SHAKESPEARIAN DICTIONARY. A. ABILITY, INNate. There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: ABSENCE. I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd; LOVERS'. H. VIII. i. 1. What! keep a week away? seven days and nights? O weary reckoning! O. iii. 4. O. iii. 4. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; T. G. v. 4. Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of ABUSE, AND BAD ENGLISH (See also VITUPERATION). English? M. W. v. 5. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. M. W. i. 4. Let them keep their limbs whole, and hack our English. M.W. iii. 1. B ACCUSATION. To vouch this is no proof, Without more certain and more overt test, Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. ACHIEVEMENT. O. i. 3. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. M.N.D. i. 1. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds; or I swear I will have it in a particular ballad, with mine own picture on the top of it. H. IV. PT. II. iv.1. ACQUITTAL. Now doth thy honour stand, ACTION, DRAMATIC. M. W. iv. 4. Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, and the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'eratep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure: * * O, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. H. iii. 2. ADOPTION. 'Tis often seen, Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds ADORATION, A Lover's. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering of your affairs, To sing them too: When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, and own So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, ADVERSITY (See also MISFOrtune). A man I am, cross'd with adversity. But myself, A. W. i. 3. W. T. iv. 4. T. G. iv. 1. had the world as my confectionary; ouths, the tongues, the eyes, the hearts of men ADVERSITY,-continued. At duty, more than I could frame employment; So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not FOLLY OF REPINING AT. What think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures; Of wreakful heaven; whose bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements expos'd, Answer mere nature,-bid them flatter thee. ITS USES. Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, T. A. iv. 3. T. A. iv. 2. T. A. iv. 3. Wears yet a precious jewel in its head. 'Tis good for men to love their present pains, In poison there is physic; and these news Out of his keeper's arms; even so my limbs, Are thrice themselves. ADVICE (See also CAUTION). Fasten your ear to my advisings. A. Y. ii. 1. H. V. iii. 1. H. IV. PT. 11. i. 1. M. M. iii. 1. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy array. sweet heart on proud K. L. iii. 4. H.VI. PT.I. iii. 2. Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up ACCUSATION. To vouch this is no proof, Without more certain and more overt test, Than these thin habits, and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. ACHIEVEMENT. O. i. 3. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. M.N.D. i. 1. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds; or I swear I will have it in a particular ballad, with mine own picture on the top of it. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 1. ACQUITTAL. Now doth thy honour stand, ACTION, DRAMATIC. * * M. W. iv. 4. Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, and the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure: * O, there be players, that I have seen play,-and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. H. iii. 2. ADOPTION. 'Tis often seen, Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds ADORATION, A LOVER'S. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering of your affairs, To sing them too: When you do dance, I wish you No other function: Each your doing, So singular in each particular, and own Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, ADVERSITY (See also MISFORTUNE). A man I am, cross'd with adversity. But myself, Who had the world as my confectionary; The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, the hearts of men A. W. i. 3. W. T. iv. 4. T. G. iv. 1. ADVERSITY,-continued. So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not FOLLY OF REPINING AT. What think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, And skip when thou point'st out? will the cold brook, To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures; Of wreakful heaven; whose bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements expos'd, Answer mere nature,-bid them flatter thee. ITS USES. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, T. A. iv. 3. T. A. iv. 2. T. A. iv. 3. Wears yet a precious jewel in its head. 'Tis good for men to love their present pains, Out of his keeper's arms; even so my limbs, Are thrice themselves. ADVICE (See also CAUTION). Fasten your ear to my advisings. A. Y. ii. 1. H. V. iii. 1. H. IV. PT. 11. i. 1. M. M. iii. 1. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. K. L. iii. 4. Take heed, be wary how you place your words. H. VI. PT.1. iii.2. Let go thy hold, when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up |