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REBELLION,-continued.

Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd;
Whose white investments figure innocence,
The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,-
Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself,
Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace,
Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war?
Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
Your pens to lances; and your tongue divine
To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?

The rebels are in Southwark; Fly, my lord!
Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,
Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,
And calls your grace usurper, openly,
And vows to crown himself in Westminster.
His army is a ragged multitude

H. IV. PT. II. iv. 1.

Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless :
Sir Humphrey Stafford, and his brothers' death,
Hath given them heart and courage to proceed :
All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,
They call-false caterpillars, and intend their death.

H. VI. PT. II. iv. 4.

Noble English, you are bought and sold;

Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,

And welcome home again discarded faith.

All the regions

Do smilingly revolt; and, who resist,
Are only mock'd for valiant ignorance,
And perish constant fools.

My lord, your son had only but the corps,
But shadows, and the shows of men, to fight:
For that same word, rebellion, did divide
The action of their bodies from their souls;
And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd
As men drink potions; that their weapons only
Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits and souls,
This word, rebellion, it had froze them up,
As fish are in a pond.

Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule,
Nor ever will be rul'd.

Wherefore do I this? so the question stands.
Briefly to this end :-We are all diseas'd;
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
And we must bleed for it: of which disease,
Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.

You may as well

K. J. v. 4.

C. iv. 6.

H. IV. PT. II. i, 1.

C. iii. 1.

H. IV. PT. II. iv. 1.

Strike at the heaven with your staves, as lift them
Against the Roman state; whose course will on

REBELLION,-continued.

The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs
Of more strong link asunder, than can ever
Appear in your impediment.

No kind of traffic

Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none.

Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood.
RECITATION (See also SPEECH).

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'Fore God, my lord, well spoken; with good accent, and good

H. ii. 2.

discretion.
We'll have a speech, straight : Come, give us a taste of your
quality ; come, a passionate speech.

RECKONING.

H. ii. 2.

I am ill at reckoning, it fitteth the spirit of a tapster. L. L. i. 2. O Lord, Sir, it were a pity you should get your living by reckoning, Sir.

RECOGNITION.

Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?

Long is it since I saw him,

But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour,

Which then he wore.

L. L. v. 2.

0. i. 1.

Cym. iv. 2.

Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, you are he; graces will appear, and there's an end.

RECOLLECTION, PAINFUL.

O, it comes o'er my memory,

As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
Boding to all.

RECOMPENCE.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
RECOVERY.

This feather stirs ; she lives! if it be so,
It is a chance that does redeem all sorrows
That ever I have felt.

RECREATION.

Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue,
But moody and dull melancholy,
(Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,)
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest
To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast.

M. A. ii. 1.

0. iv. 1.

T. C. iii. 2.

K. L. v. 3.

C. E. v. 1.

RECREANT SLAVE.

Yet I am thankful: if my heart were great,
'Twould burst at this: Captain, I'll be no more;
But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft
As captain shall: simply the thing I am

Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,
Let him fear this; for it will come to pass,
That every braggart shall be found an ass:
Rust, sword! cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live!
Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!
There's place, and means, for every man alive.
RECRUIT.

A. W. iv. 3.

In very truth, Sir, I had as lief be hanged, Sir, as go; and yet, for mine own part, Sir, I do not care; but rather, because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, I have a desire to stay with my friends; else, Sir, I did not care, for mine own part, so much. H. IV. PT. 1. iii. 4.

REFINEMENT.

By the lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken notice of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, that he galls his kibe. H. v. 1.

I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man.

REFORM.

T. N. ii. 5.

God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.

L. L. iv. 3.

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I tell thee, Jack Cade, the clothier, means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.

H. VI. PT. 11. iv. 2.

I must give over this life, and I will give it over; by the Lord,
an I do not, I am a villain.
H. IV. PT. 1. i. 2.

REGAL CEREMONIES (See also CEREMONY).
This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet
Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof,
No jocund health, that Denmark drinks to-day,
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell;
And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Respeaking earthly thunder.

H. i. 2.

REGAL CEREMONIES,-continued.

As he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out,
The triumph of his pledge.

There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangour sounds.

The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;
And in the cup an union shall he throw

Richer than that which four successive kings

H. i. 4.

H.IV. PT. II. v. 5.

In Denmark's crown have worn ;-Give me the cups;
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,

The trumpet to the cannoneer without,

The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
Now the king drinks to Hamlet.

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In this, the antique and well noted face
Of plain old form is much disfigured:
And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,

It makes the course of thought to fetch about :
Startles and frights consideration;

Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected,
For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.

REGARD.

Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise :
At fools I laugh, not fear them.

H. v. 5.

R. III. iv. 4.

R. III. iv. 4.

K. J. iv. 2.

Cym. iv. 2.

Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son and heir to Mars set at upper end o'the table: no questions asked him by any of the senators, but they stand bald before him. C. iv. 5.

Our general himself makes a mistress of him; sanctifies himself with's hand, and turns up the white o'the eye to his discourse. C. iv. 5.

DEVOTIONAL.

I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted;
* an immortal spirit ;

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And to be talk'd with in sincerity

As with a saint.

REGICIDE.

To do this deed,

Promotion follows: If I could find example
Of thousands, that had struck anointed kings,
And flourish'd after, I'd not do't: but since
Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one,
Let villany itself forswear't.

M. M. i. 5.

W. T. i. 2.

REGICIDE.

As full of valour as of royal blood:

Both have I spilt; O, would the deed were good!
For now the devil, that told me,-I did well,
Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell.

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all; here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,-
We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases,
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague th' inventor: This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips. He's here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking off:
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,

Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,

That tears shall drown the wind.-I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on t'other side.

REGRET.

I had rather

Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,
To have turn'd my leaping time into a crutch,
Than have seen this.

RELATION.

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

RELIGION (See also DISSIMULATION, HYPOCRISY,

TURE).

It is religion that doth make vows kept.

I see you have some religion in you, that you

REMEDIES.

Things without remedy

Should be without regard.

Well of that remedy can no man speak,

That heals the loss, and cures not the disgrace.

fear.

R. II. v. 6.

M. i. 7.

Cym. iv. 2.

H. i. 2.

QUOTING SCRIP

K. J. iii. 1.

Cym. i. 5.

M. iii. 2.

Poems.

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