ACQUAINTED.

I was well born, Nothing acquainted with these businesses

May be As things acquainted and familiar to us ACQUITTANCE. -Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me

Now must your conscience my acquittance seal

ACRE.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground My bosky acres and my unshrubbed down, Rich scarf to my proud earth

In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet.

If thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us

ACT. To perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue.

We do not act that often jest and laugh

Now puts the drowsy and neglected act Freshly on me

His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, And must be buried but as an intent

One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages

On us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act.
Honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive
And would not put my reputation now In any staining act

He finished indeed his mortal act That day.

The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes
The better act of purposes mistook Is to mistake again .

Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it.
This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome
If I in act, consent, or sin of thought Be guilty

Be great in act, as you have been in thought

The most arch act of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of
The honour of it Does pay the act of it

The desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit

The book of his good acts, whence men have read His fame unparalleled

So smile the heavens upon this holy act

Thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast

My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

Even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done

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All's Well, iii. 7. .2 Henry IV. v. 2. Richard III. iii. 7. Hamlet, iv. 7. Tempest, i. 1. iv. I.

1 Henry IV. i. I. Hamlet, v. 1. Tempest, ii. 1. Merry Wives, iv. 2. Meas. for Meas. i. 2.

V. I.

Richard III. iv. 3. Henry VIII. iii. 2. Troi. and Cress. iii. 2. Coriolanus, v. 2.

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 6.

Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme

Whilst they distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb .

As he in his particular act and place May give his saying deed.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act
About some act That has no relish of salvation in 't

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty

With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act

Ay me, what act, That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?

It argues an act: and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, to perform .
My outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart.
When the blood is made dull with the act of sport

Othello, i. 1.

ii. 1.

iii. 3.

Ant. and Cleo. ii. 2.

Though I am bound to every act of duty, I am not bound to that all slaves are free to
We shall remain in friendship, our conditions So differing in their acts
Senseless bauble, Art thou a feodary for this act?

It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness

Few love to hear the sins they love to act

ACTED. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over!
Till strange love, grown bold, Think true love acted simple modesty

I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted.

Cymbeline, iii. 2.

ACTING. Or that the resolute acting of your blood Could have attained the effect Meas. for Meas. ii. 1. It is a part That I shall blush in acting

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion

ACTION. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance

I can construe the action of her familiar style

More reasons for this action At our more leisure shall I render you

In action all of precept, he did show me The way twice o'er.

Coriolanus, ii. 2. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. Tempest, v. 1. Merry Wives, i. 3. Meas. for Meas i. 3.

iv. 1.

As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller

Action and accent did they teach him there.

Do not fret yourself too much in the action.

How many actions most ridiculous Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? As You Like It, 4. Certainly a woman's thought runs before her actions

iv. I. iv. 3.

Tam, of the Shrew, iii. 2.

Whilst he that hears makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods
The graceless action of a heavy hand, If that it be the work of any hand
And on our actions set the name of right With holy breath
Am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate?

Not a dangerous action can peep out his head but I am thrust upon it
The instant action: a cause on foot Lives so in hope

Twelfth Night, iv. 1.
Winter's Tale, iii. 2.
King John, iii. 4.

The undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on .
That action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days
Let another half stand laughing by, All out of work and cold for action
So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose.
When the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger
I cannot give due action to my words, Except a sword or sceptre balance it.
We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women

So rauch I am happy Above a number, if my actions Were tried by every tongue.
After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions.
Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest reared

As if The passage and whole carriage of this action Rode on his tide

Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action

Your helps are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous single
He hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly

For in such business action is eloquence

When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors

These indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play.

Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground
In action bow like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

ill. 4. IV. 2.

iv. 3.

V. 2.

1 Henry IV. iii. 3. 2 Henry IV. i. 2.

i. 3.

ii. 4.

iv. 5.

Henry V. i. 2.

i. 2. ill. I.

2 Henry VI. v. 1. Henry VIII. i. 2.

ii. 3.

iii. I.

iv. 2.

Troi. and Cress. i. 3.

ii. 3. 111. 3.

Coriolanus, ii. 1.

ii. 1.

iii. 2.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified Rom. & Jul. ii. 3.

Macbeth, iv. 2.

. Hamlet, i. 2.

i. 4. ii. 2. iii. I.

I.

111. 2.

That with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action
Seit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance
'Tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature
Do not look upon me; Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects
To the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery
My outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart.
They have used Their dearest action in the tented field
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short

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That which combined us was most great, and let not A leaner action rend us
But his whole action grows Not in the power on't

I never saw an action of such shame

If you will make 't an action, call witness to 't

My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relished of a base descent ACTIVITY. - Doing is activity; and he will still be doing

She 'll bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your activity in question. ACTOR. - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits.

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it

I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome.

Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
Hamlet, ii. 2.

Then came each actor on his ass, - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy ii. 2. ACUTE. A most acute juvenal; volable and free of grace!.

Love's L. Lost, iii. 1.

But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it
ADAGE. Letting I dare not' wait upon 'I would;' Like the poor cat i' the adage
ADAM.- - What, have you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?
Not that Adam that kept the Paradise.

iv. 2.

Macbeth, i. 7.

Com. of Errors, iv. 3. iv. 3. Much Ado, i. 1.

il. I. ii. 1.

Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

He that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder, and called Adam
Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred
Though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve; A' can carve too, and lisp.
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference
Since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock 1 Henry IV. ii. 4.
Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell

As You Like It, ii. 1.

Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim

Gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam's profession
The Scripture says Adam digged: could he dig without arms?

ADAMANT. -You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant

iii. 3.

Henry V. i. 1. Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1. Hamlet, v. 1.

They supposed I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant

As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre

ADD. It adds a precious seeing to the eye

ADDER. O brave touch! Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?

With doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.

V. I.

Mid. N. Dream, ii. 1.

1 Henry VI. i. 4.. Troi. and Cress. iii. 2. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

iii. 2.

Is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye? Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3. Art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf? Be poisonous too.

Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!.

2 Henry VI. iii. 2. 3 Henry VI. i. 4. Troi, and Cress. ii. 2. Titus Andron. ii. 3.

Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
Even as an adder when she doth unroll To do some fatal execution
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.
My two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged
Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder
Were it Toad, or Adder, Spider, 'T would move me sooner

ADDICTED. Being addicted to a melancholy as she is

If 't be he I mean, he's very wild; Addicted so and so

ADDICTION. Since his addiction was to courses vain, His companies unlettered

Each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him
ADDITION. Yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends
It is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly

Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour
Hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions

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To undercrest your good addition To the fairness of my power.
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition
Such addition as your honours Have more than merited.
ADDRESS. It lifted up its head and did address Itself to motion
ADHERE. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both
And sure I am two men there are not living To whom he more adheres
ADIEU. - You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adicu .
ADJUNCT.Learning is but an adjunct to ourself

Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it

Macbeth, iv. 1. Hamlet, iii. 4. King Lear, v. I. Cymbeline, iv. 2. Twelfth Night, ii. 5.

Hamlet, ii. 1. Henry V. i. 1. Othello, ii. 2. Merry Wives, ii. 2. Much Ado, ii. 3. All's Well, ii. 3. Troi, and Cress. i. 2. Coriolanus, i. 9.

Hamlet, 1. 4. King Lear, v. 3. Hamlet, i. 2. Macbeth, i. 7. Hamlet, ii. 2. All's Well, ii. 1. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

King John, iii. 3.

ADMIRABLE. You are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse.
It form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
ADMIRAL.Thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the poop
ADMIRATION. Indeed the top of admiration! worth What's dearest to the world

It is the greatest admiration in the universal world

Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear
Not protract with admiration what Is now due debt.

ADMIRED. Broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder

Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Hamlet, ii. 2.

Henry IV. iii. 3.
Tempest, iii. 1.
Henry V. iv. 1.
Hamlet, i. 2.

Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Macbeth, iii. 4.

ADMITTANCE. - Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great admittance Merry Wives, ii. 2.

Too confident To give admittance to a thought of fear

What If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold Which buys admittance ADMONISHMENT.-Thy grave admonishments prevail with me

So much ungently tempered, To stop his ears against admonishment

2 Henry IV. iv. 1.

Cymbeline, ii. 3.

.1 Henry VI. ii. 5.

Troi, and Cress. v. 3.

ADMONITION -Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in the same kind! Meas. for Meas. iii. 2.

Darest with thy frozen admonition Make pale our cheek

ADO.- Here's such ado to make no stain a stain As passes colouring

Richard II. ii. 1. Winter's Tale, vi. 2.

Mer. of Venice, i. 1. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 4.

Such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself Do you like this haste? We'll keep no great ado, - a friend or two. Aposts painted by a running brook, And Cytherea all in sedges hid Tam. of the Shrew, Induc. 2. ADOPTION.- Stand under the adoption of abominable terms 'Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature

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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul
ADORATION. -All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness
Show me but thy worth! What is thy soul of adoration?.

ADORE. I may command where I adore.

At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun
Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper
This gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens
ADORER.Though I profess myself her adorer, not her friend
ADRIATIC.-Were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas
ADVANCE.Who to advance and who To trash for over-topping.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond
You do advance your cunning more and more

Merry Wives, ii. 2.
All's Well, i. 3.
Hamlet, i. 3.

As You Like It, v. 2.
Henry V. iv. 1.
Twelfth Night, ii. 5.
Two Gen. of Verona, ii. 6.
All's Well, i. 3.
Cymbeline, iii. 3.
i. 4.
Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.
Tempest, i. 2.

i. 2.

Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2. 2 Henry IV. i. 3. Richard III. i. 3.

Gladly would be better satisfied How in our means we should advance ourselves. ADVANCEMENT. You envy my advancement and my friends'.

Do not think I flatter; For what advancement may I hope from thee?

His own disorders Deserved much less advancement.

Hamlet, iii. 2. King Lear, ii. 4.

ADVANTAGE.-Make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage Tempest, i. 1.

The next advantage Will we take throughly
Made use and fair advantage of his days

To take an ill advantage of his absence

I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself

Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow Upon advantage

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.

Call for our chiefest men of discipline, To cull the plots of best advantages
And deny his youth The rich advantage of good exercise
What pricks you on To take advantage of the absent time?

iii. 3.

Two Gen. of l'erona, ii. 4. Merry Wives, iii. 3. Meas. for Meas. iv. t. Mer. of Venice, i. 3. ii. 7. King John, ii. 1. iv. 2. Richard II. ii. 3. 1 Henry IV. i. 1.

Fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross
The money shall be paid back again with advantage.
Let's away: Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay
Turning past evils to advantages

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness

ii. 4.

iii. 2.

2 Henry IV. iv. 4. Henry V. iii. 6.

All shall be forgot, But he 'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

The advantage of the time prompts me aloud To call for recompense
And lose advantage, which doth ever cool I' the absence of the needer

It shall advantage more than do us wrong

iv. 3.

Richard III. iv. 1. Troi. and Cress. iii. 3.

Coriolanus, iv. 1. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.

A finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages
Give me advantage of some brief discourse

ADVANTAGEABLE.

ADVANTAGEOUS.

Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best Shall see advantageable Henry l'. v. 2. Here is every thing advantageous to life. - True; save means to live Tempest, ii. 1. I do not fly, but advantageous care Withdrew me from the odds of multitude ADVANTAGING their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

ADVENTURE. I will not adventure my discretion so weakly

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Troi. and Cress. v. 4.
Richard III. iv. 4.
Tempest, ii. 1.

As You Like It, ii. 4.
Winter's Tale, i. 2.
Mer. of Venice, i. 1.
1 Henry IV. iii. 2.
Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.
Richard III. i. 1.

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i. 3.

Searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found mine own Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week. ADVENTURING,- By adventuring both I oft found both ADVERSARIES. - Rendered such aspect As cloudy men use to their adversaries Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends Instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, A liberal rewarder of his friends. ADVERSARY. Thou art come to answer a stony adversary, an inhuman wretch Mer. of Venice, iv. 1. My dancing soul doth celebrate This feast of battle with mine adversary. Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope ADVERSITIES. All indign and base adversities Make head against my estimation! ADVERSITY.I have little wealth to lose: A man I am crossed with adversity Two Gen. of Verona, iv. 1. A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry Com. of Errors, ii. 1. Be patient. Nay, 't is for me to be patient; I am in adversity. iv. 4.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous

Richard II. i. 3.
King Lear, v. 3.
Othello, i. 3.

As You Like It, ii. 1.

3 Henry VI. iii, 1. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 3.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy To comfort thee.

ADVERTISEMENT. — My griefs cry louder than advertisement
ADVERTISING. - As I was then Advertising and holy to your business

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Much Ado, v. 1. Meas. for Meas. v. 1. iv. 1. Winter's Tale, ii. 1.

ADVICE. - A man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent
Inform yourselves We need no more of your advice.

His former strength may be restored With good advice and little medicine
Now I begin to relish thy advice: And I will give a taste of it

If you will take a homely man's advice, Be not found here

ADVISINGS. Therefore fasten your ear on my advisings.
ADVOCATE.- What! an advocate for an impostor!
My soul should sue as advocate for thee.
Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant
ADVOCATION. - My advocation is not now in tune.

ÆGEON. Helpless doth Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end
If thou be'st the same Egeon, speak, And, speak

NEAS. As did Eneas old Anchises bear, So bear I thee.

2 Henry IV. iii. 1. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. Macbeth, iv. 2. Meas. for Meas. ¡¡¡. 1. Tempest, i. 2. .Com. of Errors, i. 1. Winter's Tale, iv. 4. Othello, ii. 4. Com. of Errors, i. 1.

But then Eneas bare a living load, Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine
True honest men being heard, like false Æneas, Were in his time thought false
AFRIAL.Till we make the main and the aerial blue An indistinct regard.
AERY. — I was born so high, Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top
Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.

An aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question
ESCULAPIUS.- What says my Esculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder?
Let Æsop fable in a winter's night.

ÆSOP.
AFEARD. A conqueror, and afeard to speak! run away for shame.

And yet to be afeard of my deserving were but a weak disabling of myself
I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle

V. I.

. 2 Henry VI. v. 2.

V. 2.

Cymbeline, iii. 4. .Othello, ii. 1. Richard III. i. 3.

i. 3. Hamlet, ii. 2. Merry Wives, ii. 3. 3 Henry VI. v. 5.

. Love's L. Lost, v. 2. Mer, of Venice, ii. 7.

Henry V. iv. 1.

Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far, To be afeard to tell graybeards the truth? J. Cæsar, ii. 2. Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?.

AFFABILITY. - Hide it in smiles and affability

You do not use me with that affability as in discretion you ought to use me.
Hearing of her beauty and her wit, Her affability, and bashful modesty. Tam.

Macbeth, v. 1. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.

Henry . ii. 2. of the Shrew, ii. 1.