IMAGINARY EVILS CAUSE REAL CARES.

The passions of the mind,

That have their first conception by mis-dread,

Have after-nourishment and life by care;

And what was first but fear what might be done,
Grows elder now, and cares it be not done.

IMMACULATE.

P.P. i. 2.

Chaste and immaculate in very thought. H. VI. PT. I. v. 4. IMMOLATION.

O cruel, irreligious piety!

IMMORAL READING.

Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound
The open ear of youth doth always listen.
IMPATIENCE SUPPRESSED.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,

Tit. And. i. 2.

R. II. ii. 1.

And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
With repetition of my Romeo's name.

IMPETUOSITY.

The ocean, overpeering of his list,

R. J. ii. 2.

Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste.
Let me go, Sir,

H. iv. 5.

O. ii. 3.

Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard. IMPLACABILITY (See INFLEXIBILITY). IMPOLICY.

Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,
To wake, and wage, a danger profitless.
IMPOSSIBILITIES.

Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds
Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun;
Murd'ring impossibility, to make

What cannot be, slight work.

IMPRISONMENT.

By my christendom,

So I were out of prison, and kept sheep,

I should be merry as the day is long.

IMPROVIDENCE.

'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,

How much I have disabled mine estate,

By something showing a more swelling port

V. i. 3.

C. v. 3.

K. J. iv. 1.

Than my faint means would grant continuance. M. V. i. 1.

IMPUDENCE.

What! canst thou say all this, and never blush?

IMPUTATION.

To vouch this, is no proof;

Without more certain and more overt test,
Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
Of modern seeming do prefer against him.
INCLINATION.

To business that we love, we rise betimes,
And go to it with delight.

INCONSTANCY.

Tit. And. v. 1.

O. i. 3.

A. C. iv. 4.

O heaven! were man

T.G. v. 4.

But constant, he were perfect; that one error
Fills him with faults.

INCONTINENCE.

Such an act,

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty :
Calls virtue hypocrite: takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there: makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths; O, such a deed,
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul; and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words.

O, she is fallen

Into a pit of ink? that the wide sea

Hath drops too few to wash her clean again;
And salt too little, which may season give

To her foul tainted flesh.

Had it pleas'd heaven

To try me with affliction; had he rain'd

H. iii. 4.

M. A. iv. 1.

All kinds of sores, and shames, on my bare head;
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips;

Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes;

I should have found in some part of my soul

A drop of patience: but (alas!) to make me
A fixed figure, for the type of scorn
To point his low unmoving finger at,
O! O!

0. iv. 2.

I should make very forges of my cheeks,
That would to cinders burn up modesty,

Did I but speak thy deeds.

0. iv. 2.

Look to her, Moor; have a quick eye to see;
She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee.

O. i. 3.

INCONTINENCE,-continued.

O thou weed,

Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet,

That the sense aches at thee,—would, thou hadst ne'er been
born.

O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones

To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,

And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame,
When the compulsive ardour gives the charge;
Since frost itself as actively doth burn,

And reason panders will.

If I do prove her haggard,

Though that her jesses were my dear heart strings,
I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind,

O. iv. 2.

H. iii. 4.

To prey at fortune.

O. iii. 3.

INCORRIGIBLE.

Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in the same kind. This would make mercy swear and play the tyrant.

INDEPENDENCE.

I cannot tell, what you and other men

Think of this life; but, for my single self,

I had as lief not be, as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself.

INDIGNATION.

M. M. iii. 2.

J.C. i. 2.

His indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury. T. N iii. 4.

INFAMY.

Wine lov'd I deeply; dice dearly; and in woman, outparamour'd the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. K. L. iii. 4.

INFANT Ruler.

Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child! R. III. ii. 3. INFATUATION.

When we in our viciousness grow hard,

(0, misery on't!) the wise gods seel our eyes;

In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors; laugh at us, while we strut

To our confusion.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth.

It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.
**** Who lin'd himself with hope,

A. C. iii. 11.

M. V. ii. 9.

INFATUATION,-continued.

Eating the air on promise of supply,
Flattering himself with project of a power
Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts
And so, with great imagination,

Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
And, winking, leap'd into destruction.

INFECTION.

H. IV. PT. II. i. 3.

And one infect another

Against the wind a mile.

INFIRMITY.

Infirmity doth still neglect all office,

Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves,
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

GREATNES NOT EXEMPT FROM.

He had a fever when he was in Spain,

And, when the fit was on him, I did mark

How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake:
His coward lips did from their colours fly;

C. i. 4.

K. L. ii. 4.

And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world,
Did lose its lustre.

INFLEXIBILITY. (See also BOND).

You may as well go stand upon the beech,
And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
You may as well use question with the wolf,
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to make no noise,
When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven
You may as well do any thing most hard,

J. C. i. 2.

As seek to soften that-(than which what's harder?)
His Jewish heart!

Swear his thought over
By each particular star in heaven, and
By all their influences, you may as well
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon,
As or, by oath, remove, or counsel, shake,
The fabric of his folly; whose foundation
Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue
The standing of his body.

M. V. iv. 1.

W.T. i. 2.

M. V. iii. 3.

I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
I'll have my bond: and therefore speak no more.
There's no more mercy in him than there is milk in a
male tiger.
C. v. 4.

With one that I have bred? The gods!-It smites me

A. C. v. 2.

Beneath the fall I have.

Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen

Although thy breath be rude.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,

That dost not bite so nigh,

As benefits forgot;

Though thou the waters warp,

Thy sting is not so sharp

As friend remember'd not.

I hate ingratitude more in a man,

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

I have kept back their foes

While they have told their money; and let out
Their coin upon large interest; I myself,
Rich only in large hurts,-All those for this?
Is this the balsam, that the usuring senate
Pours into captains' wounds?

Pr'ythee lead me in:
There take an inventory of all I have,

To the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe,
And my integrity to heaven, is all

A. Y. ii. 7.

T. N. iii. 4.

T. A. iii. 5.

I dare now call my own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

I had my trial;

H.VIII. iii. 2.

And, must needs say, a noble one; which makes me
A little happier than my wretched father:

Yet thus far we are one in fortunes,-Both

Fell by our servants, by those men we lov'd most;
A most unnatural and faithless service!