Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.
Noting this penury, to myself I said-
An if a man did need a poison now,
Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.
R. J., V: 1. 1273.

ARDOR.-Youthful.

Hot. No more, no more; worse than the sun in March,

This praise doth nourish agues.

II. IV., 1 pt., IV: 1. 753. ARGUMENT.- Confusion in.

The. His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered. M. N., V: 1. 343.

ARMOR.-Putting on.

Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges! Small things make base men proud: this

villain here,

Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more

Evades them, with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
And, in conclusion, nonsuits

My mediators; "for, certes," says he,
"I have already chose my officer."
And what was he?

Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife:
That never set a squadron in the field,
Nor the division of a battle knows

More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,

Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he mere prattle, without practice,

Is all his soldiership. But, he, sir, had the election.

ASS.-Detected.

O., I: 1. 1491.

Fal. I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. M. W., V: 5. 119.

Dogh. Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass! but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass:No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be prov'd upon thee, by good witness. I am a wise fellow; and, which is more, an officer; and, which is more, a householder; and, which is more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina; and one that knows the law, go to; and a rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath had losses; and one that hath two gowns and everything handsome about him: - Bring him away. O, that I had been writ down an ass!.