VALUATION

Their fortunes both are weigh'd: In your lord's scale is nothing but himself, And some few vanities that make him light. VALUE.

What is aught, but as 'tis valued?

But value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer: 'tis mad idolatry,
To make the service greater than the god;
And the will dotes, that is attributive
To what infectiously itself affects,
Without some image of the affected merit.
VANITY.

We are such stuff

As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

To worship shadows and adore false shapes.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

By the strength of their illusion

Shall draw him on to his confusion.

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.

VENERATION.

There is an old poor man,

Who after me hath many a weary step

Limp'd in pure love; till he be first suffic'd,
Oppress'd with two great evils, age and hunger,
I will not touch a bit.

R. II. iii. 4.

T. C. ii. 2.

T.C. ii. 2.

T. iv. 1. T. G. iv. 2.

R. II. ii. 1

M. iii. 5.

R. III. i. 2.

A. Y. ii. 7.

Let but the commons hear this testament,

(Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,)

And they would go and 'kiss dead Caesar's wounds,
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,

And, dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy,

Unto their issue.

VENETIAN WOMEN.

I know our country disposition well;

In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks

J.C. iii. 2.

They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
Is-not to leave undone, but keep unknown.

O. iii. 3.

VENGEANCE.

Are there no stones in heaven
But what serve for the thunder?

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne,
To tyrannous hate! swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

VERACITY.

Should from yond' cloud speak divine things

0. v. 2.

O. iii. 3.

If Jupiter

And say, 'tis true, I'd not believe them more
Than thee, all noble Marcius.

C. iv. 5.

VERBOSITY (See also WORDS).

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his agrument.

L.L. v. 1.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

:

T.C. v. 3.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have found them, they are not worth the search. M. V. i. 1.

VERILY.

Verily !

You put me off with limber vows: But I,

Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths,
Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily,

You shall not go; a lady's verily is

As potent as a lord's.

VETERAN.

He did look far

Into the service of the time, and was
Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long;
But on us both did haggish age steal on,
And wore us out of act.

VICE, PREVALENT.

All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great well allied.

VICISSITUDE.

W.T. i. 2.

A. W. i. 2.

M. M. ii. 2

kindred; it is M. M. iii. 2.

Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,
Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,

VICISSITUDE,-continued.
The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune,
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:
The lamentable change is from the best;
The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then,
Thou unsubstantial air, that I embrace!

The wretch, that thou hast blown unto the worst,
Owes nothing to thy blasts.

World, world, O world!'

K. L. iv. 1.

But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.

VICTORY.

To whom God will, there be the victory.

K. L. iv. 1.

H.VI. PT. II. ii. 5.

M. A. i. 1.

A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home
full numbers.
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.

O, such a day,
So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won,
Come not, till now, to dignify the times,
Since Cæsar's fortunes.

Mine enemies are all knit up

In their distractions.

VILLAIN (See also KNAVE, ROGUE).

H. VI. PT. III. v. 3.

H. IV. PT. II. i. 1.

T. iii. 3.

Slave, soulless villain, dog!

A. C. v. 2.

O rarely base!
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones
may make what price they will.

M. A. iii. 3.

He hath out-villained villany so far, that the rarity redeems him.

I like not fair terms, and a villain's mind.

A. W. iv. 3.

M.V. i. 3.

In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied that I am a plain-dealing villain. M. A. i. 3.

VIRAGO.

I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have turned spit; yea, and have Icleft his club to make the fire too. * I would to God

VIRAGO,-continued.

some scholar would conjure her; for, certainly, while she is
here, a man may live as quiet in hell, as in a sanctuary.
M. A. ii. 1.

VIRGINITY.

Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up. Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men?

VIRTUE.

A. W. i. I.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,

Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven;
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed,

And prey on garbage.

Never could the strumpet,

M. M. iii. 1.

With all her double vigour, art, and nature,

Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid

Subdues me quite: Ever, till now,

When men were fond, I smil'd, and wonder'd how.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat

H. i. 5.

M. M. ii. 2.

Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this;

That to the use of actions fair and good

He likewise gives a frock, or livery,

That aptly is put on.

H. iii. 4.

H.IV. PT. II. i. 2.

Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times, that true valour is turned bear-herd.

AND ABILITY.

I held it ever,

Virtue and cunning were endowments greater

Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs

May the two latter darken and expend;
But immortality attends the former,
Making a man a god.

REWARDED.

Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.

VITUPERATION (See also ABUSE).

P. P. iii. 2.

P.P.v. Ep.

What man of good temper could endure this tempest of exclamation?

The bitter clamour of two eager tongues.

H. IV. PT. II. ii. 1.

R. II. i. 1.

UNANIMITY.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind, good: O, there were desolation of jailers and gallowses. Cym. v. 4. UNDERLINGS.

Shallow. Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.

Davy. No worse than they are back-bitten, Sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. H.IV. PT. II. V. 1.

UNFITNESS.

There is but one puritan amonst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.

On old Hyems' chin, and icy crown,
An od'rous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set.

UNFORTUNATE.

Thou, whom the heaven's plagues,

Have humbled to all strokes.

UNION. UNITY.

So we grew together,

Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet a union in partition;

W. T. iv. 2.

M. N. ii. 2.

K. L. iv. 1.

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;

Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,

Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.

M.N. iii. 2.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

T.C. ii. 3.

P. P. ii. 4.

Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:
When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.
He, that parts us, shall bring a brand from heaven,
And fire us hence, like foxes.

UNKINDNESS.

K. L. v. 3.

Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?

H. i. 4.

M. V. ii. 7.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Gilded tombs do worms infold.

Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound, as

things that are hollow.

M.M. i. 2.