William Shakespeare

Playwright and poet, 1564-1616

Cited as Shak. — 5570 quotations

A

A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.

Abandon

Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

Abate

She hath abated me of half my train.

Abed

Not to be abed after midnight.

Abhor

It doth abhor me now I speak the word.
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge.

Abide

She could not abide Master Shallow.

abject

And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.

Abomination

Antony, most large in his abominations.

About

'Tis time to look about.

Abridgment

What abridgment have you for this evening? What mask? What music?

Absolute

I am absolute 't was very Cloten.

Abstain

Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?

Absurd

This proffer is absurd and reasonless.

Abuse

Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?

Aby

Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear.

Accept

If you accept them, then their worth is great.

Access

I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me.

Accessary

To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.

Accident

Of moving accidents by flood and field.

Accomplice

Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices!

Accomplish

The armorers accomplishing the knights.

Accord

My heart accordeth with my tongue.

According

Is all things well, According as I gave directions?

Accordingly

Behold, and so proceed accordingly.

Account

A beggarly account of empty boxes.

Accouter

Both accoutered like young men.

Accusation

We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.

Achieve

Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
He hath achieved a maid That paragons description.

acknowledge

By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee.

Aconitum

Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder.

Acquaint

Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love.
I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland.

Acquittance

You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers.

Actor

After a well graced actor leaves the stage.

Actual

Her walking and other actual performances.

Adage

Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,” Like the poor cat i' the adage.

Adam

And whipped the offending Adam out of him.

Adjoining

Upon the hills adjoining to the city.

Adjourn

'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day.

Adjunct

Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
Learning is but an adjunct to our self.

Administer

Swear . . . to keep the oath that we administer.

Admiration

Season your admiration for a while.
Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration.

Admittance

To give admittance to a thought of fear.

Ado

Let's follow to see the end of this ado.

Adorer

I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.

Adulation

Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation?

Advance

They . . . advanced their eyelids.

Advantage

Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
And with advantage means to pay thy love.

Adventure

I would adventure for such merchandise.

Adversary

His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries.

Advice

How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her?

Advise

Bid thy master well advise himself.

Afeard

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

Affable

An affable and courteous gentleman.

Affect

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.
Thou dost affect my manners.

Affected

How stand you affected to his wish?
He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd.

Affecting

A drawling; affecting rouge.

Affliction

To repay that money will be a biting affliction.

Affray

That voice doth us affray.

Affright

Dreams affright our souls.

Affront

That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.

Afloat

On such a full sea are we now afloat.

Afoot

We 'll walk afoot a while.
The matter being afoot.

Afore

If he have never drunk wine afore.

Agazed

The whole army stood agazed on him.

Age

Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.

Agnize

I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity.

Agree

If music and sweet poetry agree.

Aid

You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise.

Aidance

Aidance 'gainst the enemy.

Aim

To be the aim of every dangerous shot.
What you would work me to, I have some aim.

Air

Were you but riding forth to air yourself.

Air-drawn

This is the air-drawn dagger.

Alacrity

I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

Alarm

Arming to answer in a night alarm.

Albion

In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.

Alchemist

You are alchemist; make gold.

Alchemy

Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

All

I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.

All-hail

Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me “Thane of Cawdor.”

Allay

It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison.

Allayment

The like allayment could I give my grief.

Allegiance

Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance hear me!

Allow

Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.

Allowance

Without the king's will or the state's allowance.
The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others.

Along

He to England shall along with you.

Altitude

He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.

Amaze

A labyrinth to amaze his foes.

Ambition

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels.

Ambitious

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.

Amble

The skipping king, he ambled up and down.
Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.

Amend

Mar not the thing that can not be amended.

Amends

Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends.

Amiable

Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.

Amidst

But rather famish them amid their plenty.

Amiss

What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.

Among

What news among the merchants?

Amorous

Sure my brother is amorous on Hero.

Anatomy

They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy.

Anchor

Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.
My invention . . . anchors on Isabel.

Ancient

More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient.
This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.

Ancientry

Wronging the ancientry.

And

When that I was and a little tiny boy.

Anger

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

Angerly

Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.

Angle

Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
The hearts of all that he did angle for.

Annoy

Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy.

Annoyance

A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense.

Annual

A thousand pound a year, annual support.

Anon

Sometimes he trots, . . . anon he rears upright.
A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose.

another

Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more.
Would serve to scale another Hero's tower.
He winks, and turns his lips another way.

Answer

She answers him as if she knew his mind.
This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
I will . . . send him to answer thee.
And grievously hath Cæzar answered it.
Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you.
Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take.

Anticipation

So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.

Antiquity

It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

Any

You are not to go loose any longer.

Apparent

It is apparent foul play.
I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown.

Apparently

If he should scorn me so apparently.

Apparition

I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.

Applaud

I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.
By the gods, I do applaud his courage.

Appoint

Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting.

Approbation

This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation.

April

The April's her eyes; it is love's spring.

Apt

Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear.

Arbitrate

There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate.

Arch

The most arch act of piteous massacre.
My worthy arch and patron comes to-night.

Argentine

Celestial Dian, goddess argentine.

Argosy

Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers.

Argument

You and love are still my argument.
Sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

Arm

And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him.

Army

An army of good words.

Aroint

Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries.

Arras

Behind the arras I'll convey myself.

Arrest

[Our brother Norway] sends out arrests On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys.

Arrive

Ere we could arrive the point proposed.

Arrogance

I hate not you for her proud arrogance.

Arrogant

Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate.

Art

Madam, I swear I use no art at all.

Artificial

Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life.

as

As I return I will fetch off these justices.

Ashore

Here shall I die ashore.
I must fetch his necessaries ashore.

Aside

But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.

Ask

He asked the way to Chester.

Askance

O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!

Aslant

There is a willow grows aslant a brook.

Aspire

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.

Assay

This can not be, by no assay of reason.
To-night let us assay our plot.

Assemblance

Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit.

Assign

Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.

Assist

Assist me, knight. I am undone!

Assistance

Without the assistance of a mortal hand.

Associate

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.

Assume

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Assure

I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus.

Astonish

Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol].

Astronomy

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy.

Athwart

All athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news.

Atone

He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety.
I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.

Atonement

He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.

Attainder

He lived from all attainder of suspect.

Attaint

My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love.

Attempt

Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.

Attend

Attends the emperor in his royal court.

Attention

They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony.

Attest

The attest of eyes and ears.

Attire

Finely attired in a robe of white.
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire.

Attorney

And will have no attorney but myself.

Attribute

The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . . It is an attribute to God himself.

Audience

According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak.

Audit

Yet I can make my audit up.

Authority

Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense.
Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame.

Authorize

A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam.

Ave

Their loud applause and aves vehement.

Ave Maria

To number Ave Maries on his beads.

Avouch

If this which he avouches does appear.
The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.

Awake

It way awake my bounty further.

Away

The sound is going away.

Awe

That same eye whose bend doth awe the world.

Awful

Thrust from the company of awful men.

Baccare

Baccare! you are marvelous forward.

Back

This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof.
I will back him [a horse] straight.
Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, Appeared to me.
A garden . . . with a vineyard backed.
What have I to give you back?

Backbite

They are arrant knaves, and will backbite.

Backward

Thou wilt fall backward.
We might have . . . beat them backward home.
In the dark backward and abysm of time.

Backwardly

And does he think so backwardly of me?

Badge

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Bake

The earth . . . is baked with frost.

Balk

Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.

Band

Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot.

Bandy

Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.

Bang

The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.

Bank

Tiber trembled underneath her banks.

Baptize

I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

Bar

Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night.

Bare

It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.

Barely

R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue.

Bargain

And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith.
She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.
So worthless peasants bargain for their wives.

Base

Why bastard? wherefore base?

Baseness

I once did hold it a baseness to write fair.

Basilisk

Make me not sighted like the basilisk.

Bastard

Brown bastard is your only drink.

Bathe

And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood.

Be

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

Beached

The beached verge of the salt flood.

Beachy

The beachy girdle of the ocean.

Beacon

Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise.

Beam

How far that little candle throws his beams!

Bear

I 'll bear your logs the while.
Bear them to my house.
The ancient grudge I bear him.
Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?

Bearing

I know him by his bearing.

Beat

To still my beating mind.

Beauty

All the admired beauties of Verona.

Bechance

God knows what hath bechanced them.

Beck

When gold and silver becks me to come on.
They have troops of soldiers at their beck.

Beckon

It beckons you to go away with it.

Become

But, madam, where is Warwick then become!

Becomed

And gave him what becomed love I might.

Bed

I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.
In bed he slept not for my urging it.
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.

Bedlam

Let's get the bedlam to lead him.

Bedroom

Then by your side no bed room me deny.

Beetle

To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

Befall

I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me.

Before

When the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before.

Befortune

I wish all good befortune you.

Beg

I do beg your good will in this case.

Beggar

It beggared all description.

Begnaw

The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.

Beguile

When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage.

Behave

He did behave his anger ere 't was spent.

Behind

Leave not a rack behind.

Behowl

The wolf behowls the moon.

Beldam

To show the beldam daughters of her daughter.

Belie

Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.

Belike

Belike, boy, then you are in love.

Belly

Underneath the belly of their steeds.
Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.

Belong

No blame belongs to thee.

Beloved

Antony, so well beloved of Cæsar.

Belt

He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule.

Bemeet

Our very loving sister, well bemet.

Bemock

Bemock the modest moon.

Bench

To pluck down justice from your awful bench.
Whom I . . . have benched and reared to worship.

Bend

Towards Coventry bend we our course.
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep.

Beneath

Our country sinks beneath the yoke.

Bepaint

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.

Bequeath

My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me.
To whom, with all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly.

Bereave

Madam, you have bereft me of all words.
All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.

Beseech

I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts.

Beseeming

I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming.

Beshrew

Beshrew me, but I love her heartily.

Beside

[You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience.
Only be patient till we have appeased The multitude, beside themselves with fear.
And, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril.

Besides

Besides your cheer, you shall have sport.

Besiege

Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost.

Besort

Such men as may besort your age.
With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding.

Best

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man.

Bestir

You have so bestirred your valor.

Bestow

How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ?

Bestride

That horse that thou so often hast bestrid.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus.

Bet

John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.

Beteem

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.

Bethink

I have bethought me of another fault.
We bethink a means to break it off.

Betide

A salve for any sore that may betide.

Betime

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes.

Betroth

Ay, and we are betrothed.

Better

By all that's holy, he had better starve Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
I could have better spared a better man.
Never was monarch better feared, and loved.

Betumble

From her betumbled couch she starteth.

Betwixt

There was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her.

Bevel

I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.

Bewail

Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury.

Bewitch

See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up.

Bezonian

Great men oft die by vile bezonians.

Bide

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm.

Bigamy

Base declension and loathed bigamy.

Bilberry

There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.

Bilbo

Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.

Billet

They shall beat out my brains with billets.

Bind

They that reap must sheaf and bind.

Birch

The threatening twigs of birch.

Bird

That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird.

Birthday

This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born.

Bite

Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.

Black

O night, with hue so black!
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud.
Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.

Black Monday

Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last.

Bladed

Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass.

Blame

You were to blame, I must be plain with you.

Blank

Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye.
I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech.
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.

Blanket

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, “Hold, hold!”
I'll . . . blanket my loins.

Blaspheme

You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.

Blast

Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast.
I'll cross it, though it blast me.
Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear.

Blasted

Upon this blasted heath.

Blazon

Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon.
Thyself thou blazon'st.

Bleared

Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit.

Bleat

The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats.

Blench

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
These blenches gave my heart another youth.

Bless

The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

Blessed

Towards England's blessed shore.
Reverenced like a blessed saint.

Blind

He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Blindworm

Newts and blindworms do no wrong.

Blister

Let my tongue blister.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.

Block

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
What a block art thou !

Blood

Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam.
I am a gentleman of blood and breeding.
Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood.
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries.
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?

Blood-boltered

The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me.

Bloodless

Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood !

Bloody

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.

Blot

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
This deadly blot in thy digressing son.

Blow

Well struck ! there was blow for blow.
A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows.
Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing.
Hath she no husband That will take pains to blow a horn before her?
Look how imagination blows him.
To suffer The flesh fly blow my mouth.

Blunt

The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
His wits are not so blunt.

Blunt-witted

Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor!

Blur

But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore.

Blush

The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush.
To blush and beautify the cheek again.
I'll blush you thanks.

Blustering

A tempest and a blustering day.

Board

I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.

Boarish

In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.

Bob

He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him.

Bodement

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements.

Bodily

Be brought to bodily act.

Bodkin

When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin.

Body

Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together?
Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown.

Boisterous

The waters swell before a boisterous storm.

Bold

Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice.

Bolster

And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.

Bolt

A fool's bolt is soon shot.
Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him.
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
Ill schooled in bolted language.

Bombard

Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.

Bombast

How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.

Bond

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom.
I love your majesty According to my bond, nor more nor less.

Boned

No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size.

Bonny

Be you blithe and bonny.

Book

Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.

Boot

I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.
Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg.

Bootless

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.

Bopeep

I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among.

Border

That nature, which contemns its origin, Can not be bordered certain in itself.

Bore

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
He bores me with some trick.
Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.

Borrow

The borrowed majesty of England.
Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother.
Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week.

Borrower

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Bosom

You must prepare your bosom for his knife.
Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it.
Bosom up my counsel, You'll find it wholesome.

Botch

To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.

Both

She alone is heir to both of us.
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes.

Bottom

Or dive into the bottom of the deep.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me.

Bounden

I am much bounden to your majesty.

Bounty

My bounty is as boundless as the sea.

Bourn

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns.

Bout

The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it.

Bow

Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.

Bowel

His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle.

Bowl

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips

Boy

I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.

Brabble

This petty brabble will undo us all.

Brace

But you, my brace of lords.
For that it stands not in such warlike brace.

Brag

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
Cæsar . . . made not here his brag Of “came,” and “saw,” and “overcame.”

Braggart

O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue.

Braid

Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid.

Brain

There thou mayst brain him.
It was the swift celerity of the death . . . That brained my purpose.
'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not.

Brained

If th' other two be brained like us.

Brake

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.

Bramble

The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes.

Branch

It is a branch and parcel of mine oath.

Brave

Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.

Bravery

Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle.
With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery.

Brawl

His sports were hindered by the brawls.

Brawling

She is an irksome brawling scold.

Brawn

And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn.

Breach

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.
There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach.

Break

Katharine, break thy mind to me.
Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore.
An old man, broken with the storms of state.
Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
The day begins to break, and night is fled.
Fear me not, man; I will not break away.

Breaker

I'll be no breaker of the law.

Breakfast

A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.

Breast

He has a loyal breast.
By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.

Breast-deep

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him.

Breath

Melted as breath into the wind.
Give me some breath, some little pause.
An after dinner's breath.

Breathe

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
Able to breathe life into a stone.
Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, A mother's curse, on her revolting son.
And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.

Breathing

Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip.
I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose.
You shake the head at so long a breathing.

Breech

Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

Breed

Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog.
Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast.
Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them.
Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.
Are these the breed of wits so wondered at?
This courtesy is not of the right breed.

Breeding

She had her breeding at my father's charge.
Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding.

Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brew

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour.
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.

Briber

His service . . . were a sufficient briber for his life.

Brief

How brief the life of man.
Bear this sealed brief, With winged hastle, to the lord marshal.
And she told me In a sweet, verbal brief.

Bright

Be bright and jovial among your guests.
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.

Brine

What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline!

Bring

To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back.

Bringer

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office.

Brisk

Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile.

Bristle

Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
Boy, bristle thy courage up.

Broach

I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point.
Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.

Broad

As broad and general as the casing air.

Broke

And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid.

Broking

Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown.

Brook

Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters.

Brother

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

Brow

'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow.

Brown bill

Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill.

Browse

Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst.

Bruise

Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs.

Bruit

The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

Brush

[As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts.
Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen.

Bubble

Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream.
Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.

Buckle

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.

Buckler

Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?

Budge

I'll not budge an inch, boy.
The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they.

Buffet

Fortune's buffets and rewards.
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.

Bug

Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek.

Build

Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.

Building

Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire Have cost a mass of public treasury.

Bulk

Here, stand behind this bulk.

Bump

It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.

Bung

You filthy bung, away.

Burden

Plants with goodly burden bowing.
My burdened heart would break.
I would sing my song without a burden.

Burier

And darkness be the burier of the dead.

Burn

This tyrant fever burns me up.
Your meat doth burn, quoth I.
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water.

Burst

No, no, my heart will burst, an if I speak: And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.
A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out.
My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage.
You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?

Bury

I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.

Bush

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue.

Business

The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference.
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women.
Bestow Your needful counsel to our business.

Bustle

And leave the world for me to bustle in.

Busy

Sir, my mistress sends you word That she is busy, and she can not come.
Busy hammers closing rivets up.
To-morrow is a busy day.
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape.
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels.

But

And but my noble Moor is true of mind . . . it were enough to put him to ill thinking.

Butcherly

What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!

Butt

Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail.
Amen; and make me die a good old man! That's the butt end of a mother's blessing.

Buy

I will buy with you, sell with you.

Buzz

However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears.
I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life.

Buzzer

And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death.

Bypath

God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown.

Cabin

I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave.
I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

Cackle

When every goose is cackling.

Cadence

Golden cadence of poesy.

Calculate

A cunning man did calculate my birth.

Call

Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain
Now call we our high court of Parliament.
If you would but call me Rosalind.
If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
You must call to the nurse.

Callat

A callat of boundless tongue.

Calling

I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son His youngest son, and would not change that calling.

Calumnious

Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.

Calumny

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

cambric

He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns.

Camp

Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together.

Can

Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can.
For what, alas, can these my single arms?

Canary

Make you dance canary With sprightly fire and motion.
But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet.

Candied

Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp.
Will the cold brook, Candiedwith ice, caudle thy morning tast?

Candle

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
By these blessed candles of the night.

Canker

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke.
As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.

Canker blossom

O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love!

canon

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.

Canonize

Fame in time to come canonize us.

Cantle

Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out.

Canton

Write loyal cantons of contemned love.

Cap

Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.

Capacity

Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together.

Caparison

I am caparisoned like a man.

Caper

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth.

Capitol

Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow?

Captain

captain jewes in the carcanet.

Captivate

Their woes whom fortune captivates.
Women have been captivate ere now.

Captive

Even in so short a space, my wonan's heart Grossly grew captive to his honey words.

Carbonado

I'll so carbonado your shanks.

Carbuncled

He has deserves it [armor], were it carbuncled Like holy Phabus' car.

Carcass

A rotten carcass of a boat.

Card

All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card.

Cardinal

But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.

Care

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
Perplexed with a thousand cares.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.

Careful

By Him that raised me to this careful height.

Careless

Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
My brother was too careless of his charge.

Carnal

This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body.

Carouse

Drink carouses to the next day's fate.
He had been aboard, carousing to his mates.

Carriage

The passage and whole carriage of this action.

Carrion

A prey for carrion kites.

Carry

Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.

Carve

Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

Case

I am in case to justle a constable,

Casement

A casement of the great chamber window.

Casket

The little casket bring me hither.
They found him dead . . . an empty casket.

Cast

How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
His filth within being cast.
The government I cast upon my brother.
You cast the event of war, my noble lord.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon.
And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

Castle

Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn.

Catch

Torment myself to catch the English throne.
Have is have, however men do catch.
Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains.

Cater

[He] providently caters for the sparrow.

Cause

What counsel give you in this weighty cause!
God befriend us, as our cause is just.

Caution

In way of caution I must tell you.

Cavil

You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract.
All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief.

Caw

Rising and cawing at the gun's report.

Cellarage

You hear this fellow in the cellarage.

Censure

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.

Century

And on it said a century of prayers.

Ceremonious

Too ceremonious and traditional.

Ceremony

Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on . . . hollow welcomes . . . But where there is true friendship there needs none.
Disrobe the images, If you find them decked with ceremonies. . . . Let no images Be hung with Cæsar's trophies.
Cæsar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet, now they fright me.

Certain

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.

Cess

The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.

Chafe

Her intercession chafed him.
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores.
He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.

Chaff

The chaff and ruin of the times.

Chain

And in this vow do chain my soul to thine.

Challenge

By this I challenge him to single fight.
Where nature doth with merit challenge.

Champion

A stouter champion never handled sword.

Chance

I spake of most disastrous chance.
So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on 't
I chanced on this letter.
How chance, thou art returned so soon?

Changeling

The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.

Channel

No more shall trenching war channel her fields.

Chap

He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.

Chapter

In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?

Char

When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday.

Charact

In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms.

Character

You know the character to be your brother's?
These trees shall be my books. And in their barks my thoughts I 'll character.

Charactery

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad brows.

Charge

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
To charge me to an answer.
Charged our main battle's front.
'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.
Many suchlike “as's” of great charge.

Chargeful

The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion.

Charitable

Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee.
What charitable men afford to beggars.

Charm

My high charms work.
No witchcraft charm thee!
I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death.

Charter

My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me.

Chartered

The air, a chartered libertine.

Chase

We are those which chased you from the field.
You see this chase is hotly followed.
Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death.

Chastise

How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me.

Chastisement

Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement!

Chatter

To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue.

Cheap

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.

Cheat

I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.

Check

The good king, his master, will check him for it.
And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.

Cheer

I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
How cheer'st thou, Jessica?

Cheerful

To entertain a cheerful disposition.
This general applause and cheerful shout.

Cherisher

The cherisher of my flesh and blood.

Cheveril

Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad.

Chide

Upbraided, chid, and rated at.
The sea that chides the banks of England.
As doth a rock againts the chiding flood.

Child

A boy or a child, I wonder?

Childhood

The childhood of our joy.

Chime

We have heard the chimes at midnight.

Chivalry

By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts.
The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry.

Choice

The common wealth is sick of their own choice.

Choke

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.

Choler

He is rash and very sudden in choler.

Choose

Thou canst not choose but know who I am.

Chop

Chop off your hand, and it to the king.

Chopine

Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.

Christendom

Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms.

Christianlike

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion.

Chronicler

Such an honest chronicler as Griffith.

Churchyard

Like graves in the holy churchyard.

Circle

In the circle of this forest.

Circuit

The golden circuit on my head.

Circumscription

I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine.

circumstance

So without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.

Cite

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The imperfections which you have cited.
Aged honor cites a virtuous youth.

Citizen

I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick.

Clamber

Clambering the walls to eye him.

Clamor

The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.

Clap

Their ladies bid them clap.
What, fifty of my followers at a clap!

Cleanse

Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?

Clear

With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

Cleave

New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

Clerk

And like unlettered clerk still cry “Amen”.

Cling

If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee.

Clip

O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so.

Clog

You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer.

Closure

O thou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death.

Clothe

Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
Care no more to clothe eat.

Clothes

She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes.

Cloud

One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken.
Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud.

Clout

A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood.
A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout.

Clown

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere.

Cloy

[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?

Club

But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.

Cluck

She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars.

Clue

You have wound a goodly clue.

Cluster

We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city.

Clutch

But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch.
Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ? Come, let me clutch thee.
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.

Coact

But if I tell you how these two did coact.

Coactive

With what's unreal thou coactive art.

Coarse

I feel Of what coarse metal ye are molded.

Coast

Anon she hears them chant it lustily, And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.

Coat

She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, Or tear the lions out of England's coat.

Cock

Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock.
Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.

Cockatrice

That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.

Cockled

The tender horns of cockled snails.

Cockney

This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.

Cocksure

We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.

Codlin

A codling when 't is almost an apple.

Coequal

In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown.

Coffer

In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns.
Hold, here is half my coffer.

Coffin

Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?

Cog

I'll . . . cog their hearts from them.

Cognition

I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience.

Cognizance

This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate.

Cohere

Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing.

Coherent

Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent.

Coigne

See you yound coigne of the Capitol? yon corner stone?

Coin

They cannot touch me for coining.

Coinage

This is the very coinage of your brain.

Cold

Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose.

Coldly

Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances.

Collateral

If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction.

Collect

A band of men Collected choicely from each country.

College

The college of the cardinals.

Collop

God knows thou art a collop of my flesh.

Colly

Brief as the lighting in the collied night.

Color

Give color to my pale cheek.
That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death.
Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color.

Colossus

He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus.

Comb

When the bee doth leave her comb.
Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.

Combat

When he the ambitious Norway combated.
My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.

Combination

A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls.

Combine

And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage.
I am combined by a sacred vow.

Come

Look, who comes yonder?
So quick bright things come to confusion.
How come you thus estranged?
How come her eyes so bright?
We are come off like Romans.

Comedy

Are come to play a pleasant comedy.

Comely

This is a happier and more comely time Than when these fellows ran about the streets, Crying confusion.

Comfort

I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this necessity!
In comfort of her mother's fears.
Cheer thy spirit with this comfort.

Comfortable

Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end.
Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His comfortable temper has forsook him: He is much out of health.

Comforter

Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.

Command

Go to your mistress: Say, I command her come to me.
Such aid as I can spare you shall command.
Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale.
And reigned, commanding in his monarchy.

Commandment

And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment.

Commence

Here the anthem doth commence.
Many a wooer doth commence his suit.

Commend

His eye commends the leading to his hand.
Commend me to my brother.
Speak in his just commend.

Commendation

Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king?

Comment

A physician to comment on your malady.

Commiseration

And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint.

Commission

Let him see our commission.

Commit

Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
Commit not with man's sworn spouse.

Commix

To commix With winds that sailors rail at.

Commodity

A commodity of brown paper and old ginger.

Common

The common enemy of man.
Grief more than common grief.
This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.

Commons

'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign.
To shake his ears, and graze in commons.

Commonweal

Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal.

Commotion

[What] commotion in the winds !

Commune

I would commune with you of such things That want no ear but yours.

Communication

Argument . . . and friendly communication.

Community

Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community.

Companion

Here are your sons again; and I must lose Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
Companion me with my mistress.

Company

To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome.

Compare

Compare dead happiness with living woe.
Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
I should compare with him in excellence.
Shall pack horses . . . compare with Cæsars?
Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare.

Compass

This day I breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
We the globe can compass soon.
Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about.
If I can check my erring love, I will: If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.

Compassed

She came . . . into the compassed window.

Compeer

In my rights, By me invested, he compeers the best.

Compel

Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance.

Competence

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Competitor

And can not brook competitors in love.
Every hour more competitors Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.

Complain

Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'd Her wrongs to us.

Complainer

Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought.

Complaint

Grievous complaints of you.

Complete

That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon.

Complexion

It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain.

Complice

To quell the rebels and their complices.

Complot

I know their complot is to have my life.

Composition

There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.
Thus we are agreed: I crave our composition may be written.

Compost

And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

Composure

His composure must be rare indeed Whom these things can not blemish.

Compound

Only compound me with forgotten dust.
His pomp and all what state compounds.
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; . . . compound with him by the year.

Compromise

But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire.

Comptible

I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.

Compulsatory

To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands.

Compulsion

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

Compunctious

That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.

Computation

By just computation of the time.

Comrade

I abjure all roofs, and choose . . . To be a comrade with the wolf and owl.

Concave

As concave . . . as a worm-eaten nut.

Conceal

He which finds him shall deserve our thanks, . . . He that conceals him, death.
Both dissemble deeply their affections.

Concealment

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek.
Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
Well read in strange concealments.

Conceit

His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer.

Conceitless

Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery?

Conceive

O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

Conception

Joy had the like conception in our eyes.
Note this dangerous conception.

Concern

Which to deny concerns more than avails.

Concert

Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert.
And boding screech owls make the concert full.

Conclude

Is it concluded he shall be protector?
And, to conclude, The victory fell on us.
Conclude and be agreed.

Conclusion

And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion.
Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep.

Concur

This concurs directly with the letter.

Condemn

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.

Condemnation

Whose condemnation is pronounced.

Condign

Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment.

Condition

I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king.
The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil.
I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning.

Conditioned

The best conditioned and unwearied spirit.

Conduce

The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood.

Conduct

In my conduct shall your ladies come.
Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.

Conduit

All the conduits of my blood froze up.

Confederacy

He hath heard of our confederacy.

Confederate

All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace.

Confer

You shall hear us confer of this.

Conference

Nor with such free and friendly conference As he hath used of old.

Confess

I never gave it him. Send for him hither, And let him confess a truth.

Confession

With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.

Confidence

Your wisdom is consumed in confidence; Do not go forth to-day.
Sir, I desire some confidence with you.
Be confident to speak, Northumberland; We three are but thyself.
As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.

Confine

Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
Confines, wards, and dungeons.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.

Confirm

Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.

Confirmation

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.

Confiscate

Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.

Confluence

You see this confluence, this great flood of vistors.

Conformable

I have been to you a true and humble wife, At all times to your will conformable.

Confound

The gods confound... The Athenians both within and out that wall.
One man's lust these many lives confounds.
How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour?

Confront

We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit.

Confusion

Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc and confusion.

Conge

I have congeed with the duke, done my adieu with his nearest.

Congeal

Lest zeal, now melted . . . Cool and congeal again to what it was.

Congealment

Wash the congealment from your wounds.

Congratulate

It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion.

Congregate

Even there where merchants most do congregate.

Congregation

A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

Conjectural

And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me.

Conjoin

The English army, that divided was Into two parties, is now conjoined in one.
If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined.

Conjunction

He will unite the white rose and the red: Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction.

Conjuration

We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; . . . Under this conjuration speak, my lord.

Conjure

The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into.
She conjures; away with her.

Conjurer

Dealing with witches and with conjurers.

Conquer

If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us.

Conquest

Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?

Conscience

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.

Consequence

It is a matter of small consequence.

Consider

Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day Was yours by accident.
We will consider of your suit.
'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Consideration

Consideration, like an angel, came.

Consign

All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust.
Augment or alter . . . And we'll consign thereto.

Consist

If their purgation did consist in words.

Consonance

By the consonancy of our youth.

Consort

Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence.

Conspiracy

I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and his confederates.

Conspire

You have conspired against our royal person, Joined with an enemy proclaimed.

Constancy

A fellow of plain uncoined constancy.

Constant

I am constant to my purposes.

Consul

Many of the consuls, raised and met, Are at the duke's already.

Consult

Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.

Consume

If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it.
Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs.

Consummate

To consummate this business happily.

Consummation

'T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
Quiet consummation have, And renownéd be thy grave.

Contagion

And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night?

Contain

When that this body did contain a spirit.
Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.

Contaminate

Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes?

Contemplate

So many hours must I contemplate.

Contemplation

To live in prayer and contemplation.

Contempt

Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back.
The contempt and anger of his lip.

Contemptible

If she should make tender of her love, 't is very possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit.

Contend

For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood.
In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor.

Content

Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
Such is the fullness of my heart's content.
So will I in England work your grace's full content.

Contention

I would my arms could match thee in contention.

Continent

Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
My past life Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, As I am now unhappy.

Continuate

An untirable and continuate goodness.

Continue

And how shall we continue Claudio.

Continuer

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer.

Contract

Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.

Contracted

Inquire me out contracted bachelors.

Contradict

Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so.
A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents.

Contradiction

His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction.

Contrariety

How can these contrarieties agree?

Contrary

We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way.
No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave.

Contrive

The Fates with traitors do contrive.
Thou hast contrived against th very life Of the defendant.

Control

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a scepter to control the world.

Controlment

You may do it without controlment.
Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment.

Contumelious

Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.

Contumely

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely.

Convenience

Let's further think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape.
With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment.

Convent

One of our convent, and his [the duke's] confessor.
When that is known and golden time convents.

Converse

Companions That do converse and waste the time together.

Convey

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means.

Conveyance

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood.

Convict

A whole armado of convicted sail.

Convince

His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume.

Cony-catch

Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business.

Cool

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.

Cope

Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal.
three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.

Copesmate

Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night.

Copy

I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd have it copied.
Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance.

Corky

Bind fast hiss corky arms.

Cormoraut

Cormorant, devouring time.

Corn

Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.

Corner

From the four corners of the earth they come.
Sits the wind in that corner!

Cornercap

Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society.

Corollary

Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit.

Corporal

What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind.

Corporate

They answer in a joint and corporate voice.

Correct

My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me.

Correction

Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit.

Correspondent

I will be correspondent to command.

Corrigible

The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

Corrosive

Care is no cure, but corrosive.

Corrupt

At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt.

Corse

Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.

Cost

A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats.
Though it cost me ten nights' watchings.
One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost.

Costard

Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder.

Costly

To show how costly summer was at hand.

Cote

We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.

Couch

Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in hand.
If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies.
Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?

Council

An old lord of the council rated me the other day.

Counsel

I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised.
The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all.
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place.

Counselor

Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no?
Good counselors lack no clients.

Count

I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.
By this count, I shall be much in years.

Countenance

In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.

Counter

What comes the wool to? . . . I can not do it without counters.
To lock such rascal counters from his friends.
This is counter, you false Danish dogs!

Counterfeit

Look here upon this picture, and on this- The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Thou drawest a counterfeit Best in all Athens.
Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
I fear thou art another counterfeit; And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.

Countermand

Have you no countermand for Claudio yet, But he must die to-morrow?

Country

All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him.

Countryman

A simple countryman that brought her figs.

Couple

I'll go in couples with her.
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.

Courage

My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes your followers faint.
I'd such a courage to do him good.
The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them.

Course

The course of true love never did run smooth.
My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
We coursed him at the heels.

Court

Attends the emperor in his royal court.
This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn.
My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
If either of you both love Katharina . . . Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

Court-cupboard

A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.

Courtesy

My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you.

Courtly

In courtly company or at my beads.

Courtship

Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.

Cousin

Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A cousin-german to great Priam's seed.
My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow.

Covenant

Let there be covenants drawn between us.
If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.

Cover

All that beauty than doth cover thee.
Cover thy head . . . ; nay, prithee, be covered.

Covert

How covert matters may be best disclosed.

Coverture

Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

Covet

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

Covetous

Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue.

Covetousness

When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness.

Cow

To vanquish a people already cowed.

Coward

Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch.
He raised the house with loud and coward cries.

Cowardly

The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.

Coy

Enforced hate, Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy.
If he coyed To hear Cominius speak, I 'll keep at home.

Cozen

Some cogging, cozening slave.

Crab

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl.

Crabbed

Crabbed age and youth can not live together.

Crack

O, madam, my old heart is cracked.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack.
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?
Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack.
Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.

Cracker

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?

Cradle

No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old.
From their cradles bred together.
Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled.

Craft

You have crafted fair.

Cram

Their storehouses crammed with grain.
Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things.

Crank

See how this river comes me cranking in.

Crants

Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments.

Crave

I crave your honor's pardon.

Craven

King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath? Fluellen. He is a craven and a villain else.
There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand.

Crawl

Hath crawled into the favor of the king.

Craze

Grief hath crazed my wits.

Creak

Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.

Cream

There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool.

Cream-faced

Thou cream-faced loon.

Create

Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers.

Creation

From the creation to the general doom.
A dagger of the mind, a false creation.

Creator

To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise.

Creature

The world hath not a sweeter creature.
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.

Credent

If with too credent ear you list songs.
For my authority bears of a credent bulk.

Credit

How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin?

Creed

I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.

Creek

The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.

Creep

The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school.
To come as humbly as they used to creep.

Crescive

Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

Crest

Throwing the base thong from his bending crest.
Now the time is come That France must vail her lofty plumed crest.
His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world.

Crestfallen

Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride.

Crib

Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.

Crimson

A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.

Cringe

Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy.

Crisp

You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels.

Critical

O gentle lady, do not put me to 't, For I am nothing, if not critical.

Croak

The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.

Crook

Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.

Crooked

he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.

Cross

I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
To cross me from the golden time I look for.

Crossing

I do not bear these crossings.

Crossrow

And from the crossrow plucks the letter G.

Crouch

Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor?

Crow

The morning cock crew loud.
Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell.

Crowkeeper

Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper.

Crown

From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches.
Crown him, and say, “Long live our emperor.”
One day shall crown the alliance.

Crownet

O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . . Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end.

Crudy

The foolish and dull and crudy vapors.

Cruel

You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.

Cruelty

Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty.

Crust

He that keeps nor crust nor crumb.

Crusty

Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?

Crutch

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.

Cry

Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice.
I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman.
In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry.
All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak.
The cry went once on thee.
O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls.
The cry goes that you shall marry her.
A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players?

Crystal

Through crystal walls each little mote will peep.

Crystalline

Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.

Cub

O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?

Cubdrawn

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch.

Cudgel

An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog.

Cue

When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

Cuff

I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.

Cunning

“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

Cup

Give me a cup of sack, boy.
Cup us, till the world go round.

Cupid

Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids.

Cur

They . . . like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do.
What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war?

Curb

Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.

Curd

Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother?

Cure

Past hope! pastcure! past help.
To cure this deadly grief.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

Curfew

He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock.

Curiosity

When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity.

Curious

His body couched in a curious bed.

Curl

Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.

Current

Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed.
Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in.

Currish

Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf.

Curse

Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.
His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse.
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.

Cursorary

With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles.

Curtail

I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion.

Curtail dog

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.

Custody

Jailer, take him to thy custody.

Custom

A custom More honored in the breach than the observance.
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

Customary

Even now I met him With customary compliment.

Cut

You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother's.
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.

Cutpurse

To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse.

Cyprus

Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow.

Dad

I was never so bethumped with words, Since I first called my brother's father dad.

Daff

Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child.

Dainty

Dainty bits Make rich the ribs.
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away.
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, She, I'll swear, hath corns.

Dalliance

Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the rein.

Dally

Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.

Dam

The dam runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went.
I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.

Damask

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek.

Dame

Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.

Damn

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

Damnable

A creature unprepared unmeet for death, And to transport him in the mind he is, Were damnable.
Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.

Damnation

Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation.
The deep damnation of his taking-off.

Damned

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.

Dance

Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your daughter?
More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw.
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.
Thy grandsire loved thee well; Many a time he danced thee on his knee.
A man of his place, and so near our favor, To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.

Danger

You stand within his danger, do you not?

Dangerous

Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous.

Daniel

A Daniel come to judgment.

Dankish

In a dark and dankish vault at home.

Dansker

Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris.

Dapple

The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.

Dare

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
The fellow dares not deceive me.
It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise.
Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar.

Dark

What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
More dark and dark our woes.
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.

Darken

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast.
I must not think there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

Darkling

So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.

darling

And can do naught but wail her darling's loss.

Darraign

Darrain your battle, for they are at hand.

Dash

A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces.
She takes upon her bravely at first dash.

Dastard

You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

Daub

So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.

Daubery

She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.

Day

The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

Dead

Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.

deadly

Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.

Deaf

Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.
O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

Dear

The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
[I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
In our dear peril.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day.
That kiss I carried from thee, dear.
If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear.

Dearth

He with her press'd, she faint with dearth.

Death

A death that I abhor.

Death's-head

I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.

Debate

A wise council . . . that did debate this business.

Debater

Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters.

Debt

Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt.

Debted

I stand debted to this gentleman.

Debtor

[I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first.

Decay

Infirmity, that decays the wise.

Decease

She's dead, deceased, she's dead.

Deceitful

Harboring foul deceitful thoughts.

Deceive

Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.

Deceptious

As if those organs had deceptious functions.

Decide

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.

Decipher

You are both deciphered, . . . For villains.

Deck

And deck my body in gay ornaments.
The king was slyly fingered from the deck.

Declension

Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension.

Decline

And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines.

Decorum

If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom.

Decree

Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?

Deedless

Deedless in his tongue.

Deep

The water where the brook is deep.
Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook.
Deep clerks she dumbs.
The deep of night is crept upon our talk.

Deer

Mice and rats, and such small deer.

Defeat

His unkindness may defeat my life.
Sharp reasons to defeat the law.
Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made.

Defend

Which God defend that I should wring from him.
The lord mayor craves aid . . . to defend the city.
God defend the right!

Defendant

With men of courage and with means defendant.

Defense

In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems.
God, the widow's champion and defense.
By how much defense is better than no skill.

Defensive

A moat defensive to a house.

Defer

Defer the spoil of the city until night.

Defiance

He breathed defiance to my ears.

Defile

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

Deform

Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world.

Deformity

To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body.

Deftly

Thyself and office deftly show.

Defunction

After defunction of King Pharamond.

Degenerate

Faint-hearted and degenerate king.

Deign

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines.
Nor would we deign him burial of his men.

Deliberate

Settled visage and deliberate word.

Delicate

A delicate and tender prince.

Delight

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Inventions to delight the taste.
Love delights in praises.

Delighted

If virtue no delighted beauty lack.

Deliver

The constables have delivered her over.
I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant.

Deliverance

I do desire deliverance from these officers.

Delve

I can not delve him to the root.

Demand

This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.
I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.

Demean

They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.

Demise

What honor Canst thou demise to any child of mine?

Demon

That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.

Demonstration

Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief?

Denier

My dukedom to a beggarly denier.

Denote

The better to denote her to the doctor.

Depart

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.
At my depart for France.
Your loss and his depart.

Depopulate

Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city?

Depose

Depose him in the justice of his cause.
Then, seeing't was he that made you to despose, Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.

Depositary

I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries.

Depravation

To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation.

Deprive

'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life.

Deputation

Say to great Cæsar this: In deputation I kiss his conquering hand.

deputy

God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight.

Deracinate

While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery.

Derogate

You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate.

Descry

Edmund, I think, is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy.
Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought.

Desert

Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome.

Design

We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow.

Desire

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

Desolation

You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation.

Desperate

I am desperate of obtaining her.
A desperate offendress against nature.

Destiny

Thither he Will come to know his destiny.
Marked by the Destinies to be avoided.

Destruction

'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Determinate

My determinate voyage.
The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile.

Determine

Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me?

Devil

The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser.

Devoutly

Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly.
'T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

Dewberry

Feed him with apricots and dewberries.

Dewlap

On her withered dewlap pour the ale.

Dexterity

In youth quick bearing and dexterity.

Dialogue

And dialogued for him what he would say.

Diaper

Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.

dice

I . . . diced not above seven times a week.

Dicer

As false as dicers' oaths.

Dickens

I can not tell what the dickens his name is.

Diet

To fast like one that takes diet.

Difference

What was the difference? It was a contention in public.

Digest

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?

Dignity

The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings.

Digress

Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son.

Digression

Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face.

Dilate

Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now.

dildo

Delicate burthens of dildos and fadings.

Diligence

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

Dim

I never saw The heavens so dim by day.

Diminutive

Such water flies, diminutives of nature.

Din

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?

Dine

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.

Dint

Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity.

Direct

Be even and direct with me.
I 'll first direct my men what they shall do.

Direction

I do commit his youth To your direction.

Directive

Swords and bows Directive by the limbs.

Directly

Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant.
Stand you directly in Antonius' way.
I have dealt most directly in thy affair.
Desdemona is directly in love with him.

Disable

I have disabled mine estate.

Disappointed

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled.

Disaster

Disasters in the sun.

Disastrous

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances.

Discharge

Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks.
They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
If he had The present money to discharge the Jew.

Discipline

Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?

Discomfit

Well, go with me and be not so discomfited.

Discomfort

His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us.

Discontent

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Discontinue

I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.

Discourse

Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
In their discourses after supper.
Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse.
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
It will discourse most eloquent music.

Discover

Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince.
Some to discover islands far away.

Discretion

The better part of valor is discretion.
Well spoken, with good accent and good discretion.

Disdain

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.

Disdained

Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king.

Disease

To shield thee from diseases of the world.
Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved.

Disembark

Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.

Disgrace

Macduff lives in disgrace.
To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?

Dishabit

Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited.

Dishonorable

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Dislodge

The Volscians are dislodg'd.

Dispatch

Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of.
Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's cou.
They have dispatched with Pompey.
Serious business, craving quick dispatch.

Disperse

Dispersed are the glories.

Displace

You have displaced the mirth.

Displeasure

Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himself?

Disponge

O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me.

Dispose

She had disposed with Cæsar.
He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected.

Disposition

How stands your disposition to be married?
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

Dispraise

I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him.

Disproportion

To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part.

Dispute

Dispute it [grief] like a man.

Dissemble

Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.

Dissolution

Dissolutions of ancient amities.
A man of continual dissolution and thaw.

Dissolve

Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life.
Nothing can dissolve us.
As if the world were all dissolved to tears.
A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form.
The charm dissolves apace.

Distain

The worthiness of praise distains his worth.

Distant

Diana's temple is not distant far.
Some distant knowledge.

Distaste

Although my will distaste what it elected.
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste.

Distemper

Little faults proceeding on distemper.

Distemperature

A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life.

Distinct

To offend, and judge, are distinct offices.

Distinctly

Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores.

Distinguish

Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show.

Distract

A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.

Distraction

His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all species.

Distraught

As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror.

Distress

Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress.

Diurnal

Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring.

Divers

Divers of Antonio's creditors.

Divine

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.

Divinity

They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king.

Divorce

To make divorce of their incorporate league.
Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities.

do

The neglecting it may do much danger.
He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good not harm.
Done to death by slanderous tongues.

doctor

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too.

Doff

And made us doff our easy robes of peace.

Dolorous

You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort.

Domineer

Go to the feast, revel and domineer.

Don

Should I don this robe and trouble you.

Donation

And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers.

Doom

Now against himself he sounds this doom.
This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?

Dote

Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote.

Double

Double six thousand, and then treble that.

Doubt

We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way.
I doubt some foul play.

Doubtful

Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.
I am doubtful that you have been conjunct And bosomed with her.

Doubtless

Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure.

Dovecot

Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.

Down

It will be rain to-night. Let it come down.
The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English.
I was down and out of breath.
The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke.
Come down upon us with a mighty power.

Downright

We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.

Downward

A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents.

Draff

Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks.

draw

The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
Until you had drawn oaths from him.
How long her face is drawn!
Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
Go wash thy face, and draw the action.
So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible.

Dread

The dread of something after death.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.

Drench

Give my roan horse a drench.

Dress

Dressed myself in such humility.
Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return.

Drink

I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo.
My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance.
Give me some drink, Titinius.

Droop

Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground.

Drop

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.

Drover

Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks.

Drown

Methought, what pain it was to drown.

Drowsy

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.

Drunken

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.

Dry

Give the dry fool drink.

Duck

The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool.

Due

Her obedience, which is due to me.
He will give the devil his due.

Dug

With mother's dug between its lips.

Duke

Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence.

Dull

She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.

Dumb

This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.

Dump

Doleful dumps the mind oppress.

Dust

And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.

dusty

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.

Duteous

Duteous to the vices of thy mistress.

Dwell

I 'll rather dwell in my necessity.

Dwindle

Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine.

Each

In each cheek appears a pretty dimple.

Eager

And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes.
How eagerly ye follow my disgraces!
Conceit and grief an eager combat fight.

Ear

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

Earn

I earn that [what] I eat.

Earnest

And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
An earnest advocate to plead for him.
And from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death.

Earth

He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him.
Give him a little earth for charity.
Would I had never trod this English earth.

Earthy

How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold!

Easy

It were an easy leap.

Echo

The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.

Eclipse

My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.

Ecstasy

This is the very ecstasy of love.
That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.

Edge

Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword.
Upon the edge of yonder coppice.

Edict

It stands as an edict in destiny.

Effect

That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it.
All the large effects That troop with majesty.

Effeminate

Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.

Either

Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him.

Elect

The deputy elected by the Lord.

Element

Does not our life consist of the four elements?
And the complexion of the element [i. e.,the sky or air] In favor's like the work we have in hand, Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.

Elf

Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier.
Elf all my hair in knots.

Eloquence

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast.

Embay

If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned.

Embowel

The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms.

Embrace

I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy.

Eminence

You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty.

Empty

I shall find you empty of that fault.
That in civility thou seem'st so empty.

Emulate

Thine eye would emulate the diamond.

Emulation

Such factious emulations shall arise.

Emulous

Emulous missions 'mongst the gods.

Enact

The king enacts more wonders than a man.
I did enact Julius Caesar.

Encamp

Bid him encamp his soldiers.

Enchant

And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in.

Enchantment

After the last enchantment you did here.

Encompassment

By this encompassment and drift of question.

Encounter

I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you.
I will encounter with Andronicus.

End

My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end.
I shall see an end of him.
I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

End-all

That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here.

Endure

Their verdure still endure.
I will no longer endure it.

Enfeoff

[The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity.

Enforce

Inward joy enforced my heart to smile.
As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
Enforce him with his envy to the people.

Enforcement

Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her.

Engild

Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.

Engine

Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.

Engross

Not sleeping, to engross his idle body.
To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf.

Enjoin

I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.

Enlargement

Give enlargement to the swain.

Enough

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money.

Ensconce

She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.

Enseam

In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed.

Ensear

Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb.

ensign

Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still.

Entail

I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.

Entertain

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
The weary time she can not entertain.

Entertainment

Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment.

Enthrone

It [mercy] is enthroned in the hearts of kings.

Entire

One entire and perfect chrysolite.
Pure fear and entire cowardice.

Entitle

That which . . . we entitle patience.

Entrap

A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men.

Entreat

Fairly let her be entreated.
I must entreat of you some of that money.

Envenom

O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!

Envious

Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.

Environ

Environed he was with many foes.

Envy

If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people.
I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior.

Epigram

Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

Epilogue

A good play no epilogue, yet . . . good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.

Epistle

A madman's epistles are no gospels.

Epitaph

Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.

Equal

On me whose all not equals Edward's moiety.

Equivocator

Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven.

Ere

Myself was stirring ere the break of day.
I will be thrown into Etna, . . . ere I will leave her.

Erebus

To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile.

Erewhile

I am as fair now as I was erewhile.

Erotesis

Must I give way and room to your rash choler? Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?

Espouse

Lavinia will I make my empress, . . . And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse.

Establish

By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates.

Esteem

Most dear in the esteem And poor in worth!
Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem.

Estimable

A pound of man's flesh, taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.

Estimation

I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know.

Eternity

Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Eternize

St. Alban's battle won by famous York, Shall be eternized in all age to come.

Even

To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
Thou wast a soldier Even to Cato's wish.
By these presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer.

Ever

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!

Everlasting

Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius.

Evermore

I evermore did love you, Hermia.

Evident

Your honor and your goodness is so evident.

Evil

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible.
The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
The evil that men do lives after them.

Ewer

Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands.

Exact

An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason.

Exaction

Daily new exactions are devised.

Exalt

In his own grace he doth exalt himself.

Examine

Examine their counsels and their cares.
The offenders that are to be examined.

Example

Such temperate order in so fierce a cause Doth want example.
Hang him; he'll be made an example.

Exceed

Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days.

Excellence

I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king.

Except

Except thou wilt except against my love.

Exception

She takes exceptions at your person.

Exceptless

My general and exceptless rashness.

Excess

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Excessive

Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living.

Exchange

To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

Exclaim

Cursing cries and deep exclaims.

Exclamation

Thus will I drown your exclamations.

Excommunicate

Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.

Excuse

I must excuse what can not be amended.
Pleading so wisely in excuse of it.

Execration

Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations.

Execution

A warrant for his execution.
To do some fatal execution.

Executor

Delivering o'er to executors paw The lazy, yawning drone.

Exempt

Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
True nobility is exempt from fear.

Exequy

But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen.

Exercise

To draw him from his holy exercise.

Exhalation

I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening.

Exhibition

What maintenance he from his friends receives, Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.

Exhort

Examples gross as earth exhort me.

Exhortation

I'll end my exhortation after dinner.

Exigent

Why do you cross me in this exigent?

Exile

Let them be recalled from their exile.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

Exit

They have their exits and their entrances.

Exorcist

Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit.

Expect

Let's in, and there expect their coming.

Expectance

The expectancy and rose of the fair state.

Expedience

Making hither with all due expedience.
Forwarding this dear expedience.

Expedient

His marches are expedient to this town.

Expend

If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness.

Expense

Husband nature's riches from expense.

Expert

A valiant and most expert gentleman.

Expiration

Before the expiration of thy time.

Expire

Expire the term Of a despised life.

Exploit

Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.

Expose

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

Exposition

You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound.

Expostulate

To expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is.

Expostulation

We must use expostulation kindly.

Exposure

When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure.

Express

I have express commandment.
My words express my purpose.

Expressive

You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them.

Expressly

I am sent expressly to your lordship.

Expressure

An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to.

Expulsion

The expulsion of the Tarquins.

Exquisite

Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form.
I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough.

Exterior

Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was.

External

Her virtues graced with external gifts.

Extinguish

Natural graces that extinguish art.

Extirp

It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar.

Extol

Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus?

Extraught

Knowing whence thou art extraught

Extravagant

The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.

Extreme

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire.

Eye

In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on.
We shell express our duty in his eye.
Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes.
My becomings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you.

Face

I will neither be facednor braved.

Factionary

Always factionary on the party of your general.

Factious

Factious for the house of Lancaster.

Faculty

What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !
This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek.

Fade

He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music.

Fail

Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign.
Had the king in his last sickness failed.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

Fain

Men and birds are fain of climbing high.
Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not.

Faint

It faints me to think what follows.

Fair

Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made.
The news is very fair and good, my lord.
Now fair befall thee !
Fairing the foul.

Fairy

And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring.

Faith

Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Could never plant in me.

Faithless

A most unnatural and faithless service.

Fall

I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master.
For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds.

False

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Falsehood

Betrayed by falsehood of his guard.

Falsify

By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope.

Falter

Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.

Fame

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

Familiar

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be As things acquainted and familiar to us.

Famish

You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?

Famous

Famous for a scolding tongue.

Famously

Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel.

Fancy

How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ?
To fit your fancies to your father's will.

Fang

Since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

Fantasy

Is not this something more than fantasy ?

Fare

What fare? what news abroad ?

Farewell

And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.

Farfet

York with his farfet policy.

Farm

We are enforced to farm our royal realm.

Farther

It will be dangerous to go on. No farther !

Farthingale

We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things.

Fashion

I do not like the fashion of your garments.

Fashionable

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

Fast

Surfeit is the father of much fast.
All this while in a most fast sleep.

Fasten

If I can fasten but one cup upon him.

Fat

We fat all creatures else to fat us.

Fat-kidneyed

Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal !

Fatal

That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours.

Fate

Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown.

Fated

One midnight Fated to the purpose.

Father

Bless you, good father friar !
Might be the father, Harry, to that thought.
The father of good news.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ?

Fatherly

You have showed a tender, fatherly regard.

Fathom

Another of his fathom they have none To lead their business.

Fathomless

And buckle in a waist most fathomless.

Fatigate

Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.

Fault

One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend.
As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault.
Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out.

Faultiness

Round, even to faultiness.

favor

Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
Beg one favor at thy gracious hand.
Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap.
This boy is fair, of female favor.

Favorable

Lend favorable ears to our request.

Favorer

And come to us as favorers, not as foes.

Fawn

You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.

Fear

The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise.
I greatly fear my money is not safe.
The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you.
Ay what else, fear you not her courage?
Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

Fearful

Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
Death is a fearful thing.

Feast

With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
Feast your ears with the music a while.

Feat

The warlike feats I have done.
To the more mature, A glass that feated them.
Never master had a page . . . so feat.
And look how well my garments sit upon me -- Much feater than before.

Feather

I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me.

Feathered

Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury.

Featly

Foot featly here and there.

Feature

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature.

Fee

To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.

Feeble

Shall that victorious hand be feebled here?

Feebleness

That shakes for age and feebleness.

Feed

Unreasonable creatures feed their young.
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.

Feeder

With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder.

Feel

He hath this to feel my affection to your honor.
For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
I then did feel full sick.
Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear.

Feeling

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

Feign

The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.

Felicitate

I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love.

Fell

While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.
We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy.
Stand, or I'll fell thee down.

Fellow

We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow.
It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow.
This was my glove; here is the fellow of it.

Fellowship

The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship.
Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage.
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

Felly

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel.

Felt

It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.

Female

As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed.

Fence

Let us be backed with God and with the seas, Which he hath given for fence impregnable.
O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth, And fence not Athens.
A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees.
He will fence with his own shadow.

Fencer

As blunt as the fencer's foils.

Feodary

Art thou a feodary for this act?

Ferret

Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.

Fertile

Though he in a fertile climate dwell.

Fertility

And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility.

Fervor

Winged with fervor of her love.

Festival

I cannot woo in festival terms.

Fetch

I'll fetch a turn about the garden.

Fetlock

Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore.

Fetter

My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists.

Fever

An envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation.
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.
The white hand of a lady fever thee.

Fico

Steal! foh, a fico for the phrase.

Field

In this glorious and well-foughten field.
Without covering, save yon field of stars.

Fielded

To help fielded friends.

Fiery

Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?
You know the fiery quality of the duke.

Fig

When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard.

Fight

You do fight against your country's foes.

Figure

A coin that bears the figure of an angel.
The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
Whose white vestments figure innocence.
In this the heaven figures some event.

Filch

But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

File

It is upon a file with the duke's other letters.
My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet filed with my abilities.
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind.

Fill

Give me some wine; fill full.
I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.

Filly

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

Film

Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Find

Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up.
To find his title with some shows of truth.

fine

A cup of wine that's brisk and fine.
Ye have made a fine hand, fellows.
Is this the fine of his fines?

Fineness

The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion.

Finger

Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me.

Finish

His days may finish ere that hapless time.

Fire

Stars, hide your fires.
[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

Fire-new

Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.

Firk

I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.

Firstling

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

Fishlike

A very ancient and fishlike smell.

Fit

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.
No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
That time best fits the work.
And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake.
The fits of the season.

Fitful

After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.

Fix

An ass's nole I fixed on his head.

Fixture

The firm fixture of thy foot.

Flame

The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again.

Flapdragon

See how the sea flapdragoned it.

Flare

With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.

Flash

Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other.
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.

Flat

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world.
Flat burglary as ever was committed.
Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide.

Flatter

When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.

Flattering

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

Flaunt

In these my borrowed flaunts.

Flaw

This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws.
France hath flawed the league.

Flay

With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage.

Fledge

Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged.

Flee

[He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
So fled his enemies my warlike father.

fleer

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity.
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorn.

Fleet

Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly.

Flesh

As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable.
Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.
The wild dog Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.

Flexible

When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.

Flexure

Will it give place to flexure and low bending?

Flight

Like the night owl's lazy flight.
Fain by flight to save themselves.
Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts.
Challenged Cupid at the flight.

Flighty

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it.

Fling

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.

Flock

I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel].

Flood

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Flourish

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit.
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!

Flow

The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.

Flush

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

Flutter

Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.

Fly

Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ?
To fly the favors of so good a king.

Foil

Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not.

Foison

That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison.

Fold

We will descend and fold him in our arms.
Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.

Folk

In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.

Follow

It waves me forth again; I'll follow it.
O, had I but followed the arts!
O Antony! I have followed thee to this.

Folly

What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill.

Fond

Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond.
More fond on her than she upon her love.
You are as fond of grief as of your child.

Fondly

Make him speak fondly like a frantic man.

Font

That name was given me at the font.

Food

This may prove food to my displeasure.

Fool

You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent.

Foolery

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote.

Foolish

I am a very foolish fond old man.

Footed

Our king . . . is footed in this land already.

Footing

Hark, I hear the footing of a man.

Foppery

Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house.

For

With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath.
For many miles about There 's scarce a bush.
And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think I will your serious and great business scant, For she with me.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.

Forage

He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility.

Forbearance

Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower.

Forbid

More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon.
Have I not forbid her my house?
He shall live a man forbid.

Force

Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.
Which now they hold by force, and not by right.
Is Lucius general of the forces?
To force a spotless virgin's chastity.
For me, I force not argument a straw.
Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.

Forceless

These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me.

Forcible

But I have reasons strong and forcible.

Fordo

This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
All with weary task fordone.

Fore

The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time.

Forehand

And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king.
And so extenuate the forehand sin.

Forehead

To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king.
So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action.

Foreign

Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died.

Foremost

THat struck the foremost man of all this world.

Forerun

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

Foreshow

Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart.

Foreskirt

Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt.

Forestall

To be forestalled ere we come to fall.
All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day!

Forethink

The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.

Foreward

My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot.

Forewarn

We were forewarned of your coming.

Forfeit

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.
Thy wealth being forfeit to the state.
Undone and forfeited to cares forever!
I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.

Forfeiture

What should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture?

Forfend

Which peril heaven forefend!

Forge

In the quick forge and working house of thought.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.

Forgery

These are the forgeries of jealously.

Forget

Hath thy knee forget to bow?

Forgive

I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven.

Fork

Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart.

Forked

A serpent seen, with forked tongue.

Forlorn

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn.

Form

Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice.

Formal

His obscure funeral . . . No noble rite nor formal ostentation.
To make of him a formal man again.

Forsake

If you forsake the offer of their love.

Forspent

A gentleman almost forspent with speed.

Forswear

I . . . do forswear her.

Forth

From this time forth, I never will speak word.
I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

Forthright

Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders!

Fortitude

The fortitude of the place is best known to you.

Fortune

'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Forward

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded.
The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow.

Foster

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

Foul

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

Found

I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.
A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love.

Foutra

A foutra for the world and wordlings base!

Fowl

Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts.

Fox

Subtle as the fox for prey.
Thou diest on point of fox.

Frame

And frame my face to all occasions.
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame.
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother.
Put your discourse into some frame.
John the bastard Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

Frankly

Very frankly he confessed his treasons.

Frantic

Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!

Fraught

A vessel of our country richly fraught.

fray

Who began this bloody fray?

Freckled

The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover.

Free

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you?
I as free forgive you As I would be forgiven.

Free will

To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my free will.

Freedom

Your charter and your caty's freedom.

Freeze

A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life.

Frenzy

The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

Fresh

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are.

Freshly

Looks he as freshly as he did?

Fret

By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.
Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.

Friendship

Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.

From

If the wind blow any way from shore.

Front

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
With smiling fronts encountering.
Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front.
The very head and front of my offending.
You four shall front them in the narrow lane.
Yonder walls, that pertly front your town.

Frontier

Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.

Frontlet

What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.

Frost

The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

Frown

The frowning wrinkle of her brow.
The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.

Fruit

King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.
The fruit of rashness.

Fruition

Where I may have fruition of her love.

Frush

I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all.

Fub

I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day.

Fugitive

The fugitive Parthians follow.

Fulfill

Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.

Full

The man commands Like a full soldier.
The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide.

Fumble

I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.

Fume

Keep his brain fuming.

Function

Tradesmen . . . going about their functions.

Fundamental

The fundamental reasons of this war.

Furbish

Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt.

Furnace

He furnaces The thick sighs from him.

Furrow

Thou canst help time to furrow me with age.

Fury

I do oppose my patience to his fury.

Gad

I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words.

Gage

A moiety competent Was gaged by our king.
Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged.
You shall not gage me By what we do to-night.

Gain

Every one shall share in the gains.

Gainsay

The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained.

Gait

Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass.
'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait.

Gale

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.

Gall

I am loth to gall a new-healed wound.
They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh.

Gallant

Our royal, good and gallant ship.
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.

Gallantry

Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy.

Gallows

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.
O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!

Game

We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game.

Gamester

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Gap

It would make a great gap in your own honor.

Gape

May that ground gape and swallow me alive!

Garb

You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

Garden

I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy.

Garnish

So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

Garter

He . . . could not see to garter his hose.

Gate

Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.

Gather

Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.

Gaudy

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
Let's have one other gaudy night.

Gauge

You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night.

Geck

To become the geck and scorn O'the other's villainy.

Geld

Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.

General

This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard.
His general behavior vain, ridiculous.

Generation

Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog?

Generous

The generous and gravest citizens.

Gentility

He . . . mines my gentility with my education.

Gentle

Gentles, methinks you frown.

Gentleman

The count's gentleman, one Cesario.

Gentry

She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath.
To show us so much gentry and good will.

German

Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.

Germane

The phrase would be more germane to the matter.

Get

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
Get him to say his prayers.
Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.
We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.

Ghast

Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled.

Ghastly

Staring full ghastly like a strangled man.

Ghost

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.

Gibe

Mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.

Giddy

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches.

Gig

Thou disputest like an infant; go, whip thy gig.

Gild

This grand liquior that hath gilded them.

Gimmal

In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chewed grass.

Ging

There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

Gingerly

What is't that you took up so gingerly ?

Gird

I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

Girdle

Within the girdle of these walls.
Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about.

Girt

We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk, And girt thee with the sword.

Give

But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.
Give out you are of Epidamnum.
He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.
Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter.

Giving

His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design.

Glad

As we are now glad to behold your eyes.
Glad am I that your highness is so armed.

Glance

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.
In company I often glanced it.

Glass

She would not live The running of one glass.

Glaze

Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears.

Gleam

Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.

Glean

To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

Gleek

Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?

Glib

I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.

Glide

Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away.

Glimmer

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

Glister

All that glisters is not gold.

Glorify

That we for thee may glorify the Lord.

Glorious

Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious.

Glory

Jewels lose their glory if neglected.

Glow

And glow with shame of your proceedings.
Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
The red glow of scorn.

Glowworm

Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light.

Gloze

Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.

Glue

This cold, congealed blood That glues my lips, and will not let me speak.

Glut

Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him.

Gnarl

And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.

Gnarled

The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak.

Go

You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go.
Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.
How goes the night, boy ?
The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live.
The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you.
There are other men fitter to go out than I.

Goad

That temptation that doth goad us on.

Gold

For me, the gold of France did not seduce.

Good

Good company, good wine, good welcome.
He . . . is a good workman; a very good tailor.
My reasons are both good and weighty.
My meaning in saying he is a good man is . . . that he is sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.
Love no man in good earnest.
Each word made good and true.
Of no power to make his wishes good.
I . . . would by combat make her good.
Convenient numbers to make good the city.
Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.

Goodly

We have many goodly days to see.

Goodman

With you, goodman boy, an you please.

Gorge

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.

Gorgeous

Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.

Gory

Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me.

Gossip

My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal.

Gout

On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.

Government

I here resign my government to thee.

Gown

He comes . . . in the gown of humility.

Grace

He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
How fares your Grace !
Content to do the profession some grace.
We are graced with wreaths of victory.

Gracious

So hallowed and so gracious in the time.
Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born.

Grain

Storehouses crammed with grain.
Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth.

Grand

Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission.

Grapple

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
And in my standard bear the arms of York, To grapple with the house of Lancaster.

Grasp

Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff.
As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp.

Grate

News, my good lord Rome . . . grates me.
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree.

Gratify

It remains . . . To gratify his noble service.

Gratulate

There's more behind that is more gratulate.

Grave

Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors.
Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

Gravel

When you were graveled for lack of matter.

Graveness

His sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.

Graze

When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep.

Greasily

You talk greasily; your lips grow foul.

Greasy

With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

Great

He doth object I am too great of birth.
We have all Great cause to give great thanks.

Greediness

Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness.

Green

To look so green and pale.

Greet

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.
There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

Greeting

Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings.

Grief

Be factious for redress of all these griefs.

Grieve

Do not you grieve at this.

Grim

Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking.

Grin

The pangs of death do make him grin.

Gripe

Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
How inly sorrow gripes his soul.
A barren scepter in my gripe.

Grise

Every grise of fortune Is smoothed by that below.

Groan

Such groans of roaring wind and rain.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.

ground

On that ground I'll build a holy descant.
These nine . . . began to give me ground.

Grow

Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus.
Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.

Grub

Yet your butterfly was a grub.

Grudge

Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train.
They have grudged us contribution.
Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty !
He eats his meat without grudging.

Grunt

Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life.

Guard

For Heaven still guards the right.
The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.
His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft.

Gudgeon

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

Guess

Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
Not all together; better far, I guess, That we do make our entrance several ways.

Guide

I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court.

Gules

Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules.

Gum

He frets like a gummed velvet.

Gusty

Upon a raw and gusty day.

Gypsy

Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.

Gyve

Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves.
I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.

Habit

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!

Hack

My sword hacked like a handsaw.

Hackney

Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men.

Had

Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Me rather had my heart might feel your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

Haggard

I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.

Haggish

But on us both did haggish age steal on.

Haggle

Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.

Halidom

By my halidom, I was fast asleep.

Halloo

If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare.

Hallowmas

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas.

Halt

The blank verse shall halt for it.

Ham

A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

Hammer

With busy hammers closing rivets up.
Whereon this month I have been hammering.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

Hand

I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand.
As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand comparison.

Handed

As poisonous tongued as handed.

Handle

That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper.
How wert thou handled being prisoner?
You shall see how I will handle her.

Hang

Hung be the heavens with black.

Hap

Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre.

Happiness

All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little.

Harbor

Any place that harbors men.
For this night let's harbor here in York.

Hard

My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself.

Hard-handed

Hard-handed men that work in Athens here.

Hardiment

Changing hardiment with great Glendower.

Hardiness

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother.

Harlotry

He sups to-night with a harlotry.

Harm

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms.
Though yet he never harmed me.

Harness

At least we'll die with harness on our back.

Harp

Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was.
Thou 'st harped my fear aright.

Harrow

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul.

Harsh

Clarence is so harsh, so blunt.

Harshly

'T will sound harshly in her ears.

Harshness

O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness.

Harvest

To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

Harvest-home

Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home.

Haste

I 'll haste the writer.

Hasty

Take no unkindness of his hasty words.

Hatch

In at the window, or else o'er the hatch.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched.

Hatchment

His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones.

Hateful

Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!

Haunt

You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.

Have

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me?
You have me, have you not?

Haven

What shipping and what lading 's in our haven.

Having

I 'll lend you something; my having is not much.

Havoc

Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant.
Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!

Hawk

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.

Hawthorn

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds?

Hazard

I will stand the hazard of the die.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.

He

I stand to answer thee, Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.

Heal

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.

Healthful

Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.

Hear

Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers.
I beseech your honor to hear me one single word.
I have heard, sir, of such a man.
I must hear from thee every day in the hour.

Hearing

His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing.

Hearken

The King of Naples . . . hearkens my brother's suit.

Hearse

Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.

Heart

Why does my blood thus muster to my heart!
Exploits done in the heart of France.
And then show you the heart of my message.
My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.

Hearted

I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted.

Hearten

Hearten those that fight in your defense.

Hearth

Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.

Heartily

I heartily forgive them.

Heat

Heat me these irons hot.
Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.

Heave

One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate.

Heaven

I never saw the heavens so dim by day.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear.

Heavily

Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?

Heavy

The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Whilst the heavy plowman snores.

Hedge

The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch.

Heed

He did it with a serious mind; a heed Was in his countenance.

Heedless

O, negligent and heedless discipline!

Heel

I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt.

Heft

He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts.

Height

My grief was at the height before thou camest.

Heir

I am my father's heir and only son.

Hell

It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Hellhound

A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death.

Helm

The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers.
The business he hath helmed.

Help

Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.

Helpful

Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him!

Helter-skelter

Helter-skelter have I rode to thee.

Hem

Cough or cry hem, if anybody come.

Herald

It was the lark, the herald of the morn.

Hereof

Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant.

Heresy

New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.

Heritage

Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me.

Hermitage

Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world.

Hesperides

It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?

Hew

Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.

Heyday

The heyday in the blood is tame.

Hide

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid.
O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!

High

He was a wight of high renown.
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.

Him

I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman.

Hinder

I hinder you too long.

Hint

Our hint of woe Is common.

His

No comfortable star did lend his light.
Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?

Hiss

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them.
Malcolm. What is the newest grief? Ros. That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker.

History

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history.
No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast.

Hit

I think you have hit the mark.
And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

Hitherward

Marching hitherward in proud array.

Hoist

'T is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar.

Hold

France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . . . A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
We can not hold mortality's strong hand.
I would hold more talk with thee.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.
I hold him but a fool.
I shall never hold that man my friend.
Let him hold his fingers thus.
And damned be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”
Our force by land hath nobly held.
The law hath yet another hold on you.
King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke.

Hole

The holes where eyes should be.

Hollow

With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.

Home

Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home.

Home-keeping

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Honest

Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

Honesty

She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.

Honey

The honey of his language.
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus.

Honor

If she have forgot Honor and virtue.
It is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
The name of Cassius honors this corruption.

Honorable

Thy name and honorable family.
Is this proceeding just and honorable?
Let her descend: my chambers are honorable.

Honorably

The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him.

Hood

While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, “Amen.”

Hoodwink

We will blind and hoodwink him.

Hoot

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots.

Hope

Lavina is thine elder brother's hope.
We hope no other from your majesty.

Hopeless

I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
The hopelessword of “never to return” Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.

Horizon

And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon.

Horrid

Not in the legions Of horrid hell.

Hose

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank.

Hospitality

And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality.

Host

Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

Hostage

Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight.

Hound

Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs.

House

Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away.
This mortal house I'll ruin, Do Cæsar what he can.
You shall not house with me.

Housekeeper

You are manifest housekeeper.

Hovel

To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon.

Hover

Hovering o'er the paper with her quill.

How

How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How art thou called?
How a score of ewes now?

Howbeit

The Moor -- howbeit that I endure him not - Is of a constant, loving, noble nature.

However

Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault.

Howl

Methought a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.

Howsoever

I am glad he's come, howsoever he comes.

Huge

Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.

Hum

The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums.
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums.
These shrugs, these hums and ha's.

Humble

Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes.

Humor

I like not the humor of lying.

Hundred

With many hundreds treading on his heels.

Hungry

Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Hunt

He after honor hunts, I after love.
The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.

Hurly

That, with the hurly, death itself awakes.

Hurry

They hurried him abroad a bark.
And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends.

Hurter

Thou dost me yet but little hurt.

Hurtle

The noise of battle hurtled in the air.

Husband

For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far.

Husbandry

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

Hush

My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.

Hyperion

So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr.

Hypocrite

I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart.

I' ll

I'll by a sign give notice to our friends.

Idea

Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind.

Ides

The ides of March remember.

Idiot

Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Ignoble

I was not ignoble of descent.
Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants.
'T is but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

Ignomy

I blush to think upon this ignomy.

Ignorance

Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Ignorant

Ignorant concealment.
Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved.
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears.

Ill

There 's some ill planet reigns.
Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example.
I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.
That 's an ill phrase.
That makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.
How ill this taper burns!

Illustrate

This most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman.

Image

Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.

Imagination

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

Imagine

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Imbar

To imbar their crooked titles.

Immaculate

Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain.

Immediate

You are the most immediate to our throne.

Imminent

Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.
Three times to-day You have defended me from imminent death.

Immoderate

So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint.

Immortal

For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
I have immortal longings in me.

Immure

Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls.

Imp

Imp out our drooping country's broken wing.

Impale

Impale him with your weapons round about.

Impart

Gentle lady, When I did first impart my love to you.

Impartment

It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone.

Impatience

I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly.

Impeach

And doth impeach the freedom of the state.

Impeachment

Willing to march on to Calais, Without impeachment.

Impediment

Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment.

Imperfect

Something he left imperfect in the state.
Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.

Imperfection

Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head.

Imperial

The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome.
Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice.

Imperious

Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness, Imperious.
This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages.

Impertinency

O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness!

Impiety

Those impieties for the which they are now visited.

Implorator

Mere implorators of unholy suits.

Implore

I kneel, and then implore her blessing.

Impone

Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards.

Import

I have a motion much imports your good.
Most serious design, and the great import.

Importance

Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature.
The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow.
At our importance hither is he come.

Important

Things small as nothing . . . He makes important.

Importune

We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune.

Impose

What fates impose, that men must needs abide.

Imposition

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition.

Impotent

O most lame and impotent conclusion!

Impound

But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots.

Impress

His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed.
This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice.
Why such impress of shipwrights?

Impression

Such terrible impression made the dream.

Improper

Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave.

Improvident

Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good, This sudden mischief never could have fallen.

Impudency

Audacious without impudency.

Impudent

More than impudent sauciness.

Imputation

Shylock. Antonio is a good man. Bassanio. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?
If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humor his men with the imputation of being near their master.

In

Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west.
When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop.

Incapable

Is not your father grown incapable of reasonable affairs?

Incarnadine

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.

Incense

The people are incensed him.

Inch

Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.

Incite

No blown ambition doth our arms incite.

Inclination

How dost thou find the inclination of the people?

Inclining

Both you of my inclining, and the rest.

Inclip

Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips.

Include

The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
Come, let us go; we will include all jars With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

Inclusive

The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.

Incomparable

A merchant of incomparable wealth.

Incontinent

He says he will return incontinent.

Incony

Most sweet jests! most incony vulgar wit!

Incorporate

As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate.
By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one.

Incorrect

It shows a will most incorrect to heaven.

Increase

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow!
Make denials Increase your services.
As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.
Let them not live to taste this land's increase.

Incur

I know not what I shall incur to pass it, Having no warrant.

Indies

Our king has all the Indies in his arms.

Indifferent

Dangers are to me indifferent.

Indifferently

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

Indigent

Indigent faint souls past corporal toil.

Indignity

How might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities you laid upon me?

Indirect

By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown.

Indirectly

Your crown and kingdom indirectly held.

Indiscreet

So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer.

Indissoluble

To the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit.

Indite

She will indite him to some supper.

Induction

These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction dull of prosperous hope.

Indue

Indued with intellectual sense and souls.

Inexorable

You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.

Infectious

Where the infectious pestilence.

Infer

Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force.
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

Infirm

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
Infirm of purpose!

Infirmity

'T is the infirmity of his age.
Will you be cured of your infirmity ?
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

Inflame

It will inflame you; it will make you mad.

Infold

Gilded tombs do worms infold.
Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart.

Inform

I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.

Informal

These poor informal women.

Infringe

If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed.

Infuse

That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.
Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
Infusing him with self and vain conceit.

Ingenious

Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious.
A course of learning and ingenious studies.

Ingratitude

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend.

Inhabitable

The frozen ridges of the Alps Or other ground inhabitable.

Inherit

Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris.
To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it.

Inheritance

When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter.

Injure

When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?

Injurious

Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free.

Inlay

Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.

Inly

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love.

Inmost

And pierce the inmost center of the earth.

Innocence

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.

Innocent

To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb.

Inquisition

Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways.

Insane

Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner ?

Insatiate

The insatiate greediness of his desires.

Insculpture

On his gravestone this insculpture.

Inside

Kissing with inside lip.
Looked he o' the inside of the paper?

Insinew

All members of our cause, . . . That are insinewed to this action.

Insinuate

He would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs.

Insist

Insisting on the old prerogative.

Insociable

This austere insociable life.

Insolent

Can you not see? or will ye not observe . . . How insolent of late he is become, How proud, how peremptory?

Inspiration

Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations.

Inspire

But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.

Install

Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree.

installment

The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest.

Instance

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Instinct

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers.

Institute

We institute your Grace To be our regent in these parts of France.
And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies.

Institution

The nature of our people, Our city's institutions.

Instruct

Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth.
Take her in; instruct her what she has to do.

Instrument

All the lofty instruments of war.
Or useful serving man and instrument, To any sovereign state.

Instrumental

The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth.

Insult

Give me thy knife, I will insult on him.

Insurrection

I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.

Intelligence

Intelligence is given where you are hid.

Intelligent

Which are to France the spies and speculations Intelligent of our state.

Intend

To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.
Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio.

Intenible

This captious and intenible sieve.

Intent

Be thy intents wicked or charitable.

Intercept

Who intercepts me in my expedition?

Interchain

Two bosoms interchained with an oath.

Interchange

I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown.

Interdiction

The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst.

Interest

So much interest have I in thy sorrow.
They have told their money, and let out Their coin upon large interest.
You shall have your desires with interest.

Interim

All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream.

Interjection

How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!

Intermit

Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.

Interpose

What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night?

Interpretation

Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our looks.

Interrupt

Do not interrupt me in my course.

Intervallum

And a' shall laugh without intervallums.

Intestate

Airy succeeders of intestate joys.

Intolerable

His insolence is more intolerable Than all the princes in the land beside.
This intolerable deal of sack.

Intrench

It was this very sword intrenched it.

Intrenchant

As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed.

Intrinse

Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse to unloose.

Intrude

Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced.
Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?

Inundation

To stop the inundation of her tears.

Inurn

The sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned.

Invention

Filling their hearers With strange invention.

Inventory

There take an inventory of all I have.
I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled.

Invert

That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions.

Invest

I do invest you jointly with my power.

Investment

Whose white investments figure innocence.

Inveterate

Heal the inveterate canker of one wound.

Inviolable

And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.

Invitation

She gives the leer of invitation.

Invite

So many guests invite as here are writ.

Invocation

Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and pathetical!

Invoke

Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke his warlike spirit.

Inwardly

Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly.

Irk

To see this sight, it irks my very soul.

Iron

My young soldier, put up your iron.

Irregular

Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower.

Irrevocable

Firm and irrevocable is my doom.

Issue

If the king Should without issue die.
Come forth to view The issue of the exploit.
While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue.
From it issued forced drops of blood.

It

Do, child, go to it grandam, child.

Iteration

What needs this iteration, woman?

Jack

You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby.
Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack.

Jade

I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

Jangle

Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh.

Jar

When such strings jar, what hope of harmony ?
My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes.
Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace.
I love thee not a jar of the clock.

Jaunce

Spurr'd, galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke.

Jealous

To both these sisters have I sworn my love: Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder.

Jeopardy

Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.

Jest

I must be sad . . . smile at no man's jests.
Then let me be your jest; I deserve it.
And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Jester

This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
He ambled up and down With shallow jesters.

Jet

he jets under his advanced plumes!
To jet upon a prince's right.

Jewel

Plate of rare device, and jewels Of rich and exquisite form.

Jig

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
You jig, you amble, and you lisp.

Jocund

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

Jog

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way.

Join

Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined.
Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.

Joinder

Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands.

Joint

A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand.
A joint burden laid upon us all.
Jointing their force 'gainst Caesar.

Jointly

Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow.

Jointure

The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.

Jolly

Like a jolly troop of huntsmen.

Jot

Neither will they bate One jot of ceremony.

Journeyman

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well.

jovial

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.
Be bright and jovial among your guests.

Jowl

How the knave jowls it to the ground.

Joy

Tears of true joy for his return.
Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.

Judge

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
She is wise if I can judge of her.
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, And to be judged by him.

Judgment

Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
She in my judgment was as fair as you.
Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.

Judicious

His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing.
He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The fits o' the season.

Juggle

Be these juggling fiends no more believed.
Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries?

Juggler

As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.

Juice

The juice of Egypt's grape.

jump

Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
To jump a body with a dangerous physic.
Our fortune lies Upon thisjump.

Juno

Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.

Jurisdiction

You wrought to be a legate; by which power You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.

Juror

I shall both find your lordship judge and juror.

Jury

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life.

Just

We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright.
The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.
To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.

Justice

The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . I have no relish of them.
This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.

Justification

I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.

Justify

I can not justify whom the law condemns.

Kecksy

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs.

Keel

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Keen

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
To make our wits more keen.
Good father cardinal, cry thou amen To my keen curses.
So keen and greedy to confound a man.

Keep

If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.
Like a pedant that keeps a school.
I keep but three men and a boy.
Both day and night did we keep company.
Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps.

Ken

'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait.

Kendal green

How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green ?

Kerchief

He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape.

Kern

Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns.

Kernel

'A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel

Key

Both warbling of one song, both in one key.

Kick

I should kick, being kicked.

Kickshaws

Art thou good at these kickshawses!
Some pigeons, . . . a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws.

Kill

Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words !
Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares.
Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him.

Kind-hearted

To thy self at least kind-hearted prove.

Kindle

Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither.

Kindness

I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.

Kindred

I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred.

Kingdom

Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
You're welcome, Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom.

Kingdomed

Twixt his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself.

Kiss

He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed.
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees.
Like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.

Kite

Detested kite, thou liest.

Knack

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.

Knave

O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music ? Gentle knave, good night.
He's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will.

Knavery

This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name.

Knavish

Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

Knead

The kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking.
I will knead him : I'll make him supple.

Knee

Give them title, knee, and approbation.
Fall down, and knee The way into his mercy.

Knell

The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who.

Knife

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife.

Knight

Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.
A soldier, by the honor-giving hand Of Cœur-de-Lion knighted in the field.

Knightly

And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms.

Knit

When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows.
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit.
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.

Knock

Master, knock the door hard.

Knot

His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries.

Knotted

Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part.
The west corner of thy curious knotted garden.

Know

O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!
To know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Knowing

This sore night Hath trifled former knowings.

Knowledge

Ignorance is the curse of God; Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Labor

The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She'll with the labor end.

Lack

Let his lack of years be no impediment.
What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.

Lackey

Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.

Ladder

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder.

Lade

And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.

Laden

A ship laden with gold.

Lady

Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, . . . We make thee lady.

Lag

Came too lag to see him buried.
The common lag of people.

Lame

O, most lame and impotent conclusion!

Lamenting

Lamentings heard i' the air.

Lance

A braver soldier never couched lance.

Land

I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.

Language

There was . . . language in their very gesture.

Languish

What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish?

Lap

They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk.

Lapse

To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need.
For which, if be lapsed in this place, I shall pay dear.

Lard

Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

Lascivious

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

Last

How long is't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask ?

Laugh

Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er.
Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
I shall laugh myself to death.
From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.

Laund

Through this laund anon the deer will come.

Lavish

Let her have needful, but not lavish, means.

Law

When every case in law is right.

Lawless

He needs no indirect nor lawless course.

Lay

I dare lay mine honor He will remain so.
Lay the fault on us.

Lead

The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua.

Lean

Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something.

Leap

Leap in with me into this angry flood.

Learn

Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes ?

Lease

Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature.

Leash

Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash.

Leave

A double blessing is a'double grace; Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
The heresies that men do leave.
I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor.
The foot That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.

Lee

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

Leer

A Rosalind of a better leer than you.
She gives the leer of invitation.
I will leerupon him as a' comes by.

Lend

Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me.

Length

Large lengths of seas and shores.

Lesser

The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.

Lest

I feared Lest I might anger thee.

Let

If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is.

Level

Shot from the deadly level of a gun.
Young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone.
Everything lies level to our wish.
With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding.
The foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife.
She leveled at our purposes.

Levy

If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied.

Libel

What's this but libeling against the senate?

Liberal

His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower.

Libertine

Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.

Liberty

Being pent from liberty, as I am now.

Lie

The wind is loud and will not lie.
What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head.

Lief

I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines.

Liege

The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Life

She shows a body rather than a life.

Lift

He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.

Light

He seemed to find his way without his eyes; For out o'door he went without their helps, And, to the last, bended their light on me.
The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light.
He shall never know That I had any light of this from thee.
Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain ?
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Lighten

This dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion.
His eye . . . lightens forth Controlling majesty.
Lightens my humor with his merry jests.

Like

'T is as like you As cherry is to cherry.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Like me to the peasant boys of France.
You like well, and bear your years very well.

Likelihood

What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day ?

Liking

I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.

Limb

A second Hector for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.

Limbo

As far from help as Limbo is from bliss.

Limit

The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally.
The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
The limit of your lives is out.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.

Limitation

You have stood your limitation, and the tribunes Endue you with the people's voice.

Line

Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.

Linger

She lingers my desires.

Lining

The lining of his coffers shall make coats To deck our soldiers.

Lip

A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing.

Liquor

Liquor fishermen's boots.

List

Stand close, and list to him.
Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs.
The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our fortunes.

Litter

There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
To crouch in litter of your stable planks.
The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn.

Little

Best him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too.
A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. “ Stay a little.”
The painter flattered her a little.

Live

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
A strong mast that lived upon the sea.

Livelong

The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.

Lively

Thou counterfeitest most lively.

Living

She can spin for her living.

Load

I have loaden me with many spoils.
Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house.

Loath

Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content.

Lob

And their poor jades Lob down their heads.

Local

Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

Lock

These gray locks, the pursuivants of death.

Lodge

Stay and lodge by me this night.
Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down.

Lofty

Lofty and sour to them that loved him not.

Loiter

Sir John, you loiter here too long.

Lone

A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.

Loneliness

I see The mystery of your loneliness.

Long

The bird of dawning singeth all night long.

Longing

Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.

Look

Look that ye bind them fast.
My toes look through the overleather.
I'll be a candleholder, and look on.
Threw many a northward look to see his father Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.

Loop

That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on.
And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence The eye of Reason may pry in upon us.

Loose

Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.

Lord

But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion.
Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee.
I see them lording it in London streets.

Lose

He hath lost his fellows.
We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.

Loss

Assured loss before the match be played.

Lot

If we draw lots, he speeds.

Love

Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul.
Love, and health to all.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Lovely

If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers.
A most lovely gentlemanlike man.

Lover

Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit.
I slew my best lover for the good of Rome.

Low

Can sing both high and low.

Lower

All the clouds that lowered upon our house.

Lowly

I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught.

Loyal

Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms ? -- To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do.
Your true and loyal wife.

Lubberly

A great lubberly boy.

Lucifer

How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . . . When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.

Luck

If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds.

Lucky

We doubt not of a fair and lucky war.

Luggage

What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage!

Lunacy

Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.

Lunatic

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.

Lune

These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king.

Lung

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer.

Lurch

And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland.
I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.

Lush

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

Mad

I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have madded me.

Madeira

A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg.

Magnanimous

Be magnanimous in the enterprise.

Maid

Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son.
Spinning amongst her maids.

Maiden

Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?
Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.

Maidenhood

The maidenhood Of thy fight.

Maidenly

Must you be blushing ? . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become !

Maim

You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.

Main

That Maine which by main force Warwick did win.

Maintain

Maintain talk with the duke.

make

And old cloak makes a new jerkin.
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement.
A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.
Considerations infinite Do make against it.

Malicious

I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name.

Malignance

The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours.

malignant

A malignant and a turbaned Turk.
Some malignant power upon my life.

Man

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world “This was a man!”
A man can not make him laugh.
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !

Manage

Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.

mandrake

And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.

Manhood

I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus.

Manifest

So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.
Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not.

Manly

Let's briefly put on manly readiness.

Mannered

Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born.

Mannerly

What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly.

Mannish

A woman impudent and mannish grown.

Manor

My manors, rents, revenues, l forego.

mantle

The green mantle of the standing pool.
There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

Manure

The blood of English shall manure the ground.

Many

A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves.

Map

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.
I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly.

Mar

I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks.

March

With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them.

Mare

I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.

Margent

The beached margent of the sea.

Mark

I have some marks of yours upon my pate.
As much in mock as mark.
In the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the Senate.

Market

He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?

Marrow

It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute.

Marshal

Thou marshalest me the way that I was going.

Mart

To sell and mart your officer for gold To undeservers.

Martyr

Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr !

Mask

They must all be masked and vizarded.
Masking the business from the common eye.

Mass

This army of such mass and charge.

Massacre

I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family.
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries.

Massy

Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted.

Master

The wealth That the world masters.

Masterly

Thou dost speak masterly.

Mastership

How now, seignior Launce! what news with your mastership?

Match

It were no match, your nail against his horn.
No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness.
I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

Mate

If she be mated with an equal husband.
I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

Matron

Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids.

Mattock

'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade.

Mature

This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out.

Mauger

This mauger all the world will I keep safe.

May

His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood.

Maybe

Maybe the amorous count solicits her.

Me

Me rather had my heart might frrl your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.

Meager

Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.

Meal

What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee?

Mean

What other means is left unto us.
Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
The mean is drowned with your unruly base.

Meaning

If there be any good meaning towards you.

measure

Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass.
A true devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.

Mechanic

Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

Meddle

More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.

Medicinal

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.

Medicine

By medicine, life may be prolonged.

Meditation

With wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love.

Meed

My meed hath got me fame.

Melody

Lulled with sound of sweetest melody.

Melt

Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
Melting with tenderness and kind compassion.

Memorize

They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha.

Memory

That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.

Menace

My master . . . did menace me with death.
By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal.
Who ever knew the heavens menace so?

Mend

You mend the jewel by the wearing it.

Mental

What a mental power This eye shoots forth!

Mention

And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of.

Merchant

Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad.

Merciful

Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold.

Merciless

The foe is merciless, and will not pity.

Meridian

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Merit

Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that others do; and when we fall, We answer other's merits in our name.
Reputation is . . . oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Meritorious

And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint.

Merry

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

Mesh

A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men.

Messenger

Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

Metal

Not till God make men of some other metal than earth.

Metaphysical

The golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal.

Meteor

The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.

Method

Though this be madness, yet there's method in it.

Metropolis

The great metropolis and see of Rome.

Mettle

Gentlemen of brave mettle.

Mew

More pity that the eagle should be mewed.

Mid

About the mid of night come to my tent.

Midnight

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

Mightiness

How soon this mightiness meets misery.

Mildew

He . . . mildews the white wheat.

Military

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men.

Milk

I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.

Milky

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?

Milliner

No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.

Million

For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.

Mince

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- “I love you.”
I 'll . . . turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride.

Mind

The mind shall banquet, though the body pine.
Being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling her mind.
My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.

Mindless

Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth.

Mine

This title honors me and mine.
She shall have me and mine.

Minion

Is this the Athenian minion whom the world Voiced so regardfully?
Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!

Minister

I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?

Mint

A mint of phrases in his brain.

Miracle

That miracle and queen of genus.

Mire

Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

Mirthful

Mirthful, comic shows.

Miscarry

My ships have all miscarried.
The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried.

Mischance

Never come mischance between us twain.

Misdoubt

I do not misdoubt my wife.

Miserable

What 's more miserable than discontent?

Misery

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

Misgive

So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours.

Mishap

Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.

Miss

We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Mission

Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves.

Mistake

My father's purposes have been mistook.
Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous.

Mistemper

This inundation of mistempered humor.

Mistress

The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress!

Mistrust

I will never mistrust my wife again.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers.

Mistrustful

Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood.

Misuse

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

Mix

Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words.
Hast thou no poison mixed?

Moan

Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, To make him moan.

Mock

To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

Mockery

It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.

Model

I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal.
When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model.
Thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life.

Modern

We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.

Modest

Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife.

Modesty

Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.

Moisture

All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat.

Mold

The glass of fashion and the mold of form.

Moment

Matters of great moment.

Momentary

This momentary joy breeds months of pain.

Monarch

Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus.

Monarchy

What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence.

Monkey

This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her.

Monopoly

If I had a monopoly out, they would have part on 't.

Monstrous

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

Monument

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.
On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial.

Mood

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Moonish

Being but a moonish youth.

Mope

A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope.

Moral

Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.

Moralize

Did he not moralize this spectacle?

More

Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter.

Moreover

Moreover, he hath left you all his walks.

Morning

She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew.

Morris

The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud.

Mortality

From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality.

Mortally

I was mortally brought forth.

Mortgage

I myself an mortgaged to thy will.

Moss

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.

Most

The most unkindest cut of all.

Mot

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

Mother

Alas! poor country! . . . it can not Be called our mother, but our grave.

Motion

Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.

Mount

What power is it which mounts my love so high?

Mountain

I should have been a mountain of mummy.

Mourn

We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

Mouth

Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

Move

Let me but move one question to your daughter.

Mover

These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death.

Muddy

This muddy vesture of decay.
Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled.

Muffler

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes.

Mum

The citizens are mum, and speak not a word.
Mum, then, and no more.

Mumble

Peace, you mumbling fool.

Munch

I could munch your good dry oats.

Murder

[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?

Muscadel

Quaffed off the muscadel.

Music

The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

Musty

The proverb is somewhat musty.

Mute

They spake not a word; But, like dumb statues, or breathing stones, Gazed each on other.

Mutiny

To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.

Mystery

Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery.

Naked

The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out.
The very naked name of love.

Name

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
What men of name resort to him?
Whom late you have named for consul.

Nameless

But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; 't is nameless woe,I wot.

Narrow

Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas.

Native

the head is not more native to the heart, . . . Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

Nativity

I have served him from the hour of my nativity.

Natural

To leave his wife, to leave his babes, . . . He wants the natural touch.

Nature

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Oppressed nature sleeps.
A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick.

Naught

Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else.

Naughty

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Nayward

Howe'er you lean to the nayward.

Neat

The steer, the heifer, and the calf Are all called neat.

Necessary

Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Necessity

Urge the necessity and state of times.
These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights.

Need

I have no need to beg.
Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.

Needless

Weeping into the needless stream.

Needy

Corn to make your needy bread.

Negative

If thou wilt confess, Or else be impudently negative.
These eyes that never did nor never shall So much as frown on you.

Neglect

I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.

Neighbor

Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
A copse that neighbors by.

Neither

Which of them shall I take? Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive.
He neither loves, Nor either cares for him.
When she put it on, she made me vow That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.

Nibble

Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep.

Nice

The letter was not nice, but full of charge Of dear import.

Nick

The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship.

Nickname

You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.

Night

So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
What night rule now about this haunted grove?

No

We do no otherwise than we are willed.

Nod

Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down.

Nominate

To nominate them all, it is impossible.
Is it so nominated in the bond?

Nonce

And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce.

Nook-shotten

That nook-shotten isle of Albion.

Nor

I love him not, nor fear him.
Where neither party is nor true, nor kind.

Note

Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence.
The king . . . shall have note of this.
No more of that; I have noted it well.

Notice

I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here.

Notorious

Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.

Nourish

Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.

Now

Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is?

Nuptial

Celebration of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come.

Nuzzle

And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.

nymph

Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.

O

Thou art an O without a figure.

Obdurate

Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?

Obedient

And floating straight, obedient to the stream.

Objective

My troublous dream [on] this night doth make me sad.

Oblivion

Second childishness and mere oblivion.

Obscure

The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.
They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured.

Obsequiously

Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

Observance

It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance.
Use all the observance of civility.

Observant

Silly ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely.

Observation

My observation, which very seldom lies.

Observe

Must I budge? Must I observe you?

Observer

The observed of all observers.

Obstacle

If all obstacles were cut away. And that my path were even to the crown.

Obstinacy

You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract.

Obstruction

To die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot.

Obtain

By guileful fair words peace may be obtained.

Occident

I may wander from east to occident.

Occurrence

All the occurrence of my fortune.

Odd

I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not.

Odds

The odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
Set them into confounding odds.
I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds.

Ode

Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.

Odium

I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully.

oeiliad

She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks.

Of

Knew you of this fair work?
Not be seen to wink of all the day.
My custom always of the afternoon.
Why, knows not Montague, that of itself England is safe, if true within itself?

Offend

Marry, sir, he hath offended the law.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
I shall offend, either to detain or give it.

Offer

All that offer to defend him.

Offering

They are polluted offerings more abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

Office

I would I could do a good office between you.
They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.

Official

That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate.

Officious

You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services.

Old

If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key.

On

Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

Once

To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

One

O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England.
Well, I will marry one day.

Onset

The onset and retire Of both your armies.

Open

The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me open to all injuries.
The Moor is of a free and open nature.
His thefts are too open.

Opening

We saw him at the opening of his tent.

Openly

My love . . . shall show itself more openly.

Opinion

I can not put off my opinion so easily.
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.

Opportune

This is most opportune to our need.

Oppose

Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people.
I am . . . too weak To oppose your cunning.

Opposite

The opposites of this day's strife.

Opposition

The counterpoise of so great an opposition.

Oppress

For thee, oppressèd king, am I cast down.
The mutiny he there hastes to oppress.

Oppressor

The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds.

Opulent

I will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms.

Orator

I am no orator, as Brutus is.

Oratory

When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory.

Orb

In the small orb of one particular tear.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb.
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.

Ordain

Being ordained his special governor.

Order

Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me.
Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.

Orderly

You are blunt; go to it orderly.

Ordinance

Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance.
By custom and the ordinance of times.

Ordinary

I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework.

Ordnance

All the battlements their ordnance fire.

Original

It hath it original from much grief.

Ort

Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave.

Osier

The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream.

Othergates

He would have tickled you othergates.

Ouch

Your brooches, pearls, and ouches.

Ought

[He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound.

Out

He hath been out (of the country) nine years.
When the butt is out, we will drink water.
I have forgot my part, and I am out.
Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!

Outbrag

Whose bare outbragg'd the web it seemed to wear.

Outbrave

The basest weed outbraves his dignity.

outbreak

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.

Outlook

To outlook conquest, and to win renown.

Outstare

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.

Outward

The wrong side may be turned outward.
An outward honor for an inward toil.
So fair an outward and such stuff within.

Overcome

And overcome us like a summer's cloud.

Overdo

Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.

Overlook

[Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them.

Override

I overrode him on the way.

Oversize

O'ersized with coagulate gore.

Overtake

I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.

Overthrow

[Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.

Overture

It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us.

Overweening

Here's an overweening rogue.

Overwhelm

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them.
His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight.

Owe

Thou dost here usurp The name thou ow'st not.

Owing

There is more owing her than is paid.

pace

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
If you can, pace your wisdom In that good path that I would wish it go.

Pack

Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed.
He . . . must not die Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.

Paddle

To be paddling palms and pinching fingers.

Pagan

Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man.

Pah

Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

Pains

And all my pains is sorted to no proof.

Paint

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight.
Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
Let her paint an inch thick.

Pale

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters.

Palm

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

Palmy

In the most high and palmy state of Rome.

Palpable

[Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

Palter

Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.

Pander

Thou art the pander to her dishonor.

Pantaloon

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.

paradox

This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.

Paragon

Man, . . . the paragon of animals !
He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame.

Parallel

His life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to it.

Parcel

This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy.

Parchment

But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar.

Pard

And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain.

Pardon

Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.
Sign me a present pardon for my brother.
I pray you, pardon me; pray heartily, pardon me.
Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!
I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
Even now about it! I will pardon you.

Park

How are we parked, and bounded in a pale.

Parley

They are at hand, To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.

Parsley

As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit.

Part

A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward.
Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
That part Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf.
The narrow seas that part The French and English.
The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
Since presently your souls must part your bodies.
He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

Partake

When I against myself with thee partake.

Particular

[Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
For his particular I'll receive him gladly.

Particularity

Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease!

Partisan

And make him with our pikes and partisans a grave.

Partition

And good from bad find no partition.

Party

Win the noble Brutus to our party.
Have you nothing said Upon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?

Pass

Disturb him not, let him pass paceably.
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
Please you that I may pass This doing.
Have his daughters brought him to this pass.
Common speech gives him a worthy pass.

Passable

His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel.

Passage

What! are my doors opposed against my passage!
When he is fit and season'd for his passage.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.

Passion

The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.

Past

Is it not past two o'clock?
Not past three quarters of a mile.

Pasture

So graze as you find pasture.

Patch

Patches set upon a little breach.

Pate

Fat paunches have lean pate.

Patent

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend.

Patience

I must have patience to endure the load.
They stay upon your patience.

Pattern

I will be the pattern of all patience.

Pause

I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.

Pawn

Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies.
Pawning his honor to obtain his lust.

Pay

Not paying me a welcome.

Peace

When the thunder would not peace at my bidding.

Peach

If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.

Peal

Whether those peals of praise be his or no.

Pearl

I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.

Peck

This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.

Peculiar

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give.

Pedant

A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church.

Peel

The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

Peep

Peep through the blanket of the dark.

Peer

So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.

Peevish

She is peevish, sullen, froward.
To send such peevish tokens to a king.

Peg

I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails.

Peise

Lest leaden slumber peise me down.

Pelt

The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds.
Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.

Pen

My father stole two geese out of a pen.

Penalty

The penalty and forfeit of my bond.

Penetrable

I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreats.

Penny

What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent?

Perceive

You may, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely.

Perch

Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

Percussion

The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds.

Perdition

The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet.

Peremptory

Briefly, then, for we are peremptory.

Perfect

Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms.

Perform

To perform your father's will.
Perform a part thou hast not done before.

Periapt

Now help, ye charming spells and periapts.

Period

This is the period of my ambition.

Perjure

Want will perjure The ne'er-touched vestal.

Pernicious

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar.

Perpetual

Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.

Person

If it assume my noble father's person.

Perspectively

You see them perspectively.

Persuade

We will persuade him, be it possible.

Persuasion

Is 't possible that my deserts to you Can lack persuasion?

Pervert

Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.

Pestiferous

Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held.

Pestilence

I'll pour this pestilence into his ear.

Petition

You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity.

Petitionary

Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen.

Phrase

“Convey” the wise it call. “Steal!” foh! a fico for the phrase.
Thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst.

Physic

The labor we delight in physics pain.

Physical

Is Brutus sick? and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning?

Pick

As high as I could pick my lance.
Did you pick Master Slender's purse?

Pickthank

Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers.

Picture

I have not seen him so pictured.

Piece

Thy mother was a piece of virtue.

Pierce

Can no prayers pierce thee?

Pight

I found him pight to do it.

Pilchard

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings.

Pilgrimage

In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage.

Pillage

Which pillage they with merry march bring home.

Pillow

[Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard.

Pine

For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.

Pinnace

Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs.

Pioned

Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims.

Pipe

Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.

Pippin

We will eat a last year's pippin.

Pit

Tumble me into some loathsome pit.

Pitch

Enterprises of great pitch and moment.

Piteous

The most piteous tale of Lear.

Pith

Enterprises of great pith and moment.

Pitiful

That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

Pity

He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog.

Place

Here is the place appointed.
Are you native of this place?
I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown.
Place it for her chief virtue.

Plague

The different plague of each calamity.

Plain

Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.
What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech.

Plaited

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.

Planet

There's some ill planet reigns.

Plant

It engenders choler, planteth anger.
We will plant some other in the throne.

Plat

Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.

Plate

Thus plated in habiliments of war.

Plausibly

The Romans plausibly did give consent.

Play

His mother played false with a smith.
Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
A lord will hear your play to-night.
Art thou alive? Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight.

Please

To-morrow, may it please you.

Pleasure

Use your pleasure; if your love do not presuade you to come, let not my letter.

Pledge

To pledge my vow, I give my hand.

Plot

I have overheard a plot of death.

Plow

Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails.

Plucker

Thou setter up and plucker down of kings.

Plummet

I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded.

Plural

Plural faith, which is too much by one.

Ply

He plies the duke at morning and at night.
Go ply thy needle; meddle not.

Poesy

Music and poesy used to quicken you.

Poet

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

Poetry

She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry.

Point

This fellow doth not stand upon points.
Now must the world point at poor Katharine.

Point-device

You are rather point-devise in your accouterments.

Poise

One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality.
Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow.

Poison

If you poison us, do we not die ?
Tooth that poisons if it bite.

Politic

Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

Politician

Like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Poll

We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands.
The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.

Ponderous

The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws.

Poniard

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Poop

The poop was beaten gold.

Poor

And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray.

Pop

He that killed my king . . . Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

Porch

Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us.

Port

Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads.
Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered.

Portable

How light and portable my pain seems now!

Portal

From out the fiery portal of the east.

Portentous

For, I believe, they are portentous things.

Portraiture

For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his.

Positively

Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord, Before I positively speak herein.

Possess

I am yours, and all that I possess.
I have possessed your grace of what I purpose.
Record a gift . . . of all he dies possessed Unto his son.

Possession

How long hath this possession held the man?

Possibly

When possibly I can, I will return.

Post

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post.

Posterity

If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.

Postern

Out at the postern, by the abbey wall.

Posture

In most strange postures We have seen him set himself.

Potency

A place of potency and away o' the state.

Potent

Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors.

Pour

London doth pour out her citizens !

Pout

Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love.

Powder

Grind their bones to powder small.

Power

Never such a power . . . Was levied in the body of a land.
The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a received belief.

Powerful

The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.

Practice

He will practice against thee by poison.

Prank

His pranks have been too broad to bear with.

Prate

To prate and talk for life and honor.

Prattle

Mere prattle, without practice.

Pray

I pray, sir. why am I beaten?
I know not how to pray your patience.

Prayer

As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.

Preach

My master preaches patience to him.

Preceptial

[Passion] would give preceptial medicine to rage.

Precipitate

So many fathom down precipitating.

Precipitation

In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian.

Precise

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

Predominant

Foul subordination is predominant.

Preface

This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise.

Prefer

Presently prefer his suit to Cæsar.
I would prefer him to a better place.

Pregnant

Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.

Prejudicate

Our dearest friend Prejudicates the business.

Prejudice

England and France might, through their amity, Breed him some prejudice.
Seek how may prejudice the foe.

Prelate

Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were made a prelate.

Premise

The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served.
The premised flames of the last day.

Preposterous

Preposterous ass, that never read so far!

Prerogative

Then give me leave to have prerogative.

Presage

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

Prescribe

Prescribe not us our duties.

Presence

In such a presence here to plead my thoughts.
An't please your grace, the two great cardinals. Wait in the presence.

Present

I'll bring thee to the present business

Presentation

Under the presentation of the shoots his wit.

Preservation

Give us particulars of thy preservation.

Preserve

Now, good angels preserve the king.
You can not preserve it from tainting.

Press

I have misused the king's press.
Press not a falling man too far.
In their throng and press to that last hold.

Pressure

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.

Presume

Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?
Do not presume too much upon my love.

Presumption

Thy son I killed for his presumption.

Pretend

Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against his state.

Pretense

A very pretense and purpose of unkindness.

Pretty

This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward.

Prevention

Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.

Prey

Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, . . . lion in prey.
More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

Price

We can afford no more at such a price.

Prick

Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.
Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked.
My duty pricks me on to utter that.

Prick-eared

Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland.

Pricksong

He fights as you sing pricksong.

Pride

That hardly we escaped the pride of France.
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place.

Primal

It hath the primal eldest curse upon it.

Primogenitive

The primogenitive and due of birth.

Princely

My appetite was not princely got.

Prison

His true respect will prison false desire.

Private

What have kings, that privates have not too?

Privilege

To privilege dishonor in thy name.
He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands.

Privy

Myself am one made privy to the plot.

Prize

I'll never wrestle for prize more.
I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor.

Proceed

If thou proceed in this thy insolence.
It proceeds from policy, not love.
He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

Process

Tell her the process of Antonio's end.

Procession

Here comes the townsmen on procession.

Proclaim

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
I heard myself proclaimed.

Procrastinate

Hopeless and helpless Aegeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end.

Procure

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Proface

Master page, good master page, sit. Proface!

Profane

So idly to profane the precious time.

Profess

I do profess to be no less than I seem.

Profit

If you dare do yourself a profit and a right.
I profit not by thy talk.

Profoundly

Why sigh you so profoundly?

Progress

Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy checks.

Prolong

Prolong awhile the traitor's life.

Promise

Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? I fear it, I promise you.

Promontory

Like one that stands upon a promontory.

Prompt

Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet.

Pronounce

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you.

Proof

I'll have some proof.

Prop

For being not propp'd by ancestry.

Propagate

Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate.

Propension

Your full consent Gave wings to my propension.

Property

Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood.
I will draw a bill of properties.
They have here propertied me.

Prophecy

He hearkens after prophecies and dreams.

Prophesy

Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy.
Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.

Propose

There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice, Proposing with the prince and Claudio.

Prosecute

I am beloved Hermia; Why should not I, then, prosecute my right ?

Prosperity

Now prosperity begins to mellow.

Prostration

A greater prostration of reason than of body.

Protect

The gods of Greece protect you!

Protection

To your protection I commend me, gods.

Protector

Is it concluded he shall be protector !

Protest

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
The conscience has power . . . to protest againts the exorbitancies of the passions.
I will protest your cowardice.

Proud

O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !

Proverb

I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

Provincial

With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

Proviso

He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception.

Provokement

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

Prowess

He by his prowess conquered all France.

Prune

His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak.

Pry

Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, To pry into the secrets of the state.

Publican

How like a fawning publican he looks!

Publisher

For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense.

Puddle

Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit.

Puff

The sea puffed up with winds.

Puisny

A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side.

Puissance

The power and puissance of the king.

Puke

The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Puling

Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.

Pull

Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.
Two pulls at once; His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.

Puller

Proud setter up and puller down of kings.

Pun

He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.

Punishment

I never gave them condign punishment.

Puny

A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.

Pupil

Too far in years to be a pupil now.

Purchase

Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased.
One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye.

Purgation

Let him put me to my purgation.

Puritan

She would make a puritan of the devil.

Purl

thin winding breath which purled up to the sky.

Purple

May such purple tears be alway shed.

Purport

The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell.

Purpose

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it.
Did nothing purpose against the state.

Purse

Who steals my purse steals trash.
I will go and purse the ducats straight.
Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow.

Pursuit

Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit.

Pusillanimity

The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice.

Put

Coming from thee, I could not put him back.
Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.
For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.

Putrefy

They would but stink, and putrefy the air.

Quaint

To show bow quaint an orator you are.

Qualify

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage.

Quarrel

No man hath any quarrel to me.
Our people quarrel with obedience.
But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed.

Quarter

In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom.
They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.

Quench

Ere our blood shall quench that fire.
The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy.
Dost thou think in time She will not quench!

Quest

Cease your quest of love.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
What lawful quest have given their verdict ?

Question

I pray you, think you question with the Jew.
With many holiday and lady terms he questioned me.

Questionable

Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee.

Quick

The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.

Quicken

The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead.

Quickness

This deed . . . must send thee hence With fiery quickness.

Quiet

I will sit as quiet as a lamb.
Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.

Quietness

I would have peace and quietness.

Quietus

When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin.

Quire

A quire of such enticing birds.

Quirk

Some odd quirks and remnants of wit.

Quit

Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act.

Quittance

Omittance is no quittance.

Quiver

The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.

Rabblement

And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted.

Race

The whole race of mankind.
For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds.
And now I give my sensual race the rein.

Rack

Try what my credit can in Venice do; That shall be racked even to the uttermost.

Rage

When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted Even to falling.

Rail

Rail the seal from off my bond.

Rain

The rain it raineth every day.

Ram

[They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins.

Rancor

Rancor will out; proud prelate, in thy face I see thy fury.

Range

And range with humble livers in content.

Rank

Fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war.
Let that one article rank with the rest.

Ransack

Their vow is made To ransack Troy.

Rant

Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes!

Rascal

Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal.
While she called me rascal fiddler.

Rash

I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash.

Rate

Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!

Rather

This is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
You are come to me in happy time, The rather for I have some sport in hand.

Rattle

Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear.

Ravel

Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care.

Raven

Like rats that ravin down their proper bane.

Ravish

These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee.

Raze

Razing the characters of your renown.

Reach

I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion.

Read

Who is't can read a woman?
Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.

Ready

My heart is ready to crack.

Reanswer

Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under.

Reason

I'll give him reasons for it.

Reasonable

Let . . . all things be thought upon That may, with reasonable swiftness, add More feathers to our wings.
I have a reasonable good ear in music.

Reasonless

This proffer is absurd and reasonless.

Reave

To reave the orphan of his patrimony.

Rebate

But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.

Rebuke

Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?

Recall

If Henry were recalled to life again.
Passed sentence may not be recall'd.

Receive

Our hearts receive your warnings.

Receptacle

O sacred receptacle of my joys!

Reciprocal

Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.

Reck

I reck not though I end my life to-day.

Recognizance

That recognizance and pledge of love Which I first gave her.

Recompense

He can not recompense me better.

Recourse

Give me recourse to him.

Recover

The wine in my bottle will recover him.
The forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that, we're sure enough.

Recoverable

A prodigal course Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable.

Recreant

You are all recreants and dastards!

Rectify

I meant to rectify my conscience.

Red

Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.

Redeem

I will redeem all this on Percy's head.
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows.

Redouble

So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.

Redoubted

Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy.

Redress

Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress.

Reek

As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln.

Refel

How he refelled me, and how I replied.

Refer

I'll refer me to all things sense.

Reference

Something that hath a reference to my state.

Reflect

Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth.

Reflection

The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

Reflex

Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.

Refractory

Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

Refresh

And labor shall refresh itself with hope.

Refuge

Their latest refuge Was to send him.

Regard

Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.
If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not.
Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king.
Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard.
Sad pause and deep regard become the sage.
Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aerial blue An indistinct regard.

Regenerate

The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up.

Region

Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region.
He is of too high a region.

Register

As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own.

Rehearsal

Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal.

Reign

Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?

Rein

Being once chafed, he can not Be reined again to temperance.

Reiterate

You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin.

Relate

This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

Relative

I'll have grounds More relative than this.

Relent

Can you . . . behold My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?

Relic

The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics.

Relief

For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold.

Relieve

Who hath relieved you?

Religious

Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper.

Relish

Now I begin to relish thy advice.
Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.

Relume

I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Remain

Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do.

Remainder

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage.

Remarkable

There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon.

Remedy

I will remedy this gear ere long.

Remember

That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by.

Remembrance

Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.

Remnant

Some odd quirks and remnants of wit.

Remonstrance

You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost.

Remote

Places remote enough are in Bohemia.

Remotion

This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only.

Remove

Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear.

Rend

The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region.

Render

I 'll make her render up her page to me.
He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men.

Renew

In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Aeson.

Renounce

This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of man.

Renown

This famous duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown.

Rent

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

Repair

I 'll repair the misery thou dost bear.

Repast

Go and get me some repast.

Repasture

Food for his rage, repasture for his den.

Repay

If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums.

Repeal

The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty To expel him thence.

Repent

I do repent it from my very soul.

Repetition

I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition.

Replenish

We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature.

Replication

To hear the replication of your sounds.

Reply

Lords, vouchsafe To give me hearing what I shall reply.

Repose

The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
Shake off the golden slumber of repose.

Reprehend

Pardon me for reprehending thee.

Reproach

I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life.

Reproachful

The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here.

Reprove

Reprove my allegation, if you can.

Repugn

Stubbornly he did repugn the truth.

Repugnance

Let the foes quietly cut their throats, Without repugnancy.

Repugnant

[His sword] repugnant to command.

Repulse

He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts in the body.

Reputation

I see my reputation is at stake.

Repute

The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent.

Request

I will marry her, sir, at your request.
I will both hear and grant you your requests.
I request you To give my poor host freedom.

Requiem

We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.

Require

Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him?

Rescue

Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.

Resemble

We will resemble you in that.

Resentment

Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

Reservation

With reservation of an hundred knights.
Make some reservation of your wrongs.

Reside

At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.

Resign

I here resign my government to thee.

Resistance

Unfold to us some warlike resistance.

Resolute

Edward is at hand, Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.

Resolution

Be it with resolution then to fight.

Resolve

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Nor is your firm resolve unknown.

Resolvedly

Of that, and all the progress, more or less, Resolvedly more leisure shall express.

Resort

What men name resort to him?
Join with me to forbid him her resort.

Respect

Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood.
Many of the best respect in Rome.
In one respect I'll be thy assistant.

Respite

I crave but four day's respite.
Forty days longer we do respite you.

Rest

Sleep give thee all his rest!
The affairs of men rest still uncertain.

Restful

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

Restore

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored, and sorrows end.

Restrain

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!

Retail

He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails.

Retention

No woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.

Retentive

Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.

Retinue

Others of your insolent retinue.

Retort

As when his virtues, shining upon others, Heat them and they retort that heat again To the first giver.
This is called the retort courteous.

Retreat

In a retreat he otruns any lackey.

Retrograde

It is most retrograde to our desire.

Return

His personal return was most required and necessary.
I do expect return Of thrice three times the value of this bond.

Revenge

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes.

Revengeful

If thy revengeful heart can not forgive.
May my hands . . . Never brandish more revengeful steel.

Revengement

He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me.

Reverberate

Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again.

Reverence

I am forced to lay my reverence by.
Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. “Sir reverence.”
Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise.

Reverse

Reverse the doom of death.

Revert

So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again.

Revive

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.

Revolt

Our discontented counties do revolt.
Plant those that have revolted in the van.

Rheum

I have a rheum in mine eyes too.

Rheumatic

That rheumatic diseases do abound.

Rheumy

And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness.

Rib

It [lead] were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

Ribald

The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows.

Riches

And for that riches where is my deserving?

Rid

Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!

Ride

Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides.
On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy!

Ridiculous

[It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling.

Rifle

Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

Rigor

If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell you 'T is rigor and not law.

Rigorous

He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands.

Rind

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

Ring

The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal.
Why ring not out the bells?
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.

Ringlet

You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites.

Riot

His headstrong riot hath no curb.

Ripe

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip.

Rise

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Rival

If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

Rive

The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks.
Brutus hath rived my heart.

Rivet

With busy hammers closing rivets up.

Road

With easy roads he came to Leicester.
The most villainous house in all the London road.

Roam

Daphne roaming through a thorny wood.

Roan

Give my roan a drench.

Rob

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all.
To be executed for robbing a church.
I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
I am accursed to rob in that thief's company.

Robbery

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Robe

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Rogue

Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!

Roguish

His roguish madness Allows itself to anything.

Roister

I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks.

Roll

And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.

Ronion

“Aroint thee, with!” the rump-fed ronyon cries.

Roof

Here had we now our country's honor roofed.

Rooky

Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Room

I found the prince in the next room.
Let Bianca take her sister's room.
Make room, and let him stand before our face.

Rope

Let us not hang like ropingicicles Upon our houses' thatch.

Rosemary

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.

Rote

Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell.

Rotten

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens.

Rotundity

Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world!

Rough

A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough.
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Roughhew

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will.

Round

Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.
Sir Toby, I must be round with you.
The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.
We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
The queen your mother rounds apace.

Roundel

Come, now a roundel and a fairy song.

Rouse

Night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

Rout

The ringleader and head of all this rout.

Royal

How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?

Royalty

For thus his royalty doth speak.
In his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd.

Rub

'T is the duke's pleasure, Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Every rub is smoothed on our way.
To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub.

Rubbish

What rubbish and what offal!

Ruby

The natural ruby of your cheeks.

Rude

Rude am I in my speech.

Rudiment

This boy is forest-born, And hath been tutored in the rudiments of many desperate studies.

Ruff

Here to-morrow with his best ruff on.

Ruffian

Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian?

Ruffle

The night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle.

Rug-headed

Those rough rug-headed kerns.

Rugged

His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged.

Ruin

this mortal house I'll ruin.

Ruinate

I will not ruinate my fther's house.

Rule

'T is against the rule of nature.
This uncivil rule; she shall know of it.
I think she will be ruled In all respects by me.

Ruler

A prince and ruler of the land.

Ruminate

What I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down.

Rumor

Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight.

Run

As from a bear a man would run for life.
Little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason.
At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.

Runaway

Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?

Rural

Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs.

Rush

Like to an entered tide, they all rush by.

Russet

The morn, in russet mantle clad.

Rust

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

Rustle

He is coming; I hear his straw rustle.
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.

Rusty

[Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown.

Sacrament

I'll take the sacrament on't.

Sacred

Such neighbor nearness to our sacred [royal] blood Should nothing privilege him.

Sad

First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.

Safe

But Banquo's safe? Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides.

Safety

Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return.

Sag

The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.

Sage

All you sage counselors, hence!

Sail

As is a winged messenger of heaven, . . . When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air.

Salamander

I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years.

Salary

This is hire and salary, not revenge.

Salt

Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us.
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here.

Salute

I salute you with this kingly title.

Samphire

Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!

Sanctimony

Her pretense is a pilgrimage; . . . which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished.

Sand

The sands are numbered that make up my life.

Sans

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Sarcenet

Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye.

Satchel

The whining schoolboy with his satchel.

Satisfaction

We shall make full satisfaction.

Sauce

Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison!
Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.
I'll sauce her with bitter words.

Sauciness

Your sauciness will jest upon my love.

Saucy

Am I not protector, saucy priest?
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs.

Savageness

Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity.

Savagery

The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

Save

I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done.

Savor

I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things.
This savors not much of distraction.

Saw

His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ.

Say

Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord!
Arise, and say how thou camest here.
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say?
Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

Scaffold

Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.

Scald

Mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

Scale

Scaling his present bearing with his past.

Scalp

By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!

Scandal

O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
You must not put another scandal on him.
I do fawn on men and hug them hard And after scandal them.

Scant

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

Scape

I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.

Scar

Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.

Scare

The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.

Scarecrow

No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat.

Scath

Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction.

Scatter

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

Scene

My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

Scent

Methinks I scent the morning air.

Scholar

I am no breeching scholar in the schools.

School

How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day?
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.

Scoff

With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.

Scold

Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold.
She is an irksome, brawling scold.

Sconce

I must get a sconce for my head.
To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel.

Scope

Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or qualify the laws As to your soul seems good.
Give him line and scope.

Score

Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
He parted well, and paid his score.
Amongst three or four score hogsheads.
Let us score their backs.
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score.

Scorn

Scorn at first makes after love the more.
I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously.
He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me.

Scornful

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
The scornful mark of every open eye.

Scotch

We have scotched the snake, not killed it.

Scour

[I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.

Scourge

What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?

Scratch

God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this.

Scream

I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.

Screen

Your leavy screens throw down.

Screw

But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Scrip

Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.

Scripture

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Scroll

Here is the scroll of every man's name.

Scruple

I will not bate thee a scruple.

Scrupulous

Equality of two domestic powers Breed scrupulous faction.

Scurrility

Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility.

Scurvy

[He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms.

Scut

My doe with the black scut.

Scythe

Time had not scythed all that youth begun.

Sea

I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.

Seal

Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud.
And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.
Seal up your lips, and give no words but “mum”.
I will seal unto this bond.

Sear

I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.

Season

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
He is fit and seasoned for his passage.

Seat

Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.

Second

A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
We have supplies to second our attempt.

Secondary

Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary.

Secrecy

The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married.

Secret

Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.

Security

He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, From firm security.

Sedged

With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.

Sedgy

On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank.

Sedition

In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.

Seduce

For me, the gold of France did not seduce.

See

Who's so gross That seeth not this palpable device?
Cassio's a proper man, let me see now, - To get his place.

Seedsman

The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

Seel

Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.

Seem

Thou picture of what thou seem'st.
Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”

Seemer

Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.

Seeming

My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.
These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long.

Seemly

I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons.

Seize

Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?

Self

To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first.

Self-neglecting

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.

Sell

I am changed; I'll go sell all my land.
You would have sold your king to slaughter.
I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you.

Semblative

And all is semblative a woman's part.

Senator

The duke and senators of Venice greet you.

Sense

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
I think 't was in another sense.

Senseless

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things.
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.

Sensible

Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
Now a sensible man, by and by a fool.

Sensuality

Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality.

Sentence

Received the sentence of the law.

Sepulcher

The stony entrance of this sepulcher.

Sequel

O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.

Sequence

How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession?

Sequent

What to this was sequent Thou knowest already.

Sequestration

Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had.

Sergeant

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

Sermon

This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.

Serve

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
As occasion serves, this noble queen And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.

Service

Madam, I entreat true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my duteous service.
I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . . . and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows.

Serviceable

I know thee well, a serviceable villain.

Servile

Fearing dying pays death servile breath.

Servility

To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility.

Servitor

Your trusty and most valiant servitor.

Servitude

You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude.

Session

It's fit this royal session do proceed.

Set

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have a son set your decrees at naught.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
Ere the weary sun set in the west.
The king is set from London.
Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
The weary sun hath made a golden set.
We will in France, by God's grace, play a set Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.

Settle

Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him.

Several

There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals.

Severe

Come! you are too severe a moraler.

Shade

Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty.
Sleep under a fresh tree's shade.
Ere in our own house I do shade my head.

Shadow

Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host.
Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.

Shadowy

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.

Shake

Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age.

Shamble

As summer flies are in the shambles.
To make a shambles of the parliament house.

Shame

Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
O Csar, what a wounding shame is this!
Guides who are the shame of religion.
I do shame To think of what a noble strain you are.

Shamefast

[Conscience] is a blushing shamefast spirit.

Shameless

Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.

Shank

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank.

Shape

Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not.
He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman.

Shard

They are his shards, and he their beetle.

Sharp

He dies upon my scimeter's sharp point.
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
To that place the sharp Athenian law Can not pursue us.
You bite so sharp at reasons.

Sharpen

Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

Shave

I'll shave your crown for this.

She

Lady, you are the cruelest she alive.

Sheaf

They that reap must sheaf and bind.

Sheal

That's a shealed peascod.

Shear

Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.

Shed

Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?

Sheer

Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.

Sheet

If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets.

Shell

Think him as a serpent's egg, . . . And kill him in the shell.

Shelly

Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.

Shelvy

The shore was shelving and shallow.

Shield

Now put your shields before your hearts and fight, With hearts more proof than shields.
A woman's shape doth shield thee.
God shield I should disturb devotion!

Shift

I would advise you to shift a shirt.
As it were to ride day and night; and . . . not to have patience to shift me.
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.
I 'll find a thousand shifts to get away.

Shine

Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine.

Shipwreck

Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break.

Shoal

Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor.

Shock

Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them.

Shoe

Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied.
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon.

Shoot

If you please To shoot an arrow that self way.

Shop

A tailor called me in his shop.

Shore

Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore.

Short

We shall be short in our provision.
The short and the long is, our play is preferred.

Shortly

I shall grow jealous of you shortly.

Shot

A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say “Welcome.”

Shoulder

In thy shoulder do I build my seat.

Shout

They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?

Show

My lord of York, it better showed with you.

Shower

He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts.

Shrewd

Every of this happy number That have endured shrewd days and nights with us.
These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.

Shrewish

My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours.

Shriek

It was the owl that shrieked.

Shrift

Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?

Shrill

Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused.
How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth.

Shrimp

This weak and writhled shrimp.

Shrink

Against this fire do I shrink up.

Shrive

Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . . Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.

Shuffle

I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself.

Shun

Scarcity and want shall shun you.

Sicken

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.

Sickle

When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine.

Sickleman

You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary.

Sickly

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

Sickness

I do lament the sickness of the king.

Side

God on our side, doubt not of victory.

Siege

I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege.
The siege of this mooncalf.

Sigh

Never man sighed truer breath.
They . . . sighed forth proverbs.
I could drive the boat with my sighs.

Sight

Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
Why cloud they not their sights?
Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel.

Sightless

The sightless couriers of the air.

Sign

Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it.

Signal

The weary sun . . . Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow.

Signet

I had my father's signet in my purse.

Significant

In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.

Signify

I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Silence

Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the isle.

Silent

How silent is this town!

Silly

A fourth man, in a sillyhabit.

Silverly

Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks.

Simile

A good swift simile, but something currish.

Simper

Behold yond simpering dame.

Simple

A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin.
I am a simple woman, much too weak To oppose your cunning.

Simply

Simply the thing I am Shall make me live.

Sin

I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win.
Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.
I am a man More sinned against than sinning.

Since

Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field?
Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon.

Sincerity

I protest, in the sincerity of love.

Sinew

The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry.

Sinewed

When he sees Ourselves well sinewed to our defense.

Singe

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head!

Single

Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
I speak it with a single heart.

Singly

Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man.

Singularity

Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities.

Sinister

My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's

Sink

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
If I have a conscience, let it sink me.

Sir

In the election of a sir so rare.

Sire

And raise his issue, like a loving sire.

Sirrah

Go, sirrah, to my cell.

Sister

I am the sister of one Claudio.

Sit

I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner.
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think.
Sit you down, father; rest you.

Skainsmate

Scurvy knave! I am none of his firt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates.

Skimble-scamble

Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff.

Skin

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Skirmish

They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit.

Sky

The Norweyan banners flout the sky.
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.

Slab

Make the gruel thick and slab.

Slake

It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.

Slander

Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb.
O, do not slander him, for he is kind.
Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.

Slaughter

Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered.

Slay

I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk.

Sleave

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.

Sleek

Gentle, my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks.

Sleep

How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!
O sleep, thou ape of death.

Sleepy

'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.

Slight

The rogue slighted me into the river.

Slime

As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

Sling

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Slip

Cry, “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war.
Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.
A native slip to us from foreign seeds.

Slipshod

Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod.

Slop

There's a French salutation to your French slop.

Sloth

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

Slow

Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow.

Slubber

Slubber not business for my sake.

Slumber

Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

Smack

All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

Small

You may speak as small as you will.

Smart

How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.

Smatch

Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it.

Smell

Can you smell him out by that?

Smile

He doth nothing but frown. . . . He hears merry tales and smiles not.

Smilet

Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip.

Smirch

I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face.

Smoke

Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.

Smooth

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Because I can not flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog.

Snail-paced

Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.

Snare

If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
The mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

Snatch

Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer.

Sneap

Biron is like an envious, sneaping frost.
My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.

So

He is Sir Robert's son, and so art thou.
And when 't is writ, for my sake read it over, And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
There is Percy; if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself.
Had woman been so strong as men.

Sociable

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

Soft

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, -- an excellent thing in woman.
I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine.
Soft, you; a word or two before you go.

Soldier

I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

Solemn

To-night we hold a splemn supper.

Solid

Repose you there; while I [return] to this hard house, More harder than the stones whereof 't is raised.

Solitary

Hie home unto my chamber, Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.

Something

There is something in the wind.
I something fear my father's wrath.
It must be done to-night, And something from the palace.

Sometime

Did they not sometime cry “All hail” to me?
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion.
Our sometime sister, now our queen.

Sometimes

That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march.
Thy sometimes brother's wife.

Son

Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.

Soon

Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide.

Sooth

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.

Soothe

Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow.

Sop

The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe.

Sorry

I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.

Sort

Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.
I'll deceive you in another sort.
None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin.
I'll sort some other time to visit you.
I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.

Soul

He is the very soul of bounty!
God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the sword!

Soulless

Slave, souless villain, dog!

Sound

Do not I know you a favorer Of this new seat? Ye are nor sound.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?

Sour

He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead.

Souse

[The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

Spangle

What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?

Spare

I could have better spared a better man.
O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.

Sparrow

He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!

Speak

An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
Make all our trumpets speak.
Thine eye begins to speak.
It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds.

Special

The king hath drawn The special head of all the land together.

Specialty

Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.

Spectacle

O, piteous spectacle? O, bloody times!

Speculation

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes.

Speech

The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey.

Speed

I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.

Speedy

I will wish her speedy strength.

Spell

Start not; her actions shall be holy as You hear my spell is lawful.

Spend

Spend thou that in the town.

Sphere

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in 't.
The glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other.

Spherical

Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.

Spice

In the spiced Indian air, by night.

Spin

All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths.

Spinster

The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.

Spire

The spire and top of praises.

Spiritless

A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone.

Spite

This is the deadly spite that angers.

Spleen

A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
Thy silly thought enforces my spleen.

Spleenful

Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny.

Spleeny

Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause.

Split

The ship splits on the rock.

Spoil

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils.
Villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

Spoken

Methinks you 're better spoken.

Spoon

He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.

Sport

Think it but a minute spent in sport.
Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.

Sportive

Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court?

Spot

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

Sprightful

Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.

Spring

O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.

Springe

As a woodcock to mine own springe.

Spur

Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.

Spurn

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

Spy

It is my nature's plague To spy into abuses.

Squander

The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool.

Square

I have not kept my square.
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.
Are you such fools To square for this?

Squash

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod.

Squier

Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.

Squint

He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.

Stab

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Staff

The boy was the very staff of my age.
Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, Was broke in twain.

Stage

When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.

Stagger

That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person.

Stain

You have some stain of soldier in you.

Stale

How weary, stale flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

Stalk

Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

Stall

Stall this in your bosom.
We could not stall together In the whole world.

Stammer

I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all.

Stamp

Hanging a golden stamp about their necks.
A soldier of this season's stamp.

Stand

I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the duke, He shall not pass you.

Stannel

With what wing the staniel checks at it.

Star

O malignant and ill-brooding stars.

stare

Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret.
Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.
I will stare him out of his wits.

Stark

Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
Strip your sword stark naked.

Starred

My third comfort, Starred most unluckily.

start

But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet?
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start.

Starveling

Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.

State

Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me.

Stately

Here is a silly stately style indeed!

Station

A station like the herald, Mercury.
They in France of the best rank and station.

Statua

They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other.

Statue

I will raise her statue in pure gold.

Stay

She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.
Your ships are stayed at Venice.
Stay your strife.
I 'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us.
I stay here on my bond.
Here my commission stays.

Stead

It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves.

Steal

He will steal himself into a man's favor.
From whom you now must steal, and take no leave.

Stealth

I told him of your stealth unto this wood.

Stealthy

[Withered murder] with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost.

Steed

Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed.

Steel

Lies well steeled with weighty arguments.
O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts.

Steep

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.

Steep-down

Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire.

Steep-up

Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill.

Steerage

He that hath the steerage of my course.

Stem

This is a stem Of that victorious stock.

Stern

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
And sit chiefest stern of public weal.

Stick

Thou stickest a dagger in me.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew.
I am a kind of bur; I shall stick.
I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” Stuck in my throat.

Sticking

But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Stiffen

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Stifle

You shall stifle in your own report.

Stile

There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way.

Still

By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
Hourly joys be still upon you!
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.
And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.
With his name the mothers still their babies.

Stillness

The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted.

Stilly

The hum of either army stilly sounds.

Stint

And stint thou too, I pray thee.

Stir

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.

Stithy

The forge that stithied Mars his helm.

Stock

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
With a linen stock on one leg.

Stockish

Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.

Stomach

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.
He was a man Of an unbounded stomach.

Stone

Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.

Stoop

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.

Stop

Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again.

Store

In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes.

Storm

We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
I will stir up in England some black storm.
Her sister Began to scold and raise up such a storm.

Story

How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.

Stout

A stouter champion never handled sword.

Stover

Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep.

Stow

Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?

Strain

He is of a noble strain.
He sweats, Strains his young nerves.
The quality of mercy is not strained.
Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
To build his fortune I will strain a little.

Strait

Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.
I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.

Strange

One of the strange queen's lords.
Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak.

Strangely

You all look strangely on me.
I do in justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it.

Stranger

I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions.
My child is yet a stranger in the world.

Strangle

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

Stratagem

Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

Stray

Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray.
A sheep doth very often stray.

Strength

Bright Phoebus in his strength.

Strengthen

Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves.

Stretch

I in conquest stretched mine arm.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain.

Strew

She may strew dangerous conjectures.

Stricture

A man of stricture and firm abstinence.

Stride

I mean to stride your steed.

Strife

Twenty of them fought in this black strife.

Strike

He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
Strike now, or else the iron cools.
A puny subject strikes At thy great glory.

Stringless

His tongue is now a stringless instrument.

Strip

Strip your sword stark naked.

Stroke

Well, but what's o'clock? - Upon the stroke of ten. -- Well, let is strike.
The oars where silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.

Strong

Her mother, ever strong against that match.

Strut

Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait?

Stubborn

Your stubborn usage of the pope.

Stud

Thy horses shall be trapped, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.

Student

Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book.

Stuff

Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder.
What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?
I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.

Subdue

Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters.

Subject

Was never subject longed to be a king, As I do long and wish to be a subject.
The unhappy subject of these quarrels.

Submerge

I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged.

Submission

Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word; We English warrious wot not what it means.
In all submission and humility York doth present himself unto your highness.
Be not as extreme in submission As in offense.

Suborn

Thou art suborned against his honor.

Subornation

Foul subornation is predominant.

Subscribe

Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward.
I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke.

Subscription

You owe me no subscription.

Substance

Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks.

Subtle

Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground [bowling ground].

Subtlety

The fox which lives by subtlety.
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.

Subvert

These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.

Succeed

No woman shall succeed in Salique land.

Success

Dream of success and happy victory!

Successful

Welcome, nephews, from successful wars.

Succession

You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark.

Succor

My noble father . . . Flying for succor to his servant Bannister.

Such

Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life.

Suck

Where the bee sucks, there suck I.

Suckle

The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier.

Sudden

Never was such a sudden scholar made.

Suffer

If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration.

Sufferance

He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance.
The seeming sufferances that you had borne.
A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet.

Sufficiency

A substitute or most allowed sufficiency.

Sufficient

The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.

Suffocate

Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.

Suffrage

I ask your voices and your suffrages.

Sugar

With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.

Suggest

Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.

Suggestion

Why do I yield to that suggestion?
Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night On your suggestion.

Suit

I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.
So went he suited to his watery tomb.

Suitor

She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.

Sullen

Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change.

Summit

Fixed on the summit of the highest mount.

Summon

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Sun

Lambs that did frisk in the sun.

Sunny

My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair.

Sunshine

That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor.

Sup

I do entreat that we may sup together.
Sup them well and look unto them all.

Superficial

This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise.

Superpraise

To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts.

Suppliance

The perfume and suppliance of a minute.

Support

Wherefore, bold pleasant, Darest thou support a published traitor?

Suppose

Suppose they take offence without a cause.
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Supposition

He means are in supposition.

Supreme

He that is the supreme King of kings.

Sure

I'm sure care 's an enemy of life.
Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that we are sure enough.

Surety

There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
She called the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself.

Surfeit

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

Surprise

Pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house.
The castle of Macduff I will surprise.
I am surprised with an uncouth fear.

Surveyor

Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold?

Survive

I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.

Survivor

The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow.

Suspect

If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me.

Suspend

Suspend your indignation against my brother.

Suspicious

I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.

Suspiration

Windy suspiration of forced breath.

Sustain

You shall sustain more new disgraces.

Swain

It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain.

Swallow

As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills.

Sway

The will of man is by his reason swayed.
She could not sway her house.
Hadst thou swayed as kings should do.

Swear

I swear by all the Roman gods.
[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week.
He swore consent to your succession.
Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.

Swearer

Then the liars and swearers are fools.

Sweep

And like a peacock sweep along his tail.

Swell

Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.

Swill

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Swim

Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point.

Swing

The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine.

Swinge

I had swinged him soundly.

Syllable

Who dare speak One syllable against him?

Synod

It hath in solemn synods been decreed, Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns.

Table

We may again Give to our tables meat.
I drink the general joy of the whole table.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.

Tackled

My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair.

Tag-rag

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.

Tailor

Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor.

Taint

His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
I can not taint with fear.

Take

There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood.

Taking

What a taking was he in, when your husband asked who was in the basket!

Taking-off

The deep damnation of his taking-off.

talk

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.

Tang

Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.

Tanling

Hot summer's tanlings and The shrinking slaves of winter.

Taper

Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.

Tarry

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.

Taste

Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action.
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Tatter

Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags.

Taunt

When I had at my pleasure taunted her.
With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious taunts.

Tax

I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.

Tear

Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.

Tedious

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

Teem

If she must teem, Create her child of spleen.
That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one.

Tell

A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of?

Temper

I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.

Temperate

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

Temporal

Is this an hour for temporal affairs?

Tenable

If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still.

Tend

Was he not companion with the riotous knights That tend upon my father?

Tender

You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon.
I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good.
Tender yourself more dearly.

Tenor

When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.

Tent

I'll tent him to the quick.
The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst.

Terror

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.

Test

I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation.

Testy

Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor?

Thank

I thank thee for thine honest care.

Thankless

That she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

Thanksgiving

In the thanksgiving before meat.

That

I will know your business, Harry, that I will.
She tells them 't is a causeless fantasy, And childish error, that they are afraid.
He does hear me; And that he does, I weep.
Is not this the day That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that this knight and I have seen!
O God, that right should thus overcome might!
To try if that our own be ours or no.
When he had carried Rome and that we looked For no less spoil than glory.

Theban

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.

Thee

This sword hath ended him; so shall it thee, Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.

Them

Little stars may hide them when they list.

Theme

And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off.
It was the subject of my theme.

There

The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
The rarest that e'er came there.

Thereabout

Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts.

Therein

Therein our letters do not well agree.

Thereupon

[He] hopes to find you forward, . . . And thereupon he sends you this good news.

Therewithal

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

Thick

Make the gruel thick and slab.
His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible.

Thicken

And this may to thicken other proofs.

Thief

Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night.

Thievish

Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road.

Thing

See, sons, what things you are!

Think

Well thought upon; I have it here.
Thou thought'st to help me.

Thinking

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

Thorny

The steep and thorny way to heaven.

Thou

If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.

Though

I would not be as sick though for his place.

Thought

Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on?
If the hair were a thought browner.

Thrasonical

Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.'

Thread

They would not thread the gates.

Threat

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.

Threaten

The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters.
Though the seas threaten, they are merciful.

Three-pile

I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile.

Three-piled

Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece.

Thrice

Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you To pardon me.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

Thrift

I have a mind presages me such thrift.

Thrifty

I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I saved under your father.

Thrill

To bathe in flery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.
To seek sweet safety out In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake.

Throat

I can vent clamor from my throat.

Throb

My heart Throbs to know one thing.
Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast.

Throng

I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.

Throttle

Throttle their practiced accent in their fears.

Throw

Set less than thou throwest.
There the snake throws her enameled skin.
I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth.

Thump

These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped.

Thunder

The revenging gods 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.

Thunderstone

Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone.

Thwart

If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.

Thyme

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.

Thyself

Thyself shalt see the act.

Tickle

If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon.
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.

Tide

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Tidings

I shall make my master glad with these tidings.
Now near the tidings of our comfort is.
Tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes.

Tiger

As for heinous tiger, Tamora.

Tilt

He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast.

Timber

His bark is stoutly timbered.

Time

He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries.

Timeless

Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?

Timely

Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it.

Timepleaser

Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.

Timeserving

[I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both.

Tiny

When that I was and a little tiny boy.

Tip

To the very tip of the nose.

Tiptoe

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

Tire

Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

Tirralirra

The lark, that tirra lyra chants.

Tithe

Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand.

Title

With his former title greet Macbeth.

To

Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.
Whilst they, distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him.
I have a king's oath to the contrary.
We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow; Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

To-day

Worcester's horse came but to-day.

Tofore

Would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!

Toil

After such bloody toil, we bid good night.

Token

This is some token from a never friend.
Say, by this token, I desire his company.

Toll

The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll.
No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

Tomb

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.

Tomorrow

Summon him to-morrow to the Tower.

Tongue

How might she tongue me.

Tongue-tied

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity.

Tongueless

One good deed dying tongueless.

Too

O that this too too solid flesh would melt.

Tooth

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

Top

And wears upon his baby brow the round And top of sovereignty.
All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall On her ungrateful top !
Topping all others in boasting.
Edmund the base shall top the legitimate.

Topple

Though castles topple on their warders' heads.

Touch

Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed.
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone.
Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.
Not alone The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, Do strongly speak to us.
Of many faces, eyes, and hearts, To have the touches dearest prized.
Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Madam, I have a touch of your condition.
Friends of noble touch .

Toward

The waves make towards the pebbled shore.
Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward ?
We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards.
Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.

Tower

My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.

Toy

To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest.

Trace

We do tracethis alley up and down.

Track

The bright track of his fiery car.

Tract

But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind.

Tractable

I shall find them tractable enough.

Trade

Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
Thy sin's not accidental but a trade.
Have you any further trade with us?
I will instruct thee in my trade.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?

Tradition

Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?

Traffic

A merchant of great traffic through the world.

Tragic

Why look you still so stern and tragical ?

Trail

How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!

Train

If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
My train are men of choice and rarest parts.

Traitor

O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!

Trance

And three I left him tranced.

Transform

Love may transform me to an oyster.

Transgression

The transgression is in the stealer.

Translate

Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.

Transpose

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.

Trap

God and your majesty Protect mine innocence, or I fall into The trap is laid for me!

Trappings

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trash

Who steals my purse steals trash.

Travel

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
With long travel I am stiff and weary.

Traverse

To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse.

Treacherous

Loyal father of a treacherous son.

Tread

One woe doth tread upon another's heel.
They have measured many a mile, To tread a measure with you on this grass.

Tremble

I tremble still with fear.

Trench

The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank.
This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.

Tribe

A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.

Trick

I know a trick worth two of that.
The trick of that voice I do well remember.
He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.

Trifle

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ.

Trill

And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek.

Trim

I was trimmed in Julia's gown.
I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress.

Trip

To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword.
These her women can trip me if I err.

Tripe

How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ?

Trippingly

Sing, and dance it trippingly.
Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue.

Triumph

Our daughter, In honor of whose birth these triumphs are, Sits here, like beauty's child.
Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you That triumph thus upon my misery!

Triumphant

Captives bound to a triumphant car.

Troll

Will you troll the catch ?

Troop

That which should accompany old age -- As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends -- I must not look to have.
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.
Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men.

Trot

An old trot with ne'er a tooth.

Troth

Bid her alight And hertroth plight.

Trouble

Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring.
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.

Trow

What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore?
What is the matter, trow?

Truant

I have a truant been to chivalry.

Truly

I can not truly say how I came here.
His innocent babe [is] truly begotten.

Trumpery

The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves.

Truncheon

The marshal's truncheon nor the judges robe.

Trunk

Locked up in chests and trunks.

Trust

[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust.
I will never trust his word after.
Trust me, you look well.
More to know could not be more to trust.

Trusty

Your trusty and most valiant servitor.

Truth

If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth.
I long to know the truth here of at large.

Try

Let the end try the man.
Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.
Alack, I am afraid they have a waked, And 't is not done. The attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us.
This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.

Tucket

Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount.

Tug

England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.

Tune

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

Turf

At his head a grass-green turf.

Turmoil

And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

Turn

I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned.
We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them.
I'll turn you out of my kingdom.
This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.
I hope you have no intent to turn husband.
I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn.
Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
I have enough to serve mine own turn.

Tutor

Their sons are well tutored by you.

Twelvemonth

I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence.

Twine

Let me twine Mine arms about that body.

Twire

When sparkling stars twire not.

Twist

Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?

Type

The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings, Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel.
Thy father bears the type of king of Naples.

Tyranny

The tyranny of the open night's too rough For nature to endure.

Udder

A lioness, with udders all drawn dry.

Ugly

Like the toad, ugly and venomous.
O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.

Ulcerous

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Unable

Sapless age and weak unable limbs.

Unaccustomed

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Unapt

I am a soldier and unapt to weep.

Unbend

You do unbend your noble strength.

Unborn

Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb.

Unconsidered

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

Uncouth

I am surprised with an uncouth fear.

Uncover

Uncover, dogs, and lap.

Uncrown

He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.

Unction

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

Under

Who have their provand Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows For sinking under them.

Undergo

Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo.
I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise.
Claudio undergoes my challenge.

Underground

A spirit raised from depth of underground.

Underling

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Understand

I understand not what you mean by this.

Undertake

I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.
And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to.
It is the cowish terror of his spirit That dare not undertake.
But on mine honor dare I undertake For good lord Titus' innocence in all.

Underwork

But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king.

Undo

What's done can not be undone.
Pray you, undo this button.
That quaffing and drinking will undo you,

Undreamed

Unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Uneath

Uneath may she endure the flinty streets.

Unequal

To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal.

Unexpressive

Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.

Unfold

Unfold the passion of my love.

Ungentle

Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind.

Ungodly

The hours of this ungodly day.

Unhair

I 'll unhair thy head.

Unhandsome

Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome.

Union

In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.

Unkiss

Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me.

Unknit

Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow.

Unlace

What's the matter, That you unlace your reputation thus?

Unless

Here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl.

Unmanned

Hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks With thy black mantle.

Unnerve

Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls.

Unparagoned

Your unparagoned mistress is dead.

Unprovide

Lest her . . . beauty unprovide my mind again.

Unroll

If I make not this cheat bring out another . . . let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue!

Unskillful

Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve.

Unsorted

The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you named uncertain; the time itself unsorted.

Unstate

High-battled Caesar will unstate his happiness.

Unsured

Thy now unsured assurance to the crown.

Untented

The untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee!

Untie

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches.

Unwish

Now thou hast unwished five thousand men.

Up

Helen was up -- was she?
Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword.

Upbraid

Vet do not Upbraid us our distress.

Uphold

Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.

Upon

As I did stand my watch upon the hill.

Uprise

Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?

Upshot

I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot.

Uptill

She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast uptill a thorn.

Upward

I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years.
From the extremest upward of thy head.

Urge

My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
Urge not my father's anger.

Urn

Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

Usage

My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty.

Use

This Davy serves you for good uses.
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!
O Caesar! these things are beyond all use.
Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs.

Usher

These are the ushers of Marcius.

Usurer

He was wont to call me usurer.

Usurp

Alack, thou dost usurp authority.

Utmost

He shall answer . . . to his utmost peril.
Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.
We have tried the utmost of our friends.

Utter

Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them.
The words I utter Let none think flattery, for they 'll find 'em truth.

Vacancy

How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
No interim, not a minute's vacancy.

Vacant

Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.
Being of those virtues vacant.
Special dignities which vacant lie For thy best use and wearing.

Vail

Vail your regard Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!
France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!

Vain

Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye!

Vainglory

The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself in vainglory.

Valance

Valance of Venice gold in needlework.

Valiant

A valiant and most expert gentleman.

Valor

When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.

Valuation

Since of your lives you set So slight a valuation.

Value

The queen is valued thirty thousand strong.
The king must take it ill, That he's so slightly valued in his messenger.
Which of the dukes he values most.
The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it.

Vanish

Go; vanish into air; away!

Vanity

You . . . take vanity the puppet's part.

Vantage

O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!

Variable

Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Variance

That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance.

Varlet

What a brazen-faced varlet art thou !

Varletry

Shall they hoist me up, And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome.

Varnish

And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you.

Vast

The empty, vast, and wandering air.

Vasty

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Vault

That heaven's vault should crack.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.

Vaward

Since we have the vaward of the day.

Vegetive

The blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones.

Vehemency

The vehemency of your affection.

Veil

[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
To keep your great pretenses veiled.

Veney

Three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes.

Venial

So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip.

Vent

Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.
Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.

Ventricle

These [ideas] are begot on the ventricle of memory.

Venture

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.

Verbal

Made she no verbal question?

Verge

The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.

Verify

To verify our title with their lives.

Verity

Mark what I say, which you shall find By every syllable a faithful verity.

Verse

Playing on pipes of corn and versing love.

Vexation

Your children were vexation to your youth.

Vial

Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off.

Vice

I do confess the vices of my blood.

Vicious

Though I perchance am vicious in my guess.

Victorious

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths.

Victory

God on our side, doubt not of victory.

Victual

I must go victual Orleans forthwith.

Vie

She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss She vied so fast.

View

I have with exact view perused thee, Hector.
O, let me view his visage, being dead.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through.

Vigil

He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, “To-morrow is St. Crispian.”

Vigilant

Sirs, take your places, and be vigilant.

Villager

Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition.

Villain

Like a villain with a smiling cheek.

Villainy

The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy.

Vinegar

Here's the challenge: . . . I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.

Violate

Violated vows 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend.

Violence

That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.

Violent

Float upon a wild and violent sea.
Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
These violent delights have violent ends.
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it.

Virgin

The white cold virgin snow upon my heart.

Virtuous

Mistress Ford . . . the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband.

Vision

The baseless fabric of this vision.

Visitation

Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.

Vixen

She was a vixen when she went to school.

Voice

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
Thy voice is music.
My voice is in my sword.
Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? 1 Cit. He has our voices, sir.

Void

I 'll get me to a place more void.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field.

Voluble

[Cassio,] a knave very voluble.

Vomit

He gives your Hollander a vomit.

Vouch

The vouch of very malice itself.

Voucher

Will his vouchers vouch him no more?

Vouchsafe

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

Vow

I am combined by a sacred vow.
[Men] that vow a long and weary pilgrimage.

Voyage

All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Vulgar

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Waft

But soft: who wafts us yonder?

Wafture

An angry wafture of your hand.

Wag

No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
“Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags.”
I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.

Wage

My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies.
To wake and wage a danger profitless.
Our praises are our wages.

wager

And wagered with him Pieces of gold 'gainst this which he wore.
'T was merry when You wagered on your angling.

Waist

I am in the waist two yards about.

Wake

The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.

Walk

I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again.
When was it she last walked?

Wall

In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls.

Wallow

I may wallow in the lily beds.

Wanton

[Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton.
I am afeard you make a wanton of me.

Wantonness

Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness.

War

Why should I war without the walls of Troy?

Ward

For the best ward of mine honor.
I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers.

Warlike

Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men.

Warn

Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?

Warp

One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp.
There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp.

Warrant

I give thee warrant of thy place.
His worth is warrant for his welcome hither.
I'll warrant him from drowning.

Wash

The tide will wash you off.
These Lincoln washes have devoured them.

Wassail

The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail.

Waste

He will never . . . in the way of waste, attempt us again.

Watch

He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch.
I did stand my watch upon the hill.
I have two nights watched with you.

Water

If thine eyes can water for his death.

Water gall

These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent.

Waterish

Feed upon such nice and waterish diet.

Wave

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground.

Wave-worn

The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed.

Waxen

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Way

I prythee, now, lead the way.
My best way is to creep under his gaberdine.

Waylay

Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid.

Wayward

My wife is in a wayward mood.

Weak

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong.

Weal

The special watchmen of our English weal.

Wealth

I have little wealth to lose.

Wealthily

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.

Wealthy

A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.

Wear

What compass will you wear your farthingale?
Away, I say; time wears.
Motley 's the only wear.

Wearing

Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

Wearisome

These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome.

Weary

I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.
I stay too long by thee; I weary thee.

Weasand

Cut his weasand with thy knife.

Weather

Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.

Weave

This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
When she weaved the sleided silk.

Wed

Thou art wedded to calamity.

Wedding

Let her beauty be her wedding dower.

Wedge

Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more.

Wedlock

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife?

Wee

A little wee face, with a little yellow beard.

Weep

The blood weeps from my heart.

Weigh

Your vows to her and me . . . will even weigh.
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart.

Weight

For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes.
In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.

Weird

The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land.

Welcome

To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome.

Welfare

How to study for the people's welfare.

Wend

To Athens shall the lovers wend.

Westward

Yond same star that's westward from the pole.

What

What see'st thou in the ground?
What a piece of work is man!
Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom shrunk.

Whatever

Whatever fortune stays from his word.

Wheel

You must sing a-down a-down, An you call him a-down-a. O, how the wheel becomes it!

Whelm

She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!

When

I was adopted heir by his consent; Since when, his oath is broke.
When that mine eye is famished for a look.

Where

Where I thought the remnant of mine age Should have been cherished by her childlike duty.
Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

Whereinto

Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not?

Whereof

Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one.

Wherethrough

Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.

Whereto

Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day.

Whet

Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept.

Whether

And now who knows But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?
You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

Whetstone

The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits.

Which

And when thou fail'st -- as God forbid the hour! -- Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!

Whiff

But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls.

Whiffler

Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, Seems to prepare his way.

Whine

Dost thou come here to whine?

Whip

They would whip me with their fine wits.

Whipster

Every puny whipster gets my sword.

Whir

This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends.

Whisper

And whisper one another in the ear.

Whistle

I 'ld whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune.

Whit

So shall I no whit be behind in duty.

White

Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Finely attired in a of white.
'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.

Whither

Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?

Whitster

The whitsters in Datchet mead.

Who

Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness.

Whole

The whole race of mankind.
All the whole army stood agazed on him.
One entire and perfect chrysolite.

Wholesome

I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased.

Whoop

And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome.

Wickedness

I'll never care what wickedness I do, If this man comes to good.

Widow

Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury.
Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all.

Wield

Base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield!

Wild

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
What are these So withered and so wild in their attire ?

Will

What's your will, good friar?
They willed me say so, madam.

Wimple

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.

Win

She is a woman; therefore to be won.

Wince

I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word.

Wind

Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical.
If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.

Window

I leaped from the window of the citadel.
Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck?

Windy

Blown with the windy tempest of my heart.
It keeps on the windy side of care.

Wing

Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.
Fiery expedition be my wing.
The main battle, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough.

Wink

And I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
I have not slept one wink.

Winter

And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.

Winter-ground

The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse.

Wipe

Let me wipe thy face.

Wise

When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks.
Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford?

Wish

I would not wish Any companion in the world but you.
I would not wish them to a fairer death.
Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish.

Wishful

From Scotland am I stolen, even of pure love To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.

Wit

A prince most prudent, of an excellent And unmatched wit and judgment.
I will stare him out of his wits.
But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.

Witch

He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.
[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.

witchcraft

He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue.

With

I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Thou wilt be like a lover presently, And tire the hearer with a book of words.

Withal

He will scarce be pleased withal.
If you choose that, then I am yours withal.
How modest in exception, and withal How terrible in constant resolution.
This diamond he greets your wife withal.

Wither

This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.

Withers

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

Within

O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
Within these five hours lived Lord Hastings, Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.

Witless

A witty mother! witless else her son.

Witness

May we with . . . the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?

Woman

Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.

Womb

An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.

Wonder

I wonder, in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny.

Wood

Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Woodbine

Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

Woodman

[The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for.

Wool

Wool of bat and tongue of dog.

Word

You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense.
Why should calamity be full of words?
I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes.
Give the word through.
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly.
Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me.

Work

Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of.
To leave no rubs or blotches in the work.
I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago.
O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness?
We bend to that the working of the heart.

Worker

Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.

Working-day

O, how full of briers in this working-day world.

Workyday

Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune.

World

One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety.
Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it.
Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company.
O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.

Worldling

A foutre for the world and worldlings base.

Worldly

With his soul fled all my worldly solace.

Worm

'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!

Worm-eaten

Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut.

Worry

A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood.

Worship

My father desires your worships' company.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship.
Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph.
But God is to be worshiped.

Worst

If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.
The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst.

Worth

A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats.
To be of worth, and worthy estimation.

Worthy

These banished men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities.
No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
The merciless Macdonwald, Worthy to be a rebel.

Wound

Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

Woundless

[Slander] may miss our name, And hit the woundless air.

Wrangle

For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle.

Wreathe

Each wreathed in the other's arms.

Wreck

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.

Wrench

Wrench his sword from him.

Wrest

Wrest once the law to your authority.

Wrestle

To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well.
Come, wrestle with thy affections.

Wring

Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow.

Wrist

He took me by the wrist, and held me hard.

Write

Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.
So it stead you, I will write, Please you command.

Writer

This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile.

Wrong

I have deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong places.
I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.

Wry

How many Must murder wives much better than themselves For wrying but a little!

Yawn

't is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn.

Ye

Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye.

Yearly

Yearly will I do this rite.

Yearn

It yearns me not if men my garments wear.

Yellowness

I will possess him with yellowness.

Yellows

His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows.

Yelp

A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs?

Yerk

Their wounded steeds . . . Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.

Yesterday

All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.

Yield

[He] makes milch kine yield blood.
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for 't.
Will ye relent, And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?

Yoke

Our country sinks beneath the yoke.
Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb.
We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow.

You

Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place.

Young

Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

Yourself

If yourselves are old, make it your cause.

Youth

He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home.

Zenith

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star.

Zephyr

As gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet.