AMBITION,-continued.

The noble Brutus

Hath told you Cæsar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.

DEFEATED.

People, and senators! be not affrighted;

J. C. iii. 2.

Fly not; stand still:-ambition's debt is paid. J. C. iii. 1. ALLOY, UNIVERSAL, IN THIS PROBATIONARY LIFE.

Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring,

Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers;
The adder hisseth where the sweet birds sing;
What virtue breeds, iniquity devours.

AMEN.

Poems.

Let me say, Amen, betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer.

AMENDMENT (See also REFORM).

God mend all.

ANCESTRY (See also LINEAGE).

M. V. iii. 1.

H. VIII. i. 3.

Look in the chronicles, we came in with Richard con

queror.

ANGER (See also FURY-RAGE).

To be in anger is impiety,

But who is man that is not angry.

Never anger made good guard for itself.
This tyger-footed rage, when it shall find

The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will, too late,

Tie leaden pounds to his heels.

Stay, my lord!

And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like
A full hot, horse, who, being allowed his way,
Self mettle tires him.

It were for me

To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;
To tell them that this world did equal theirs,

T. S. IND. 1

T. A. iii. 5.

A. C. iv. 1.

C. iii. 1.

H. VIII. i. 1.

Till they had stol'n our jewel, All's but naught;
Patience is sottish; and impatience docs
Become a dog that's mad.

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool

A. C. iv. 13.

Art thou, to break into this woman's mood. H. IV. PT. 1. i. 3. V
Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,
Well could I curse away a winter's night,

ANGER,-continued.

Though standing naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport.

H. VI. PT. II. iii. 2.

R. J. iii. 1.

Away to heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now.
What! drunk with choler? stay, and pause awhile.

H. IV. PT. I. i. 3.

A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?
Would curses kill as doth the mandrake's groan,
I would invent as bitter-searching terms,
As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear,
Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth,
With full as many signs of deadly hate,
As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:
My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;
Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;
My hair be fix'd on end, as one distract;
Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:
And even now my burdened heart would break,
Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees!
Their chiefest prospect, murd'ring basilisks!
Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' stings!
Their music, frightful as the serpent's hiss;
And boding screech-owls make the concert full!

Be advis'd;

H. VI. PT. II. iii. 2

Heat not a furnace for your foes so hot,
That it do singe yourself: we may out-run,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running. Know you not,
The fire that mounts the liquor till't run o'er,
In seeming to augment it, wastes it. Be advis'd.

H. VIII. i. 1.

O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world. K. J. iii, 4.

I am about to weep; but, thinking that

We are a queen, (or long have dream'd so) certain,
The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
I'll turn to sparks of fire.

O Cassins, you are yoked with a lamb
That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again.

H. VIII. ii. 4.

J. C. iv. 3

1

ANGER,-continued.

Anger's my meat: I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.

But anger has a privilege.

By the gods

You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
Though it do split you: for, from this day forth,
I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
When you are waspish.

ANGLING.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait. ANNOYANCE, IMPERTINENT.

The loose encounters of lascivious men.

ANSWER.

Definitively thus I answer you.

Your answer, Sir, is enigmatical.

GENERAL.

C. iv. 2 K. L. ii. 2

J. C. iv. 3.

M. A. iii. 1.

T. G. ii. 3.

R. III. iii. 7.

But for me, I have an answer will serve all men.

ANSWERING A LETTER.

Any man, that can write, may answer a letter.

ANT.

M. A. v. 4.

A. W. ii. 2.

R. J. ii. 4.

We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring in the winter.

ANTICIPATION.

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.

K. L. ii. 4.

M. iv. 1.

I smell it; upon my life, it will do well. H. IV. PT. 1. i. 3.
Excellent! I smell a device.

A man may hear this shower sing in the wind.

T. N. ii. 3

M. W. iii. 2.

Great business must be wrought ere noon;

Upon the corner of the moon

There hangs a vapourous drop profound;
I'll catch it ere it come to ground.

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet,

That it enchants my sense.

ANTIQUITIES.

What's to do?

Shall we go see the reliques of this town?

M. iii. 5.

T. C. iii. 2.

T. N. iii. 3.

APOLOGIST.

I have laboured for the poor gentleman, to the extremest shore of my modesty.

APOLOGY.

M. M. iii. 2.

What, shall this speech he spoke for our excuse?
Or shall we on without apology.

APOPLEXY.

R. J. i. 4.

This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling. H. IV. PT. II. i. 2

APOTHECARY.

I do remember an apothecary,—

And hereabouts he dwells,-whom late I noted
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Of ill-shap'd fishes; and about his shelves

A beggarly account of empty boxes,

Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses,
Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show.
Noting this penury, to myself I said,-
An' if a man did need a poison now,
Whose sale is present death in Mantua.
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.

APPARITION (See also GHOSTS, SPIRITS).

R. J. v. 1

I have heard (but not believ'd) the spirits of the dead
May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
Appear'd to me last night; for ne'er was dream
So like a waking.

APPEAL.

W. T. iii. 3.

And here I stand:-judge, my masters. H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4.

APPELLATIONS OF JUVENILE ENDEARMENT.

Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names
By vain, though apt affection.

APPLAUSE, POPULAR (See also POPULARITY, MOB).

And there is such confusion in my powers,
As, after some oration fairly spoke

By a beloved prince, there doth appear
Among the buzzing pleased multitude :

Where every something being blent together,
Turns to a wild of nothing

M. M. i. 5.

M. V. iii. 2.

APPREHENSION.

Heaven! that I had thy head! he has found the meaning.

Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport.

ARITHMETICIAN.

Forsooth, a great arithmetician.

ARMAMENT, SAILING.

H. IV. PT. I. i. 3.

Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies,
In motion of no less celerity

Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
The well-appointed King at Hampton pier

Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet

With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning.
Play with your fancies; and in them behold,
Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing:
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O do but think,
You stand upon the rivage, and behold

A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur.

ARMY (See also WAR).

O. i. 1.

H. V. ii. chorus.

A braver choice of dauntless spirits
Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er,
Did never float upon the swelling tide,
To do offence and scath in Christendom.
The interruption of their churlish drums
Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,
To parley, or to fight; therefore prepare.
England, impatient of your just demands,
Hath put himself in arins; the adverse winds,
Whose leisure I have staid, have given him time

K. J. ii. 1