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not fuch grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me life which if I can fave, fo; if not, honour comes unlook'd for, and there's an end.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S. 3.

I will intreat you,
you, when you fee my fon,
To tell him, that his fword can never win
The honour that he loses.

All's well that ends well, A. 3, S. 2.

A jewel in a ten-times barr'd-up chest
Is-a bold fpirit in a loyal breast.

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done.

Richard 11. A. 1, S. 1.

I am not covetous for gold;

Nor care I, who doth feed upon my coft;
It yerns me not, if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my defires:
But, if it be a fin to covet honour,

I am the most offending foul alive.

Henry V. A. 4, S. 3.

If they wrong her honour,

The proudest of them fhall well hear of it.

Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1.

Those that leave their valiant bones in France,

Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills, They fhall be fam'd; for there the fun fhall greet

them,

And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;
Leaving their earthly parts to choak your clime.

Henry V. A. 4, S. 3.

Though we lay thofe honours on this man,
To ease ourselves of divers flanderous loads,
He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,
To groan and fweat under the business,
Either led or driven, as we point the way.

Julius Cafar, A. 4, S. 1.

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New-inade honour doth forget men's names;

'Tis too refpective, and too fociable,

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King John, A. 1, S. 1.

I quake,

Left thou a feverous life shouldft entertain,
And fix or feven winters, more refpect

Than a perpetual honour.

Measure for Measure, A. 3, S. 1.

O, that estates, degrees, and offices,

Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear honour
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer!
How many then should cover, that ftand bare?
How many be commanded, that command?

Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 9.

What, fhall one of us,
That ftruck the foremost man of all this world,
But for fupporting robbers; fhall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?
And fell the mighty fpace of our large honours,
For fo much trash, as may be grasped thus?—
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than fuch a Roman

Julius Cæfar, A. 4, S. 3.
If, you can report,

And prove it too, against mine honour aught,
My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty
Against your facred perfon, in God's name,
Turn me away; and let the foul'ft contempt
Shut door upon me, and fo give me up
To the fharpeft kind of justice.

Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4.

'Tis too refpective.] i. e. refpectful.

STEEVENS.

"Refpective" is not, in this place, respectful, but particular,

too much attached to felf.

A. B.

HOPE.

HOP E.

Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer.

Tempest, A. 3, S. 3.

Hope is a lover's ftaff; walk hence with that,

And manage it against despairing thoughts.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1.
Were it good,

To fet the exact wealth of all our states
All at one caft? to fet fo rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good: for therein fhould we 'read
The very bottom and the foul of hope.

Henry IV. P. I, A. 4, S. 1.
When this loose behaviour I throw off,
pay the debt I never promised,

And
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falfify men's hopes.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 1, S. 2.

In God's name, march:

True hope is fwift, and flies with fwallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Richard III. A. 5, S. 2.

O momentary grace of mortal men,

Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks,
Lives like a drunken failor on a mast;

I

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bottom and the foul of hope.] To read the bottom and foul of hope, and the bound of fortune, though all the copies, and all the editors have received it, furely cannot be right. I can think on no other word than rifque.

"therein should we risque

"The very bottom, &c."

JOHNSON.

Change is unneceffary. "To read" is to discover. We now talk of reading a man, i. e. that we are able to discover,that we can eafily fee through his defigns.

A. B.

Ready,

Ready, with every nod, to tumble down

Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

Richard III. A. 3, S. 4.

Lord cardinal, if thou think'ft on heaven's blifs,
Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.-
He dies, and makes no fign.-

Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 3.

The ample propofition, that hope makes
In all defigns begun on earth below,

Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and difafters
Grow in the reins of actions highest rear'd:
As knots, by the conflux of meeting fap,
Infect the found pine, and divert his grain,
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
Troilus and Creffida, A. 1,

O, how wretched

Is that poor man, that hangs on princes favours!
.There is, betwixt that fmile we would aspire to,
That fweet afpect of princes, and our ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer;

Never to hope again.

S. 3.

Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2.

I will defpair, and be at enmity

With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,

A parafite, a keeper back of death,

Who gently would diffolve the bands of life.

Richard II. A. 2, S. 2.

A caufe on foot

Lives fo in hope, as in an early spring

We fee the appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, Hope gives not fo much warrant as despair;

That frofts will bite them.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 3.

The miferable have no other medicine,

But only hope.

Mcafure for Meafure, A. 3, S. 1.

I fome

I fometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;
As those that fear they hope, and know they fear 1.
As you like it, A. 5, S. 4.

HORROR.

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow
Of bragging horror.

King John, A. 5, S. 1.

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I would my horse had the speed of your tongue;

And fo good a continuer.

Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S. 1. Where think'ft thou he is now? Stands he, or fits he? Or does he walk? or is he on his horfe?

O happy horfe to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horfe! for wot'ft thou whom thou mov't?
The demy Atlas of this earth, the arm

And burgonet of man.

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 5.

As thofe that fear they hope, and know they fear.] This strange nonsense should be read thus:

"As thofe that fear their hap, and know their fear."

i. c. As thofe that fear the iffue of a thing, when they know their fear to be well grounded. WARBURTON.

The depravation of the line is evident, but I do not think the learned commentator's emendation very happy. I read thus: "As those that fear with hope, and hope with fear."

JOHNSON.

The author of the Revifal would read: "As thofe that fear their hope, and know their fear." Blackftone,

"As those that feign they hope, and know they fear." Mufgrave,

"As those that fear, then hope, and know their fear." I read,

I am

"As thofe that hope they fear, then know they fear." puzzled, or perplexed like to thofe perfons, who at one time form to themselves imaginary notions or fears; who then hope thofe fears are groundless, and who afterwards are convinced that they are fo.

A. B.

O, for

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