With variable complexions; all agreeing
In earnestness to see him.-Coriol., ii. I.

So shall my lungs

Coin words till their decay against those meazels,
Which we disdain should tetter us, yet sought

The very way to catch them.-Ibid., iii. 1.

Lest you should chance to whip your information.—Ibid., iv. 6.
You that stood so much

Upon the voice of occupation.—Ibid., iv. 6.

You have made fair hands,

You and your crafts! you have crafted fair!-Ibid., iv. 6.
My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould

Wherein this trunk was fram'd, and in her hand

The grand-child to her blood! - Ibid., v. 3.

Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,

And young affection gapes to be his heir.-R. & Jul., i. 5 (Chorus).
Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!—Ibid., ii. 1.

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business, do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return.-Ibid., ii. 2.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live,

But to the earth some special good doth give.—Ibid., ii. 3.
As if that name

Shot from the deadly level of a gun,

Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd her kinsman. Oh, tell me, friar, tell me,

In what vile part of this anatomy

Doth my name lodge?—Ibid., iii. 3.

The base o' the mount

Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures,
That labour on the bosom of this sphere

To propagate their states.-Timon, i. 1.

So noble a master fall'n! All gone! and not

One friend to take his fortune by the arm,

And go along with him!-Ibid., iv. 2.

His coward lips did from their colour fly.-Jul. C., i. 2.

Danger knows full well

That Cæsar is more dangerous than he.—Ibid., ii. 2.

Came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, "Thane of Cawdor."--

Macb., i. 5 (Letter).

What are these faces ?—Ibid., iv. 2.

Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,

For goodness dare not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs,

The title is affeer'd!-Ibid., iv. 3.

Unspeak mine own detraction: here abjure
The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
For strangers to my nature.-Ibid., iv. 3.
Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal;
And with him pour we, in our country's purge,
Each drop of us.—Ibid., v. 2.

Whiles I see lives, the gashes

Do better upon them.-Ibid., v. 7.

To reason most absurd; whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,
"This must be so."-Hamlet, i. 2.

*Here used for the inhabitants of earth,' 'human beings.'

The very place puts toys of desperation,
Without more motive, into every brain
That looks so many fathoms to the sea,
And hears it roar beneath.-Hamlet, i. 4.

For we will fetters put upon this fear,

Which now goes too free-footed.—Ibid., iii. 3.
For in the fatness of these pursy times,

Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,

Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.-Ibid., iii. 4.
Which are to France the spies and speculations

Intelligent of our state.-Lear, iii. 1.

Hide thee, thou bloody hand.—Ibid., iii. 2.

While I to this hard house

(More hard than is the stone whereof 'tis rais'd;
Which even but now, demanding after you,
Denied me to come in) return, and force
Their scanted courtesy.-Ibid., iii. 2.

To be tender-minded

Does not become a sword.—Ibid., v. 3.
What comfort to this great decay may come
Shall be applied: for us, we will resign,
During the life of this old majesty,

To him our absolute power.—Ibid., v. 3.

This grief is crowned with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new petticoat: and, indeed, the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.-Ant. & C., & 2 His speech sticks in my heart.—

Mine ear must pluck it thence.—Ibid., i. 5.
And have my learning from some true reports
That drew their swords with you.—Ibid., ii. 2.
Did gibe my missive out of audience.—Ibid., ii. 2.
From the barge

A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthron'd i' the market-place, did sit alone,

Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,

Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,

And made a gap in nature.-Ibid., ii. 2.

If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing.—Ibid., îî. 6.

A lower place, note well,

May make too great an act.—Ibid., iii. 1.

The Kings of Mede, and Lycaonia,

With a more larger list of sceptres.—Ibid., iii. 6.

In his livery

Walk'd crowns and crownets.-Ibid., v. 2.

What shall I need to draw my sword; the paper
Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander;

Whose edge is sharper than the sword: whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath

Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie

All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave

This viperous slander enters.-Cym., iii. 4.

Whose naked breast

Stepp'd before targes of proof.—Ibid., v. 5.

These mouths, whom but of late, earth, sea, and air,
Were all too little to content and please,

Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
As houses are defil'd for want of use,

They are now starv'd for want of exercise:

Those palates, who, not yet two summers younger,
Must have inventions to delight the taste,

Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it.--Per., i.. 4.
O let those cities, that of plenty's cup

And her prosperities so largely taste,

With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!-Ibid., i. 4.

Shakespeare uses several bold and peculiar sentences of figurative and metaphorical phraseology; a few of which he has repeated with slight variations in the wording :—

Oh, thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall,

And leave no memory of what it was!-Tw. G. of V., v. 4.
Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous ?—Com. of E., iii. 2

But the strong base and building of my love

Is as the very centre of the earth,

Drawing all things to it.-Tr. & Cr., iv. 2.
Who might be your mother,

That you insult, exult, and all at once,

Over the wretched?-As You L., iii. 5.

Some jay of Italy,

Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him.-Cym., iii. 4.

These two passages seem to us to contain some scoff understood when Shakespeare wrote, implied in reference to a would-be beauty's "mother"; and the latter of the two passages has the same kind of figurative mode of saying, 'the producer of whose beauty was her rouged face,' or 'whose sole origin of comeliness was her painted complexion,' as the following three passages have of asserting a man to be made by his attire: according to the old proverbial axiom, 'Fine feathers make fine birds':

Know'st me not by my clothes?—

No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes,
Which, as it seems, make thee.-Ibid., iv. 2.

You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made thee.-Lear, ii. 2.
The soul of this man is his clothes.-All's W., ii. 5.

In another passage of the same play Shakespeare has reversed this figurative expression with much humour, to express men of no more understanding than will serve them to invent new styles of dress :Whose judgments are mere fathers of their garments.—Ibid., i. 2.

His honour,

Clock to itself, knew the true minute when
Exception bid him speak, and at this time
His tongue obey'd his hand.—Ibid., i. 2.

But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again !—Ibid., iv. 1.

I am in love; but a team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who 'tis I love. -Two G. of V., iii. 1.

Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.-Tw. N., ii. 5.
I think oxen and wain-ropes cannot hale them together.-Ibid., iii. 2.

I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that, upon the least occasion more, eyes will tell tales of me.-Ibid., ii. 1.

mine

And all my mother came into mine eyes,
And gave me up to tears.-H. V., iv. 6.
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,

And welcome home again discarded faith.-John, v. 4.
Thus out of season, threading dark-ey'd night.—Lear, ii. 1.
Will you again unknit

This churlish knot of all-abhorred war?-1 H. IV., v. 1.
And these same thoughts people this little world.-R. II., v. 5.
Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn.-Lear, iii. 1.

To face the garment of rebellion

With some fine colour, that may please the eye

Of fickle changelings and poor discontents.-1 H, IV., v. 1.
To rank our chosen truth with such a show

As fool and fight is.-H. VIII. (Prologue).

They must either

(For so run the conditions) leave those remnants

Of fool and feather, that they got in France.-Ibid., i. 3.

It appears to us that, in the one instance, Shakespeare used "fool and fight to express buffoons and mock battles' or buffoonery and battling'; and, in the other, "fool and feather" to express 'folly and levity' or foppery and frippery.'

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.-Ibid., i. 1.
Honour's train is longer than his foreskirt.—Ibid., ii. 3.
That his bones,

When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,

May have a, tomb of orphans' tears wept on them.—Ibid., iii. 2.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,

To silence envious tongues.-Ibid., iii. 2.

Here is the steed, we the caparison.—Coriol., i. 9.

Is 't possible that so short a time can alter the condition of a man?—

There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown from man to dragon: he has wings; he's more than a creeping thing.-Ibid., v. 4.

Therefore this project

Should have a back or second, that might hold,
If this should blast in proof.-Hamlet, iv. 7.
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these?—Lear, iii. 4.

Might I but live to see thee in my touch,

I'd say I had eyes again!-Ibid., iv. 1.

I see it feelingly.-Ibid., iv. 6.

They flattered me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there.-Ibid., iv. 6.

When we shall hear

The rain and wind beat dark December.-Cym., iii. 3.
Thus smiling, as some fly had tickled slumber,
Not as death's dart, being laugh'd at.—Ibid., iv. 2.

He also uses some poetical licences of expression that trouble and perplex the literal and conventional critics; but which delight the appreciators of such audacities in imaginative and unprosaic composi tion:

When service should in my old limbs lie lame,

And unregarded age in corners thrown.-As You L., ii. 3.

Join with the present sickness that I have;
And thy unkindness be like crooked age,

To crop at once a too-long wither'd flower.-R. II., ï. 1.
Famine is in thy cheeks,

Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,

Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back.—R. & Jul., v. 1.

When all our offices have been oppress'd

With riotous feeders; when our vaults have wept

With drunken spilth of wine; when every room

Hath blaz'd with lights, and bray'd with minstrelsy.—Timon, ii. 2.
Leak'd is our barque;

And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,
Hearing the surges threat: we must all part
Into this sea of air.-Ibid., iv. 2.

A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.-Hamlet, i. 1.

Methinks I see my father.

O where, my lord?—

In my mind's eye, Horatio.-Ibid., i. 2.

And am fall'n out with my more headier will,

To take the indispos'd and sickly fit

For the sound man.-Lear, ii. 4.

I'll look no more;

Lest my brain turn, and the deficient

Sight topple down headlong.-Ibid., iv. 6.

TITLES.

Shakespeare occasionally uses the names of their countries as titles for sovereigns:

The King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. —W. T., i. I.

No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day.—Hamlet, i, 2.

Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears
Belong to Egypt.-Ant. & C., i. 3.

O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt?

was to thy rudder tied.—Ibid., iii. 9.

...

Egypt, thou knew'st too well, my heart

What England says, say briefly, gentle lord.-John, ii. 1.
And here, from gracious England, have I offer

Of goodly thousands

gracious England hath

Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men.-Macb., iv. 3.

Now say, Chatillon, what would France with us?-John, i. 1.
Call France; who stirs? Call Burgundy.-Lear, i. 1.
Myself present as I was sometime Milan.-Temp., v. 1.

Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
Should become kings of Naples ?—Ibid., v. 1.

Pause there, Morocco, and weigh thy value.-Mer. of V., ii. 7.
Myself am Naples; who, with mine eyes.-Temp., i. 2.
When he th' ambitious Norway combated.-Hamlet, i. 1.

What from our brother Norway ?—Ibid., ii. 2.

Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.-W. T., i. 1,

What means Sicilia?-He something seems unsettled.—Ibid., i. 2.
Bold Iachimo, Sienna's brother.-Cym., iv. 2,