Samuel Daniel
Poet and historian, 1562-1619
Cited as Daniel. — 49 quotations
Advisement
And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep.
Cloister
Fitter for a cloister than a crown.
Cloistral
Best become a cloistral exercise.
Complain
They might the grievance inwardly complain.
Comport
The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport.
Concussion
Then concussion, rapine, pilleries, Their catalogue of accusations fill.
Confederate
With these the Piercies them confederate.
Confiner
Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands.
Creditor
The easy creditors of novelties.
Disarray
Disrank the troops, set all in disarray.
Discontinue
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
Effect
So great a body such exploits to effect.
Erect
That didst his state above his hopes erect.
Expilation
This ravenous expilation of the state.
Foretoken
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
Give
Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.
Incorporate
He never suffers wrong so long to grow, And to incorporate with right so far As it might come to seem the same in show.
Indebt
Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none.
Infection
It was her chance to light Amidst the gross infections of those times.
Ingrain
Our fields ingrained with blood.
Insult
The lion being dead, even hares insult.
Interpoint
Her sighs should interpoint her words.
Main
That current with main fury ran.
Mercenary
For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen.
Penetrate
The sweet of life that penetrates so near.
Populace
To . . . calm the peers and please the populace.
Quit
Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.
Rhetoric
Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes.
Riot
Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
Rout
thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly.
Same
Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve.
Sisterhood
She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife.
Some
Some to the shores do fly, Some to the woods, or whither fear advised.
Stand
Father, since your fortune did attain So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
Stop
A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
The organ sound a time survives the stop.
Stout
The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
Such
In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived.
Temporize
They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize.
Throng
So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster, multitude.
Underworld
That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld.
Versify
I'll versify the truth, not poetize.
War
To war the Scot, and borders to defend.
Ward
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
Warder
When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
When
Kings may Take their advantage when and how they list.
Who
There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan.
Woeful
How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!
Wreck
Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves.