ACTOR (advice to) [827].

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it

to you, trippingly on the tongue :

ADDRESS (contemptuous) [758].

Hamlet.

Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out
of the city?

ADORATION [258].

Timon. Timon of Athens, Act iv. Sc. 3.

thus, Indian-like,

Religious in mine error, I adore

Helena. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. Sc. 3.

ADVANCE [808].

The cry is still 'They come :'

ADVENTURER [49].

Macbeth. Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 5.

Why, then the world's mine oyster,

Which I with sword will open.

Pistol. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act ii. Sc. 2.

ADVERSITY [210].

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Duke Senior. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. I.

ADVERTISEMENT [401].

Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,

Hotspur. Ist Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1.

ADVICE (on behaviour).-See BEHAVIOUR.

ADVICE (easily given) [182-3].

If to do were as easy as to know what were good
to do, chapels had been churches and poor
men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good
divine that follows his own instructions: I can
easier teach twenty what were good to be done,
than be one of the twenty to follow mine own
teaching.

Portia. Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 2.

AGE [914].

Though age from folly could not give me freedom,
It does from childishness:

Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, Act i. Sc. 3.

AGE (its powerlessness) [919].

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety :

Enobarbus. Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. Sc. 2.

AGE (vigorous old age to be respected) [931].

[Aside] 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp
Than with an old one dying.

Enobarbus. Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Sc. 13.

AGE (its characteristics) [749].

Have their ingratitude in them hereditary :
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;
'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;
And nature, as it grows again toward earth,
Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.

Timon. Timon of Athens, Act ii. Sc. 2.

AGE (its childishness) [823].

AGE [838].

they say an old man is twice a child.

Rosencrantz. Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2.

the unruly waywardness that infirm and

choleric years bring with them.

Goneril. King Lear, Act i. Sc. I.

AGE (a fitting) [852].

Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing,
nor so old to dote on her for any thing:

AGE (its proper accompaniments) [807].

And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have ;

AGE (old) [214].

Macbeth. Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 3.

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

AGE (its silliness) [125].

Jaques. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

When the age is in, the wit is out :

Dogberry. Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 5.

AGES (the seven) [214].-See WORLD A STAGE.

Jaques. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

AGONY (unaffected by mirth) [159].

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, Act v. Sc. 2.

what thou wouldst highly,

That wouldst thou holily;

Lady Macbeth. Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 5.

AIR [440].

The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,

Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry V., Act i. Sc. 1.

birds of self-same feather.

Queen Margaret. 3rd Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3.

....

I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?

AMEN [794].

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

I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.

Macbeth. Macbeth, Act ii. Sc. 2.

AMENDS [584].

I cannot make you what amends I would,
Therefore accept such kindness as I can.

AMITY [633].

King Richard. Richard III., Act iv. Sc. 4.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily
untie.

ANGEL [842].

Ulysses. Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Sc. 3.

A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him.

ANXIETY [151].

....

Norfolk. Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 1.

Rosaline. Love's Labour's Lost, Act v. Sc. 2.

'past cure is still past care.'

ANXIETY [316].

What's gone and what's past help

Should be past grief :

APPAREL [815-16].

Paulina. Winter's Tale, Act iii. Sc. 2.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;.

For the apparel oft proclaims the man,

APPAREL [83].

....

Polonius. Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3.

every true man's apparel fits your thief.

Abhorson. Measure for Measure, Act iv. Sc. 2.