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 From rascals worse than they. 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, We took him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. H.VI. PT. 1. iv. 1. T. N. v. 1. Cym. iv. 2. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : All the contagion of the south light on you! You shames of Rome! You herd of,-Boils and plagues 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. Foul-spoken coward! that thunderest with thy tongue, 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 excel- 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. Things at the worst will cease; or else climb upward CRITICAL. I am nothing if not critical. K. J. iii. 4. M. iv. 2. O. ii. 1. CROAKER. I would croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode. CROWN, REGAL (See also KINGS). O polish'd perturbation! golden care! T.C. v. 2. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. A thousand flatteries sit within thy crown, How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown; R. II. ii. 1. And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. H. IV. PT. III. i. 2. By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown; and I myself know well, How troublesome it sat upon my head. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. I spake unto the crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it: The care on thee depending, Hath fed upon the body of my father ; Therefore thou, best of gold, art worst of gold; Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in med'cine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd, Hast eat thy bearer up. Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head; To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murder'd my father,- CRUELTY. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. O, be thou damn'd, inexorable dog! That souls of animals infuse themselves Govern'd a wolf; who, hang'd for human slaughter, Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. M.V. iv. 1. CRUELTY, continued. I am sorry for thee; thou art come to answer M.V. iv. 1. See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears; Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this: Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears; And say,-Alas, it was a piteous deed! H. VI. PT. III. i. 4. She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth! To triumph like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes whom fortune captivates! H. VI. PT. III. i. 4. But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, CRUSADE. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, (Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; T.G. iii. 1. Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, Which fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd, CUCKOLD. H. IV. PT. I. i. 1. Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends; but cuckold wittol-cuckold! the devil himself hath not such M. W. ii. 2. a name. CUDGEL. I'll have the cudgel hallow'd and hung o'er the altar: it hath done meritorious service. M. W. iv. 2. CUPIDS. Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with traps. M. A. iii. 1. CURIOSITIES. I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes |