SPRING,-continued.

Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and
The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one.

STAIN (See also BLOT, SPOT).

Out, damned spot: out, I say.

W.T. iv. 3.

M. v.1.

'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweaten this little hand.

It doth confirm

Another stain, as big as hell can hold.

The more fair and crystal is the sky, The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. STALKING.

I shall stalk about her door,

Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks,
Staying for waftage.

STARE.

Now he'll outstare the lightning.

STARS (See also PLANETARY INFLUENCE).
The stars above us govern our condition.
Diana's waiting women.

STEALING.

M. v. 1.

Cym. ii. 4.

R. II. i. 1.

T. C. iii. 2.

A. C. iii. 11.

K. L. iv. 3.

T.C. v. 2.

Convey, the wise it call: Steal! foh; a fico for the phrase.

AWAY.

Therefore, to horse;

And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,

But shift away: There's warrant in that theft,
Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left.

STRANGE OCCURRENCE.

M. W. i. 3.

M. ii. 3.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

STRATAGEM.

Saint Dennis bless this happy stratagem.

STRENGTH.

O, it is excellent

To use it like a giant.

T. N. iii. 4.

H.VI. PT. I. iii. 2.

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous

M. M. ii. 2.

STRIPLINGS, MILITARY.

Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy swordsmen.

STRIKING.

A. W. ii. 1.

This cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.

T. S. iv. 1.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,

STUDY (See also LIGHT).

That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,

Save base authority, from others' books.

L. L. i. 1.

So study evermore is overshot;

While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget to do the thing it should:
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
'Tis won, as towns with fire; so won, so lost.

Biron.-What is the end of study?

E. L. iv. 3,

L. L. i. 1.

King. Why, that to know, which else we should not know.

Biron. Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?

King-Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.

STUPEFACTION.

I have drugg'd their possets

That death and nature do contend about them
Whether they live or die.

How runs the stream?

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.

STYLE.

Why, 'tis a boisterous and cruel style,
A style for challengers.

SUBJECTION.

Condition!

What good condition can a treaty find

I' the part that is at mercy?

L.L. i. 1.

M. ii. 2.

T. N. iv. 1.

A. Y. iv. 3.

C. i. 10.

Why this it is, when men are rul'd by women. R. III. i. 1.

SUBMISSION.

H. IV. PT. II. v. 2.

You shall be as a father to my youth;
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear;
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practis'd, wise directions.
My other self, my counsel's consistory,
My oracle, my prophet!-My dear cousin,
I, as a child, will go by thy directions.
TO THE LAWS.

If the deed were ill,

R. III. ii. 2.

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought;
To pluck down justice from your awful bench;
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person:
Nay, more; to spurn at your most royal image,
And mock your workings in a second body.
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father, and propose a son:

Hear your own dignity so much profan'd;

See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And, in your power, soft silencing your son.

SUFFERANCE.

Of sufferance comes ease.

SUFFERING, Unjust.

H.IV. PT. II. v. 2.

Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,

The gods themselves throw incense.

H. IV. PT. II. v. 4.

K. L. V. 3.

R. II. v. 1.

Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee,
When triumph is become an ale-house guest?

SUICIDE (See also CONSCIENCE).

Against self-slaughter

There is a prohibition so divine,

That cravens my weak hand.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:-
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer

The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune;
Or, to take arms against a sea of troubles,

Cym. iii. 4.

And, by opposing, end them? To die,-to sleep,-
No more; and, by sleep, to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,-'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ;—to sleep;—

SUICIDE,-continued.

To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect,

That makes calamity of so long life:

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To groan and sweat under a weary life;
But that the dread of something after death,-
That undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,-puzzles the will;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others, that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

Even by the rule of that philosophy,
By which I did blame Cato for the death
Which he did give himself:-I know not how,
But I do find it cowardly and vile,

For fear of what might fall, so to prevent

The time of life:-arming myself with patience,
To stay the providence of some high powers,
That govern us below.

He is dead:

Not by a public minister of justice,

H. iii. 1.

J.C. v. 1

Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand

Which writ his honour in the acts it did,

Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,

Splitted the heart.

A. C. v. 1.

A. C. iv. 13.

The more pity, that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even Christian.

H. v. 1.

SUICIDE,-continued.

My desolation does begin to make

A better life: 'Tis paltry to be Cæsar;
Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,
A minister of her will: And it is great

To do that thing which ends all other deeds;

Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. A. C. v. 2.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.
SUN SETTING.

The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And, by the bright track of his fiery car
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
But even this night,-whose black contagious
Already smokes about the burning crest
Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun,-
Even this night your breathing shall expire.
SUPERFLUITY.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,

To smooth the ice, or add another hue

Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light

J.C. i. 3.

J.C. i. 3.

R. III. v. 3.

breath

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

SUPERSCRIPTION.

K. J. v. 4.

K. J. iv. 2.

To the snow-white hand of the most beautiful Lady Rosaline.

SUPERSTITION.

Look how the world's poor people are amaz'd
At apparitions, signs, and prodigies!

The superstitious idle-headed eld
Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age,

This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.

SUPPLICATION.

A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears:
Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd;
With them, upon her knees, her humble self,

L. L. iv. 2.

Poems.

M. W. iv. 4.

Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them,
As if but now they waxed pale for woe.

T.G. iii. 1.