VALUATION Their fortunes both are weigh'd: In your lord's scale is nothing but himself, And some few vanities that make him light. VALUE. What is aught, but as 'tis valued? But value dwells not in particular will; We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life To worship shadows and adore false shapes. By the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion. Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, VENERATION. There is an old poor man, Who after me hath many a weary step Limp'd in pure love; till he be first suffic'd, R. II. iii. 4. T.C. ii. 2. T.C. ii. 2. T. iv. 1. T. G. iv. 2. R. II. ii. 1. M. iii. 5. R. III. i. 2. A. Y. ii. 7. Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds, And, dying, mention it within their wills, VENETIAN WOMEN. I know our country disposition well; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks J.C. iii. 2. They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience O. iii. 3. VENGEANCE. Are there no stones in heaven Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell! VERACITY. Should from yond' cloud speak divine things 0. v. 2. O. iii. 3. If Jupiter And say, 'tis true, I'd not believe them more C. iv. 5. VERBOSITY (See also WORDS). He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his agrument. L.L. v. 1. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. T.C. v. 3. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have found them, they are not worth the search. M. V. i. 1. VERILY. Verily! You put me off with limber vows: But I, Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths, You shall not go; a lady's verily is As potent as a lord's. VETERAN. He did look far Into the service of the time, and was VICE, PREVALENT. All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great well allied. VICISSITUDE. W.T. i. 2. A. W. i. 2. M. M. ii. 2. kindred; it is M. M. iii. 2. Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd, VICISSITUDE,-continued. The wretch, that thou hast blown unto the worst, World, world, O world! K. L. iv. 1. But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, VICTORY. To whom God will, there be the victory. K. L. iv. 1. H.VI. PT. II. ii. 5. M. A. i. 1. A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home O, such a day, Mine enemies are all knit up In their distractions. H. VI. PT. III. v. 3. H. IV. PT. II. i. 1. T. iii. 3. Slave, soulless villain, dog! VILLAIN (See also KNAVE, ROGUE). A. C. v. 2. O rarely base! M. A. iii. 3. He hath out-villained villany so far, that the rarity redeems him. A. W. iv. 3. I like not fair terms, and a villain's mind. M.V. i. 3. In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied that I am a plain-dealing villain. VIRAGO. M. A. i. 3. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have turned spit; yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. *I would to God * VIRAGO, continued. some scholar would conjure her; for, certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell, as in a sanctuary. VIRGINITY. M. A. ii. 1. Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up. Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men? VIRTUE. A. W. i. I. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, M. M. iii. 1. Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; And prey on garbage. Never could the strumpet, With all her double vigour, art, and nature, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid Subdues me quite: Ever, till now, When men were fond, I smil'd, and wonder'd how. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this; That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock, or livery, H. i. 5. M. M. ii. 2. That aptly is put on. H. iii. 4. H. IV. PT. II. i. 2. Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times, that true valour is turned bear-herd. Virtue and cunning were endowments greater REWARDED. Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, VITUPERATION (See also ABUSE). P. P. iii. 2. P. P. v. Ep. What man of good temper could endure this tempest of. exclamation? The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. H. IV. PT. II. ii. 1. R. II. i. 1. UNANIMITY. I would we were all of one mind, and one mind, good: O, there were desolation of jailers and gallowses. Cym. v. 4. UNDERLINGS. Shallow.-Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Davy. No worse than they are back-bitten, Sir; for they have marvellous foul linen. H.IV. PT. II. v. 1. UNFITNESS. There is but one puritan amonst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. On old Hyems' chin, and icy crown, UNFORTUNATE. Thou, whom the heaven's plagues, Have humbled to all strokes. W.T. iv. 2. M. N. ii. 2. K. L. iv. 1. UNION. UNITY. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. M.N. iii. 2. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. T.C. ii. 3. P. P. ii. 4. Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands: UNKINDNESS. K. L. v. 3. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? H. i. 4. M. V. ii. 7. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound, as things that are hollow. M.M. i. 2. |