ARREST,-continued. for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment. ART AND NATUre. M. M. i. 3. Nature is made better by no mean, That nature makes. This is an art W.T. iv. 3. Which does mend nature,-change it rather; but W.T. iv. 3. He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. C. v. 4. Sour. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. C. iv. 4. ASPIRANT. A high hope for a low having: God grant us patience! Sir, I lack advancement. ASS. L. L. i. 1. H. iii. 2. Tit. And. iv. 2. Now, what a thing it is to be an ass! O that he were here to write me down an ass! but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. M. A. iv. 2. I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. M. W. v. 5. A. W. ii. 3. With the help of a surgeon he might recover, and prove an ass. ASSASSINS. M. N. v. 1. Kill men i' the dark! where are these bloody thieves? 0. v. 1. ASSIMILATION. The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. A. W. i. 1. ASTRONOMERS. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. ATTACHMENT. L. L. i. 1. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness. O. i. 3. I have forsworn his company hourly, any time this twoand-twenty years, and yet I'm bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it could not be else. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 2. ATTENDANCE. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. ATTENTION. A. W. ii. 1. Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. H. i. 5. But I can tell, that in each grace of these There lurks a still and dumb discoursive devil, T. C. iv. 4. AVARICE. This avarice, Sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root AVERSION. M. iv. 3. I think oxen and wain-ropes cannot hale them together. AUSTERITY. T. N. iii. 2. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity. T. N. iii. 4. 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 Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't, AUTHORITY (See also OFFICE). O place! O form! W.T. iv. 3. Cym. v. 3. How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, M. M. ii. 4. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, K. L. iv. 6. Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o' the top. I shall remember: When Cæsar says,-Do this, it is perform'd. That no particular scandal once can touch Who will believe thee, Isabel! My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny. O, he sits high, in all the people's hearts; M. M. ii. 2. J.C. i. 2. M. M. iv. 4. 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; Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. O, but man! proud man! Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven AUTUMN. Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth M. M. ii. 2. W.T. iv. 3. B. BABBLER (See also TALKER). Fie, what a spendthrift he is of his tongue! 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). Which any print of goodness will not take God keep the prince from all the pack of you! 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 my poison. H. IV. PT. II. ii. 2. I love a ballad in print a' life; for then we are sure they are true. W. T. iv. 3. BALLAD-MONGERS (See also POETRY, RHYMSTERS). I had rather be a kitten, and cry,―mew, And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, 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. And world's exile is death: then banish'd O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howlings attend it. I've stoopt my neck under your injuries, adieu; And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds, R. J. iii. 3. R. II. iii. 1. Banish me? T. A. iii. 5. Banish your dotage; banish usury, BANTERING. With that, all laugh'd, and clapp'd him on the shoulder; One rubb'd his elbow, thus; and fleer'd, and swore, L. L. v. 2. |