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: to threaten 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. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, H. v. 2. 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. 1V. 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, To try with it, as with an enemy, my father, 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, 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; 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 CURIOSITIES,-continued. With the memorials and the things of fame, CURRENTS, MARITIME. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current, and compulsive course CURS. T. N. iii. 3, O. iii. 3. O'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one should say, one that taketh upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. T.G. iv. 4. When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it! I have taught him-even as one would say precisely,-Thus I would teach a dog. CURSING. I would the gods had nothing else to do, CUSTOM (See also HABIT). T.G. iv. 4. C. iv. 2. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. Custom calls me to't: : What custom wills in all things should we do't; Nice customs curt'sey to great kings. Assume a virtue if you have it not, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law VILE. Though I am native here, And to the manner born,-it is a custom H. v. 1. C. ii. 3. H.V. v. 2. H. iii. 4. K. L. i. 2. More honour'd in the breach than the observance. H. i. 4. 72 |