LIAR,-continued. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! H. IV. PT. II. iii. 4. HIS OWN DUPE. Like one, Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, To credit his own lie. LIBERTY. Blessed be those, How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills, LICENTIOUSNESS. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, LIFE (See also ILLUSION, MAN, DEATH). Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, O gentlemen, the time of life is short; T. i. 2. Cym. i. 7. M. M. i. 3. K. L. iv. 6. M. v. 5. H. IV. PT. I. v. 2. To spend that shortness basely, were too long, Cym. iii. 6. M. M. iii. 1. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. A. W. iv. 3. The sands are number'd that make up my life. Life is a shuttle. Thus play I, in one person, many people, H.VI. PT. III. i. 4. O excellent! I love long life better than figs! M. W. v. 1. R. II.5. 4. C. i. 2. LIFE,-continued. Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, As they were living; think, you see them great, How soon this mightiness meets misery! H. VIII. prologue. That life is better life, past fearing death, Thus, sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud; EPITOMIZED (See WORLD). DESIRE OF. M. M. v. 1. H. VI. PT. II. ii. 4. Camillo.-I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they, that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life, to see him a man. Archidamus.-Would they else be content to die? Camillo.-Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Archidamus.-If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. LIGHT (See also STUDY). Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. LIGHT INFANTRY. W. T. i. 1. L. L. i. 1. And this same half-fac'd fellow, Shadow,-give me this man; he presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a pen-knife: And, for a retreat, how swiftly will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off! O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great H. IV. PT. II. iii. 2. ones. LIGHTNING (See also QUICKNESS). Like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth; R. J. ii. 2. LIGHTNING,-continued. And ere a man can say,-Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. M. N. i. 1. To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, Of quick, cross lightning. K. L. iv.7. R. J. iii. 1. LINEAGE (See also ANCESTRY). A plague of both your houses! There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood-royal, if thou dar'st not stand for ten shillings. H. IV. PT. I. i. 2. LION. 'Tis The royal disposition of that beast, LITIGATION (See also Law). A. Y. iv. 3. H.VI. PT. III. i. 3. I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any M. W. i. 1. T. S. IND. 1. I'll answer him by law: I'll not budge an inch. LIVELIHOOD. You take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. M.V. iv. 1. LONELINESS. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds There's scarce a bush. K. L. ii. 4. INSUPPORTABLE. But whate'er I am, Nor I, nor any man, that but man is, With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd With being nothing. LONGEVITY. A light heart lives long. R. 11. v. 5. LONG (STORIES). Men, pleas'd themselves, think others will delight Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord. LORD'S ANOINTED. A flourish, trumpets !-strike alarum, drums! LOVE (See also COURTSHIP, FIDELITY). Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Poems. T. S. IND. 2. T. S. IND. 2. R. III. iv. 4. Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.' Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, All made of passion, and all made of wishes ; Poems. T.C. iii. 2. All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, As love is full of unbefitting strains ; Form'd by the eye, and, therefore, like the eye, A. Y. v. 2. L. L. v.2. LOVE,-continued. And gives to every power a double power, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; L. L. iv. 3. R. J. i. 1. Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pursues; Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, M. W. ii. 2. T.G. ii. 7. M. N. i. 1. Love is a familiar: love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet Sampson was so tempted; and he had an excellent strength: yet was Solomon so seduced; and he had a very good wit. L. L. i. 2. Adieu, valour! rust, rapier! be still, drum.! for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth. L. L. i. 2. |