But, should he hide his face, th' astonish'd sun,
And all th' extinguish'd stars, would loosening reel
Wide from their spheres, and Chaos come again.
THOMSON, Summer, line 182.

CHARITY.

The shin is further off than the knee:
Let me have something myself.

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,
Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.
CHURCHILL, Gotham, book 1.

CHILDISHNESS.

Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
SHAKSPERE, As you like it, act 2, sc. 7.

CHILDREN.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.

GOLDSMITH, The Traveller.

CIVIL DISSENSION.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
SHAKSPERE, King Henry 6th, part 1, act 3, sc. 1.

CLOUDS.

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish :
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion,
A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,

A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world,

And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs;
They are black vesper's pageants.

SHAKSPERE, Anthony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 12.;

COCK-A-HOOP.

You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!
Ibid, Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 5.

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.

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COME WHAT, &c.

Come what come may;

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
SHAKSPERE, Macbeth, act 1, sc. 3.

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.
SHAKSPERE, infra.

It's like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.
SHAKSPERE, All's well that ends well, act 2, sc. 2.
As common as the stairs

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,
Abuse o' magistrates might weel be spar'd:
To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.
BURNS, Brigs of Ayr:

COMPOUND.

Compound for sins they are inclin❜d to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
BUTLER, Hudibras, canto 1.

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.
SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 3, se. 1.

CONSIDERATION.

Consideration like an angel came,

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him.
SHAKSPERE, King Henry 5th, aet 1, se. 1.

CONTENT.

Content thyself to be obscurely good:

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station.

ADDISON, Cato, act 4, sc. 1.

CONTENTMENT,

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all.

HERRICK'S Hesp. Aphorisms, No. 215.

Mecœnas, what's the cause, that no man lives
Contented with the lot, which reason gives,
Or chance presents; yet all with envy view
The schemes that others variously pursue?
FRANCIS' Horace, book 1, satire 1,