And ['tis] not ever [that] the justice and the truth.-H. VIII., v. I.

I know this cannot be.-['Tis] not possible.—Coriol., iv. 6.

['Tis] fit I [should go to] meet them.-Timon, v. I.

Yet ['tis] better [to be] thus, and [by myself] known to be contemn'd.—Lear, iv. 1.

['Tis] riotous madness, to be entangled with.-Ant. & C., i. 3.

['Tis] a fever with the absence of her son.-Cym., iv. 3.

For, ['tis a chance great as the stake of] heaven to earth.-1 H. IV., v. 2.

Dar'st with thy . . . [to] make pale our cheek.—R. II., ii. 1.

Wish'd him on the barren mountains [to] starve.-1 H. IV., i. 3.

Is that letter, I caus'd you [to] write, yet sent away?—H. VIII., iv. 2.

And struck him on [to] his knee.-Coriol., ii. 2.

The prince will doom thee [to] death, if thou art taken.-R. & Jul., iii. 1.
Listening [to] their fear, I could not say amen.—Macb., ii. 2.

[To] which . . . this sword of mine shall give them instant way.—Lear, v. 3. Go, charge Agrippa [to] plant those that have revolted.-Ant. & C., iv. 6. But not the form of what he should attend [to].—1 H. IV., i. 3.

And the very ports they blow [to].—Macb., i. 3.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able [to achieve].—Tr. & Cr., iii. 2.
Have not transformed him [to an] ape.-2 H. IV., ii. 2.
Until I know this [to be] sure uncertainty.-Com. of E.,
Would suffer her poor knight [to be] surprised.—All's W., i. 3.

ii. 2.

I take these wise men . . . [to be] no better than the.-Tw. N., i. 5.
That slander, sir, is found [to be] a truth now.-H. VIII., ii. 1.

I know my life [to be] so even.—Ibid., iii. 1.

I know you [to be] wise, religious.-Ibid., v. I.

Where thou hast feign'd him [to be] a worthy fellow.-Timon, i. 1.
Men's reports give him [to be] much wrong'd.-Ant. & C., i. 4.
Must seem [to be the result of] deliberate pause.—Hamlet, iv. 3.
'Tis [to deserve] to be chid as we rate boys.-Ant. & C., i. 4.
Which should perceive nothing but love from us [to each other].—Jul. C., iv. 2.
As [to those of] infants [which are] empty of all thought.-Tr. & Cr., iv. 2.
May be wrought from that [to which] it is dispos'd.—Jul. C., i. 2.

Did you assay [to win] him to any pastime?—Hamlet, iii. 1.
Doth seem [to wish] to have thee crown'd withal.-Macb., i. 5.
Why, either were you [too] ignorant to see't, or, seeing it.-Coriol., ii. 3.
As well appeareth by the cause you come [upon].—R. II., i. 1.
Oh, that I had him .. to use my lawful sword [upon].-Coriol., v. 5.
These deeds must not be thought [upon] after these ways.-Macb., ii. 2.
That, if you fail [us] in our request, the blame may.-Coriol., v. 3.
Fear'd gods, vouchsafe me] a part of it !-Cym., iv. 2.

I have no farther [want] with you.-Coriol., ii. 3.

May complain of [want of] good breeding.-As You L., iii. 2.

Am starv'd for [want of] meat, giddy for lack of sleep.-Tam. of S., iv. 3.
Who are sick for [want of] breathing and exploit.-All's W., i. 2.
Which then our [want of] leisure would not let us hear.-R. II., i. 1.
Out of work and cold for [want of] action.-H. V., i. 2.

The [want of] leisure and the fearful time cuts off.-R. III., v. 3.
The [want of] leisure and enforcement of the time.--Ibid., v. 3.
Fear not our [want of] care, sir.—Coriol., i. 7.

If you suspect my [want of] husbandry or [my] falsehood.-Timon, ii. 2.
Who, almost dead for [want of] breath.-Macb., i. 5.

I was at point to sink for [want of] food.-Cym., iii. 6.

'Gainst whose shore [we] riding, her fortunes.—Per., v. 3.

And, as [well as] you can, disliken the truth of.-W. T., iv. 3.

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and [were] so good.-M. Ado, i. 1.

I feel [what] my master's passion [will be]!-Timon, iii. 1.

[What] say you, sir?—Cym., iv. 2.

At many leisures [when] I propos'd [to do so].-Timon, ii. 2.

At many times [when] I brought in my accounts [and] laid.—Ibid., ii. 2.

Yet now's a time, [when] the greatest of your having lacks a half.—Ibid., ii. 2. True ornament [whereby] to know a holy man.-R. III., iii. 7.

Seeks not to find that [which] her search implies.-All's W., i. 3.

The reason [which] mov'd these warlike lords to this.—1 H. VI., ii. 5.
These our ships, [which] you happily may think are.-Per., i. 4.

That all those eyes [which] ador'd them ere their fall.—Ibid., ii. 4.

This ornament, [which] makes me look dismal.- Ibid., iv. 3.

I am nothing slow [which, if I were, might tend] to slack his haste.—R. & Jul., iv. 1. The imposition clear'd, [which is] hereditary ours.-W. T., i. 2.

Strain'd from that fair use [which is natural to it].-R. & Jul., ii. 3.

Those only have fear'd Cæsar [while seeming attach'd to him].—Ant. & C., i. 3.

She lov'd me well [who] deliver'd it to me.-Two G. of V., iv. 4.

[Who] has a most weak pia mater.—Tw. N., i. 5.

[Who] have sold their fortunes at their native homes.-John, ii. 1.

The hate of those [who] love not the king.-R. II., ii. 2.

And join'st with them [who] will be thy slaughter-men.-
.—1 H. VI., iii. 3.

Happy; and so are all [who] are near her.-H. VIII., iv. 1.

Cranmer will find a friend [who] will not shrink from him.-Ibid., iv. 1.

Those men [who] blush not in actions blacker than.-Per., i. 1.

Those [who own] that [they] would mischief me [if they could] than those that do injure me while professing friendship].-Timon, iv. 3.

That father [who was] lost, lost his.-Hamlet, i. 2.

Declare the cause [why] my father.-1 H. VI., ii. 5.

My residence in Rome [will be] at one Philario's.—Cym., i. 2.

Much more, and [with] much more cause.-H. V., v. (Chorus).

Let us once again assail your ears . . . [with] what we.—Hamlet, i. 1.

And what mighty magic. . . I won his daughter [with].-Oth., i. 3.

I can be able to front this present time [with].-Ant. & C., i. 4.

Are partners [with him] in the business.-Cym., i. 7.

This creature's no such [wonderful] thing.-Ant. & C., iii. 3.

Return them [word, that] we are ready.-Per., ii. 2.

Our scouts have found the adventure [would be] very easy.—3 H. VI., iv. 2.
He [would have] waved indifferently 'twixt doing.-Coriol., ii. 2.

.-W. T., v. 3.

Makes her as she [would have looked had she] liv'd now.

Which he said was precious and [would prove] cordial to me.-Cym., iv. 2.
Let's go see poor Cassio ['s wound] dress'd.—Oth., v. 1.

And [yet] you will rather show our general louts.—Coriol., iii. 2.
Tempt him not so too far; I wish [you would] forbear.—Ant. & C., i. 3.

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To satisfy [your just wrath] . . . take no stricter render of me than my all.— Cym., v. 4.

He often allows a word in one part of a sentence to be elliptically

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understood as repeated in another part of the same sentence, or even in another part of the same dialogue:—

We must receive him according to the honour of his sender; and towards himself, [according to] his goodness forespent on us, we must extend our notice.-Cym., ii. 3. You advise me well.—I protest [I advise you], in the sincerity.—Oth., ii. 3.

And, when we fall, we answer others' merits in our name, [and] are therefore to be pitied.-Ant. & C., v. 2.

And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, [and] are the blither for their drouth.Per., iii. (Gower).

Thoughts are no subjects; intents [are] but merely thoughts.-M. for M., v. 1. They are taught their manage, and to that end riders [are] dearly hired.--As You L., i. I.

Where are now your fortunes! Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where [are] no pity, no friends, no hope; [where] no kindred weep for me.-H. VIII., iii. 1.

They are actions that a man might play: but I have that within which passeth show; these [are] but.-Hamlet, i. 2.

But [as] justly as you have exceeded all promise.-As You L., i. 2.

Man's life is [as] cheap as beast's.—Lear, ii. 4.

I hold you but [as] a subject of this war, not as a brother.-Ibid., v. 3.

Not for such an end [as] thou seek'st as base as strange.-Cym., i. 7.

Which are [as] often the sadness of parting, as the procuring.—Ibid., v. 4.

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys [go] from their books; but love from love, [as schoolboys go] toward school with.-R. & Jul., ii. 2.

Against mine honour aught, my bond to wedlock, or my love and duty, [aught against your sacred person.-H. VIII., ii. 4.

What he might be-if, what he might [be], he is not.-Oth., iv. I.

Either be gone before the watch be set, or [be gone] by the break of day.—R. & Jul...., iii. 3.

Do you know, and dare not be intelligent to me? 'Tis thereabouts; for, to yourself. what you do know, you must [be intelligent].-W. T., i. 2.

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Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase or [by] such ambiguous giving out, to note that you know.-Hamlet, i. 5.

Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.-No, my lord; nor shall not [be cast yet], while I have a stump.-H. VIII., i. 3.

A merrier day did never yet greet Rome, no not the [day of the] expulsion of the Tarquins -Coriol., v. 4.

Should be depos'd; and, being [depos'd], that we detain.-Ant. & C., iii. 6.

You do not understand yourself so clearly as it behoves my daughter and your honour [to do].-Hamlet, i. 3.

What they do delay, they [do] not deny.—Ant. & C., ii. 1.

Rights by rights fouler [do fail] strengths by strengths do fail.-Coriol., iv. 7. One fire drives out one fire; one nail [drives out] one nail.-Ibid., iv. 7.

As fire drives out fire, so pity [drives out] pity.-Jul. C., iii. 1.

May you a better feast never behold.

Timon, iii. 6

This is Timon's last [feast

Not nature, to whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune, but by contempt nature. Raise me this beggar [to fortune], and deny 't that lord.-Ibid., iv. 3. And I have found Demetrius like a [found] jewel.-Mid. N. D., iv. 1.

of

As lying a gossip in that as [any gossip who] ever knapped ginger.-Mer. of V.,iii. 1. The worm, that 's fled, hath nature that in time will venom breed, [but hath no teeth for the present.-Macb., iii. 4.

I have dined with him, and told him on 't; and [have] come again to supper him.-Timon, iii. 1.

to

And have an hour of hearing; and, by 'r lady, [have it] held current music too.H. VIII., i. 3.

He will not hear, till [he] feel.-Timon, ii. 2.

For that he has

envied against the people . . . as now at last [he has] given hostile strokes.-Coriol., iii. 3.

He was then of a crescent note; [he was] expected to prove.-Cym., i. 5.

He will betray us all unto ourselves: [he will] inform on that.-All's W., iv. 1.
I'll willingly to him; to gain [him] his colour.-Cym., iv. 2.

I love him not, nor hate him not; and yet [I] have more cause.-As You L., iii. 5. I am yet unknown to woman; [I] never was forsworn; [I] scarcely have coveted what was mine own; at no time [have I broke my faith; [I] would not betray the devil to his fellow; and [I] delight no less in.-Macb., iv. 3.

Have I, my lord? [I] assure you, my good liege.—Hamlet, ii. 2.

I had my father's signet in my purse.

[I] folded the writ up in form of the

other; [I] subscrib'd it; [I] gave 't the impression; [and I] plac'd it safely.Ibid., v. 2.

While I to this hard house

denied me to come in.-Lear, iii. 2.

which even but now, [I] demanding after you,

I see it in my motion, [I] have it not in my tongue.—Ant. & C., ii. 3.

I am not made of stone, but [I am] penetrable to your kind entreaties.R. III., iii. 7.

I am joyful to hear of their readiness . . . and [I am] most glad of your company. -Coriol., iv. 3.

I bleed, sir; but [I am] not kill'd.—I am not sorry neither.-Oth., v. 2.

Art thou proud yet? Ay, [I am proud] that I am not thee.-I [am proud] that I was no prodigal.—I [am proud], that I am one now.-Timon, iv. 3.

I am sorry to see you ta'en from liberty, [and I am sorry] to look on the business present.-H. VIII., i. 1.

I would not prize them without her love; for her [I would] employ them all.— W. T., iv. 3.

If my actions were tried by every tongue, [if] every eye saw them, [iƒ] envy and base opinion [were] set against them.-H. VIII., iii. 1.

If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights, [if you do] call in the letters-patents that he hath.-R. II., ii. 1.

What, the storm? i'the night? Let pity not be believ'd [in] !—Lear, iv. 3.
Persever in that clear way [in which] thou goest.—Per., iv. 6.

Have ever won more in their officer than [in their own] person.-Ant. & C., iii. 1, He's disposed as [is] the hateful raven: . . . for he's inclin'd as is the rav'nous wolf.-2 H. VI., iii. 1.

In that he is a fox, by nature prov'd [to be] an enemy to the flock.. . as Humphrey [is] prov'd by reasons [to be an enemy] to my liege.-Íbid., iii. 1.

So hers is set on mine; and all [is] combin'd.-R. & Jul., ii. 3.

Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, and something [is] to be done.-Jul. C., v. I. That lady is not now living; or this gentleman's opinion [is], by this, worn out.-Cym., i. 5.

Though this [is] a heavenly angel, hell is here.-Ibid., ii. 2.

Her face [is] the book of praises, where is read.—Per., i. 1.

That Cranmer is return'd with welcome, [and is] install'd Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.-H. VIII., iii. 2.

No port is free; no place [is there], that guard.-Lear, ii. 3.

Ever shall [it] in safety rest,

And the owner of it [be] blest.-Mid. N. D., v. 2.

If it be denied, [it] will much impeach the justice.-Mer. of V., iii. 3.

Had it stretched so far, [it] would have made nature immortal.—All's W., i. 1.

Be [it] what it is, the action of my life is like it.—Cym., v. 4.

Nurses are not the fates, to foster it, nor ever to preserve [it].—Per., iv. 4.

Noted and most known [to be known] to youth and liberty.—Hamlet, ii. 1.

Passion lends them power, time [lends them] means to meet.-R. & Jul., i. 5 (Chorus). Therefore, [let] all hearts in love use their own tongues; let every eye negotiate for itself.-M. Ado, ii. 1.

Let four captains bear Hamlet . . . and, for his passage, [let] the soldiers' music.Hamlet, v. 2.

Ne'er long'd my mother so to see me first, as I have [long'd] now.-Cym., iii. 4Little are we beholden to your love, and little [was this love] look'd for at your helping hands.-R. II., iv. 1.

Is, of a king, become a banish'd man, and forc'd to live in Scotland a forlorn [man].-3 H. VI., iii. 3.

And may direct his course as [may] please himself.-R. III., ii. 2.

That none of you may live his natural age, but by some unlook'd accident [may be} cut off.—Ibid., i. 3.

My relief must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words, but [must] find supply immediate.-Timon, ii. 1.

Yet I must not, for certain friends that are both his and mine, whose loves I may not drop, but [must] wail.-Macb., iii. 1.

Your presence needs must puzzle Antony: [needs must] take from his heart, take from his brain.-Ant. & C., iii. 7.

The tadpole, the wall-newt and the water [-newt].—Lear, iii. 4.

I do not know what kind of my obedience I should tender; more than my all [of obedience] is [as] nothing [compared with that which is due].-H. VIII., ii. 3.

When you have push'd out [of] your gates the very defender of them.—Coriol., v. 2. Of thy deep duty more impression show than [of] that of common sons.-Ibid., v. 3. What you shall know meantime of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir, to let me be partaker [of }.—Ant. & C., i. 4.

Vast confusion waits-as doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast-[on] the imminent decay of wrested pomp.-John, iv. 3.

On him erect a second hope, as fairly built as [on] Hector.-Tr. & Cr., iv. 5.
And have prevail'd as much on him, as [on] you.—R. III., i. 1.

[On] whom heavens, in justice, both on her and hers, have laid most heavy hand.— Cym., v. 5.

Thy sight, which should make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, constrains them [our eyes to] weep, and [our hearts to] shake with fear and sorrow. Coriol., v. 3.

Pass no farther.-Ha! what is that?-It will be dangerous to go on: [pass] no farther.-Ibid., iii. 1.

My next poor petition is .. The last [petition] is.-H. VIII., iv. 2.

Thou hast not half the power to do me harm as I have [power to] endure to be hurt.-Oth., v. 2.

He puts on sackcloth, and [puts] to sea.-Per., iv. 4 (Gower).

Hereditary, rather than purchas'd; what he cannot change, [rather] than what he chooses.-Ant. & C., i. 4.

She shows a body rather than a life; a statue, [rather] than a breather.-Ibid., iii. 3Have you an army ready, say you?-A most royal one . . already in the enter tainment, and [ready] to be on foot.-Coriol., iv. 3.

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They smart to hear themselves remembered.—Should they not [be remember'd], well might they fester.-Ibid., i. 9.

Say that Marcius return me, as Cominius is return'd, unheard; what then? [Say that I return] but as a discontented friend, grief-shot with his.-Ibid., v. 1.

To know our enemies' minds, we'd rip their hearts; [to rip] their papers, is more lawful.-Lear, iv. 6.