LATIN. Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latir O, good my lord, no Latin; I am not such a truant since my coming, As not to know the language I have liv'd in. H.VIII. iii. 1. You do ill to teach the child such words: he teaches him to hick, and to hack, which they'll do fast enough of themselves; and to call horum ;-fye upon you! O, I smell false Latin. LAUGHTER. With his eyes in flood with laughter. O, you shall see him laugh, till his face be cloak, ill laid up. H. IV. With such a zealous laughter, so profound. O, I am stabb'd with laughter. More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed. LAW (See also LITIGATION). We have strict statutes and most biting laws. Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong. M. W. iv. 1. L. L. v. 1. Help, master, help; here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out. P. P. ii. 1. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, And let it keep one shape till custom make it There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: M. V. i. 2. M. M. ii. 1. LAW,-continued. And many an error, by the same example, It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy Now, as fond fathers, Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, For terror, not to use; in time the rod M. V. iv. 1. T. A. iii. 5. T. A. iii. 5. Becomes more mock'd than fear'd: so our decrees, And liberty plucks justice by the nose. What's open made to justice, That justice seizes. What know the laws, M. M. i. 4. That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant, The bloody book of law If by this crime he owes the law his life, M. M. ii. 1. O. i. 3. T. A. iii. 5. H.VI. PT. I. ii. 4. But, I pr'ythee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king?-and resolution thus fobb'd as it is, with the rusty curb of old father antic, the law? H. IV. PT. I. i. 2. ABUSE OF. The usurer hangs the cozener. LAWYERS. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, LEADER. Another of his fashion they have not; K. L. iv. 6. H.VI. PT. II. iv. 2. T. S. i. 2. 0. i. 1. LEAN VISAGE. Would he were fatter:-But I fear him not:- I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius., He reads much; Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, LEARNING (See also LIGHT, KING HENRY V., STUDY). O this learning! what a thing it is! Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. J.C. i. 2. T. S. i. 2. L. L. iv. 3. A mere hoard of gold, kept by a devil; till sack com. mences it, and sets it in use. H. IV. PT. 11. iv. 3 LEEK, THE Will you mock at an antient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour,—and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words? H.V. v. 1. LEERING. I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. LEGITIMACY. Sirrah, your brother is legitimate: Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him: LENITY. M.W. i. 3. K. J. i. 1. For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air? My gracious liege, this too much lenity LETTER. H. VI. PT. III. ii. 6. H.VI. PT. III. ii. 2. An' it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to signify. M. V. ii. 4. Leave, gentle wax; and manners, blame us not. K.L. iv. 6. Read o'er this; And after, this; and then to breakfast, with What appetite you have. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words H.VIII. iii. 2. M.V. iii. 2. Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers, here's a letter for thee. LIAR. LIES. LYING. T.C. v 1. One that lies three-thirds, and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten. You told a lie; an odious, damned lie; A W. ii. 5. 0. v. 2 He will lie, Sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool. Two beggars told me, I could not miss my way: Will poor folks lie, That have afflictions on them; knowing 'tis A. W. iv. 3. When rich ones scarce tell true: To lapse in fulness Is worse in kings than beggars. Cym. iii. 6. Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen. Detested kite! thou liest. W. T. iv. 3. These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4. This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull-street; and every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou. H. IV. PT. II. iii. 2. Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, T. iii. 2. K. J. iv. 3. A very honest woman, but something given to lie; as a woman should not do, but in the way of honesty. A. C. v. 2. LIAR,-continued. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! H. IV. PT. II. iii. 4. HIS OWN DUPE. Like one, Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, To credit his own lie. LIBERTY. Blessed be those, How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills, LICENTIOUSNESS. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, LIFE (See also ILLUSION, MAN, Death). Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, O gentlemen, the time of life is short; T. i. 2. Cym. i. 7. M. M. i. 3. K. L. iv. 6. M. v. 5. H. IV. PT. I. v. 2. To spend that shortness basely, were too long, Cym. iii. 6. M. M. iii. 1. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. A. W. iv. 3. The sands are number'd that make up my life. Life is a shuttle. Thus play I, in one person, many people, H.VI. PT. III. i. 4. O excellent! I love long life better than figs! M. W. v. 1. R. II. 5. A. C. i. 2. |