But, should he hide his face, th' astonish'd sun, CHARITY. The shin is further off than the knee: BUCKLEY'S Theocritus, p. 84. I to myself am dearer than a friend. SHAKSPERE, Two Gent. of Verona, act 2, sc. 6, Buckley, sup. CHILD-BIRTH. The pleasing punishment that women bear. Ibid, Comedy of Errors, act 1, sc. 1. CHILDHOOD. Childhood, who like an April morn appears, CHILDISHNESS. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, CHILDREN. By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; GOLDSMITH, The Traveller. CIVIL DISSENSION. Civil dissension is a viperous worm CLOUDS. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish : A forked mountain, or blue promontory And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; SHAKSPERE, Anthony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 12.; COCK-A-HOOP. You'll make a mutiny among my guests! COCKLE. Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn. Ibid, Love's Labour Lost, act 4, sc. 3. For as you sow, y' are like to reap. BUTLER, Hudibras, part 2, canto 2, line 504. COME LIVE, &c. Come live with me, and be my love. A Song, Knight's Shakspere, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3. E COME WHAT, &c. Come what come may; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. COMING EVENTS. Coming events cast their shadows before. CAMPBELL, Lochiel. COMMON. As common as a barber's chair. BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. 1651, p. 665. It's like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks. That mount the capitol. SHAKSPERE, Cymbeline, act 1, sc. 7. As common as the highway. Old Proverb, Knight's Shakspere, supra. COMPANY. Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. SHAKSPERE, King Henry 4th, part 1, act 3, sc. 3. COMPARE. So I had known whelps like dogs, so kids like their dams: thus was I wont to compare great things with small. DAVIDSON'S Virgil, by Buckley, p. 2. If I may be allowed to compare little matters with great ones, Anapis also loved me. RILEY'S Ovid's Meta. p. 174. COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS. But under favour o' your langer beard, COMPOUND. Compound for sins they are inclin❜d to, Stop up COMPUNCTION. Make thick my blood, the access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. SHAKSPERE, Macbeth, act 1, sc. 5. CONDUCT. And let men so conduct themselves in life, As to be always strangers to defeat. Precept of Atreus, Yonge's Cicero, Tusculan Disp. book 5, div. 18. CONFUSION. I saw and heard, for such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep, With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. MILTON, Paradise Lost, book 2, line 993. CONSCIENCE. Conscience does make cowards of us all. CONSIDERATION. Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. CONTENT. Content thyself to be obscurely good: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, ADDISON, Cato, act 4, sc. 1. CONTENTMENT, Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, HERRICK'S Hesp. Aphorisms, No. 215. Mecœnas, what's the cause, that no man lives |