I ftole all courtesy from heaven,

And drefs'd myfel

in fuch humility,

That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,'
Loud fhouts and falutations from their mouths,
Even in the prefence of the crowned king.

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

I.

IDLENESS.

HE eyen mead, that erft brought fweetly forth

TH

The freckled cowflip, burnet, and green clover,
Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
Conceives by idlenefs; and nothing teems,

But hateful docks, rough thistles, keckfies, burs,
Lofing both beauty and utility.

Henry V, A. 5, S. 2.

JEALOUSY.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,

To follow ftill the changes of the moon

With fresh fufpicions? No, to be once in doubt,

Is-once to be refolv'd.

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

No, Iago;

I'll fee, before I doubt: when I doubt, prove;
And, on the proof, there is no more but this,
Away at once with love, or jealousy.

I do befeech you,

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

Though I-perchance, am vicious in my guess,
(As, I confefs, it is my nature's plague.
To fpy into abufes; and, oft, my jealoufy
Shapes faults that are not) that your wisdom yet,

From

From one that fo imperfectly conceits,

Would take no notice.

Othella, A. 3, S. 3.

Beware, my lord, of jealousy;

It is the green-ey'd monfter, which doth mock

The meat it feeds on.

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

Trifles, light as air,

As proofs of holy writ.

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong

Look to your wife; obferve her well with Caffio;
Wear your eye-thus, not jealous nor fecure;
I would not have your free and noble nature,
Out of felf-bounty, be abus'd; look to't.

Othello, A. 3, Ș. 3.

Jealous fouls will not be anfwer'd fo;

They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.

Othello, A. 3, S. 4.

Oh, how haft thou with jealoufy infected

The fweetness of affiance! fhew men dutiful?

Why, fo didst thou: feem they grave and learned? Why, fo didft thou: come they of noble family?

Why, fo didft thou: feem they religious?

Why, fo didft thou.

Henry V. A. 2, S. 2.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman

Poifon more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

Comedy of Errors, A. 5, S. 1.

Befhrew my jealousy!

It seems, it is as proper to our age

To caft beyond ourfelves in our opinions,
As it is common for the younger fort
To lack difcretion.

Hamlet, A. 2, S. 1.

Jealous Oberon would have the child Knight of his train, to trace the forefts wild:

But fhe per-force, withholds the loved boy,

Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy. Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 1.

If I fhall be condemn'd

Upon furmifes; all proofs fleeping else,

But what your jealoufies awake, I tell you,

'Tis rigour, and not law. Winter's Tale, A. 3, S. 2. This jealoufy

Is for a precious creature: as fhe's rare,

Muft it be great, and, as his perfon's mighty,
Muft it be violent.

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

JEST, JESTER.

I cannot hide what I am: I must be fad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jefts eat when I have ftomach, and wait for no man's leifure; fleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his huMuch ado about nothing, A. 1, S. 3.

mour.

She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jefter; and that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jeft upon jeft, with fuch impoffible conveyance, upon me, that I ftood like a man at a mark, with a whole army fhooting at me. Much ado about nothing, A. 2, S. 1.

A jeft's profperity lies in the ear

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue

Of him that makes it.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 2.

Nature hath fram'd ftrange fellows in her time:
Some that will evermore peep through their eyes,
And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper;
And other of fuch vinegar afpect,

That they'll not show their teeth in way of fiile,
Though Neftor fwear the jeft be laughable.

Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1.

Now

Now could thou and I rob the thieves, and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jeft for ever.

t

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

J E W.

You call me-misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.

Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 3.

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands; organs, dimenfions, fenfes, affections, paffions? fed with the fame food, hurt with the fame weapons, fubject to the fame diseases, heal'd by the fame means, warm'd and cool'd by the fame winter and fummer, as a Christian is?

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 1.

JE WE L.`

The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it,
Because we see it; but what we do not fee,
We tread upon, and never think of it.

Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 1. A diamond gone, coft me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels. I would, my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 1. Good name, in man, and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their fouls;

Who fteals my purfe, fteals trash; 'tis fomething, nothing;

1 Argument for a week.] Argument is fubject matter for a drama.

STEEVENS.

"This will be argument for a week" muft mean, this will furnish converfation for a week.

P

A. B.

'Twas

'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been flave to thousands: But he, that filches from me my good name,

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

And makes me poor indeed. Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

IGNORANCE.

Ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me': 'ufe me as Merry Wives of Windfor, A. 5, S. 5.

you will.

There's nothing ill can dwell in fuch a temple.

Tempeft, A. 1, S. 2.

Ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me.] Though this be perhaps not unintelligible, yet it is an odd way of confeffing his defection. I fhould wish to read,

"Ignorance itself has a plume o'er me." that is, I am fo depressed, that ignorance itself plucks me, and decks itself with the fpoils of my weakness. JOHNSON. If any alteration be neceffary, I think, ignorance itself is a planet o'er me, would have a chance to be right. Thus Bobadil excufes his cowardice; fure I was struck with a planet, for I had no power to touch my weapon. FARMER.

Perhaps Falstaff's meaning may be this, ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me, i. e. above me,---ignorance itself is not fo low as I am by the length of a plummet line. TYRWHIT.

Falstaff certainly means, that ignorance triumphs over him. We must therefore read, plumet, Fr. a garland. "Ignorance *itfelf is a plumet o'er me," i. c. ignorance wears the garland.

A. B.

2 Then vail your ignorance.] The sense of the paffage is, If this man has power, let the ignorance that gave it him, vail or bow down before him. JOHNSON.

Dr. Johnfon's interpretation feems wrong. To vail, is here to hide, and ignorance is ufed for weakness. If this man has really the power he pretends to (fays Coriolanus), then hide or conceal your weakness; but if he has, in fact, no authority, then exereife yours. A. B.

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