COURTSHIP,-continued. They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: For I am rough, and woo not like a babe. Go then, my mother, to your daughter go; What! I that kill'd her husband, and his father, T. S. ii. 1. R. III. iv. 4. With God, her conscience, and these bars against me, But the plain devil and dissembling looks, And yet to win her,—all the world to nothing! R. III. i. 2. After your dire lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber window, With some sweet concert; to their instruments Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. Frame yourself To orderly solicits; and be friended Never give her o'er; For scorn at first, makes after-love the more. The count he wooes your daughter, She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; T. G. iii. 2. Cym. ii. 3. T. G. iii. 1. A. W. iii. 7. Tit. And. ii. 1. #9 COURTSHIP,-continued. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Was ever woman in this humour won? Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd COWARDS. A. Y. iv. 1. R. III. i. 2. L. L. v. 2. His mind is not heroic, and there's the humour of it. M. W. i. 3. T. N. iii. 4 A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. I know him a notorious liar; You souls of geese, A. W. i. 1. That bear the shapes of men, how have you run With flight and agued fear! Mend, and charge home, So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome stench, C. i. 4. H. VI. PT. I. 1. 5. The enemy full-hearted, Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Cym. v. 3. R. II. iii. 2. COWARD,-continued. A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. Slander'd to death by villains; That dare as well answer a man, indeed, M. A. v. 1. Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. H. IV. PT. I. i. 2. How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false M. V. iii. 2. A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! marry and amen! H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4. The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat, as they did budge Reproach and everlasting shame Did I but suspect a fearful man, C. i. 6. H.V. iv. 5. H.VI. PT. III. v. 4. To say the truth, this fact was infamous, H.VI. PT. I. iv. 1. T. N. v. 1. We took him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base: Cym. iv. 2. All the contagion of the south light on you! C. 1. 4. COWARD,-continued. He which hath no stomach to this fight, H.V. iv. 3. H.V. iv. 3. He's a great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward, to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent, he would quickly have the gift of a grave. T. N. i. 3. In a retreat he outruns any lacquey; marry, in coming on, he has the cramp. You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards A. W. iv. 3. K. J. ii. 1. Cym. iii. 6. A. C. iii. 9. Turn head and stop pursuit; for coward dogs So cowards fight when they can fly no further: H.V. ii. 4 H. VI. PT. III. i. 4 Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once. COXCOMB (See also FRIBBLE). J.C. ii. 2. Believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. H. v. 2. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, One, whom the music of his own vain tongue A man of compliments, whom right and wrong L. L. i. 1. COXCOMB,-continued. O murd'rous coxcomb! what should such a fool Do with so good a wife? O most profane coxcomb! 0. v. 2. L. L. iv. 3. Thus has he and many more of the same breed, that, I know, the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. A barren-spirited fellow. COZENERS. H. v. 2. T.C. iv. 1. And, indeed, Sir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to be wary. CRAFT, EXPLODED. My antient incantations are too weak. CREDULITY. Thus credulous fools are caught! W.T. iv. 3. H.VI. PT. I. v. 3. 0. iv. 1. But he that will believe all that they say, shall never be saved by half that they do. CRIMES. All have not offended: A. C. v. 2. For those that were, it is not square, to take, On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands, T. A. v. 5. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, K.J. iv. 2. UNPUNISHED. For we bid this be done, When evil deeds have their permissive pass, CRISIS. Ha! is it come to this! Before the curing of a strong disease, M. M. i. 4. K. L. i. 4. K. J. iii. 4. Things at the worst will cease; or else climb upward CRITICAL. I am nothing if not critical. M. iv. 2. O. ii. 1, |