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hope, he that looks upon me will take me without weighing. Ibid. i. 2.-She hath legions of angels.1 M. Wives of Wind. i. -I had my3. self twenty angels given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in any such sort as they say, but in the way of honesty. Ibid. ii. 2. -Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,-Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essense,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.2 Mea. for Mea. ii. 2. Anger. You are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire. Jul. Cæs. iv. 3.———— Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him. Hen. viii. i. 1. -What sudden anger's this? Ibid. iii. 2. Ibid.

-I fear the story of his anger. May be, he hears The king does whet his anger to him. Ibid. -Never anger Made good guard for itself. Ant. & Cleo. iv. 1.-Never till this day Saw I him touched with anger so distempered. Temp. iv. 1. Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour. Two G. of Ver. iv. 3.

-And never to my red-looked anger be The trumpet any more. Wint. Tale, ii. 2.-Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. Cor. iv. 2.-To be in anger is impiety; But who is man that is not angry? Tim. of Ath. iii. 5.- -But that my master rather played than fought, And had no help of anger. Cymb. i. 2.- -Kent: Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege. Cor.: Why art thou angry? Lear, ii. 2.- You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age Touch me with noble anger, And let not woman's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks. Ibid. ii. 2.- -Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger. Ibid. iii. 7. A countenance more În sorrow than in anger. Hamlet, i. 2. O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! Tw. Night, iii. 1.

Angering. Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Angering itself and others." Lear,

iv. 1.

Angle (d). So angle we for Beatrice. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iii. 1. -She knew her distance, and did angle for me. Alls' Well, v. 3.But I fear the angle that plucks our son thither. Wint. Tale, iv. I. -And by his face, this seeming brow of justice, Did he win the hearts of all that he did angle for. 1 Hen. iv. iv. 3.-And fell so soundly to a large confession To angle for your thoughts. Troi. & Cress. iii. 2.- Throws out his angle for my proper life. Hamlet, v. 2.One of the prettiest touches of all, and that which angled for mine eyes-caught the water though not the fish.. Wint. Tale, v. 2. Angling. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iii. 1.—I am angling now, Though you perceive me not how I give line. Wint. Tale, i. 2.

Angry. Redeem your brother from the angry law? Mea. for Mea. iii. 1.-And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death. Cor. iii. 1.- -There's matter in't indeed, if he be

1 The inn so called.

2 Who, had they our splenic humour, would laugh themselves out of their immortality.

angry. Oth. iii. 2.If he be angry, he knows how to turn his girdle.1 Much Ado. Ab. Noth.,

V. I.

Anguish. Is there no play To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? Mid. N. Dr. vi. 1.

-Many simples operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish. Lear, iv. 4. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect By your eyes' anguish. Ibid. iv. 6. One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessened by another's anguish. Rom. &. Jul. i. 2. Animal (s). But you are more intemperate in your blood Than Venus, or those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iv. 1. He is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2. -Thou almost makest me waver in my faith To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. Mer. of Ven. iv. 1.- -The wretched animal heaved forth such groans That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting. As You Like It, ii. 1.-Swearing that we Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals. Ibid.-Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Lear, iii. 4.

Anna. Thou art to me as secret and as dear As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was. T. of Shr.

i. I.

Annexment. When it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Hamlet, iii. 3.

Annoy. Sound drums and trumpets! farewell sour annoy! 3 Hen. vi. v. 7.-Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy! Rich. iii. v. 3. Annoyance. Remove from her the means of all annoyance. Macb. v. 1.

Anoint (ed). And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword. Hamlet, iv. 7.-Giv'st thy anointed body to the cure Of those physicians that first wounded thee. Rich. ii. ii. 1.- -Com'st thou because the anointed king is hence? Ibid. ii. 3. -Anointed let me be with deadly poison, And die ere men can say-God save the Queen! Rich. iii. iv. 1.—Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's Anointed. Ibid. iv. 4. Anon. I come anon. M. Wives of Wind. iii. 2.

He will be here anon. Ibid. iv. 2.-I will call upon you anon. Mea. for Mea. iv. 1.

Of this discourse we more will hear anon. Mid. N. Dr.iv.1.-Anon, anon, sir !-look down into the Pomegranate Ralph. 1 Hen. iv. ii. 4. Answer. You shall never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. As You Like It, iv. 1. And then comes answer like an A. B. C. book. K. John, i. 1.-Let me go no farther to mine answer. Much Ado Ab. Noth. v. 1.-But for me, I have an answer will serve all men. All's Well, ii. 2.-It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all

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1 "Large belts were worn with the buckle before; but, for wrestling, the buckle was turned behind, to give the adversary a fairer grasp at the girdle. To turn the buckle Halliwell-Phillips offers, however, a better explanation. behind was therefore a challenge."-Holt White. "The challenge was to fight; to turn the girdle was to put the sword-sheath a little back in order to draw the weapon." This proverbial form of expression lasted as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century: for, in Dean Swift's "Polite Conversation," we read;-Lady Answerall. "Mr. Neverout, if Miss will be angry or nothing, take my counsel, and tie her, turn the buckle of her girdle behind her."

demands. Ibid. ii. 2. Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer1 be Britons must take. Cymb. v. 3. Answered. Our hopes are answered. Jul. Cæs. v. 1.

Ant. We'll set thee to school to an ant to teach thee there's no labouring in the winter. Lear, ii. 4. Anthem(s). An ending anthem of my endless dolour. Two. G. of Ver. iii. 1. For my voice, I have lost it with halloaing and singing of Anthems. 2 Hen. iv. i. 2.

Anthropophagi (nian). The Anthropophagi, and whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. Oth. i. 3.-Go knock and call; he'll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto thee. M. Wives of Wind. iv. 5.

Antiates. As I guess, Marcius, Their bands in the vaward are the Antiates, Of their best trust. Cor. i. 6.

Antic (s). And there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. Rich. ii. iii. 2.Thou antic death which laugh'st us here to scorn. 1 Hen. vi. iv. 7.- -Nature, drawing of an antic, Made a foul blot. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iii. 1.Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves, Were he the veriest antic in the world. T. of Shr. Ind. 1.-For, indeed, three such antics do not amount to a man. Hen. v. iii. 2.Behold, distraction, frenzy, and amazement, Like witless antics, one another meet. Troi. & Cress. v. 3. What dares the slave Come hither, covered with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? Rom. & Jul. i. 5.As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Hamlet, i. 5.Mine own tongue Splits what it speaks the wild disguise hath almost Anticked us all. Ant. & Cleo. ii. 7. Anticipating. Anticipating time with starting courage. Troi. & Cress. iv. 5. Anticipation. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Hamlet, ii. 2. Anticly. Scambling- out-facing, fashion-monging boys, That lie and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go anticly, show outward hideousMuch Ado Ab. Noth. v. i. Antidote. And, with some sweet oblivious3 antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart. Macb. v. 3. Antipathy. No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. Lear, ii. 2. Antipodes. I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes. Much Ado Ab. Noth. ii. I.We should hold day with the Antipodes,

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If you would walk in absence of the sun. Mer. of Ven. v. 1.-Who all this while hath revelled in the night, whilst we were wandering with the Antipodes. Rich. ii. iii. 2. Thou art as opposite to every good As the Antipodes are unto us. 3 Hen. vi. i. 4.

Antiquary. Instructed by the antiquary times, He must, he is, he cannot but be wise. Troi. & Cress. ii. 3.

Antique (ic). We will have, if this fadges not, an antic. Love's L. Lost, v. I.- -O good old

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Antres. Wherein of antres vast,2 and deserts idle,3 Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak. Oth. i. 3. Anvil. Here I clip the anvil of my sword. iv. 5. Apace. Our nuptial hour draws on apace. Mid. N. Dr. i. 1.

Apart. Resolve yourselves apart.5 Macb. iii. 1. Ape (s). It cannot be i' the eye, for apes and monkeys, Twixt two such shes, would chatter this way, and contemn with mows the other. Cymb. i. 6. O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her. Ibid. ii. 2.-Sometime like apes, that moe and chatter at me, And after bite me. Temp. ii. 2.I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bearward, and lead his apes into hell. Much Ado Ab. Noth. ii. 1. So deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens. Ibid. ii. 1.- -He is then a giant to an ape, but then is an ape a doctor to such a man. Ibid. v. 1.

-The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. Rom. & Ful. ii. 1.—He keeps them, like an ape doth nuts, in the corner of his jaw. Hamlet, iv. 2.-I know this man well; he hath been since an ape-bearer. Wint. Tale. iv. 3. That rare Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her ape. Ibid. V. 2.-Imitari is nothing so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That when he plays at tables chides the dice In honourable terms. Ibid. v. 2.-The next thing then she waking looks upon,-Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Mid. N. Dr. ii. 1. but that they call compliment is like the encounter of two dogapes. As You Like It, ii. 5.-I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. Ibid. iv. I.I must dance barefoot on her wedding. day, And for your love to her lead apes in hell.7 T. of Shr. ii. 1.- -Out, you mad-headed ape! 1 Hen. iv. ii. 3.- -And to the English court assemble now, From every region apes of idleness. 2 Hen. iv. iv. 4. Look, if the fat villain have

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not transformed him ape. Ibid. ii. 2.poor ape! how thou sweatest. Ibid. ii. 4. Because that I am little like an ape, he thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders. Rich. iii. iii. 1. How have you run from slaves that apes would beat! Cor. i. 4.— -You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds, Jul. Cæs. v. I.

Apennines. Talking of the Alps and Apennines. K. John, i. 1.

Apish. This apish and unmannerly approach. K. John, v. 2.- -Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy. Rich. iii. i. 3.

Apollo. For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods, Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase. Mid. N. Dr. ii. 1. Wilt thou have music? Hark! Apollo plays, And twenty cagèd nightingales do sing. T. of Shr. Ind. 2.- I have dispatched in post To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple. Wint. Tale, ii. 1. -Twenty-three days They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells The great Apollo suddenly will have The truth of this appear. Ibid. ii. 3. -Great Apollo, Turn all to the best. Ibid. iii. 1.-Bring forth. And in Apollo's name, his oracle. Ibid. iii. 2. This sealed-up oracle, by the hand delivered Of great Apollo's priest. Now, blessed be the great Apollo. Ibid. iii. 2.Apollo be my judge! Ibid. -Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves Do strike at my injustice. Ibid. iii. 2. Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle! Ibid.

The gods themselves. Humbling their deities to love, have taken The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter Became a bull, and bellowed; the green Neptune A ram, and bleated; and the firerobed god, Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain, As I seem now. Ibid. iv. 3. -Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love, what Cressid is. Troi. & Cress. i. 1. He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness Wrinkles Apollo's. Ibid. ii. 2. Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. Lear, i. 1.

Apoplexed. Sense,2 sure you have, Else could you not have motion :3 but sure, that sense Is apoplexed. Hamlet, iii. 4.

Apoplexy. This apoplexy will certain be his end. 2 Hen. iv. iv. 4. Apostrophes. You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2. Apothecary. I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts he dwells,-which late I noted In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows Culling of simples. Rom. & Jul. v. 1. O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Ibid. v. 3. Appal (s). How is't with me when every noise appals me? Macb. ii. 1.- -Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil. Ibid. iii. 4.- -Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy, Thou dreadful Ajax; that the appalled air May pierce the head of the great

iv. 5.

Troi. & Cress.

combatant, And hale him hither. The dreadfui Sagittary Appals our numbers. Ibid. v. 5.-He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. Hamlet, ii. 2.

Apparel. Every true man's apparel fits your thief. Mea. for Mea. iv. 2.- -Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Hamlet, i. 3.Apparel vice like Virtue's harbinger. Com. of Err. iii. 2.You shall find her the infernal Até in good apparel. Much Ado Ab. Noth. ii. 1.-Fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Ibid. iii. 3.[ beseech thee, apparel thy head. Love's L. Lost, V. I.- -I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean, nor believe he can have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly. All's Well, iv. 3.I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown. Rich. ii.

111. 3.

Apparent. Next to thyself, and my young rover, he's Apparent 2 to my heart. Wint. Tale, i. 2.

-Were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent. I Hen. iv. i. 2.—I'll draw it as apparent to the crown. 3 Hen. vi. ii. 2. Apparition(s). I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions to start Into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes. Much Ado Ab. Noth. iv. 1.-———Ï think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. Jul. Cæs. iv. 3.That if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it. Hamlet, i. 1. Appeach (ed). I will appeach the villain. Rich. 21. V. 2.- -Come, come, disclose The state of your affections; for your passions Have to the full appeached. All's Well, i. 3.

Appeal. Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him, If he appeal the duke on ancient malice. Rich. ii. i. 1.- As well appeareth by the cause you come; Namely, to appeal each other of high treason. Ibid. To defend my loyalty and truth To God, king, and his succeeding issue, against the Duke of Hereford that appeals Ibid. i. 3.Whenever yet was your appeal denied? 2 Hen. iv. iv. 1. -This lies all within The will of God, to whom I do appeal. Hen. v. i. 2.-1 -Upon his own appeal,3 seizes him. Ant. & Cleo. iii. 5.- -The duke's unjust Thus to retort your manifest appeal. Mea. for Mea. v. 1.

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Appeared. Your favour 5 is well appeared by your tongue. Cor. iv. 3.

Appears. Wherein he appears as I would wish
mine enemy. Hen. viii. iii. 2.-Appear it to
your mind That, through the sight I bear in things
from Jove, I have abandoned Troy. Troi. &
Cress. iii. 3.

Appease. O God! if my deep prayers cannot
appease thee.
Rich. iii. i. 4.
Appellant. Free from other misbegotten hate,
1 This Sagittary is described by John Lydgate, in his
"Three Destructions of Troy," as a wondrous beast,
shaped from the navel upwards like a man, and "lower
down like a horse,"-in other words, a Centaur-he had

1 So Milton, in his Comus,-" As musical as is Apollo's eyes red as a coal, and shot furiously.

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2 Sense sensation.

3 Motion-natural impulses.

2 Nearest, like an heir apparent.

3 Here used in the sense of "accusation." 4 Refer back. 5 Appearance.

Come I appellant to this princely presence. Rich. ii. i. 1.- The appellant in all duty greets your highness. Ibid. i. 3. Appendix. My master hath appointed me to go to St. Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix. T. of Shr. iv. 4.

Appertaining. The reason that I have to love thee, Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting. Rom. & Jul. iii. 1.-I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender. Love's L. Lost, i. 2. Appertainments. Lay by Our appertainments, visiting of him. Troi. & Cress. ii. 3. Appertinent. Other gifts appertinent to man. 2 Hen iv. i. 2.And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.

Appetite. Oh, she did so course o'er my exterfors with such a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! M. Wives of Wind. i. 3.—Lord Angelo is precise; Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone. Mea. for Mea. i. 3. Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite. Ibid. ii. 4. -But doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Much Ado Ab. Noth. ii. 3.

-Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? Mer. of Ven. ii. 6. -Alas, their love may be called appetite,-No motion of the liver but the palate,-That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt. Tw. Night, ii. 4. -And taste with a distempered appetite. Ibid. i. 5.—Belike, then, my appetite was not princely got. 2 Hen. iv. ii. 2.- -Moreover, urge his hateful luxury, And bestial appetite in change of lust. Rich. iii. iii. 5.-Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts, Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. Ant. & Cleo. ii. 1. -And appetite, an universal wolf. Troi. & Cress. i. 3.Here, there, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite That what he will he does and does so much That proof is called impossibility. Ibid. v. 5.

-I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite.
Cymb. iii. 6.She would hang on him, As if
increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.
Hamlet. i. 2.Even as her appetite shall play
the god With his weak function. Oth. ii. 3.-
Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health
on both. Macb. iii. 4.- -And then to breakfast,
With what appetite you have. Hen. viii. iii. 2.-
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare
imagination of a feast? Rich. ii. i. 3.
Applaud. You that will follow me to this at-
tempt, Applaud the name of Henry with your
leader. 3 Hen. vi. iv. 2.—I would applaud
thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.
Macb. v. 3.

Apple (s). A goodly apple rotten at the heart; O
what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Mer. of
Ven. i. 3.1
-There's a small choice in rotten
apples. T. of Shr. i. 1. As much as an
apple doth an oyster, and all one. Ibid. iv. 2.

-An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin Than
these two creatures. Tw. Night, v. 1.-These
are the youths that thunder at the playhouse and
fight for bitten apples. Hen. viii. v. 3.-She's
as like this as a crab is like an apple. Lear, i.5.-
I am withered like an old apple-john. 1 Hen. iv.

iii. 3. The prince once set a dish of applejohns before him, and told him, there were five more Sir Johns. 2 Hen. iv. ii. 4. Apple-tart. Carved like an apple-tart. T. of Shr. iv. 3.

Appliance (s). Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. Hamlet, iv. 3. -With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? 2 Hen. iv. iii. 1. Thou art too noble to conserve a life In base appliances. Mea. for Mea. iii. 1.- -I come to tender it, and my appliance, With all bound humbleness. All's Well, ii. 1. -Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only, Which your disease requires. Hen. viii. i. 1. Application. The rest have worn me out With several applications. All's Well, i. 2. Appoint, Appointed. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled, To appoint myself in this vexation? Wint. Tale, i. 2.--It shall be so my care To have you royally appointed. Ibid. iv. 3. -What, shall I be appointed hours; as though, belike, I knew not what to take, and what to leave, ha! T. of Shr. i. 1. -Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed king at Hampton pier Embark his royalty. Hen. v. iii. (Chorus).- -The Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. Ι Hen. vi. iv. 2.

Appointment. Therefore your best appointment make with speed. Mea. for Mea. iii. 1.

-That from the castle's totter'd battlements Our fair appointments may be well perused. Rich. ii. iii. 3.-That good fellow, If I command him, follows my appointment. Hen. viii. ii. 2.

-Where their appointment we may best discover, And look on their endeavour. Ant. & Cleo. iv. 10.- -Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair. Troi. & Cress. iv. 5. —A pirate of very warlike appointment. Hamlet,

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Apprehend. Cousin, you apprehend passing
shrewdly. Much Ado Ab. Noth. ii. 1.- -Appre-
hend Nothing but jollity. Wint. Tale, iv. 3.-
To apprehend thus, Draws us a profit from all
things we see. Cymb. iii. 3.

Apprehension. Oh, no! the apprehension of
the good Gives but the greater feeling to the
worse: Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle
more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Rich. ii. i. 3.—How long have you professed
apprehension? Much Ado Ab. Noth. iii. 4.
If the English had any apprehension, they
would run away. Hen. v. iii. 7.-I'll note
you in my book of memory, To scourge you for
this apprehension. 1 Hen. vi. ii. 4.
That's a
lascivious apprehension. Tim. of Ath. i. 1.-
The sense of death is most in apprehension. Mea.
for Mea. iii. 1.

Apprehensive. So in the world; 'tis furnished
well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and
apprehensive. Jul. Cæs. iii. 1.

Apprenticehood. Must I not serve a long apprenticehood To foreign passages? Rich. ii.

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Approached. He was expected then, but not approached. Cymb. ii. 4.

Approbation. Which was as gross as ever touched conjecture That lacked sight only, nought for approbation,1 But only seeing. Wint. Tale, ii. 1.How many now in health Shall drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite us to. Hen. v. i. 2.Men. : Ha! Marcius coming home? Vol.: Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous approbation. Cor. ii. 1.- -Would I had put my estate, and my neighbour's, on the approbation of what I have spoke. Cymb. i. 4.

Approof. So in approof lives not his epitaph, As in your royal speech. All's Well, i. 2.-Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. Ibid. ii. 5. -Prove such a wife As my thoughts make thee and as my farthest band Shall pass on thy approof. Ant. & Cleo. iii. 2. Appropriation. He makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe him himself. Mer. of Ven. i. 2.

Approve (s). To approve Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby, To God, his sovereign, and to him disloyal. Rich. ii. i. 3. -I am full sorry That he approves the common liar.3 Ant. & Cleo. i. 1.And that my sword upon thee shall approve. Tit. And. ii. 1.- I left out one thing which the queen confest, which must approve thee honest. Cymb. v. 5. I know't my sister's: this approves her letter That she would soon be here. Lear, ii. 4.- -This is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France. Ibid. iii. 5.

That, if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes, and speak to it. Hamlet, i. 1.

-I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not much approve me. Ibid. v. 2.-But the main article I do approve In fearful sense. Oth. i. 3. And he that is approved in this offence, Though he had twinned with me, both at a birth, Shall lose me. Ibid. ii. 3.My love doth so approve him That even his stubbornness, his checks, and frowns Have grace and favour in them. Ibid. iv. 3. -Oh, 'tis the curse of love, and still approved. Two G. of Ver. v. 4.My trusty servant, well approved in all. T. of Shr. i. 1.

Approvers.

Their discipline, Now mingled with their courage, will make known to their approvers 5 they are people such That mend upon the world. Cymb. ii. 4. Appurtenance. The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Hamlet, ii. 2. Apricocks. Feed him with apricocks and dewberries. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 1.- -Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks, Which like unruly children, make their sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. Rich. ii. iii. 4. April. Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims Which spongy April at thy 'hest betrims. Temp. iv. 1. He smells April and May. M. Wives of Wind. iii. 2.— -A day in April never came so sweet To show how costly summer was at hand, As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord. Mer. of Ven. ii. 9.-Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids'are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they

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are wives. As You Like It, iv. 1.- -The April's in her eyes; it is love's spring, And these the showers to bring it on. Ant. & Cleo. iii. 2. When well-apparelled April on the heel Of limping Winter treads. Rom. & Jul. i. 2.-Oh, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away! Two G. of Ver. i. 3.-This [gold] embalms and spices To the April day again. Tim. of Ath. iv. 3.

Apron-men. You have made good work, You and your apron-men. Cor. iv. 6.

Apt. I have a heart as little apt as yours, But yet a brain that leads my use of anger to better vantage. Cor. iii. 2.-Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Jul. Cæs. iii. 1.—I find thee apt, And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this. Hamlet, i. 5.- -It had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in.2 Oth. ii. 1. -That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it That she loves him, 'tis apt, and of great credit. Ibid. ii. 1.-Armado: Pretty and apt. Moth: How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or I apt, and my saying pretty? Armado: Thou pretty because little. Moth: Little pretty, because little, Wherefore apt? Armado: And therefore apt, because quick. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.

Aptly. That part Was aptly fitted, and naturally performed. T. of Shr. Ind. s. 1.

Aptness. The nobles receive so to heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus, that they are in ripe aptness to take all power from the people, and to pluck from them their tribunes for ever. Cor. iv. 3.- -Frame yourself To orderly solicits, and be friended With aptness of the seasons. Cymb. ii. 3.

Aqua-vitæ. Does it work upon him? Like aqua-vite with a midwife. Tw. Night, ii. 5.Oh, well-a-day, that ever I was born! Some aquavita, ho! Rom. & Jul. iv. 5.

Aquilon. Outswell the cholic of puffed Aquilon. Troi. & Cress. iv. 5.

Aquitain. About surrender up of Aquitain.

Love's L. Lost, i. 1.—The plea of no less weight than Aquitain, A dowry for a queen. Ibid. ii. 1. I'll give you Aquitain, and all that is his, An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss. Ibid.

Arabia(n). The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty 5 wilds Of wide Arabia, are as thoroughfares now For princes to come view fair Portia. Mer. of Ven. ii. 7.-I would my son Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him, His good sword in his hand. Cor. iv. 2. -O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!6 Ant. & Cleo. iii. 2.- -If she be furnished with a mind so rare, She is alone the Arabian bird. Cymb. i. 6.—All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Macb. v. 1.-One whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as

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