CONCORDANCE

OF

FAMILIAR GEMS FROM SHAKESPEARE.

FAMILIAR in their mouths as Household WORDS.

King Henry V, act iv. sc. 3.

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CONCORDANCE OF FAMILIAR GEMS.

A

Absolute-How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1.

Abstract-They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time.

Hamlet, act ii, sc. 2.

Abuse-Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair

use,

Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.

Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 3.

Accidents Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field,

Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Othello, act i. sc. 3.

Accommodated-Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

King Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2.

Accoutred-Cæsar said to me, 'Darest thou, Cassius,

now

Leap in with me into this angry flood,

And swim to yonder point? Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,

And bade him follow.

Acres

Julius Caesar, act i. sc. 2.

In those holy fields,

Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet,

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Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.

King Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 1.

Acting-Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.

Action

Julius Caesar, act ii. sc. 1.

With devotion's visage

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.

And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.

Action Suit the action to the word, the word to the

action.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.

Actor-As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that follows next.

Richard II, act v. sc. 2.

Adam-Consideration, like an angel, came

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him.

King Henry V, act i. sc. 1.

Admired-You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admired disorder. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. Adorned-She came adorned hither like sweet May. King Richard II, act v. sc. 1.

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

ears yet a precious jewel in his head;

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1.

Adversity-A man I am, cross'd with adversity.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 1.

Adversity-A wretched soul bruised with adversity.

Comedy of Errors, act ii, sc. 1.