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KINGS,-continued.

His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,
Is far beyond a prince's delicates;

His viands sparkling in a golden cup,

His body couched in a curious bed,

When care, mistrust, and treason, wait on him.

Mulmutius,

H. VI. PT. III. ii. 5.

Who was the first of Britain, that did put
His brows within a golden crown, and called
Himself a king.

Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown.

Cym. iii. 1.

P. P. i. 1.

Peace, peace, my lords, and give experience tongue.
They do abuse the king that flatter him:
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark,

P. P. i. 2.

Poems.

To which that breath gives heat and stronger glowing;
Whereas reproof, obedient, and in order,
Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate.
A thousand flatteries sit within thy crown,
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;
And yet, incaged in so small a verge,
The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
What?

I will be jovial; come, come; I am a king,
My masters, know you that?

R. II. ii. 1.

K. L. iv. 6.

Landlord of England art thou now, not king:
Thy state of law is bond-slave to the law.

R. II. ii. 1.

The king is not himself, but basely led by flatterers.

R. II. ii. 1.

The skipping king he ambled up and down,
With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits.

H. IV. PT. I. iii. 2.

Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honour for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imaginations,

They often feel a world of restless cares:
So that, between their titles, and low name,
There's nothing differs but the outward fame.

For within the hollow crown,
That rounds the mortal temples of a king,

R. III. i. 4.

KINGS, continued.

Keeps death his court: and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp;
Allowing him a breath, a little scene

To monarchise, be fear'd, and kill with looks;
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,—
As if this flesh, that walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable; and humour'd thus,
Comes at the last, and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king.

Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence; throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while :
I live on bread like you, feel want like you,

R.II. iii. 2.

Taste grief, need friends, like you: subjected thus,
How can you say to me—I am a king!

O Cromwell, Cromwell,

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

R. II. iii. 2.

H. VIII. iii. 2.

I think the king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing; therefore, when he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish as ours are. H.V. iv. 1.

Well, I perceive he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired he might know none of his secrets. Now do I see he had some reason for it: for if a king bid a man be a villain, he is bound by the indenture of his oath to be one. P. P. i. 3.

But not a minute, king, that thou can'st give :
Shorten my days, thou can'st, with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow:
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,

But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;

Thy word is current with him for my death;

But, dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath. R. II. i. 3.
HENRY V.

I saw young Harry with his beaver on,

His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,

KING HENRY V.,-continued.

Rise from the ground, like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,

And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

England ne'er had a king until his time.
Virtue he had, deserving to command;

H. IV. PT. I. iv. 1.

His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams;
His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;

His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,

More dazzled and drove back his enemies,

Than mid-day sun, fierce bent against their faces.

What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:

He ne'er lift up his hand, but conquered. H. VI. PT. 1. i. 1.
Hear him but reason in divinity,

And, all-admiring, with an inward wish

You would desire the king were made a prelate:

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,

You would say it hath been all-in-all his study;

List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd in music:
you

Turn him to any cause of policy,

The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,

And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences.

HENRY VI.

But all his mind is bent to holiness,

To number Ave-Maries on his beads;

His champions are the prophets and apostles;
His weapons, holy saws of sacred writ;
His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
Are brazen images of canoniz'd saints.
RICHARD III.

Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;

H.V. i. 1.

H.VI. PT. II. i. 3.

Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious;
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous;
Thy age confirm'd, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody.

-'s ABSENCE AND RETURN, TYPIFIED.

Know'st thou not, That when the searching eye of heaven is hid Behind the globe, and lights the lower world, Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,

Ř. III. iv. 4.

KING'S ABSENce and Return, TYPIFIED,—continued.
In murders and in outrage, bloody here;
But when, from under this terrestrial ball,
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines,
And darts his light through every guilty hole,
Then murders, treasons, and detested sins,

The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs,
Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves? R.II. iii. 2.

-'s ADVISER.

That man, that sits within a monarch's heart,
And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,
Would he abuse the countenance of the king,
Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach,
In shadow of such greatness!

· DEATH OF A.

H. IV. PT. II. iv. 2.

The cease of majesty
Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw
What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,
To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,
Each small annexment, petty consequence,
Attends the boisterous ruin.

H. iii. 3.

-'s EVIL.

'Tis call'd the evil:

A most miraculous work in this good king:
Which often, since my here-remain in England,
I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,
Himself best knows: but strangely visited people,
All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,
The mere despair of surgery, he cures;
Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
Put on with holy prayers; and 'tis spoken,
To the succeeding royalty he leaves
The healing benediction.

Ay, Sir; there are a crew of wretched souls,
That stay his cure; their malady convinces
The great assay of art; but, at his touch,
Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand,
They presently amend.

KISS.

O, a kiss

Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!

Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip

Hath virgin'd it o'er since.

M. iv. 3.

M. iv. 3.

C. v. 3.

KISS, continued.

0. ii. 1.

T. S. iii. 2.

Very good; well kissed! an excellent courtesy.
This done, he took the bride about the neck;
And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack,
That, at the parting, all the church did echo.
Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
KISSES, COLD.

R. III. i. 2.

He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana; a nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

A.Y. iii. I. And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.

EXPRESSIVE.

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation.

KNAVES.

A. Y. iii. 4.

H. IV. PT. I. iii. 1.

A knave; a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a one-trunk-inheriting slave: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of thy additions. K. L. ii. 2. A. W. iv. 5.

A shrewd knave, and an unhappy.

A slippery and subtle knave; a finder out of occasions; that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present itself: a devilish knave!

What a pestilent knave is this same !

0. ii. 1. R. J. iv. 5.

I grant your worship, that he is a knave, Sir; but yet, God forbid, Sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request. An honest man, Sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your worship truly, Sir, for this eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but very little credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, Sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced. H. IV. PT. II. v. 1. A beetle-headed, flat-ear'd knave. Use his men well, for they are arrant back bite.

T.S. iv. 1. knaves, and will H.IV. PT. II. v. 1.

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,

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