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam . King Lear, iv. 6. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 6. iii. 13. Macbeth, iii. 4. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2. AUTUMN. -The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. King Lear, iv. 6. Ant. and Cleo. v. 2. Winter's Tale, iii. 2. AVAIL. I charge thee, As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, To tell me truly All's Well, i. 3. Which to deny concerns more than avails AVARICE. -There grows In my most ill-composed affection such A stanchless avarice. Macbeth, iv. 3. This avarice Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root iv. 3. AVARICIOUS. - I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful Macbeth, iv. 3. Richard III. i. 2. . Henry VIII. ii. 3. Macbeth, iii. 4. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. To give her the avaunt! it is a pity Would move a monster Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless AVE-MARIES. His mind is bent to holiness, To number Ave-Maries on his beads 2 Henry VI. i. 3. In black mourning gowns, Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads 3 Henry VI. ii. 1. AVOID. — I am sure 't is safer to Avoid what's grown than question how 't is born Winter's Tale, i. 2. What I am I cannot avoid, yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame Merry Wives, iii. 5. I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come AVOIDED. - A foul mis-shapen stigmatic, Marked by the destinies to be avoided What cannot be avoided 'T were childish weakness to lament or fear. Of all men else I have avoided thee: But get thee back What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? AVOIRDUPOIS. - A hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois AVOUCH, Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes AWAKE, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake I bring a trumpet to awake his ear, To set his sense on the attentive bent. AWAKENS me with this unwonted putting-on. 3 Henry VI. ii. 2. . V. 4. Macbeth, v. 7. Julius Cæsar, ii. 2. 2 Henry IV. ii. 4. Hamlet, i. 1. Tempest, i. 2. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Meas. for Meas. iv. 2. ii. 4. AWE.-Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls To thy false seeming I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o' the world were now undone. AXE. Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak No leisure bated, No, not to stay the grinding of the axe Hamlet, iv. 5. . V. 2. Henry IV. iii. 1. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Cymbeline, ii. 2. B. BABBLE. This babble shall not henceforth trouble me For the watch to babble and talk is most tolerable and not to be endured BABBLED. His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields Two Gen. of Verona, i. 2. The babbling echo mocks the hounds, Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns How wayward is this foolish love, That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse So holy writ in babes hath judgement shown When judges have been babes So much feared abroad That with his name the mothers still their babes A mother only mocked with two sweet babes. Ah, my tender babes! My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me All's Well, i. 1. Winter's Tale, ii. 2. .1 Henry VI. ii. 3. Richard III. iv. 4iv. 4. Macbeth, i 7. i. 7. Hamlet, iii. 3. BABE. King Lear, i. 3. Ant. and Cleo. v. 2. Old fools are babes again; and must be used With checks as flatteries. BABY.-The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum Macbeth, iv. I. Meas. for Meas. i. 3. enraged King John, v. 2. 2 Henry VI. i. 3. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him Broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves. Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?. And the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor. ii. 1. ii. 3. He shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. BACK. I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man 2 Henry IV. i. 2. Titus Andron. i. 1. Julius Cæsar, iii. 3. Twelfth Night, i. 3. Com. of Errors, iv. 2. . Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. King John, ii. 1. Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes Most pestilent to the hearing; and, to bear 'em, The back is sacrifice to the load Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back I love and honour him, But must not break my back to heal my finger Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back Who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Macbeth, v. 5. Hamlet, v. 1. King Lear, iii. 4. Ant. and Cleo. v. 2. Cymbeline, v. 3. Henry IV. ii. 4. Tempest, i. 2. Much Ado, iii. 1. BACKWARD. - Only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull All's Well, i. 1. BACON.-Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. A gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger Hamlet, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. Merry Wives, iv. 1. .1 Henry IV. ii. 1. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. He wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better Two G. of Ver. ii. 6. Among nine bad if one be good, There's yet one good in ten A miscreant, Too good to be so and too bad to live Shall seem as light as chaff, And good from bad find no partition You know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses Eyes, that so long have slept upon This bold bad man. Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general. Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind So slippery that The fear's as bad as falling Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that From one bad thing to worse I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn To any living creature . All's Well, i. 3. Richard II. i. 1. 2 Henry IV. iv. 1. .3 Henry VI. ii. 2. v. 6. Richard III. i. 2. iii. 6. Henry VIII. ii. 2. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Macbeth, ii. 4. ill. 2. Hamlet, ii. 2. iii. 4. iii. 4. King Lear, iv. 1. iii. 3. iv. 2. Pericles, iv. I. Much Ado, i. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. Mer. of Venice, i. 3. BADGE. - Joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience Left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge BADNESS. A provoking merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself. If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more, Had I more name for badness. BAG. Not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage It will let in and out the enemy With bag and baggage. See thou shake the bags Of hoarding abbots BAIT the hook well; this fish will bite And greedily devour the treacherous bait. Richard II. v. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 3. Henry V. iv. 7. Titus Andron. i. 1. ii. 1. King Lear, iii. 5. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. As You Like It, iii. 2. Winter's Tale, i. 2. King John, iii. 3. Much Ado, ii. 3. Go we near her that her ear lose nothing Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion Be caught with cautelous baits and practice. With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous, Than baits to fish See you now; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. BAITED.Why stay we to be baited With one that wants her wits? BAKED. - A minced man: and then to be baked with no date in the pie Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. Mer. of Venice, i. I. 2 Henry IV. iii. 2. Coriolanus, iv. 1. Titus Andron. iv. 4. Romeo and Juliet, ii. Prol. Hamlet, ii. 1. Cymbeline, iii. 4. Coriolanus, iv. 2. Macbeth, v. 8. Troi. and Cress. i. 2. Hamlet, i. 2. ii. 2. Much A do, v. 1. All's Well, i. 3. Othello, i. 3. BALANCE. She shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance BALDPATE. Come hither, goodman baldpate: do you know me? ii. 2. ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball Rom.& Jul.ii. 5. BALLAD. Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar? The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow A divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads. . He utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to his tunes . An I have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy tunes I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top BALLAD-MONGERS. -Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers Love's L. Lost, i. 2. i. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. As You Like It, ii. 7. All's Well, i. 3. ii. 1. Winter's Tale, iv. 4. iv. 4. iv. 4. iv. 4. iv. 4. iv. 4. 1 Henry IV. ii. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 3. . Henry V. v. 2. Much Ado, i. 1. Winter's Tale, v. 2. 1 Henry IV. iii. 1. Com. of Errors, iii. 2. Richard II. i. 1. No balm can cure but his heart blood Which breathed this poison 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial Henry V. iv. 1. BAN. And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine Macbeth, ii. 2. King Lear, i. 1. Ant. and Cleo. v. 2. Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban. BAND. My kindness shall incite thee, To bind our loves up in a holy band Chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful. Much Ado, iii. 1. As You Like It, iv. 1. Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, Which false hope lingers in extremity BAN-DOGS.- -The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl. BANDY. - I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o'er-run thee with policy To bandy word for word and frown for frown I will not bandy with thee word for word, But buckle with thee blows - You should have banged the youth into dumbness BANISH plump Jack, and banish all the world If thou dost love thy lord, Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts BANISHED. To die is to be banished from myself; And Silvia is myself Hence-banished is banished from the world, And world's exile is death BANISHMENT. Eating the bitter bread of banishment Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here BANK. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit Came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets! Richard II. iii. 1. King Lear, i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. . Mer. of Venice, v. 1. Twelfth Night, i. 1. |