BABE. Old fools are babes again; and must be used With checks as flatteries.
Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks
Come, come, and take a queen Worth many babes and beggars!

BABOON.

The strain of man 's bred out Into baboon and monkey.
Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good
I would change my humanity with a baboon

BABY. The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum
Commend these waters to those baby eyes That never saw the giant world
Look to 't in time; She 'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby.
The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

King Lear, i. 3.
Othello, iv. 2.

Ant. and Cleo. v. 2.
Timon of Athens, i. 1.
Macbeth, iv. 1.
Othello, i. 3.
Meas. for Meas. i. 3.

enraged King John, v. 2. 2 Henry VI. i. 3Troi. and Cress. i. 3.

Your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl

And wears upon his baby-brow the round And top of sovereignty
Think yourself a baby; That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay
That great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?
BACCHANALS. - The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals, Tearing the Thracian singer
BACCHUS. Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste.
Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
BACHELOR. Broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves.
Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?.

And the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.

Coriolanus, ii. 1. Titus Andron. v. 3. Macbeth, iii. 4. iv. 1.

Hamlet, i. 3. ii. 2.

Ant. and Cleo. v. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, v. 1. . Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 7. Tempest, iv. 1. Much Ado, i. 1.

i. I. ii. 1.

ii. 3

He shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married
Such separation as may well be said Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid Mid. N. Dream, ii. 2.
So is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the base brow of a bachelor As Y. L. It, iii. 3.
This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing
All's Well, ii. 3.

Inquire me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked twice on the banns 1 Henry IV. iv. 2.
Crowing as if he had writ man ever since his father was a bachelor
And sure as death I swore I would not part a bachelor from the priest
Wisely and truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor

BACK. I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man
Back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands The passages of alleys
Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, That have of late so huddled on his back
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides

2 Henry IV. i. 2. Titus Andron. i. 1. Julius Cæsar, iii. 3. Twelfth Night, i. 3. Com. of Errors, iv. 2. . Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. King John, ii. 1.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes
It lies as sightly on the back of him As great Alcides' shows upon an ass
I'll take that burthen from your back, Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack
You are straight enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back.
His apparel is built upon his back, and the whole frame stands upon pins
My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass

ii. . ii. I.

ii. I.

1 Henry IV. ii. 4. 2 Henry IV. iii. 2. Richard III. ì. 2. Henry VIII. i. 2.

Most pestilent to the hearing; and, to bear 'em, The back is sacrifice to the load
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion Troi. and Cress. iii. 3.
A pack of blessings lights upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her best array Rom. & Jul. iii. 3.
It will be of more price, Being spoke behind your back, than to your face
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back

I love and honour him, But must not break my back to heal my finger
Being offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand, thus.

Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we 'll die with harness on our back
He hath borne me on his back a thousand times .

Who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride
What, goest thou back? thou shalt Go back, I warrant thee.
Having found the back-door open Of the unguarded hearts

iv. I.

V. I.

1.

. Timon of Athens, ii.
Julius Casar, i. 2.
Macbeth, v. 5.
Hamlet, v.

BACKING Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!
BACKWARD. What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?.
She would spell him backward

-

I.

King Lear, iii. 4. Ant, and Cleo. v. 2. Cymbeline, v. 3

4.

1 Henry IV. ¡¡ ̧ Tempest, i. 2. Much Ado, iii. x.

BACKWARD. Only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull All's Well, i. 1. Yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward

BACK-WOUNDING calumny The whitest virtue strikes.

BACON, Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.

A gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger

BAD. - The most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

Hamlet, ii. 2. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. Merry Wives, iv. 1. x Henry IV. ii. 1. Meas. for Meas. v. 1.

He wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better Two G. of Ver. ii. 6.

Among nine bad if one be good, There's yet one good in ten

A miscreant, Too good to be so and too bad to live.

Shall seem as light as chaff, And good from bad find no partition
Didst thou never hear That things ill-got had ever bad success?
Counting myself but bad til I be best

You know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses
Bad is the world; and all will come to nought.

Eyes, that so long have slept upon This bold bad man .

Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general.
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so

Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother.

I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Angering itself and others
Heaven me such uses send, Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!
Is a thing Too bad for bad report

So slippery that The fear's as bad as falling

Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that From one bad thing to worse

I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn To any living creature

All's Well, i. 3. Richard II. i. 1. 2 Henry IV. iv. 1. 3 Henry VI. ii. 2. v. 6. Richard III. i. 2.

iii. 6.

Henry VIII. ii. 2.

. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Macbeth, ii. 4. ill. 2.

BADGE - Joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness

Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons and the suit of night

Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true.

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe

Combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience

Hamlet, ii. 2.

King Lear, iv. 1.
Othello, iv. 3.
Cymbeline, i. 1.

iii. 3.

iv. 2.

Pericles, iv. 1. Much Ado, i. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. Mer. of Venice, i. 3.

Left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice
To this hour is an honourable badge of the service

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge

Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge

BADNESS. - A provoking merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.
If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more, Had I more name for badness.
BAG. Not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage

It will let in and out the enemy With bag and baggage.

See thou shake the bags Of hoarding abbots

BAIT the hook well; this fish will bite

And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Richard II. v. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 3. Henry V. iv. 7. Titus Andron. i. 1. ii. 1.

King Lear, iii. 5. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. As You Like It, ii. 2. Winter's Tale, i. 2. King John, iii. 3. Much Ado, ii. 3.

Go we near her that her ear lose nothing Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it
Hare
with these contrived, To bait me with this foul derision?

Fith not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
If the young dace be a bait for the old pike.

Be caught with cautelous baits and practice.

With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous, Than baits to fish
And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks

See you now; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
Not born where 't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

BAITED - Why stay we to be baited With one that wants her wits?
To be baited with the rabble's curse

BAKED. A minced man: and then to be baked with no date in the pie
The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Baked and impasted with the parching streets.

Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.
Mer, of Venice, i. I.
2 Henry IV. iii. 2.
Coriolanus, iv. 1.
Titus Andron, iv. 4.

Romeo and Juliet, ii. Prol.

Hamlet, ii. 1. Cymbeline, iii. 4. Coriolanus, iv. 2.

Macbeth, v. 8. Troi. and Cress. i. 2. Hamlet, i. 2.

ii. 2.

BALANCE. She shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance

Much Ado, v. 1.

All's Well, i. 3.
Othello, i. 3.

Which hung so tottering in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt
If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
BALD.-There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature Com. of Errors, iì. 2.
Time himself is bald, and therefore to the world's end will have bald followers
I knew 't would be a bald conclusion

BALDPATE. - Come hither, goodman baldpate: do you know me?
BALL. 'T is not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace

ii. 2. 11. 2.

Meas. for Meas. v. 1.
Henry V. iv. 1.

Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball Rom.& Jul.ii. 5. BALLAD. Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar? The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since

I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream.

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow
For I the ballad will repeat, Which men full true shall find
A divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads.

He utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to his tunes
I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true
Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon the coast
The ballad is very pitiful and as true. Is it true too, think you?
This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one

An I have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy tunes

I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top
A speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad

BALLAD-MAKER. Pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen
That ballad-makers cannot be able to express it

BALLAD-MONGERS. — Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers
BALLAST. Sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose

BALM.- No balm can cure but his heart blood Which breathed this poison

Love's L. Lost, i. 2. i. 2. Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1. As You Like It, ii. 7. All's Well, i. 3.

ii. 1. Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

iv. 4.

iv. 4.

iv. 4.

iv. 4

iv. 4.

1 Henry IV. ii. 2. 2 Henry IV. iv. 3. . Henry V. v. 2. Much Ado, i. t. Winter's Tale, v. 2. Henry IV. ii. 1. Com. of Errors, iii. 2. Richard II. i. 1.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king
With mine own tears I wash away my balm.

'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast
The argument of your praise, balm of your age, Most best, most dearest.
As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle, O Antony !

iii. 2. iv. I.

Henry V. iv. 1. Macbeth, ii. 2. King Lear, i. 1. Ant. and Cleo, v. 2. 2 Henry VI. ii. 4.

Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract; Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban.
You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?.

BAND. My kindness shall incite thee, To bind our loves up in a holy band
Chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful

Much A do, iii. 1.

As You Like It, iv. 1.

Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, Which false hope lingers in extremity
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

BAN-DOGS. The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl

BANDY. — I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o'er-run thee with policy
To bandy word for word and frown for frown

I will not bandy with thee word for word, But buckle with thee blows

BANG. You'll bear me a bang for that, I fear.

BANGED. - You should have banged the youth into dumbness
BANISH plump Jack, and banish all the world

If thou dost love thy lord, Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts
BANISHED. To die is to be banished from myself; And Silvia is myself
Hence-banished is banished from the world, And world's exile is death
BANISHMENT. - Eating the bitter bread of banishment
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

BANK. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.

Richard II. ii. 2.
Henry V. iv. 3.

2 Henry VI. i. 4. As You Like It, v. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, v. 2.

3 Henry VI. i. 4. Julius Cæsar, iii. 3. Twelfth Night, iii. 2. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4. 2 Henry VI. i. 2. Two Gen of Verona, iii. 1. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3.

Came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets!

Richard 11. iii. t. King Lear, i. t. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, v. 1. Twelfth Night, i. L

Macbeth, i. 7

Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

BANK. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
BANKRUPT. - Dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits
Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth to season
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe.

Com. of Errors, iv. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

As You Like It, ii. I. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2. Macbeth, i. 2.

V 5.

Wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once! .
BASSERS - Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people co.d.
Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, 'They come!
BANQUET. His words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes.
The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: Fat paunches have lean pates Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
My banquet is to close our stomachs up, After our great good cheer
We have a trifling foolish banquet towards

There is an idle banquet attends you: Please you to dispose yourselves.
In his commendations I am fed; It is a banquet to me.

BANQUETING. — If you know That I profess myself in banqueting

BANQUO. Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down! .

BAPTISM. Is in your conscience washed As pure as sin with baptism
A fair young maid that yet wants baptism, You must be godfather
BAPTIZED. Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized.

BAR.

So sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends

0. these naughty times Put bars between the owners and their rights!

I will bar no honest man my house, nor no cheater

Much Ado, ii. 3.

Tam, of the Shrew, v. 2.
Romeo and Juliet, i. 5.
Timon of Athens, i. 2.
Macbeth, i. 4.
Julius Caesar, ì. 2.
Macbeth, iv. 1.

Henry V. i. 2.
Henry VIII. v. 3.

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2.
Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

iii. 2.

.2 Henry IV. ii. 4.

x Henry VI. i. 4. Coriolanus, iii. 1.

They supposed I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant
BARBARIANS. I would they were barbarians, as they are, Though in Rome littered
BARBAROUS. — Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singuled from the barbarous. Love's L. Lost, v. 1.

For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl

BARBARY.-He'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if her feathers turn back

I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen. - Hath any man seen him at the barber's?

BARBER.

No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him

Othello, ii. 3.

2 Henry IV. ii. 4. As You Like It, iv. 1. Much Ado, iii. 2.

iii. 2. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Hamlet, ii. 2.

. Mer. of Venice, ii. 9. 1 Henry IV, iv. 2. Romeo and Juliet, v. 1.

Hamlet, iii. 1. King Lear, v. 3.

Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, As much in mock as mark And cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop This is too long. It shall to the barber's, with your beard BARE. How many then should cover that stand bare! Methinks they are exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die? When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin My name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit BARE-CONE. Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone BAREFOOT.-Would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip BARENESS. And for their bareness, I am sure they never learned that of me 1 Henry IV. iv. 2. You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves And mock us with our bareness All's Well, iv. 2. BARGAIN. Take you this. And seal the bargain with a holy kiss. Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 2. The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in
Scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends.
No bargains break that are not this day made

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair
Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.
BARGAINED.-'T is bargained twixt us twain, being alone

BARGE

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water BARK.-Mine, as sure as bark on tree.

.

1 Henry IV. ii. 4. Othello, iv. 3.

Love's L. Lost, iii. 1.

111. I. V. 2.

Mer. of Venice, iii. 1.

King John, iii. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 2.

iii. I. Cymbeline, i. 4.

Tam. of the Shrew, ii. 1.

. Ant. and Cleo, ii. 2. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay!. Mer, of Venice, ii. 6. Mar no more trees with writing love-songs in their barks

And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race

As You Like It, iii. 2.
Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

BARK. Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we: This way fall I to death.
I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft, Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom
In one little body thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind

The bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs
Now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Leaked is our bark, And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck.
Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up
Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
Prepare thyself; The bark is ready, and the wind at help.
Let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high
BARKING. The envious barking of your saucy tongue

Than dogs that are as often beat for barking As therefore kept to do so
BARKY. -The female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm

2 Henry VI. iii. 2. Richard III. iii. 7. iv. 4

Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.
iii. 5-
v. 3-

Timon of Athens, iv. 2.
Julius Cæsar, v. I.
Macbeth, i. 3.
Hamlet, iv. 3.
Othello, ii. 1.
1 Henry VI. iii. 4.
Coriolanus, ii. 3.
Mid. N. Dream, iv. 1.

If your husband have stables enough, you 'll see he shall lack no barns
BARNACLES. - We shall lose our time, And all be turned to barnacles
BARNE.-Mercy on's, a barne; a very pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder?
For they say barnes are blessings

BARRABAS. -Would any of the stock of Barrabas Had been her husband!
BARRED. Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy?
Purpose so barred, it follows, Nothing is done to purpose

Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms

BARREN tasks, too hard to keep, Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!

For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

Of that kind Our rustic garden 's barren.

ii. I.

1 Henry IV. ii. 3. Much Ado, iii. 4. Tempest, iv. 1. Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

All's Well, i. 3Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Com. of Errors, v. 1. Coriolanus, iì. 1.

Hamlet, i. 2. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Mer. of Venice, 1. 3. Winter's Tale, iv. 4.

That small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones Richard II. iii. 2. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all

I am not barren to bring forth complaints

I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus

The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse

2 Henry IV. v. 3. Richard III. ii. 2. Coriolanus, i. 1. Julius Caesar, i. 2. Macbeth, iii. 1. Julius Cæsar, iv. 1.

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe
BARREN-SPIRITED. - A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds On abjects.
BARRICADO. — Man is enemy to virginity: how may we barricado it against him?
BARRICADOES. - Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes
BASAN.O, that I were Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar the horned herd!
BASE men, that use them to so base effect!

One more than two. - Which the base vulgar do call three

Things base and vile holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form
The base is right; 't is the base knave that jars

Base men by his endowments are made great

I have sounded the very base-string of humility

All's Well, i. 1. Twelfth Night, iv. 2. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 13. Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 7.

Love's L. Lost, i. 2. Mid N. Dream, i. 1. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 1. Richard II. ii. 31 Henry IV. ii. 4. 2 Henry IV. v. 3. Henry V. ii.

A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys
Base is the slave that pays

I.

Troi. and Cress. iv. Timon of Athens, iii. Julius Cæsar, ii.

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base
There is none of you so mean and base. That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
The strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth
I should prove so base, To sue, and be denied such common grace
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend
Who is here so base that would be a boadman? If any, speak.
To what base uses we may return, Horatio

You base foot-ball player.

'T is the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe. Base and unlustrous as the smoky light That 's fed with stinking tallow