COXCOM B,-continued. O murd'rous coxcomb! what should such a fool O most profane coxcomb! 0. v. 2. L. L. iv. 3. Thus has he and many more of the same breed, that, I know, the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. A barren-spirited fellow. COZENERS. H. v. 2. T.C. iv. 1. And, indeed, Sir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to be wary. CRAFT, EXPLODED. My antient incantations are too weak. CREDULITY. Thus credulous fools are caught! W. T. iv. 3. H.VI. PT. I. v. 3. 0. iv. 1. But he that will believe all that they say, shall never be saved by half that they do. CRIMES. All have not offended: For those that were, it is not square, to take, Are not inherited. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, UNPUNISHED. When evil deeds have their permissive pass, For we bid this be done, CRISIS. lla! is it come to this! A. C. v. 2. T.A. v. 5. K.J. iv. 2 M. M. i. 4. K. L. i. 4. K. J. iii. 4. Before the curing of a strong disease, CRITICAL. I am nothing if not critical. M. iv. 2. O. ii. 1. CROAKER. I would croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode. CROWN, REGAL (See also KINGS). O polish'd perturbation! golden care! T.C. v. 2. H. IV. PT. 11. iv. 4. A thousand flatteries sit within thy crown, How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown; R. II. ii. 1. And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. H. 1V. PT. III. i. 2. By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown; and I myself know well, How troublesome it sat upon my head. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4 I spake unto the crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it: The care on thee depending, Hath fed upon the body of my father; Therefore thou, best of gold, art worst of gold; Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in med'cine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd, Hast eat thy bearer up. Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head; To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murder'd my father,- CRUELTY. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. O, be thou damn'd, inexorable dog! That souls of animals infuse themselves Govern'd a wolf; who, hang'd for human slaughter, Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. M. V. iv. 1. CRUELTY,-continued. I am sorry for thee; thou art come to answer M.V. iv. 1. See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears; And say,Alas, it was a piteous deed! H. VI. PT. III. i. 4. To triumph like an Amazonian trull, H.VI. PT. III. i. 4. But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, CRUSADE. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, Forth with a power of English shall we levy; T. G. iii. 1. Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, For CUCKOLD. H. IV. PT. I. i. 1. Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they cuckold1 wittol-cuckold! the devil himself hath not such a name. CUDGEL. are devils' additions, the names of fiends; but M. W. ii. 2 I'll have the cudgel hallow'd and hung o'er the altar: it hath done meritorious service. CUPIDS. M. W. iv. 2. Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with traps. M. A. iii. 1. CURIOSITIES. I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes CURIOSITIES,-continued. With the memorials and the things of fame, CURRENTS, MARITIME. Like to the Pontic sen, Whose icy current, and compulsive course CURS. T. N. iii. 3. O. iii. 3. O'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one should say, one that taketh upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. T.G. iv. 4. When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it! I have taught him-even as one would say precisely,-Thus I would teach a dog. CURSING. I would the gods had nothing else to do, CUSTOM (See also HABIT). T.G. iv. 4. C. iv. 2. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. Custom calls me to't: What custom wills in all things should we do't; H. v. 1 Nice customs curt'sey to great kings. C. ii. H.V. v. 1 H. iii. 4 Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law VILE. Though I am native here, And to the manner born,-it is a custom K. L. i.: More honour'd in the breach than the observance. H. i. 4. 72 DAGGERS. I will speak aaggers to her, but use none. DALLIANCE, UNSEASONABLE. No, when light-wing'd toys of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dullness My speculative and active instruments, That A woman impudent and mannish grown DANGER. There Monitaurs and ugly treason lurk. H. iii. 2. O. i. 3. T. C. iii. 3. H. VI. PT. I. v. 3. runs the water where the brook is deep. H.VI. PT. II. iii. 1. France, thou mayest hold a serpent by the tongue, A fasting tyger safer by the tooth Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. K. J. iii. 1. "The purpose you undertake is dangerous:"-why, that's certain; 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink ;but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 3. The welfare of us all H. VI. PT. II. iii. 1. Hangs R. II. ii. 1. |