PRODIGIES,-continued. Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, In ranks, and squadrons, and right form of war, The noise of battle hurtled in the air, Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan. When beggars die, there are no comets seen; J.C. ii. 2. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. PROFLIGACY. His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last; For violent fires soon burn out themselves: J.C. ii. 2 Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder: Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. PROGNOSTICS. Against ill chances men are ever merry, PROLIXITY. The date is out of such prolixity. PROMISES. R. II. ii. 1. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 2. R. J. i. 4. Promising is the very air o' the time: it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act: and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed is quite out of use. To promise, is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will and testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. T. A. v. 1. His promises were, as he then was, mighty; I see, Sir, you are liberal in offers: You taught me-first to beg; and now, methinks, M. V. iv. 1 Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, H. VI. PT. I. i. 6 The king is kind; and, well we know, the king PROMOTION. H. IV. PT. I. iv. 3. Many so arrive at second masters, upon their first lord's neck. T. A. iv 3 PROMPTITUDE. Anticipating time with starting courage. T.C. iv 5. For at hand, Not trusting to this halting legate here, Whom he hath used rather for sport than need, PROOF. Let the end try the man. Let proof speak. PROPERTY. K. J. v. 2. H. IV. PT. II. ii. 2. Cym. iii. 1. What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong? PROPELLING. As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust, M. V. iv. 1. Command an argosy to stem the waves. H. VI. PT. III. ¡ì. 6. PROSCRIPTION. Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together, When mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests. PROVERBS. W.T. iv. 3. A. C. iii. 11. Come hither, Fabian; we'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws. PROVIDENCE, (See also OMNIPOTENCE). Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, T. N. iii. 4. When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us, PROVIDENCE,-continued. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, PROVOCATION. Have you not set mine honour at the stake, PRUDENCE. Take up this mangled matter at the best: When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; What do we then but draw anew the model H. v. 2. T. N. iii. 1. To build at all? Much more, in this great work Question surveyors, know our own estate, We fortify in paper, and in figures, Using the names of men, instead of men: Like one, that draws the model of a house Beyond his power to build it; who, half through, Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost A naked subject to the weeping clouds, O. i. 3. And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. H. IV. PT. II. i. 3. PRUDERY. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? PRUNING. All superfluous branches Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night, T. N. ii. 3. R. II. iii. 4. H. i. 5. In every thing, the purpose must weigh with the folly. PURSUIT. Let us score their backs, H. IV. PT. II. ii. 2. And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind : Mount you, my lord, tow'rd Berwick post amain; AND POSSESSION. All things that are Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. A. C. iv. 7. H. VI. PT. III. ii. 5. The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, With over-weather'd ribs, and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! M. V. ii. 6. Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing: That she belov'd knows nought, that knows not this,- T.C. i. 2. She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies. What a sweep of vanity comes this way! H.VI. PT. II. i. 3. T. A. i. 2. QUARREL. Good lord! what madness rules in brain-sick men ; I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. H.VI. PT. I. iv. 1. 0. ii. 3. O. ii. 3. I heard the clink and fall of swords And Cassio high in oath. Thou! why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair He'll be as full of quarrel and offence INCIPIENT. no other R. J. iii. 1. O. ii.3. There is division, K. L. iii. 1. Although as yet the face of it be cover'd I dare say This quarrel will drink blood another day. QUEEN. She had all the royal makings of a queen; A queen in jest, only to fill the scene. MAB. H.VI. PT. I. ü. 4. emblems, O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. In shape no bigger than an agate-stone, On the fore-finger of an alderman, H. VIII. iv. 1. R. III. iv. 4. Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; |