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See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears :
This cloth thou dipp'dft in blood of my fweet boy,
And lo! with tears I wafh the blood away.

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 1, S. 4.

The hairy fool,

Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,

Stood on the extremeft verge of the fwift brook, Augmenting it with tears. As you like it, A. 2, S. 1. The big round tears

Cours'd one another down his innocent nofe

In piteous chafe.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 1.

The fmiles of knaves

Tent in my cheeks; and school-boys' tears take up
The glaffes of my fight! A beggar's tongue
Make motion through my lips: and my arm'd knees,
Who bow'd but in my stirrop, bend like his
That hath received an alms! Coriolanus, A. 3, S. 2.
I am weaker than a woman's tear,
Tamer than fleep, fonder than ignorance;
Lefs valiant than the virgin in the night
And skill-lefs as unpractis'd infancy.

Troilus and Creffida, A. 1, S. 1,

For myself,-foe as he was to me,

Might liquid tears, or heart-offending groans,
Or blood-confuming fighs recall his life,

I would be blind with weeping, fick with groans,
Look pale as primrofe, with blood-drinking fighs,
And all to have the noble duke alive.

Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 2.

If the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my fighs.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 3.

Within a month;

Ere yet the falt of moft unrighteous tears

Had

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,

She marry'd.

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 2.

What! we have many goodly days to fee!
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed,
Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl;
Advantaging their loan, with interest
Oftentimes double gain of happiness.

-

Richard III. A. 4, S. 4.

up,

Neither bended knees, pure hands held Sad fighs, deep groans, nor filver-fhedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompaffionate fire.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1. A little month; or ere these shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears :—why she, even the,O heaven a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer,-marry'd with my

uncle,

My father's brother; but no more like my father,
Than I to Hercules.
Hamlet, A. 1, S. 2.
She hath offer'd to the doom,
A fea of melting pearl, which fome call tears.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1.

Say, that upon the altar of her beauty
You facrifice your tears, your fighs, your heart:
Write, till your ink be dry: and with your tears
Moist it again. Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 2.

There might you have beheld one joy crown another; fo, and in fuch manner, that, it feem'd, forrow wept to take leave of them; for their joy waded Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 2.

in tears.

His tears run down his beard, like winter drops
From eaves of reeds.
Tempeft, A. 5, S. I,

Do not weep, good fools;

There is no caufe: when you fhall know your mif

trefs

Has

Has deferv'd prison, then abound in tears,

As I come out.
Thou lov'st me not; for, brother, if thou didst,
Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood,
That glues my lips, and will not let me fpeak.

Winter's Tale, A. 2, S. 1.

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 5, S. 2.

Therefore great France
My mourning, and important tears', hath pitied.

Lear, A. 4, S. 4.

TEMPEST.

I have seen tempefts, when the scolding winds
Have riv'd the knotty oaks; and I have seen
The ambitious ocean fwell, and rage, and foam,
To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds:
But never till to-night, never till now,
Did I go through a tempeft dropping fire.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 3.
Most degenerate king!

But, lords, we hear this fearful tempeft fing,
Yet feek no fhelter to avoid the ftorm:
We fee the wind fit fore upon our fails,
And yet we strike not, but fecurely perish.

Richard II. A. 2, S. 1.

The owl fhriek'd at thy birth, an evil fign;
The night-crow cry'd, aboding lucklefs time;
Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempefts shook down trees;
The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top,
And chattering pies in dismal discords fung.

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portunate.

Henry VI. P. 3. A. 5, S. 6.

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JOHNSON.

"Important tears" mean not that he was whining or importunate: befide, fhe had already mentioned her mourning. "Important tears" fignify the greatnefs, the importance of her caufe; a caufe that had for its object no less than the prefervation of her father's life.

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THIE F.

Thieves for their robbery have authority,

When judges fteal themselves.

Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2.
I not deny,

The jury, paffing on the prifoner's life,

May, in the fworn twelve, have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.

Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 1.

THOUGHT, THOUGHTS.

Thou doft mean fomething:

I heard thee fay but now,-Thou lik'dft not that,
When Caffio left my wife; what didft not like?
And, when I told thee-he was of my counsel
In my whole course of wooing, thou cry'dft, indeed!
If thou doft love me, fhew me thy thought.

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

Utter my thoughts? Why, fay, they are vile and

false;

As where's that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not? who has a breaft fo pure, But fome uncleanly apprehenfions

Keep leets, and law-days, and in feffion fit

With meditations lawful? Othello, A. 3, S. 3. Fafter than fpring-time fhowers, comes thought on thought,

And not a thought, but thinks on dignity.

My brain more bufy than the labouring spider,
Weaves tedious fnares to trap mine enemies.

Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 1.

Thoughts tending to content, flatter themselves,-
That they are not the first of fortune's flaves,
Nor fhall not be the laft: like filly beggars,

Who,

Who, fitting in the stocks, refuge their shame,
That many have, and others must fit there.

Richard II. A. 5, S. 5.

Now the bishop

Turns infurrection to religion :

Suppos'd fincere and holy in his thoughts,
He's follow'd both with body and with mind;
And doth enlarge his rifing with the blood
Of fair king Richard. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. I,
Left you should not understand me well,
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,
I would detain you here fome month or two.

In

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.

-That fupernal judge, that ftirs good thoughts any breast of strong authority,

To look into the blots and ftains of right

That judge hath made me guardian to this boy.
King John, A. 2, S. 1.

If that thou couldft fee me without eyes,
Hear me without thine ears, and make reply
Without a tongue, ufing conceit alone,
Then, in defpight of broad-ey'd watchful day,
I would into thy bofom pour my thoughts.

Sir, in this audience,

King John, A. 3, S. 3.

Let my difclaiming from a purpos'd evil

Free me fo far in your moft generous thoughts,
That I have fhot my arrow o'er the house,

And hurt my brother.

Hamlet, A. 5, S. 2.

Thoughts are no fubjects;

Intents, but merely thoughts.

Meafure for Measure, A. 5, S. 1.

THUNDER.

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