Every minute now,

Should be the father of fome ftratagem:
The times are wild, contention, like a horse
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 1.

COUNTENANCE.

Thou shalt not fee me blush,

Nor change my countenance for this arreft;
A heart unfpotted is not easily daunted.
The pureft fpring is not fo free from mud,
As I am clear from treason to my fovereign:

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

Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow,; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him, as a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 5.

Pardon me, I pray you;
I thought, that all things had been favage here,
And therefore put I on the countenance

Of ftern commandment.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 7. Heaven witness ;

I have been to you a true and humble wife,

At all times to your will conformnable :

Ever in fear to kindle your diflike,

Yea, fubject to your countenance; glad, or forry,

As I faw it inclin'd.

Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4,

O, he fits high in all the people's hearts:
And that, which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue, and to worthiness.

Julius Cafar, A. 1, S. 3.

Turn from me then that noble countenance,
Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.1

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 4, S. 12.
COUN

COUNTERFEI T.

'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me fcot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of, a man; but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S.

'COURAGE.

By how much unexpected, by so much
We must awake endeavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occafion.

4.

King John, A. 2, S. 1.

COURT.

If thou never waft at court, thou never faw'ft good manners; if thou never faw'ft good manners, then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is fin, and fin is damnation. As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

We two alone will fing like birds i'the cage:
When thou doft afk my bleffing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness: fo we'll live,
And pray, and fing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news.
Lear, A. 5, S. 3.

These are kind creatures. Gods, what lies I have heard!

The worship of the whole world.] The worship is the dignity, the authority.

JOHNSON.

This can hardly be faid of Antony, who has entirely loft his dignity and authority. Eros rather means to fay, whom the whole world fhould, or ought to worship and obey.

A. B.

Our

Our courtiers fay, all's favage, but at court:
Experience, O, thou difprov'ft report! *

I

Cymbeline, A. 4, S. 2.

- Up to yon hill,

Your legs are young; I'll tread thefe flats. Confider,
When you above perceive me like a crow,
That it is place, which leffens, and fets off.

And you may then revolve what tales I have told you,
Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war.

Cymbeline, A. 3, S. 3.

This mortal houfe I'll ruin,

Do Cæfar what he can. Know, fir, that I
Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court;
Nor once be chaftiz'd with the fober eye

Of dull Octavia. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 5, S. 2.

I knew him once a fervant of the prince; I cannot tell, good fir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipp'd out of the court.

Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 2.

Seeft thou not the air of the court, in thefe enfoldings hath not my gait in it, the meafure of the court? receives not thy nofe court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy bafenefs, court contempt?

Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 3.

COURTESY.

He did feem to dive into their hearts,

With humble and familiar courtesy ;
Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;
A brace of draymen bid-God fpeed him well,
And had the tribute of his fupple knee,

With-Thanks, my country-men, my loving friends.
Richard II. A. 1,

Experience, O, thou difprov ft report.] We fhould read,
"Experience, O, how thou difprov'ft report."

S. 4:

A. B.

The

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy;
His legs are for neceffity, not for flexure.

Troilus and Creffida, A. S. 3.

This is he,

That kifs'd away his hand in courtesy;

This is the ape of form, Monfieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice
In honourable terms. Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 24
Thou haft never in thy life

Shew'd thy dear mother any courtesy;

When the (poor hen) fond of no fecond brood,
Has cluck'd thee to the wars, and fafely home,
Loaden with honour.

Coriolanus, A. 5, S. 3.

The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born; but the fame tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. As you like it, A. 1, S. 1.

Pluck commiferation of his ftate From braffy bofoms, and rough hearts of flint, From ftubborn Turks, and Tartars, never train'd To offices of tender courtesy.

Merchant of Venice, A. 4, S. 1. Is it poffible, difdain fhould die, while the hath fuch meet food to feed it, as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to difdain, if you come in her presence. Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S, 1. These couchings and thefe lowly courtefies, Might fire the blood of ordinary men ; And turn pre-ordinance, and first decree, Into the lane of children.!

Julius Cafar, A. 3, S. 1.
COW-

Into the lane of children.] I do not well understand what is meant by the lane of children. I fhould read, the law of children. That is, change pre-órdinance and decree into the law of children; into fuch flight determinations as every start of will would alter. Lane and law, in fome manuscripts, are not easily distinTuifhed. JOHNSON.

COWARDIC E.

I do defy him,

Call him-a flanderous coward, and a villain :
Which to maintain, I would allow him odds;
And meet him, were I ty'd to run a-foot,
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.

Richard II. A. 1, S. 1.

Young as I am, I have obferv'd these three fwafhers. I am boy to them all three but all they three, though they would ferve me, could not be man to me; for, indeed, three fuch anticks do not amount to a man. For Bardolph,-he is white-liver'd, and red-faced; by the means whereof, a' faces it out; but fights not. For Piftol-he hath a killing tongue, and a quiet fword; by the means whereof a' breaks words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath heard, that men of few words are the best of men; and therefore he fcorns to fay his prayers, left aʼ fhould be thought a coward. Henry V. A. 3, S. 2.

The second property of your excellent fherris isthe warming of the blood; which, before cold and fettled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pufillanimity and cowardice; but the fherris warms it, and makes it courfe from the inwards to the parts extreme. It illumineth the face;

If the lane of children be the true reading, it may poffibly receive illuftration from the following paffage in Ben Jonson's Staple of News:

"A narrow minded man! my thoughts do dwell all in a lane." The lane of children will then mean the narrow conceits of children, which muft change as their minds grow more enlarged. STEEVENS.

I believe we should read bane-Bane in its ordinary accepta tion is burt, injury; and by a licence common with our author, it may poffibly be used for punishment. "You behave, by thefe low "courtefies, and crouchings, like children, and many men might be "tempted to punish you as fuch." A. B.

which,