of hard confcience, to offer to counsel me to stay with

the Jew.

Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 2.

At that very moment,

Confideration like an angel came,

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him;
Leaving his body as a paradife,

To envelop and contain celestial spirits.

Henry V. A. 1, S. 1.

CONSPIRACY.
O confpiracy!

Sham'ft thou to fhew thy dangerous brow by night,
When evils are most free? O, then, by day,
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough,
To mask thy monftrous vifage? Seek none con-
fpiracy;

Hide it in fmiles, and affability;

For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
Not Erebus itself were dim enough

To hide thee from prevention.

Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1.

CONTEMPLATIO N.
When would you, my liege,

In leaden contemplation, have found out
Such fiery numbers, as the prompting eyes
Of beauteous tutors have enrich'd you with?

Love's Labour Loft, A. 4, S. 3.

When holy and devout religious men

Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence;

So fweet is zealous contemplation.

Richard III. A.

3, S. 7:

CONTENT.

CONTENT.

O now, for ever,

Farewel the tranquil mind! farewel content;
Farewel the plumed troop, and the big wars,
That make ambition virtue !

Othello, A. 3, S. 3.

Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
Dies in the zeal of that which it prefents,

There form confounded makes most form in mirth ;
When great things labouring perifh in their birth.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 2.

If thou, that bidft me be content, wert grim,
Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
Patch'd with foul moles, and eye-offending marks,
I would not care, I then would be content.

King John, A. 3, S. 1.

Beft ftate, contentlefs,

Hath a distracted and moft wretched being,
Worfe than the worst, content.

Timon of Athens, A, 4, S. 3.

This diamond he greets your wife withal,

By the name of moft kind hoftefs; and fhut up

In measureless content. I

Macbeth, A. S. 1.

CONTENTIO N.

Let this world no longer be a stage,

To feed contention in a lingering act;
But let one fpirit of the first-born Cain
Reign in all bofoms, that, each heart being fet
On bloody courses, the rude fcene may end,
And darkness be the burier of the dead!

I

Shut up

Henry IV. P. 2. A. 1, S. I,

In meafureless content.] Mr. Steevens fays, that to shut up is to conclude; and then quotes three or four paffages to prove, that fuch is its meaning. Shut up in, however, is given up to-enjoying. "My foul hath her content fo abfolute," &c. Othello.

E 4

A. B.

- Every

Every minute now,

Should be the father of fome ftratagem:
The times are wild, contention, like a horfe
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 1.

COUNTENANCE.
-Thou shalt not fee me blush,
Nor change my countenance for this arreft;
A heart unfpotted is not eafily daunted.
The pureft fpring is not fo free from mud,
As I am clear from treafon to my fovereign :

Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 1.

Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow,; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him, as a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 5.

Pardon me, I pray you;
I thought, that all things had been favage here,
And therefore put I on the countenance

Of ftern commandment.

As you like it, A. 2, S. 7.

Heaven witness;

I have been to you a true and humble wife,

At all times to your will conformable :

Ever in fear to kindle your diflike,

Yea, fubject to your countenance; glad, or forry,

As I faw it inclin'd.

Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4.

O, he fits high in all the people's hearts:
And that, which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue, and to worthiness.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 3.

Turn from me then that noble countenance,
Wherein the worfhip of the whole world lies.1

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 4, S. 12.
COUN

COUNTERFEIT.

'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me fcot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S. 4.

COURAGE.

By how much unexpected, by fo much
We must awake endeavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occafion.

King John, A. 2, S. 1.

COUR T.

If thou never waft at court, thou never faw'ft good manners; if thou never faw'ft good manners, then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is fin, and fin is damnation. As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

We two alone will fing like birds i'the cage :
When thou doft afk my bleffing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgivenefs: fo we'll live,
And pray, and fing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news.
Lear, A. 5, S. 3.
Thefe are kind creatures. Gods, what lies I have heard!

1 The worship of the whole world.] The worship is the dignity, the authority. JOHNSON. This can hardly be faid of Antony, who has entirely loft his dignity and authority. Eros rather means to fay, whom the whole world should, or ought to worship and obey.

A. B.

Our

Our courtiers fay, all's favage, but at court:
Experience, O, thou difprov'ft report!'

Cymbeline, A. 4, S. 2.

Up to yon hill,

Your legs are young; I'll tread thefe flats. Confider,
When you above perceive me like a crow,
That it is place, which leffens, and fets off.

And you may then revolve what tales I have told you,
Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war.

Cymbeline, A. 3, S. 3.

This mortal house I'll ruin,

Do Cæfar what he can. Know, fir, that I
Will not wait pinion'd at your mafter's court;
Nor once be chaftiz'd with the fober eye

Of dull Octavia. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 5, S. 2. I knew him once a fervant of the prince; I cannot tell, good fir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipp'd out of the court.

Winter's Tale, A, 4, S. 2.

Seeft thou not the air of the court, in these enfoldings? hath not my gait in it, the measure of the court receives not thy nofe court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy bafenefs, court contempt ?

Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 3.

COURTESY.

He did feem to dive into their hearts,

With humble and familiar courtesy ;
Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;
A brace of draymen bid-God fpeed him well,
And had the tribute of his fupple knee,

With-Thanks, my country-men, my loving friends.

Richard II. A. 1, S. 4.

Experience, O, thou difprov ft report.] We fhould read,

Experience, O, how thou difprov'ft report."

A. B.

The