Classical.

-Hear your sentence. . . .

We our kingdom's safety must so tender,
Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
We do deliver you. Get you, therefore, hence,
Poor, miserable wretches, to your death.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, ii, 2.

49. CONDEMNATION: (Angry)

Colloquial.

a—You ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. b-That's simply outrageous, wicked.

c-That's real mean of you.

Classical.

d-A murderer and a villain!

A slave, that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
And put it in his pocket!

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 4.

50. CONCERN: (See Anxiety.)

Colloquial.

a-I hope nothing has happened to him.

c-Thou shalt have charge, and sovereign trust, herein.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, I, iii, 2.

52. CONFUSION:

Colloquial.

a-Really I didn't mean to--I was going to that is-I mean—-no—yes—really—

Classical.

b-It is very sultry,—as 'twere, I cannot tell how,— but-my lord

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, v, 2.

53. CONSOLATION: (See Encouragement.)

Colloquial.

a—Oh, don't take it so to heart; it is not really so bad as it seems. Everything will come out all right.

b-Don't cry—I won't tell. Really I won't.

Classical.

c-The king shall have my service, but my prayers
For ever and forever shall be yours.

54. CONTEMPT:

SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII, iii, 2.

Colloquial.

a-Do you think I could so lower myself as to shake hands with you. I had rather touch a toad.

b-Speak to you? Bah! What are you but a low, miserable cur.

Classical.

c-Remember whom you are to cope withal;-
A sort of vagabonds, rascals and runaways,
A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants.
SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, v, 3.
You souls of geese,
That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
From slaves that apes would beat! . . .
All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale
With flight and agued fear!

d

SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus, i, 4.

55. CONVICTION:

Colloquial.

a -I am as positive of it as I stand here.

b-I'm right; I know it. I feel it.

c-As sure as the sun rises and sets that path will lead you into trouble.

Classical.

d- Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king:
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord.

SHAKESPEARE, Richard II, iii, 2.

e-There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

f-There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, v, 2.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, v, 2.

Rough-hew them how we will.

56. COURAGE:

Colloquial.

a-Whether they punish me or not, I am going to tell
the truth.

b-Let us be firm, even if it costs us our lives.
c-You may torture me, sir, but you cannot make me lie.

Classical.

d-I am armed and well prepared.

Give me your hand, Bassanio; fare ye well!
Repent not you that you shall lose your friend,
And he repents not that he pays your debt.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1.

I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth; I love your majesty

According to my bond; nor more, nor less.

SHAKESPEARE, King Lear, i, 1.

57. COWARDLINESS: (See Fear.)

Colloquial.

a-I can't go across, I'm frightened. O, I'll get hurt, I know I shall.

b

C

Classical.

I'll go no more;

I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, ii, 2.

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, iii, 4.

Thou can'st not say I did it: never shake
Thy gory locks at me.

58. CRUELTY: (See Malice.)

Colloquial.

a-Suffer? Well, suffer on. I'm glad of it.
b--I don't care if you are hurt-serves you right.
c-That's right, rain blows on him.

Classical.

d-I'll hear no more:-die, prophet, in thy speech;
For this, amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.

59. CURSING:

SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, III, v, 6.

Colloquial.

a-A curse upon your wickedness!

Classical.

b-All the contagion of the south light on you!

You shames of Rome! You herd of-Boils and

plagues

Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorred
Further than seen, and one infect another

Against the wind a mile!

SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus, i, 4.

c-Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;

Shame serves thy life, and doth thy death attend.

SHAKESPEARE, Richard III, iv, 4.

60. DECISION: (See Determination, Assertion.)

Colloquial.

a-My mind is made up. I shall do it, and shall do it. at once.

b-I haven't and I don't mean to; there, that settles it.

Classical.

c-Tell them that I will not come today:

Cannot, is false; and that I dare not, falser;
I will not come today; tell them so, Decius.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, ii, 2.

d-What I have written, I have written.

BIBLE, John, xix.

61. DEFIANCE:

Colloquial.

a-Try it if you dare-try it.

b—I defy you, sir; I defy the soldiers; I defy you all.
c-Prove it; you cannot. I challenge you to prove it.
d-I defy every one here to point out a single error in
my course.

Classical.

e-Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:
If you dare fight today, come to the field.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, v, 1.

c-I shall in all my best obey you, madam.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 2.

d--Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
My very noble and approved good masters.

SHAKESPEARE, Othello, i, 3.