NIGHT,-continued. Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, In remembrance of a shroud. That the graves all gaping wide, By the triple Hecate's team, Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd M. M. iv. 1. M. N. v. 2. night, R. J. iii. 2. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve: Lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. M. N. v. 1. To bed, to bed: Sleep kill those pretty eyes, T. C. iv. 2. Beshrew the witch: with venomous wights she stays, As tediously as hell; but flies the grasps of love, With wings more momentary-swift than thought. T.C.iv.2 'Tis now the very witching time of night, A. W. iv. 4. When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out H. iii. 1. The time when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs howl. Hark! peace! H. VI. PT. II. i. 4. It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bell-man, M. ii. 2. Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. NIGHTINGALE. And to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. NOBILITY. R. J. iii. 2. T.G. v. 4. He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical: a great man, I'll warrant. O, that your young nobility could judge, W.T. iv. 3. They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; NOSE. R. III. i. 3. A good nose is requisite, to smell out work for the other senses. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes, but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. K. L. ii. 4. Fool.-Can'st tell, why one's nose stands i' the middle of his face? Lear.-No. Fool.-Why, to keep his eyes on either side his nose; that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into. K. L. i. 5. There is a fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his face, for o' my conscience, twenty of the dog-days now reign in's nose; all that stand about him are under the line, they need no other penance. NOTES. I will make a prief of it in my note book. NOVELTIES. H.VIII. v. 3. M. W. i. 1 That all, with one consent, praise new born gåwds, More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, T.C. iii. 3. Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. H. VIII. i. 3 NUN. Question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, NUN,-continued. Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, Chaunting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. M. N. i. 1. M. M. i. 5. OAK. The unwedgeable and gnarled oak. M.M. ii. 2. I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds J.C. i. 3. AGED. A. Y. iv. 3. Under an oak whose boughs were moss'd with age, OATHS (See also LOVERS' Vows). No, not an oath: If not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse, If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed; Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word, OATHS,-continued. Nor the unsuppressive metal of our spirits, To think, that, or our cause, or our performance, If he do break the smallest particle 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; J.C. ii. 1. A. W. iv. 2. Not yours, in good sooth! 'Heart, you swear like a comfit-maker's wife! Not you, in good sooth; and, As true as I live; and, As God shall mend me; and, As sure as day; And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths, as if thou never walk'dst further than Finsbury. Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, a good mouth-filling oath; and leave in sooth, and such protest of pepper gingerbread, to velvetguards, and Sunday citizens. H. IV. PT. I. iii. 1. Trust none; For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Myself, myself confound! Heaven, and fortune, bar me happy hours! Day, yield me not thy light; nor night, thy rest! Be opposite, all planets of good luck, To my proceeding, if, with pure heart's love, Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts, H.V. ii. 3. I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter. R. III. iv. 4. No, not for Venice. M. V. iv. 1. I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath ; Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, P. P. i. 2. Your oaths are past, and now subscribe your name, H. i. 3 L. L. i. 1. Come, swear it, damn thyself, OATHS,-continued. Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double-damn'd, O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw Thou see'st that all the grace that she hath left, 0. iv. 2. R. J. ii. 2. T. iv. 1. M. A. iv. 1. I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. H.V. v. 2. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking them, he is stronger than Hercules. It is a great sin, to swear unto a sin; A. W. iv. 3. By mine honour, I will; and when I break that oath, let me turn monster. A. Y. i. 2. But if you swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn ; no more was the knight, swearing by his honour, for he never had any. By all pretty oaths that are not dangerous. OBJECT. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye. OLD AND FAMILIAR. A. Y. i. 2. A. Y. iv. 1. H. i. 1. Now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by, like a weather-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns. OBLIVION. In the swallowing gulf Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion. And all the clouds that lowr'd upon our house W.T. v. 2. R. III. iii. 7. R. III. i. 1. |