TYRANT,-continued.

His demand

Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
But from deceit, bred by necessity;
For how can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

O nation miserable,

H. VI. PT. III. iii. 3.

With an untitled tyrant, bloody scepter'd,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?
Then live to be the show and gaze o' the time;
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted upon a pole; and under writ,
Here may you see the tyrant.

M. iv. 3.

M. v.7.

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.

P. P. i. 2.

Tyrants' fears

Decrease not, but grow faster with their years.
Those he commands, move only in command,
Nothing in love.

P. P. i. 2.

M. v. 2.

VACANCY.

0. U.

The city cast

Her people out upon her, and Antony,

Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,

And made a gap in nature.

VALOUR (See also COURAGE).

He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer

A. C. ii. 2.

The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs
His outsides; wear them, like his raiment, carelessly;

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,

To bring it into danger.

T. A. iii. 5.

Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes ;
Dexterity so obeying appetite,

That what he will, he does; and does so much,
That proof is call'd impossibility.

Engaging and redeeming of himself,

With such a careless force, and forceless care,
As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,
Bade him win all.

It is held,

That valour is the chiefest virtue, and

T.C.v.5.

T.C. v. 5,

VALOUR,-continued.

Most dignifies the haver: if it be,

The man I speak of cannot in the world
Be singly counterpois'd.

His valour shown upon our crests to-day,

C. ii. 2.

Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

O, this boy

Lends mettle to us all!

H. IV. PT. I. v. 5.

H. IV. PT. I. v. 4.

Methought he bore him in the thickest troop,
As doth a lion in a herd of neat:

Or as a bear encompass'd round with dogs,
Who, having pinch'd a few, and made them cry,
The rest stand all aloof and bark at him.

I told you, Sir, they were red hot with drinking;
So full of valour, that they smote the air

For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kissing of their feet.

T. iv. 1.

Plague on't; an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.

What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
When he might spurn him with his foot away?

T.N. ii. 4.

H.VI. PT. III. i. 4.

H.IV. PT. I. v. 1.

The Douglas, and the Hotspur, both together,
Are confident against the world in arms.
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smok'd with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion

Carv'd out his passage, till he fac'd the slave.

M. i. 1.

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life. H. IV. PT. I. v. 4.

Why, thou knowest I'm as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou, for a true prince H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4.

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;
It holds his estimate and dignity

As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer: 'tis mad idolatry,
To make the service greater than the god;
And the will dotes, that is attributive
To what infectiously itself affects,
Without some image of the affected merit.
VANITY.

We are such stuff

As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

To worship shadows and adore false shapes.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

By the strength of their illusion

Shall draw him on to his confusion.

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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,
Oppress'd with two great evils, age and hunger,
I will not touch a bit.

Let but the commons hear this testament,

(Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,)

R. FI. 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.

And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds,
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,

And, dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy,

Unto their issue.

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
Is-not to leave undone, but keep unknown.

O. iii. 3.

VENGEANCE.

Are there no stones in heaven
But what serve for the thunder?

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne,
To tyrannous hate! swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

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
Than thee, all noble Marcius.

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.

VERILY.

Verily !

You put me off with limber vows: But I,

M. V. i. 1.

Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths,
Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily,

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
Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long;
But on us both did haggish age steal on,
And wore us out of act.

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,
Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,

VICISSITUDE,—continued.

The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune,
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:
The lamentable change is from the best;
The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then,
Thou unsubstantial air, that I embrace!

The wretch, that thou hast blown unto the worst,
Owes nothing to thy blasts.

World, world, O world!

K. L. iv. 1.

But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.

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
full numbers.
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.

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!
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones
may make what price they will.

M. A. iii. 3.

He hath out-villained villany so far, that the rarity redeems him.

I like not fair terms, and a villain's mind.

A. W. iv. 3.

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. M. A. i. 3.

VIRAGO.

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. * K I would to God