ABUSE, AND BAD ENGLISH (See also VITUPERATION). Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English? M. W. v. 5. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. M. W. i. 4. Let them keep their limbs whole, and hack our English. O. i. 3. Without more certain and more overt test, Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. ACHIEVEMENT. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. M. N. D. i. 1. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds; or I swear I will have it in a particular ballad, with mine own picture on the top of it. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 1 ACQUITTAL. Now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, ACTION, DRAMATIC. M. W. iv. 4. Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, and the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure: *** O, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly,-not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. ADOPTION. 'Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds ADORATION, A LOVER'S. H. iii. 2. A. W. i. 3. ADORATION,-continued. Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, W. T. iv. 4. T. G. iv. 1. But myself, ADVERSITY (See also MISFORtune). Who had the world as my confectionary; The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, the hearts of men Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not FOLLY OF REPINING AT. What think'st T. A. iv. 3. T. A. iv. 2. That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, And skip when thou point'st out? will the cold brook, To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures; Of wreakful heaven; whose bare unhoused trunks, Answer mere nature,-bid them flatter thee. T. A. iv. 3. ITS USES. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venemous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head. A. Y. ii. 1. 'Tis good for men to love their present pains, ADVERSITY,-continued. H. V. iii. 1. In poison there is physic; and these news Out of his keeper's arms; even so my limbs, Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd with grief, ADVICE (See also CAUTION). Fasten your ear to my advisings. H. IV. PT. II. i. 1. M. M. iii. 1. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. K. L. iii. 4. Take heed, be wary how you place your words. H. VI. PT. 1. iii. 2. Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. Pray be counsel'd: I have a heart as little apt as yours, Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy K. L. ii. 4. C. iii. 2. A. W. i. 1. Keep thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. Let not the creaking of shoes, nor the rustling of silks, betray thy poor heart to women. TO A YOUNG WOMAN. Fear it, my dear sister; And keep you in the rear of your affection, K. L. iii. 4. K. L. iii. 4. ADVICE,-continued. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : Give thy thoughts no tongue, But not express'd in fancy: rich, not gaudy: Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. H. i. 3. H. i. 3. Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. ADULATION (See also FLATTERY). You shout me forth In acclamations hyperbolical; As if I lov'd my little should be dieted H. VIII. iii. 2. C. i. AFFECTED SPEAKERS. These new tuners of accents. Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, AGE. The silver livery of advised age. R. J. ii. 4. R. J. iii. 3 H. VI. PT. II. v. 2. Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that Youth no less becomes Though now this grained face of mine be hid H. iv. 7. C. E. v. 1. I would there were no age between ten and three-andtwenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing between but wenching, wronging the ancientry, stealing, and fighting. W. T. iii. 3. His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds: As you are old and reverend you should be wise. When age is in the wit is out. Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age, J. C. ii. 1. K. L. i. 4. M. A. iii. 5. H. VI. PT. 1. iii. 2. |