ACCIDENT.-'T is an accident that heaven provides This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not Meas. for Meas. iv. 3. Think no more of this night's accidents But as the fierce vexation of a dream Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune So far exceed all instance But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do 'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced By need and accident And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents . Spirits that admonish me And give me signs of future accidents Even his mother shall uncharge the practice And call it accident The shot of accident, nor dart of chance, Could neither graze nor pierce Do it at once; Orthy precedent services are all But accidents unpurposed Twelfth Night, iv. 3. V. J. 1 Henry IV. i. 2. .1 Henry VI. v. 3. Troi. and Cress. iii. 3. iv. 5. Hamlet, iii. 2. iv. 7. iv. 7. Othello, i. 1. i. 3. iv. I. V. I. Ant. and Cleo. iv. 14. Do that thing that ends all other deeds; Which shackles accidents and bolts up change Be not with mortal accidents opprest; No care of yours it is. . V. 2. Cymbeline, iv. 2. V. 4. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1. Julius Cæsar, iv. 3. .2 Henry IV. ii. 2. Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils - Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass Henry V. Prol. You must buy that peace With full accord to all our just demands Their speed Hath been beyond account I will call him to so strict account, That he shall render every glory up Takes no account How things go from him, nor resumes no care 2 Henry VI. iv. 2. Com. of Errors, ii. 1. Henry V. v. 2. V. 2. Hamlet, i. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Merry Wives, i. 1. Mer. of Venice, ii. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Macbeth, iii. 1. Hamlet, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2. Winter's Tale, ii. 3. 1 Henry IV. iii. 2. . Romeo and Juliet, v. 1. Timon of Athens, ii. 2. Hamlet, i. 5. . Meas. for Meas. ii. 4. ACCOUNT.-What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Macbeth, v. 1. ACCOUTREMENTS. - You are rather point-device in your accoutrements. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. As You Like It, iii. 2. ACCURSED and unquiet wrangling days, How many of you have mine eyes beheld! Richard III. ii. 4. Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!. Romeo and Juliet, iv. 5. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall not shame me I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush Let not his report Come current for an accusation We come not by the way of accusation, To taint that honour ACCUSE. - May, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us . Meas. for Meas. ii. 4. Much Ado, ii. 2. iv. 1. Winter's Tale, iii. 2. iii. 2. 1 Henry IV. i. 3. Henry VIII. iii. 1. Winter's Tale, i. 1. Hamlet, iii. 1. Richard II. i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace Charm ache with air and agony with words. A fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders. Aches contract and starve your supple joints! ACHERON. With drooping fog as black as Acheron ACHIEVE.-She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness Some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em ACHIEVER. A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers All their elves for fear Creep into acorn-cups I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn ACQUAINT. - Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows you I do feast to-night My best-esteemed acquaintance What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh Keep in a little life? Let our old acquaintance be renewed All that time, acquaintance, custom, and condition Made tame I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops That we have bled together. King Lear, iv. 7. 2 Henry IV. iv. 4. Tempest, i. 2. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. As You Like It, iii. 2. Tempest, ii. 2. Merry Wives, i. 1. ii. 2. Mer. of Venice, ii. 2. As You Like It, v. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1. Twelfth Night, i. 2. ii. 5. King John, v. 6. .1 Henry IV. v. 4. 2 Henry IV. iii. 2. 111. 2. Troi. and Cress. iii. 3. Coriolanus, v. I. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3. King Lear, iv. 3. Merry Wives, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 1. ACQUAINTED. — I 'll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal ACQUAINTED. I was well born, Nothing acquainted with these businesses. -Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me Now must your conscience my acquittance seal ACRE. - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet. If thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us. ACT. To perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue. We do not act that often jest and laugh Now puts the drowsy and neglected act Freshly on me. His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, And must be buried but as an intent One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages On us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act. He finished indeed his mortal act That day The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it. Be great in act, as you have been in thought The most arch act of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of The desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit The book of his good acts, whence men have read His fame unparalleled Thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast My dismal scene I needs must act alone. All's Well, iii. 7. . 2 Henry IV. v. 2. Richard III. iii. 7. Hamlet, iv. 7. Tempest, i. 1. iv. I. 1 Henry IV. i. 1. Hamlet, v. 1. Tempest, ii. 1. Merry Wives, iv. 2. . Meas. for Meas. i. 2. V. I. As You Like It, ii. 7. ii. 3 ill. 7. Twelfth Night, v. 1. iii. 3. iv. 2. iv. 3 V. I. Richard III. iv. 3. Henry VIII. iii. 2. Troi, and Cress. iii. 2. Coriolanus, v. 2. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 6. Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act iii. 3. iv. 3. Macbeth, i. 3. iv. 1. Hamlet, i. 2. i. 3. i. 3. iii. 3. iii. 4. iii. 4. iii. 4. V. I. It argues an act: and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, to perform My outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart. When the blood is made dull with the act of sport Though I am bound to every act of duty, I am not bound to that all slaves are free to Senseless bauble, Art thou a feodary for this act? It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness Few love to hear the sins they love to act How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over! Till strange love, grown bold, Think true love acted simple modesty I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted. ACTING. Or that the resolute acting of your blood Could have attained the effect Meas. for Meas. ii. 1. It is a part That I shall blush in acting Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion ACTION. - The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. I can construe the action of her familiar style More reasons for this action At our more leisure shall I render you In action all of precept, he did show me The way twice o'er Coriolanus, ii. 2. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. Tempest, v. 1. Merry Wives, i. 3. Meas. for Meas. i. 3. iv. 1. As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller Action and accent did they teach him there. Do not fret yourself too much in the action . How many actions most ridiculous Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? As You Like It, ii. 4. Certainly a woman's thought runs before her actions As I guess By the stern brow and waspish action. I'll bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law If powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do Whilst he that hears makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods Am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate? Not a dangerous action can peep out his head but I am thrust upon The undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on. iv. I. iv. 3. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2. Twelfth Night, iv. 1. When the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger As if The passage and whole carriage of this action Rode on his tide Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action Your helps are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous single For in such business action is eloquence iii. 4. IV. 2. iv. 3. V. 2. 1 Henry IV. iii. 3. 2 Henry IV. i. 2. i. 3. ii. 4. iv. 5. Henry V. i. 2. i. 2. iii. 1. . 2 Henry VI. v. 1. Henry VIII. i. 2. ii. 3. iii. 1. iv. 2. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. ii. 3. 111. 3. Coriolanus, ii. 1. ii. 1. iii. 2. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified Rom. & Jul. ii. 3. When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors These indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play. Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground That with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. That which combined us was most great, and let not A leaner action rend us I never saw an action of such shame If you will make 't an action, call witness to 't. My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relished of a base descent ACTIVITY. Doing is activity; and he will still be doing She'll bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your activity in question ACTOR.- These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ACTOR. - I'll be an auditor; An actor too perhaps, if I see cause A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor After a well-graced actor leaves the stage Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out - Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome . iv. 2. Macbeth, i. 7 ADAGE. Letting I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage iv. 3. Much Ado, i. 1. ii. 1. ii. 1. Love's L. Lost, v. 2. He that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder, and called Adam As You Like It, ii. 1. Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him Gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam's profession The Scripture says Adam digged: could he dig without arms? They supposed I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre ADD. - It adds a precious seeing to the eye ADDER. O brave touch! Could not a worm, an adder, do so much? With doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung. V. I. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. 1 Henry VI. i. 4. Troi. and Cress. iii. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. iii. 2. Is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye? Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf? Be poisonous too Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!. 2 Henry VI. iii. 2. 3 Henry VI. i. 4. Troi. and Cress. ii. 2. Titus Andron. ii. 3. Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision ADDICTED. Being addicted to a melancholy as she is If 't be he I mean, he's very wild; Addicted so and so ADDICTION. Since his addiction was to courses vain, His companies unlettered Each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him Yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends It is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly To undercrest your good addition To the fairness of my power It lifted up its head and did address Itself to motion. Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it Macbeth, iv. 1. Hamlet, iii. 4. King Lear, v. 1. Cymbeline, iv. 2. Twelfth Night, ii. 5. Hamlet, ii. 1. Henry V. i. 1. Othello, ii. 2. Merry Wives, ii. 2. Much Ado, ii. 3. All's Well, ii. 3. Troi. and Cress. i. 2. Coriolanus, i. 9. Hamlet, i. 4. King Lear, v. 3. Hamlet, i. 2. Macbeth, i. 7. Hamlet, ii. 2. All's Well, ii. I. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. King John, iii. 3. |