OBLIVION,-continued.

When time is old and hath forgot itself,
When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy,
And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,

And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing.

The dark backward and abysm of Time.

T. C. iii. 2.

T. i. 2.

He no more remembers his mother now, than an eight year old horse.

OBSEQUIOUSNESS.

So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons,
Come all to help him, and so stop the air

By which he should revive: and even so,

C. v. 4.

The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,

Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness

Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
Must needs appear offence.

M. M. ii.4.

OBSERVATION.

For he is but a bastard to the time,
That doth not smack of observation.
There is a history in all men's lives
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd:
The which observ'd, a man may prophecy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet to come to life; which in their seeds,
And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. H. IV.
Squandering glances.

ODDITY.

What a Herod of Jewry is this!

K. J. i. 1.

PT. II. iii. 1.

A. Y. ii. 7.

M. W. ii. 1.

I have lived four score years and upward; I never heard of a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect. M. W. iii. 1.

How oddly he is suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour every where.

M. V. i. 2.

C. v. 1.

O. i. 3.

And dotage terms so.

K. L. ii. 4.

What is my offence?

Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Unto the frowning judge.

In such a time as this, it is not meet

R. III. i. 4.

That every nice offence should bear its comment. J.C. iv. 3.

OFFICE.

Having both the key of officer and office.

He was a fool;

For he would needs be virtuous: That good fellow,
If I command him, follows my appointment;

I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother,
We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons.

T. i. 2.

H.VIII. ii. 2.

Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet that shall make you great.

OFFICE, ITS EVILS.

H. IV. PT. II. v. 5.

If I am traduc'd by tongues, which neither know
My faculties, nor person, yet will be

The chronicles of my doing,-let me say,

'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake

That virtue must go through. We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear

To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow

That is new trimm'd; but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
By sick interpreters, (once weak ones) is
Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
For our best act. If we shall stand still,
In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,
We should take root here where we sit, or sit
State statues only.

INSOLENCE OF.

H.VIII. i. 2

I'd have beaten him like a dog, but for disturbing the lords within.

OMENS, (See also PORTENTS).

C. iv. 5.

The bay trees in our country are all wither'd,
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;

The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,

And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;

Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap. R.II. ii. 4.
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to-night.

M.V. ii. 5.

OMNIPOTENCE, INSCRUTABLE.

He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister:

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
When judges have been babes.

OPENNESS.

I must be found;

My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,
Shall manifest me rightly.

OPHELIA DROWNING.

There is a willow grows aslant a brook,

That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There, with fantastic garlands did she come,

A. W. ii. 1.

Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,

But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies, and herself,

O. i. 2.

Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and endu'd

Unto that element: but long it could not be,
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay,
To muddy death.

OPINION (See also CENSURE.)

I am that I am, and they that level

At my abuses, reckon up their owne,

H. IV. 7.

I may be straight, though they themselves be bevell,
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be showne:
Unless this general evil they maintaine,

All men are bad, and in their badness raigne. Poems,

Because you want the grace that others have,
You judge it straight a thing impossible
To compass wonders, but by help of devils.

There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Our virtues

Lie in the interpretation of the time.
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

H. VI. PT. I. V. 4.

H. ii. 2.

C. iv. 7.

0. i. 3.

OPINION,-continued.

But fish not with this melancholy bait,
For this fool's gudgeon, this opinion.
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit for the inward man.

M. V. i. 1.

P. P. ii. 2.

A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.

T. C. iii. 3.

OPPORTUNITY (See also DELAY, IRRESOLUTION, NEGLECT).

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose out ventures.

J.C. iv. 3.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd,
Shall never find it more.

A. C. ii. 7.

When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport,
But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams.

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

C. E. ii. 2.

H. VI. PT. III. iv. 8.

The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd,
And not neglected; else, if heaven would,
And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse.

I find my zenith doth depend upon

A most auspicious star; whose influence

If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.

OPPOSITION.

R. II. iii. 2.

T. i. 2

Back, I say, go; lest I let forth your half pint of blood ;back, that's the utmost of your having:-back.

OPPRESSION.

I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd,
And duty in his service perishing.

C. v. 2.

M.N. v. 1.

I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service, but blows; when I am cold, he heats me with beating: when I am warm, he cools me with beating; I am awak'd with it, when I sleep; rais'd with it, when I sit; driven out of doors with it, when I go from home; welcomed home with it, when I return: nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a

OPPRESSION,-continued.

beggar her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd me, I shall beg with it from door to door.

Each new morn,

C. E. iv. 4.

New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
Strike heaven on the face.

THE NATURAL DUTY OF RESISTANCE TO.
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
Not his, that spoils her young before her face.
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?
Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on,
And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood.

The poor wren,

M. iv. 2

H. VI. PT. III. ii. 2.

The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in the nest, against the owl.
OPTICS (See EYE).

ORATION, PEDANTIC.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,

Three pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Figures pedantical; these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
ORATOR.

Doubt not, my lord; I'll play the orator,
As if the golden fee, for which I plead,
Were for myself.

ORATORY, POPULAR.

For in such business,

M. iv. 2.

L. L. v. 2.

R. III. iii. 5.

Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
More learned than their ears.

Pray, be content;

Mother, I am going to the market-place;

Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,

Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd
Of all the trades in Rome.

C. iii. 2.

C. iii. 2.

ORDER.

Degree being vizardea,

The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,

Observe degree, priority, and place,

Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,