BROOK [29-30].

The current that with gentle murmur glides,

Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage;
But when his fair course is not hindered,

He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones,
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage,

And so by many winding nooks he strays
With willing sport to the wild ocean.

BROOK [210].

Julia.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. Sc. 7.

he lay along

Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:
1st Lord. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. I.

BROOK [231].

by a running brook,

And Cytherea all in sedges hid,

Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,

Even as the waving sedges play with wind.

2nd Servant. Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Sc. 2.

We see the appearing buds; which to prove fruit,

Hope gives not so much warrant as despair

That frosts will bite them.

BULLETS [267].

Lord Bardolph. 2nd Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3.

O you leaden messengers,

That ride upon the violent speed of fire,

Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,

That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.

Helena. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iii. Sc. 2.

BUSINESS (to) [829].

leave thy damnable faces, and begin.

Hamlet. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

BUTCHER [640]

No man alive can love in such a sort

The thing he means to kill more excellently.

BUTCHER [512)

Eneas. Troilus and Cressida, Act iv. Sc. 1.

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
Warwick, 2nd Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2.

.... be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,
thou shalt not escape calumny.

This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it;
Then out it goes.

CANDLE [202].

Wolsey. Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2.

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

CANDLES [950].

Portia. Merchant of Venice, Act v. Sc. 1.

Base and unlustrous as the smoky light

That's fed with stinking tallow ;

Iachimo. Cymbeline, Act i. Sc. 6.

CAPTAIN [924].

Who does i' the wars more than his captain can
Becomes his captain's captain and ambition,
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Than gain which darkens him.

CAPTAIN [74].

Ventidius. Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Sc. 1.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,

Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Isabella. Measure for Measure, Act ii. Sc. 2.

CAPTAIN (as a spokesman) [752].

under favour, pardon me,

If I speak like a captain.

Alcibiades. Timon of Athens, Act iii. Sc. 5.

CAPTIOUSNESS (caution against) [780].

In such a time as this it is not meet

That every nice offence should bear his comment.

CARE [375].

Cassius. Julius Cæsar, Act iv. Sc. 3.

Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
My care is loss of care, by old care done;
Your care is gain of care, by new care won:
The cares I give I have, though given away;

CARE [721].

King Richard. Richard II., Act iv. Sc. I.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;

CARE [130].

Friar Laurence. Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 3.

care killed a cat,

Claudio. Much Ado about Nothing, Act v. Sc. I.

CARPING [766].

Why should that name be sounded more than

yours?

Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy;

CASE [427].

A rotten case abides no handling.

CASTLE [792].

Westmoreland. 2nd Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1.

This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

Unto our gentle senses.

CAUTION (instinctive) [3].

. . . . the very rats

Instinctively had quit it :

Duncan. Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 6.

Prospero. Tempest, Act i. Sc. 2.

CAUTIOUSNESS (overcautiousness in doing right) [595].

We must not stint

Our necessary actions, in the fear

To cope malicious censurers;

Wolsey. Henry VIII., Act. i. Sc. 2.

CAUTIOUSNESS (overcautiousness often wrong) [595].
. . If we shall stand still,

In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,
We should take root here where we sit, or sit
State-statues only.

Wolsey. Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 2.

'twas caviare to the general:

CAVIARE [824].

CELERITY [927].

Hamlet. Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2.

Celerity is never more admired

Than by the negligent.

Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Sc. 7.

CENSURE [120].

happy are they that can hear their detrac

tions and can put them to mending.

Benedick. Much Ado about Nothing, Act ii. Sc. 3.

CEREMONY [744].

Calpurnia. Julius Cæsar, Act ii. Sc. 2.

Ceremony was but devised at first

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;

But where there is true friendship, there needs

CEREMONY (and love) [780].

When love begins to sicken and decay,

It useth an enforced ceremony.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;