ASSIMILATION. The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. ASTRONOMERS. A. W. i. 1. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, ATTACHMENT. L. L. i. 1. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit tc thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness. O. i. 3. I have forsworn his company hourly, any time this twoand-twenty years, and yet I'm bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it could not be else. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 2 ATTENDANCE. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. ATTENTION. A. W. ii. 1. Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. H. i. 5. But I can tell, that in each grace of these There lurks a still and dumb discoursive devil, T. C. iv. 4. AVARICE. This avarice, Sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root AVERSION. M. iv. 3. I think oxen and wain-ropes cannot hale them together. AUSTERITY. T. N. iii. 2. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity. T. N. iii. 4. AUTHENTICITY. Five justices' hands to it, and authorities more than my pack will hold. AUTHOR (See also POET, RHYMSTER). Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made AUTHORITY (See also OFFICE). 1 O place! O form! W.T. iv. 3. Cym. v. 3 How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Tis not the devil's crest. M. M. ii. 4. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar; K. L. iv. 6. Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o' the top. I shall remember: When Cæsar says,-Do this, it is perform'd. That no particular scandal once can touch Who will believe thee, Isabel ! My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny. O, he sits high, in all the people's hearts; M. M. ii. 2. J.C. i. 2. M. M. iv. 4. M. M. ii. 4. Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. J.C. i. 3. A. W. ii. 3 And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight. INSOLENCE OF. Could great men thunder, W.T. iv. 3. M.M. i. 3 AUTHORITY,-continued. As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. O, but man! proud man! Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven M. M. ii. 2. AUTUMN. Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth B. W. T. iv. 3. BABBLER (See also TALKER). Fie, what a spendthrift he is of his tongue! Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate, T. ii. 1. We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. R. III. i. 3. BACKING. Call you that backing your friends? a plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4. BACKWARDNESS (See also FRIENDS COOLING). BADNESS. Damnable, both sides rogue. Abhorred slave; Which any print of goodness will not take God keep the prince from all the pack of you! BALLADS. R. III. iv. 2. A. W. iv. 3. T. i. 2. R. III. iii. 3. I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter merrily set down; or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably. Traduc'd by odious ballads. W. T. iv. 3. 4. W. ii. 1. BALLADS,-continued. An I have not ballads made on you all, and sung to I love a ballad in print a' life; for then we are sure they are true. BALLAD-MONGERS (See also POETRY, RHYMSTERS). I had rather be a kitten, and cry,―mew, And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, BALLAD-SINGER, ITINERANT. H.VI. PT. iii. 2. O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bag-pipe could not move you: he sings several tunes, faster than you'll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grow to their tunes. W. T. iv. 3. BANISHMENT. R. J. iii. 3. Banish'd, is banish'd from the world, O friar, the damned use that word in hell; adieu; R. J. iii. 3, I've stoopt my neck under your injuries, R. II. iii. 1, Banish me? Banish your dotage; banish usury, T. A. iii. 5. BANTERING. With that, all laugh'd, and clapp'd him on the shoulder; One rubb'd his elbow, thus; and fleer'd, and swore, L. L. v. 2 BANTERING.-continued. Close, in the name of jesting! GIRLS. The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen; Above the sense of sense: so sensible T. N. ii. 5. Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings, BASENESS. Base and unlustrous as the smoky light That's fed with stinking tallow. You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters BASTARD. L. L. v. 2. Cym. i. 7 cashier'd ;. 0. i. 1. T. ii. 1. Bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour; in every thing illegitimate. Why bastard? wherefore base? T. C. v. 8. When my dimensions are as well compact, K. L. i. 2. Ha! Fie, these filthy vices! It were as good A man already made, as to remit Their saucy sweetness, that do coin heaven's image Falsely to take away a life true made, As to put mettle in restrained means, To make a false one Fine word,-legitimate! Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow: I prosper :- BATCHELOR. M. M. ii. 4. K. L. i. 2. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I |