which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4, S. 3.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men fhould fear,
Seeing that death a neceffary end,

Will come, when it will come.

Julius Cafar, A. 2, S. 2.

How many cowards, whofe hearts are all as falfe as stairs of fand, wear yet upon their chins the beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars; who, inward fearch'd, have livers white as milk?

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

Thou flave, thou wretch, thou coward ;]

Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever ftrong upon the stronger fide!

Thou fortune's champion, that doft never fight,

But when her humorous ladyship is by

To teach thee fafety!

King John, A. 3, S. 1.

(In my

heart

Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will)
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside ;
As many other mannish cowards have,
That do outface it with their femblances.

As you like it, A. 1, S. 3. He's a coward, and a coyftril,' and will not drink to my niece, till his brains turn o'the toe like a parish-top. Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 3.

A coyftril.] i. e. a coward cock. It may, however, be a keftril, or bastard hawk. STEEVENS. Acoiftril," is likewise a lad, a stripling. It seems here to be used for a milk-fop. "A coward and a coyftril an he will not drink," -i. e. A coward and a milk-fop if he will not

drink, &c.

A. B. -He

He ftopt the fliers;

And, by his rare example, made the coward
Turn terror into sport: as waves before
A veffel under fail, fo men obey'd,
And fell below his ftern."

Coriolanus, A. 2, S. 25

He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the beft that is: In a retreat he outruns any lacquey.

All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 3.

I know him a notorious liar,

Think him a great way fool, folely a coward;
Yet thefe fix'd evils fit fo fit in him,

That they take place, when virtue's steelly bones
Look bleak in the cold wind.

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1.

I never dealt better fince I was a man; all would not do. A plague of all cowards!-Let them speak : if they speak more or lefs than truth, they are villains, and the fons of darknefs.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 2, S. 4. A plague of all cowards, I fay, and a vengeance too! marry, and amen!-Give me a cup of fack, A plague of all cowards !-Is there no virtue extant? Henry IV. P, 1, A. 2, S. 4.

boy.

I was never curst;

I have no gift at all in fhrewishness;

I am a right maid for

my cowardice.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2.

I hold it cowardice,

To reft miftruftful where a noble heart

Hath pawn'd an open hand in fign of love.

copy,

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 4, S. 2.

CREA

And fell below his ftern.] We should read, according to the old

his ftem

The ftem is that end of the ship which leads.

STEEVENS.

We

CREATURE.

This is a creature,

Would she begin a fect, might quench the zeal
Of all profeffors elfe; make profelytes

Of who fhe but bid follow.

Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. L.
O thou thing,

Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,
Left barbarism, making me the precedent,
Should a like language use to all degrees,
And mannerly distinguishment leave out
Betwixt the prince and beggar !-

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

Call the creatures

Whofe naked natures live in all the spight

Of wreakful heaven; whofe bare unhoused trunks To the conflicting elements exposed,

Answer mere nature-bid them flatter thee;

Timon of Athens, A. 4, S. 3.

Divineft creature, bright Aftræa's daughter,
How fhall I honour thee for this fuccefs?
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens,

That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the next.

Henry VI. P. 1. A. 1, S. 6.

CRIM E.

If little faults, proceeding on distemper,

Shall not be wink'd at, how fhall we ftretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, fwallow'd, and digefted, Appear before us?

Henry V. A. 2, S. 2.

We fhould read

Fell before his ftem.

Stem does not here mean any part of a fhip.-Stem is used for prowess, valour. "Fell before his ftem," yielded to his prowess.

A. B.

All

'

All have not offended;

For those that were, it is not fquare, to take,

On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,

Are not inherited.

Timon of Athens, A. 5. S. 5.

Look down, you gods,

And on this couple drop a bleffed crown.

Tempeft, A. 5, S. 1.

Say to great Cæfar this, in difputation,*

I kifs his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt
To lay my crown at his feet, and there to kneel:
Tell him, from his all-obeying breath I hear
The doom of Egypt.

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 3, S. 11
Thus was I, fleeping, by a brother's hand,
Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch'd,
Cut off even in the bloffoms of my fin,
Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneal'd;
No reckoning made, but fent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 51

of men,

Had I fo lavish of my prefence been,
So common-hackney'd in the eyes
So ftale and cheap to vulgar company;

Say to great Cæfar this, in difputation,

I kifs his conquering hand.] The poet certainly wrote:
Say to great Cæfar this; in deputation

I kifs his conquering hand.

eby proxy. I depute you to pay him that duty in my name. WARBURTON.

I am not certain that this change is neceffary. I kifs his hand in difputation, may mean, I own he has the better in the controverfy-I confefs my inability to dispute or contend with him. STEEVENS.

I would read thus:

Say to great Cæfar,-in difreputation
I kifs his conquering hand.

ie. I am difgraced; and I fubmit to him.

3

A. B.

Opinion,

Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
Had still kept loyal to poffeffion.

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

Do but think,

How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown;
Within whofe circuit is Elyfium,

And all that poets feign of blifs and joy.

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

The fons of Edward fleep in Abraham's bofom,
And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
Now, for I know the Bretagne Richmond aims
At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
And, by that knot, looks proudly on the crown,
To her go I, a jolly thriving wooer.

Richard III. A. 4, S. 3.

Since this earth affords no joy to me,
But to command, to check, to o'erbear fuch,
As are of better perfon than myself,

I'll make my heaven-to dream upon the crown.

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

My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds, and Indian stones,
Nor to be feen: my crown is call'd, content;
A crown it is, that feldom kings enjoy.

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

Now, for thee thine uncles and myself, Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night; Went all a-foot in Summer's fcalding heat, That thou might'ft repoffefs the crown in peace; And of our labours thou fhalt reap the gain.

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 5, S. 7.

Oh, what a scandal is it to our crown,

That two fuch noble peers as ye, fhould jar!
Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell,
Civil diffention is a viperous worm,

That

gnaws the bowels of the common-wealth.
Henry VI. P. 1. A. 3, S. 1.
Heaven

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