ARMY,-continued.

To land his legions all as soon as I
His marches are expedient to this town,
His forces strong, his soldiers confident.

Tell the Constable,
We are but warriors for the working day;
Our gayness, and our gilt, are all be-smirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field.
There's not a piece of feather in our host,
(Good argument I hope we shall not fly,)
And time has worn us into slovenry:
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim.
Within a ken our army lies;

Upon mine honour, all too confident

To give admittance to a thought of fear.

K. J. ii. 1.

H.V. iv. 3.

H. IV. PT. II. iv. 1.

All the unsettled humours of the land,-
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens,—
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
To make a hazard of new fortunes here.
Remember who you are to cope withal;—
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run-aways,
A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'er-cloy'd country vomits forth
To desperate ventures, and assur'd destruction.

K. J. ii. 1.

R. III. v. 2.

Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host,

And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps.
The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,
With torch-staves in their hands; and their poor jades
Lob down their heads, drooping the hides and hips;
The gum down-roping from their pale dead eyes;
And in their pale dull mouths the gymold bit
Lies foul with chaw'd grass, still and motionless;
And their executors, the knavish crows,
Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour.
His army is a ragged multitude

Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless.

ARRAIGNMENT.

H.V. iv. 2.

H.VI. PT. II. iv. 4.

It shall be done, I will arraign them straight:-
Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer.

ARREST.

K. L. iii. 6.

If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send

AUTHENTICITY.

Five justices' hands to it, and authorities more than my pack will hold.

AUTHOR (See also POET, RHYMSTER).

Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made
Rather to wonder at the things you hear

Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't,
And vent it for a mockery?

AUTHORITY (See also OFFICE).

O place! O form!

W.T. iv. 3.

Cym. v. 3.

How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wisest souls
To thy false seeming. Blood, thou still art blood:
Let's write good angel on the devil's horn,

Tis not the devil's crest.

M. M. ii. 4.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar,
And the creature run from the cur: There,
There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority:
A dog's obeyed in office.

K. L. iv. 6.

Who will believe thee, Isabel!

My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,

My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,
Will so your accusation overweigh,

That you shall stifle in your own report,

And smell of calumny.

O, he sits high, in all the people's hearts;
And that which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

M. M. ii. 4.

Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority.

J.C. i. 3.

A. W. ii. 3.

And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.

Thus can the demi-god, Authority,

Make us pay down for our offence by weight.

INSOLENCE OF.

Could great men thunder,

W. T. iv. 3.

M.M. i. 3

AUTHORITY,-continued.

As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet;
For every pelting petty officer

Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder.
Merciful heaven!

Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,

Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak,

Than the soft myrtle. O, but man! proud man!
Dress'd in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.

M. M. ii. 2.

AUTUMN.

Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth
Of trembling winter.

B.

W.T. iv. 3.

BABBLER (See also TALKER).

Fie, what a spendthrift he is of his tongue!
Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate,
Talkers are no good doers, be assur'd:

T. ii. 1.

We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. R. III. i. 3. BACKING.

Call you that backing your friends? a plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me.

H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4.

BACKWARDNESS (See also FRIENDS COOLING).
Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull.

BADNESS.

Damnable, both sides rogue.

Abhorred slave;

Which any print of goodness will not take
Being capable of all ill.

God keep the prince from all the pack of you!
A knot you are of damned blood-suckers.

BALLADS.

R. III. iv. 2.

A. W. iv. 3.

T. i. 2.

R. III. iii. 3.

I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter merrily set down; or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably.

Traduc'd by odious ballads.

W. T. iv. 3.

A. W. ii. 1.

BALLADS,-continued.

An I have not ballads made on you all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be in

pison.

H. IV. PT. II. ii. 2.

I love a ballad in print a' life; for then we are sure they
W. T. iv. 3.

are true.

BALLAD-MONGERS (See also POETRY, RHYMSTERS).

I had rather be a kitten, and cry,-mew,
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers:
I had rather hear a brazen can'stick turn'd,
Or a dry wheel grate on an axletree;

And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing poetry;
"Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.

BALLAD-SINGER, ITINERANT.

H.VI. PT. iii. 1.

O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bag-pipe could not move you: he sings several tunes, faster than you'll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grow to their tunes. W. T. iv. 3. BANISHMENT.

Banish'd, is banish'd from the world,

R. J. iii. 3.

adieu;

And world's exile is death: then banish'd
Is death misterm'd: calling death,—banishment,
Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe,
And smil'st upon the stroke that murders me.
Then England's ground, farewell; sweet soil,
My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,-
Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishrean. R. II. i. 3.
Banished?

O friar, the damned use that word in hell;

Howlings attend it.

R. J. iii. 3.

I've stoopt my neck under your injuries,
And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds.
Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

R. II. iii. 1,

Banish me?

T. A. iii. 5.

Banish your dotage; banish usury,
That makes the senate ugly.

BANTERING.

With that, all laugh'd, and clapp'd him on the shoulder;
Making the bold wag, by their praises, bolder:

One rubb'd his elbow, thus; and fleer'd, and swore,
A better speech was never heard before.

L. L. v. 2.

BANTERING.-continued.

Close, in the name of jesting!

GIRLS.

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen

As is the razor's edge invisible,

Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen;

Above the sense of sense: so sensible

T. N. ii. 5.

Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings,
Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.

BASENESS.

Base and unlustrous as the smoky light

That's fed with stinking tallow.

Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,

You shall mark

That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,

Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,

L. L. v. 2.

Cym. i. 7

For nought but provender, and, when he's old, cashier'd;
Whip me such honest knaves.

Some kinds of baseness

Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.

BASTARD.

0. i. 1.

T. ii. 1.

Bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour; in every thing illegitimate.

Why bastard? wherefore base?

T. C. v. 8.

When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue?

K. L. i. 2.

Ha! Fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
A man already made, as to remit

Their saucy sweetness, that do coin heaven's image

In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy

Falsely to take away a life true made,

As to put mettle in restrained means,

To make a false one.

Fine word,-legitimate!

M. M. ii. 4.

Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,

And my invention thrive, Edmund the base

Shall top the legitimate. I grow: I prosper:-
Now, gods, stand up for bastards.

BATCHELOR.

K. L. i. 2.

Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I