PITY. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; But if there be H.VIII. prologue Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity, Cym. iv. 2. M. i. 7. H.VIII. ii. 3. If ever you have look'd on better days; A. Y. ii. 7. If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church If thou tell'st this heavy story right, Upon my soul the hearers will shed tears; Yea, even my foes will shed fast falling tears, R. III. i. 4. R. II. v. 2 And say,—Alas, it was a piteous deed! H.VI. PT. III. i. 4. I show it most of all when I show justice; For then I pity those I do not know, Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall; And do him right, that, answering one foul wrong Lives not to act another. M. M. ii. 2. Pity's sleeping: Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping! But, I perceive, Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. The dint of pity. Tear-falling pity. T. A. iv. 3. T. A. iii. 2. J. C. iii. 2. R. III. iv. 2. Cym. 1.7. O dearest soul! your cause doth strike my heart PLACE AND GREATNESS. O place and greatness, millions of false eyes Run with these false and most contrarious quests PLANETARY INFLUENCE. M. M. iv. 1. This is the excellent foppery of the world; that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own beha viour) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: An admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy, Therefore, they thought it good you hear a play, Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? What, a play toward? I'll be an auditor. The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. K. L. i. 2. A. W. i. 1. J.C. i. 2. T. S. IND. 2. M. N. v. 1. M. N. iii. 1. H. ii. 2. Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestow'd? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time: After your death, you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live. H. ii. 2. The players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all. H. iii. 2. PLEA. Since what I am to say, must be but that But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, I doubt not then, but innocence shall make PLEASURE AND REVENGE, RECKLESSNESS OF. Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice PLEDGE. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. PLODDING. Why, universal plodding prisons up As motion, and long-during action, tires PLOT. W. T. iii. 2. T. C. ii. 2. J.C. iv. 3. L. L. iv. 3. By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant: a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation: an excellent plot, very good friends. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 3. Who cannot be crush'd with a plot! So so; these are the limbs of the plot. PLUNDERERS. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out A. W. iv. 3. H.VIII. i. 1. In sharing that which you have pill'd from me. R.III. i. 3. POETRY. POET (See also BALLAD-MONGER, RHYMSTER). Our poesy is a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i'the flint Own'st thou the heavenly influence of the muse, T. A. i. 1. Poems. POETRY, POET,-continued. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for, I am sure, I shall turn sonneteer. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. L. L. i. 2. The elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy. And wait the season, and observe the times, Audrey. I do not know what poetical is: feigning. POISON. Let me have L. L. iv. 2. L.L. v. 2. T.G. iii. 2. Is it honest A dram of poison; such soon-speeding geer Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. No cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death, POLICY. is the most A. Y. iii. 3. R. J. v. 1. H. iv. 7, The devil knew not what he did, when he made man politic. Plague of your policy! You sent me deputy for Ireland; Far from his succour, from the king, from all T. A. iii. 3. That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him; H.VIII. iii. 2. POLITICIANS. Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know K. L. iv. 6. Who thrives, and who declines; side factions, and give out C. i. 1. POLISHED MAN. Behaviour, what wert thou Till this man show'd thee? and what art thou now? POMP. L. L. v. 2. Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? AND POVERTY. Take physic, pomp; H.VI. PT. III. v. 2. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel; POPULARITY (See also APPLAUSE, MOB). All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Stalls, bulks, windows, Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd Had I so lavish of my presence been, That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Ne'er seen, but wonder'd at: and so my state, Had his great name profaned with his scorns; K. L. iii. 4 C. ii. 1. C. ii. 1. |