What is my offence? OFFENCE,-continued. Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? What lawful quest have given their verdict up In such a time as this, it is not meet R. III. i. 4. That every nice offence should bear its comment. J.C. iv. 3. OFFICE. Having both the key of officer and office. He was a fool; For he would needs be virtuous: That good fellow, I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother, T. i. 2. We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons. H. VIII. ii. 2. Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet that shall make you great. OFFICE, ITS EVILS. H. IV. PT. II. v. 5. If I am traduc'd by tongues, which neither know The chronicles of my doing,-let me say, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. We must not stint To cope malicious censurers; which ever, That is new trimm'd; but benefit no further INSOLENCE OF. H.VIII. i. 2 I'd have beaten him like a dog, but for disturbing the lords within. OMENS, (See also PORTENTS). C. iv. 5. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd, The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change; Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap. R.II. ii. 4. M.V. ii. 5. OMNIPOTENCE, INSCRUTAble. He that of greatest works is finisher, OPENNESS. I must be found; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, OPHELIA DROWNING. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; A. W. ii. 1. Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. 0. i. 2. Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; Or like a creature native and endu'd Unto that element: but long it could not be, Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, OPINION (See also CENSURE.) I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses, reckon up their owne, I H.IV.7. may be straight, though they themselves be bevell, By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be showne: Unless this general evil they maintaine, All men are bad, and in their badness raigne. Poems. Because you want the grace that others have, There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time. Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. H. VI. PT. I. v. 4. H. ii. 2. C. iv. 7. O. i. 3. OPINION,-continued. But fish not with this melancholy bait, M.V.i. 1. P. P. ii. 2. A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin. T. C. iii. 3. OPPORTUNITY (See also DELAY, IRRESOLUTION, NEGLECT). There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose out ventures. J.C. iv. 3. Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, A. C. ii. 7. When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport, A little fire is quickly trodden out; C. E. ii. 2. H. VI. PT. III. iv. 8. The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, R. II. iii. 2. I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes OPPOSITION. T. i. 2 Back, I say, go; lest I let forth your half pint of blood;— back,-that's the utmost of your having:-back. OPPRESSION. I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd, C. v. 2. M.N. v. 1. I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service, but blows; when I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating; I am awak'd with it, when I sleep; rais'd with it, when I sit; driven out of doors with it, when I go from home; welcomed home with it, when I return: nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a OPPRESSION,-continued. beggar her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd me, I shall beg with it from door to door. Each new morn, C. E. iv. 4. New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows THE NATURAL DUTY OF RESISTANCE TO. The poor wren, M. iv. 2. H. VI. PT. III. ii. 2. The most diminutive of birds, will fight, ORATION, PEdantic. Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Doubt not, my lord; I'll play the orator, ORATORY, POPULAR. For in such business, M. iv. 2. L. L. v. 2 R. III. iii. 5. Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant Pray, be content; Mother, I am going to the market-place; Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd ORDER. Degree being vizarded, The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. C. iii. 2. C. iii. 2 The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, ORDER,-continued. Office, and custom, in all line of order: Sans check, to good and bad: But when the planets, What plagues, and what portents! what mutiny! Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! O, when degree is shak'd, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets And the rude son should strike his father dead: Should lose their names, and so should justice too. And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon; Follows the choking: And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose T.C. i. 3. |