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-Great, Aggravate Wrong.

K. Hen.

It grieves many :

The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker,

To nature none more bound; his training such,

That he may furnish and instruct great

teachers,

And never seek for aid out of himself.
Yet see

When these so noble benefits shall prove Not well dispos'd, the mind growing once corrupt,

They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly

Than ever they were fair. This man SO complete,

Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we,

Almost with ravish'd list'ning, could not find

His hour of speech a minute; he, my lady, Hath into monstrous habits put the graces That once were his, and is become as black As if besmear'd in hell.

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Nor.

Its Value.

The force of his own merit makes his way; A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys A place next to the king.

H. VIII., I: 1. 1057.

ABJECTNESS.-Enkindles Fury. York. Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.

O, I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint,

I am so angry at these abject terms;
And now, like Ajax Telamonious,

On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury!
I am far better born than is the king;
More like a king, more kingly in my
thoughts:

But I must make fair weather yet a while,
Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong.
H. VI., 2 pt., V: 1. 942.

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K. L., II: 4. 1460.

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Think on thy Proteus, when thou, haply, Despatch it presently.

seest

Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel: Wish me partaker in thy happiness,

M. M., IV: 3. 167.

- Fortune by. Pro.

When thou dost meet good hap: and in thy By accident most strange.

danger,

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T., I: 2. 10.

- Under our Control.

As th' unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and
flies

Of every wind that blows.

W. T., IV: 3. 607.

ACCIDENTS.- Boasting of.

Oth. * *

I spoke of most disastrous chances,

Of moving accidents, by flood, and field.
O., I: 3. 1496.

ABSURDITY -In Dress.

A sleeve? 't is like a demi-cannon,

Carv'd like an apple-tart.

- Desired.

T. S., IV: 3. 476.

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K. Rich.

Why let it strike?

Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke

Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
I am not in the giving vein to-day.
Buck. Why, then resolve me whe'r you
will, or no.

K. Rich. Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein.

Buck. And is it thus? repays he my deep service

With such contempt? made I him king for this?

O, let me think on Hastings; and be gone To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on. R. III., IV: 2. 1032.

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To save our heads by raising of a head:
For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
The king will always think him in our debt;
And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,
Till he hath found a time to pay us home.
And see already, how he doth begin
To make us strangers to his looks of love.
H. IV., 1 pt., I: 3. 733.
ACCOMPLICES.-Their Danger.

Hot. Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,

That wish'd him on the barren mountains starv'd.

But shall it be, that you, that set the

crown

Upon the head of this forgetful man;
And, for his sake, wear the detested blot
Of murd'rous subordination,-shall it be,
That you a world of curses undergo :

Being the agents, or base second means, The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?

O, pardon me, that I descend so low,
To show the line, and the predicament,
Wherein you range under this subtle king.-
Shall it, for shame, be spoken in these days,
Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
That men of your nobility and power,
Did gage them both in an unjust behalf, -
As both of you, God pardon it! have done,—
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
And plant this thorn, this canker, Boling-
broke?

And shall it, in more shame, be further spoken,

That you are fool'd, discarded, and shook off

By him, for whom these shames ye underwent?

No; yet time serves, wherein you may redeem

Your banish'd honours, and restore yourselves

Into the good thoughts of the world again : Revenge the jeering, and disdain'd contempt, Of this proud king; who studies, day and night,

To answer all the debt he owes to you, Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.

H. IV., 1 pt., I: 3. 732.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS. — Pretension to High.

King. Aye, that there is: our court, you know, is haunted

With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony; A man of complements, whom right and wrong

Hath chose as umpire of their mutiny: This child of fancy, that Armado hight,

For interim to our studies, shall relate, In high-born words, the worth of many a knight

From tawny Spain, lost in the world's debate.

How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;

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But, fare thee well! most foul, most fair, farewell!

Thou pure impiety, and impious purity;
For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,
And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
And never shall it more be gracious.
Leo.

Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?

Beat. Why, how now, cousin? wherefore sink you down?

D. John. Come, let us go: these things, come thus to light, Smother her spirits up.

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