THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE.

Othello, act iii. sc. 3.
K. Henry IV., act iii. sc. 1.
A goodly apple, rotten at the heart.

Alas, poor Yorick!
Albeit unused to the melting mood.
All the world's a stage.*

Hamlet, act v. sc. 1.

Othello, act v. sc. 2.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.

All that glisters is not gold.

Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 7.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 2.
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of.

Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3. Angels are bright still, though the brightest
fell.

A hand

Open as day for melting charity.

A hideous dream.

K. Henry IV., pt. ii. act iv. sc. 4. Are you good men and true?

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.
And then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
Henry VIII., act iii. sc. 2.

Julius Cæsar, act ii. sc 1.

Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3.
Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 3.
Arm'd at all points.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.

As easy as lying.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.

At lovers' perjuries,

A hit, a very palpable hit.

Hamlet, act v. sc. 2.
A horse! a horse! My kingdon for a horse!
K. Richard III., act v. sc. 4.
A king of shreds and patches.
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act ill. sc. 1.
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.
Merry Wives of Windsor act iii. sc. 5. Babbled of green fields.

A nipping and an eager air.
A round unvarnished tale.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 4.
Othello, act i. sc. 3.
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 2.
A twice-told tale.
K. John, act iii. sc. 4.

They say, Jove laughs.

Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2.
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where,
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.

Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1.

Othello, act iii, sc. 3.
pure as snow, thou
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.
Tempest, act ii. sc.2. Bears his blushing honors thick upon him.
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled.
Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 2. Benedick, the married man.
K. Henry VIÏI,, act iii. sc. 2.

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 3.
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.
Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2.
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infi-
nite variety.
Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 2.
Alacrity in sinking.

Merry Wives, act iii. sc. 5.

Much Ado, act i. sc. 1.
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

K. Henry IV., pt. i. act i. sc. 3.

* "Totus mundus agit histrionem,' an obser-
vation which occurs in one of the fragments of
is said to have been the motto over Shakespeare's
Petronius, and may even be traced still higher,
theatre, the Globe, and was probably in his day a
familiar apothegm."- Staunton's Shakespeare.
970

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

Beware

Crack of doom.

Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1.

Julius Cæsar, act ii. sc. 1. Cry Havock! and let slip the dogs of war.

Of entrance to a quarrel.
Beware the Ides of March.

Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 1.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. Curses not loud, but deep.

Julius Cæsar, act i. sc. 2.
Bless thee, Bottom' bless thee thou art
translated'

Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii. sc. 1.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2.
Brief as the lightning in the collied night.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act i. sc. 1.
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.

Othello, act 1, sc. 1.

Dance attendance.

Dark as Erebus.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 3.
Henry VIII., act v. sc. 2.
Merchant of Venice, act v. sc. 1.

The Tempest, act i. sc. 2.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there
shall be no more cakes and ale?.

Twelfth Night, act. ii. sc. 3.
Dotes yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
Othello, act iii. sc. 3.

Doubts are traitors.

Care's an enemy to life.
Caviare to the general.
Chaste as the icicle.

Measure for Measure, act i. sc. 5.
Dreadful note of preparation.

Twelfth Night, act i. sc. 3.

Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2.

Dress'd in a little brief authority.

Henry V., Chorus, act iv.
Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2.

King Lear, act iv. sc. 6.

Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. Familiar in their mouths as household words.

K. Henry V., act iv. sc. 3.

Time and the hour run through the roughest Fantastic tricks before high heaven.
day.

Comparisons are odorous.*

Macbeth, act i. sc. 2,
Much Ado, act iii. sc. 5
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.
Consideration, like an angel came,
And whipped the offending Adam out of him.
K. Henry V., act i. sc. 1.
Convey, the wise call it. "Steal?" foh! a fico
for the phrase!

Merry Wives, act i. sec. 3.

Cowards die many times before their death.t
Julius Cæsar, act ii. sc. 2.

K. Henry VIII., act iii. sc. 2.
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act iv. sc. 2.
DONNE, The Comparison. For courage mounteth with occasion.

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 1.
For this relief, much thanks.

For

Hamlet, act i. sc. 1.
you and I are past our dancing days.
Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 5.
Foreheads villanous low.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

Tempest, act iv. sc. 1.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin, new reaped
Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home.
1 K. Henry IV., act i. sc. 3.
Full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 5.
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard.
As You Like It, act 11. sc. 7.
Full of wise saws and modern instances.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.

Give the devil his due.

K Henry IV., pt. i. act i. sc. 2
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 3.
Gives to airy nothing
Midsummer Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1.
God made him, therefore let him pass for a man.
Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 2

A local habitation and a name.

Golden opinions.
Good men and true.
Good wine needs no bush.

Grim-visaged war.

Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.

Much Ado, act iii. sc. 3.
As You Like It- Epilogue.

Her voice was ever soft,

Gentle and low,- an excellent thing in woman.
King Lear, act v. sc. 3.
His nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of
green fields.
K. Henry V., act ii. sc. 3.

Hoist with his own petar.
Honor hath no skill in surgery.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.
1 K. Henry IV., act v. sc. 1.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
The Merchant of Venice, act v. sc. 1.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child'
King Lear, act i. sc. 4.
How use doth breed a habit in a man'
The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
act v. sc. 4.

Hyperion to a satyr!
Household words.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.

K. Henry V., act iv. sc. 3.
Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 1.
Othello, act ii. sc. 1.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
The Merchant of Venice, act v. sc. 1.

I am constant as the northern star.

I am nothing, if not critical.

I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!
Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 1.

I bear a charmed life.
I could a tale unfold.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 7.

Richard 111., act i. sc. 1.
Good name, in man and woman; dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Othello, act iii. sc. 3.
Othello, act i. sc. 3. I do perceive here a divided duty.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 5,
I could have better spared a better man.
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act v. sc. 4.
I dare do all that may become a man.
Who dares do more is none.

Hair-breadth 'scapes.

Hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs.
King John, act iii. sc. 3.
Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings.
Cymbeline, act ii. sc. 3

He dies and makes no sign.

K. Henry VI., pt. ii. act iii, sc. 3.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more
natural.

Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 3.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.

Othello, act i. sc. 3.
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.

Julius Cæsar, act iv. sc. 3.

I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act iv. sc. 1.

I have no other but a woman's reason; I think
him so, because I think him so.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
act i. sc. 2.

K. Henry IV., pt. ii. act ii. sc. 1. I have thee on the hip.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

The Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2.

He must needs go that the devil drives.
All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3.

He that doth the ravens feed.

I'll put a girdle round about the earth

In forty minutes.*

Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

I'll tickle your catastrophe.

2 K. Henry IV., act ii. sc. 1. Lay on, Macduff!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 7.

The Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. Lean and slippered pantaloon.

I think there be six Richmonds in the field.
K. Richard III., act v. sc. 4.
I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove;
I will roar you, an't were any nightingale.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act i. sc. 2.
I would applaud thee to the very echo.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 3.
I would that I were low laid in my grave.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Hamlet, act v. sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice, act iii. sc. 1.
Let me not burst in ignorance.

Let it serve for table-talk,

Hamlet, act i. sc. 4.
K. John, act ii. sc. 1. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are un-

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly.

Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.

wrung.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
King John, act iii. sc. 4.
Twelfth Night, act i. sc. 1. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile.
Love's Labor's Lost, act i. sc. 1.

If music be the food of love, play on.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Infirm of purpose.
Into a towering passion.

Like a dewdrop on a lion's mane.

Troilus and Cressida, act iii, sc. 3.
Lives and dies in single blessedness.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1. sc. 1.
Look here, upon this picture, and on this.
Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1.
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.
Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying!
K. Henry 11., pt. i. act v. sc. 4.
The Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 2. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.

Intolerable, not to be endured.

Is she not passing fair?

The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
act iv. sc. 4.

It beggar'd all description.

Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 2.
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

The Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. Making night hideous.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 2.

And as great seamen, using all their wealth
And skill in Neptune's deep invisible path,
In tall ships richly built, and ribb'd with brass,
To put a girdle round about the world.
And in SHIRLEY's Humourous Courtier, act i. More in sorrow, than in anger.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 4.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.

with the Antipodes, almost put a girdle about the More sinned against than sinning.
world."- STAUNTON'S SHAKESPEARE.

King Lear, act iii. sc. 2.