CENSURE (See also OPINION).

We, in the world's wide mouth
Live scandaliz'd, and foully spoken of.
Why, who cries out on pride,

H. IV. PT. I. i. 3.

That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
Till that the weary very means do ebb?
What woman in the city do I name,
When that I say, The city woman bears
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
Who can come in and say that I mean her,
When such a one as she, such is her neighbour?
Or what is he of basest function,

That says his bravery is not on my cost,
(Thinking that I mean him,) but therein suits
His folly to the mettle of my speech?

There, then; How, what then? Let me see wherein

My tongue hath wrong'd him; if it do him right,
Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,
Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies,
Unclaim'd of any man.

CEREMONY (See also REGAL CEREMONIES).
Was but devis'd at first to set a gloss
On faint deeds, hollow welcomes,

A. Y. ii. 7.

Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown,

But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

T. A. i. 2.

Rebukable

And worthy shameful check it were to stand
On more mechanic compliment..

A. C. iv. 4.

CERES, INVOCATION TO.

Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees

Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease;

Thy turfy mountains where live nibbling sheep,

And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;

Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims,

Which spungy April at thy hest betrims,

To make cold nymphs, chaste crowns; and dark broom

groves,

Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,

Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;

And thy sea-marge, sterile, and rocky hard,

Where thou thyself dost air: The queen o' sky,

Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I,

Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace,
Here, on this grass-plot, in this very place,

To come and sport.

T. iv. 1.

CHALLENGE.

Here's the challenge, read it; I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.

Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold
Yourself.

God bless me from a challenge!

T. N. iii. 4.

H. i. 1. M. A. v. 1.

Read thou this challenge; mark but the penning of it.

K. L. iv. 6.

Draw, you rogue; for though it be night, the moon shines. K. L. ii. 2. I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll deliver thy indignation by word of mouth. By gar, it is a shallenge: I vill cut his troat in de park. M. W. i. 4.

T. Ñ. ii. 4.

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent, and full of invention; taunt him with the license of ink. T. N. iii. 2.

I protest

Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
Despite thy victor sword, and fire-new fortune,
Thy valour, and thy heart,-thou art a traitor:
False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;
Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince;
And from the extremest upward of thy head,
To the descent and dust beneath thy feet,
A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou, No,
This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent,
To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,
Thou liest.

I never in my life

Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly,
Unless a brother should a brother dare

To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
He gave you all the duties of a man;

Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue;
Spoke your deservings like a chronicle;
Making you ever better than his praise,
By still dispraising praise, valued with you:
And, which became him like a prince indeed,
He made a blushing cital of himself;

And chid his truant youth with such a grace,
As if he master'd there a double spirit,
Of teaching and of learning instantly.

CHAMPION.

Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,

K. L. v. 3.

H. IV. PT. I. v. 2.

Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth !

And art thou come to this?

THE NECESSITY OF.

If all the year were playing holidays,

To sport would be as tedious as to work;

M. M. i. 2.

K. L. iii. 4.

But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come,

And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. H. IV. PT. 1. i. 2. CHANGELING.

Was nothing but mutation; Ay and that
From one bad thing to worse.

CHARITY.

His humour

Cym. iv. 2.

Then I beat my tabor,

At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their ears,
Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses,

As they smelt music; so I charm'd their ears,
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through
Tooth'd briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,
Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them
I'the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.

DISSOLVING.

The charm dissolves apace;

And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.

T. iv. 1.

T. v. 1.

BRAGGARTS,-continued.

Who knows himself a braggart,
Let him fear this; for it will come to pass
That every braggart shall be found an ass.
What cracker is this same, which deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?
Here's a large mouth, indeed,

A. W. iv. 3.

K. J. ii. 1.

That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks and seas;
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions,

As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs.

What art thou? Have not I

An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, are bigger; for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth.

BRAINS.

Not Hercules

K. J. ii. 2.

Cym. iv. 2.

Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.

Cym. iv. 2.

Hector shall have a great catch, if he knock out either of your brains; a' were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.

BRAWLS.

Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,
In opposition bloody.

T. C. ii. 1.

O. ii. 3. I pray you to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissentions, and, I warrant you, it is the petter for you.

What's the matter,

That you unlace your reputation thus,

And spend your rich opinion for the name

Of a night brawler ?

Help, masters!-Here's a goodly watch, indeed.

BREEDING.

Highly fed, and lowly taught.

BREVITY.

H. V. iv. 8.

O. ii. 3.

O. ii. 3.

A. W. ii. 1.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.

BRIBERY.

Shall we now

Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ?

And sell the mighty space of our large honours,
For so much trash as may be grasped thus ?

H. ii. 2.

BRIBERY,-continued.

I had rather be a dog and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.

You yourself

Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;
To sell and mart your offices for gold,

To undeservers.

A world by itself; and we will nothing pay
For wearing our own noses.

Which stands

J. C. iv. 3.

J. C. iv. 3.

Cym. iii. 1.

This was the noblest Roman of them all;
All the conspirators, save only he,

Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar;
He, only, in a general honest thought,
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle; and the elements

So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world: This was a man!

BUBBLES.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water hath,
And these are of them.

On my life, my lord, a bubble.

BUTTON-HOLDER.

Sometimes he angers me,

With telling me of the mold-warp, and the ant,
Of the dreamer Merlin, and his prophecies;

And of a dragon and a finless fish,

A clip-wing'd griffin, and a moulten raven,
A couching lion, and a rampant cat,

And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff

J.C. v. 5.

M. i. 3.

A. W. iii. 6.

As puts me from my faith. I'll tell you what,-
He held me, but last night, at least nine hours,
In reckoning up the several devils' names,