TRUTH,-continued.

And I'll be sworn, I have power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.

H. IV. PT. I. iii. 1.

Hence, thou suborn'd informer! a true soul,
When most impeacht, stands least in thy controul. Poems.

If circumstances lead me, I will find

Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.

Pr'ythee speak;

Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st
Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace

For the crown'd truth to dwell in: I'll believe thee,
And make my senses credit thy relation,

To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st
Like one I lov'd indeed.

I am as true as truth's simplicity,

And simpler than the infancy of truth.

Methinks, the truth should live from age to age,
As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,

Even to the general all-ending day.

Never man

H. ii. 2.

P. P. v. 1.

T. C. iii. 2.

R. III. iii. 1.

Sigh'd truer breath.

C. iv. 5.

That truth should be silent, I had almost forgot.

A.C. ii. 2.

be whipped

Truth's a dog that must to kennel: he must out, when Lady the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.

AN UNWELCOME, RARELY TOLD.
Life-loving sick men, when their deaths are near,
No news but health from their physicians know.

TYRANT.

Our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds

I grant him bloody,

Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,

Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin

That has a name.

He would

K. L. i. 4.

Have made them mules, silenc'd their pleaders, and

Poems.

M iv. 3.

M. iv. 3.

TYRANT,-continued.

Dispropertied their freedoms; holding them,
In human action and capacity,

Of no more soul, nor fitness for the world,

Than camels in their war; who have their provand
Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows

For sinking under them.

Upon thy eye-balls murd'rous tyranny

C. ii. 1.

Sits in grim majesty to fright the world. H. VI. PT. II. iii. 3.

Bleed, bleed poor country!

Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,

For goodness dares not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs,
Thy title is affeer'd.

For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,
A bloody tyrant, and a homicide;

One rais'd in blood, and one in blood establish'd;

One that made means to come by what he hath,

M. iv. 3.

And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him;
A base foul stone, made precious by the foil

Of England's chair, where he is falsely set,
One that hath ever been God's enemy:
Then, if you fight against God's enemy,
God will, in justice, ward you as his soldiers.

I'll not call you tyrant;

But this most cruel usage of your queen

(Not able to produce more accusation

R. III. v. 3.

Than your own weak-hing'd fancy,) something savours
Of tyranny, and will ignoble make you,
Yea, scandalous to the world.

W. T. ii.

Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the time
With all licentious measure, making your wills
The scope of justice; till now, myself, and such
As slept within the shadow of your power,

Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and breath'd
Our sufferance vainly.

T. A. v. 5.

And why should Cæsar be a tyrant then?
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep;
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.

Those that with haste would make a migthy fire,
Begin it with weak straws: What trash is Rome,
What rubbish, and what offal, when it serves,
For the base matter to illuminate
So vile a thing as Cæsar?

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues.
Was once thought honest.

J.C. i. 3.

M.iv. 3.

TYRANT,-continued.

His demand

Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
But from deceit, bred by necessity;
For how can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

Ó nation miserable,

With an untitled tyrant, bloody scepter'd,

H.VI. PT. III. iii. 3.

When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again? M.iv. 3.
Then live to be the show and gaze o' the time;
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted upon a pole; and under writ,
Here may you see the tyrant.

M. v. 7.

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.

P. P. i. 2.

Tyrants' fears

Decrease not, but grow faster with their years.
Those he commands, move only in command,
Nothing in love.

P. P. i. 2.

M. v. 2.

0. H.

VACANCY.

The city cast

Her people out upon her, and Antony,

Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,

And made a gap in nature.

A. C. ii. 2.

He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer

VALOUR (See also COURAGE).

The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs

His outsides; wear them, like his raiment, carelessly;

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,

To bring it into danger.

T. A. iii. 5.

Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes ;
Dexterity so obeying appetite,

That what he will, he does; and does so much,
That proof is call'd impossibility.

T.C. v.5.

Engaging and redeeming of himself,

With such a careless force, and forceless care,
As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,

Bade him win all.

VALOUR,-continued.

Most dignifies the haver: if it be,

The man I speak of cannot in the world
Be singly counterpois'd.

His valour shown upon our crests to-day,

Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

C. ii. 2.

H. IV. PT. I. v. 5.

H. IV. PT. I. v. 4.

Methought he bore him in the thickest troop,
As doth a lion in a herd of neat:

Or as a bear encompass'd round with dogs,
Who, having pinch'd a few, and made them cry,
The rest stand all aloof and bark at him.

I told you, Sir, they were red hot with drinking;
So full of valour, that they smote the air

For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kissing of their feet.

T. iv. 1.

Plague on't; an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.

What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
When he might spurn him with his foot away?

T.N. ii. 4.

H.VI. PT. III. i. 4.

The Douglas, and the Hotspur, both together,
Are confident against the world in arms.

H.IV. PT. I. v. 1.

Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smok'd with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion

Carv'd out his passage, till he fac'd the slave.

M. i. 1.

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life. H. IV. PT. 1. v. 4.

Why, thou knowest I'm as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou, for a true prince H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4.

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. H. 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 Cæsar'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.