CONCORDANCE

OF

FAMILIAR GEMS FROM SHAKESPEARE.

FAMILIAR in their mouths as Household WORDS

King Henry V, act iv. sc. 3.

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CONCORDANCE OF FAMILIAR GEMS.

A

Absolute-How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

Hamlet, act v. sc. 1.

Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2.

Abstract-They are the abstract and brief chronicles

of the time.

Abuse-Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair

use,

Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.

Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 3.

Accidents-Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field,

Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Othello, act i. sc. 3.

Accommodated-Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

King Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2.

Accoutred-Cæsar said to me, 'Darest thou, Cassius,

now

Leap in with me into this angry flood,

And swim to yonder point? Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,

And bade him follow.

Acres

Julius Caesar, act i. sc. 2.

In those holy fields,

Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet,

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Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.

King Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 1.

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

Julius Caesar, act ii. sc. 1.

With devotion's visage

Action-
And pious action we do
The devil himself.

sugar o'er

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.

Action Suit the action to the word, the word to the

action.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.

Actor-As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that follows next.

Richard II, act v. sc. 2.

Adam-Consideration, like an angel, came

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him.

King Henry V, act i. sc. 1.

Admired-You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admired disorder. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. Adorned-She came adorned hither like sweet May. King Richard II, act v. sc. 1.

Adversity-Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1.

Adversity-A man I am, cross'd with adversity.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 1.

Adversity-A wretched soul bruised with adversity.

Comedy of Errors, act ii, sc. 1.

Adversity--Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 3.

Affliction-Had it pleased Heaven

To try me with affliction; had he rain'd

All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head.

Affliction

Othello, act iv. sc. 2.

"Tis a physic

That's bitter to sweet end.

Measure for Measure, act iv. sc. 6.

Africa-A foutra for the world and worldling's base!

I speak of Africa and golden_joys.

After

Henry IV, part ii. act v. sc. 3.

Duncan is in his grave!

Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.

Agate-stone-0, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been

with you.

She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,

Drawn with a team of little atomies

Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.

Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4.

Age-The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

Age

Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1.

And He that doth the ravens feed,

Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age!

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3.

Age-You see me here,- —a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!

King Lear, act ii. sc. 4.