Suf. As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry princess Margaret for your grace; So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,In presence of the kings of France and Sicil, The dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, and Alencon,

Seven earls, twelve barons, twenty reverend bishops,

I have perform'd my task, and was espous'd:
And humbly now upon my bended knee;
In sight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the queen.

H. VI., 2 pt., I: 1. 907.

-Woman's, dangerous.

Edw. A whisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,

To make this shameless callet know herself.

Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,
Although thy husband may be Menelaus;
And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd
By that false woman, as this king by thee.
His father revell'd in the heart of France,
And tam'd the king, and made the Dauphin
stoop;

And, had he match'd according to his state,
He might have kept that glory to this day:
But, when he took a beggar to his bed,
And grac'd thy poor sire with his bridal day;
Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower

for him,

-Before Blows.

Bru. Words before blows: Is it so, countrymen?

Oct.

Not that we love words better, as you do.

Bru. Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.

Ant. In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:

Witness the hole you made in Cæsar's heart, Crying, "Long live! hail, Cæsar!"

Antony,

Cas. The posture of your blows are yet unknown;

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,

And leave them honeyless.

Dun. So well thy words become thee as thy wounds:

France,

And heap'd sedition on his crown at home.

surgeons.

M., I: 2. 1358.

Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke,
and bounce;

He gives the bastinado with his tongue;

Our ears are cudgel'd; not a word of his, But buffets better than a fist of France: Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words,

Since I first call'd my brother's father, dad. K. J., II: 2. 654.

-Dying, Enforce Attention. Gaunt. O, but they say, the tongues of dying men

Enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain;

For they breathe truth, that breathe their

Sil. A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.

Val. T is indeed, madam; we thank the giver.

Sil. Who is that, servant?

Val. Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire: Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.

Thu. Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

Val. I know it well, sir: you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers; for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.

W. T., II: 3. 591.

Tro. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart;

-Honest plain.

The effect doth operate another way.

the ear of grief.

Immodest.

L. L., V: 2. 302.

War. "T is needful, that the most immodest word

Be look'd upon, and learn'd: Which once attain'd,

Your highness knows, comes to no further use,

But to be known, and hated.

H. IV., 2 pt., IV: 4. 801.

-In Excess. Cost. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flapdragon.

L. L., V: 1. 292.