Philip Massinger
Dramatist, 1583-1640
Cited as Massinger. — 58 quotations
Allow
How allow you the model of these clothes?
Antecedent
My antecedent, or my gentleman usher.
Banquet
We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here.
Biggin
An old woman's biggin for a nightcap.
Blossom
In the blossom of my youth.
Buzz
There's a certain buzz Of a stolen marriage.
Calver
For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats.
Cancelier
He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier.
Candor
Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor.
Circular
A man so absolute and circular In all those wished-for rarities that may take A virgin captive.
Coat
Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
Crane
An upstart craned up to the height he has.
Curiousness
My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up.
Dead-pay
O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays.
Deck
Who . . . hath such trinkets Ready in the deck.
Decline
Could I Decline this dreadful hour?
Demean
You know How narrow our demeans are.
Deserve
A man that hath So well deserved me.
Desist
To desist from his bad practice.
Disfurnish
I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher.
Disposure
Give up My estate to his disposure.
Distemper
The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
Enshrine
We will enshrine it as holy relic.
Exact
My designs Exact me in another place.
Fray
The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
Frequent
'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci.
Goatish
Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust.
Hurricane
Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane.
Induction
This is but an induction: I will draw The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.
Inside
Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely.
Lively
I spied the lively picture of my father.
Magnificent
A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many.
Niggle
Take heed, daughter, You niggle not with your conscience and religion.
Passive
The best virtue, passive fortitude.
Practice
In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
Present
An ambassador . . . desires a present audience.
Race
Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
Roarer
A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses.
Shadow
I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement.
Stall
This is not to be stall'd by my report.
Stand
Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor.
Star-crossed
Such is my star-crossed destiny.
State
Your state, my lord, again is yours.
Strumpet
With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.
Studious
You that are so studious Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own.
Supportress
You are my gracious patroness and supportress.
Swallow
I have no swallow for it.
Taint
Do not fear; I have A staff to taint, and bravely.
Tall
As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification.
Theorem
By the theorems, Which your polite and terser gallants practice, I re-refine the court, and civilize Their barbarous natures.
Theoric
A man but young, Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic In all humanity.
Trade
Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
Triumph
Two and thirty legions that awe All nations of the triumphed word.
Vindicate
I am confident he deserves much more That vindicates his country from a tyrant Than he that saves a citizen.
Void
I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country.
Wide
I was but two bows wide.
Zany
Your part is acted; give me leave at distance To zany it.