BEWARE Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee Hamlet, i. 3. my child Othello, iii. 3. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. 1 Henry IV. ii. 2. I am bewitched with the rogue's company. . Great men oft die by vile bezonians Coriolanus, ii. 3. . 2 Henry IV. v. 3. 2 Henry VI. iv. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 5. King John, ii. 1. BIAS. Thus the bowl should run, And not unluckily against the bias What he bids be done is finished with his bidding Hamlet, ii. 1. Twelfth Night, iv. 2. 2 Henry VI. i. 1. Richard II. i. 1. BIDDING.-Your worship was wont to tell me that I could do nothing without bidding Mer. of Ven. ii. 5. I shall not break your bidding, good my lord Leave me, And think upon my bidding What he bids be done is finished with his bidding BI-FOLD authority! where reason can revolt without perdition. BIG round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret. Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not My dagger in my mouth BILBOES. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes Only, have a care that your bills be not stolen. All's Well, ii. 5. Winter's Tale, ii. 3. Coriolanus, v. 4. Troi. and Cress. v. 2. As You Like It, ii. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2. Cymbeline, iv. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 5. Coriolanus, v. 3. Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. King Lear, iv. 6. Cymbeline, iv. 2. Merry Wives, v. 5. Hamlet, v. 2. We are likely to prove a goodly commodity, being taken up of these men's bills When shall we go to Cheapside and take up commodities upon our bills? Merry Wives, ii. 1. iii. 3. Mid. N. Dream, i. 2. 2 Henry VI. iv. 7. Meas. for Meas. iv. 3. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 5. Henry V. iii. Prol. BILLOW. Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads 2 Henry IV. iii. 1. BIND. Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind And show the world what the bird hath done to her own nest When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring BIRD. As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparrow 'T is but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. For both of you are birds of selfsame feather Such a pleasure as incaged birds Conceive . v. 6. iii. 1. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush The poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight And what will you do now? How will you live? - As birds do, mother iv. 4. Macbeth, i. 6. ii. 3. iv. 2. iv. 2. iv. 2. The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage If she be furnished with a mind so rare, She is alone the Arabian bird BIRD-BOLT. - Thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap BIRNAM. Until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come. I looked toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane BIRTH. - Vile worm, thou wast o'erlooked even in thy birth I pray you, dissuade him from her: she is no equal for his birth. Call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth? By birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker At thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune joined to make thee great Hamlet, i. 1. King Lear, v. 3. iv. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. V. 5. V. 5. Merry Wives, v. 5. . As You Like It, i. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 2. At my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward At your birth Our grandam earth, having this distemperature, In passion shook Ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated iii. 1. Richard II. ii. 1. 1 Henry IV. iii. 1. iii. I. ill. I. 3 Henry VI. v. 6. Hamlet, i. 1. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13. Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes King John, ii. 1. BISCUIT. As dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage . He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscuit. In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chewed grass BITE. - Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? — I do bite my thumb, sir BITTER. T is a physic That 's bitter to sweet end Meas. for Meas. iv. 6. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Too bitter is thy jest. Are we betrayed thus to thy over-view? Fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her with bitter words O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! As You Like It, iii. 5. iii. 5. iv. 3. V. 2. All's Well, i. 3. All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. Fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than 'T is sweet at first to acquire For this relief much thanks: 't is bitter cold, And I am sick at heart I am pigeon-livered and lack gall To make oppression bitter. V. 3. Winter's Tale, v. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 1. Richard III. iv. 4. Henry VIII. ii. 3. . Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times There's other work in hand: I see a thing Bitter to me as death BITTERLY. And she will speak most bitterly and strange Hamlet, i. 1. ii. 2. King Lear, i. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Othello, i. 1. Twelfth Night, i. 2. Othello, iv. 1. More bitterly could I expostulate, Save that, for reverence to some alive. Why, man, how black? Why, as black as ink The old saying is, Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes Is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a white spot about her What tellest thou me of black and blue?. Which indeed is not under white and black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons and the suit of night To look like her are chimney-sweepers black We will fool him black and blue, shall we not? nay, nothing is so black Timon of Athens, iv. 3. Macbeth, iv. I. v. 3. . Hamlet, i. 2. iii. 2. iii. 2. The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look? . If she be black, and thereto have a wit, She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit Othello, ii. 1. ii. 4. Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries? . BLACK-CORNERED. - When the day serves, before black-cornered night . I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders Timon of Athens, v. 1. . Romeo and Juliet, v. 1. .1 Henry VI. ii. 4. Much Ado, v. I. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. You break jests as braggarts do their blades, which, God be thanked, hurt not Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life I cannot blame thee now to weep; For such an injury would vex a very saint Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2. I blame you not; for you are mortal, And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil All's Well, iv. 3. Here abjure The taints and blames I laid upon myself, For strangers to my nature. BLANCH. Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me. And what's her history? - A blank, my lord. Out of the blank And level of my brain, plot-proof The one almost as infinite as all, The other blank as nothing It is lots to blanks, My name hath touched your ears As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poisoned shot Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye iv. I. V. I. Macbeth, iv. 3. King Lear, iii. 6. I have spoken for you all my best, And stood within the blank of his displeasure. BLANKET. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, ' Hold, hold!' He reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed. Meas. for Meas. ii. 2. That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy The wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy BLASTING in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime Shall we thus permit A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall On him? . Henry V. iii. 1. Richard III. i. 3. Macbeth, i. 7. Hamlet, i. 4. Othello, ii. 1. 2 Henry IV. i. 2. Hamlet, iii. 1. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13. Two Gen. of Verona, i. 1. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Hamlet, i. 3. All's Well, v. 3. His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves Richard II. ii. 1. The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again. BLAZON.I think your blazon to be true This eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens BLEAT. Will never answer a calf when he bleats. Much like to you, for you have just his bleat BLEED. If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? Coriolanus, ii. 1. iv. 3. Hamlet, i. 3. Titus Andron. iv. 4. V. 4. Mer. of Venice, iii. 1. Bleed. - Weep I cannot, But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I Our doctors say this is no month to bleed Winter's Tale, iii. 3. Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure. His integrity Stands without blemish In nature there's no blemish but the mind Speaking thick, which nature made his blemish BLEMISHES. Read not my blemishes in the world's report. BLENCH. Sometimes you do blench from this to that, As cause doth minister Bless it to all fair prosperity BLESSED. God hath blessed you with a good name She hath blessed and attractive eyes. How came her eyes so bright?. Is the single man therefore blessed? In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1. Tempest, i. 2. .2 Henry IV. ii. 3. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 3. iii. 13. . Meas for Meas. iv. 5. Troi. and Cress. ii. 2. Hamlet, ii. 2 Mer. of Venice, iii. 2. on Twelfth Night, i. 5. Love's L. Lost, v. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 1. iv. I. Much A do, iii. 3. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 2. As You Like It, iii. 3. 1 Henry IV. i. 1. 2 Henry IV. v. 3. . Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. Let me be blessed for the peace I make. 2 Henry VI. ii. 1. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Henry VIII. iii. 2. iv. 2. He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Not till then he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little It is a blessing that he bestows on beasts Hamlet, iii. 4. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. . Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. Thereof comes the proverb: Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale' Two Gen. of Verona, iii. 1. And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not. I feel too much thy blessing: make it less, For fear I surfeit. Having such a blessing in his lady, He finds the joys of heaven here on earth Tell me what blessings I have here alive, That I should fear to die? Now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings And steal immortal blessing from her lips Henry VIII. ii. 3. A pack of blessings lights upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her best array I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat That a swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country. A double blessing is a double grace; Occasion smiles upon a second leave iii. 2. V. 5. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3. iii. 3. Macbeth, i1. 2. iii. 6. Hamlet, i. 3. My blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness BLEST. Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men |