LIFE-continued. see, a man's life is a tedious one. Like madness is the glory of this life. Reason thus with life :- Cym. iii. 6. T. A. i. 2. M. M. iii. 1. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virA. W. iv. 3. tues. The sands are number'd that make up my life. Life is a shuttle. Thus play I, in one person, many people, O excellent! I love long life better than 'figs! Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, H. VI. PT. III. i. 4. As they were living; think, you see them great, M. W. v. 1. R.II. v. 5. A. C. i. 2. H. VIII. prologue. : It is silliness to live, when to live is a torment and then we have a prescription to die, when death is our physician. That life is better life, past fearing death, Thus, sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud; Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: EPITOMIZED (See World). DESIRE OF. 0. i. 3. M. M. v. 1. H. VI. PT. 11. ii. 4. : Camillo. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh they, that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life, to see him a man. Archidamus.-Would they else be content to die? Camillo.-Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Archidamus. If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. LIGHT (See also STUDY). Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile : W. T. i. 1. L. L. i. 1. LIGHT INFANTRY. And this same half-fac'd fellow, Shadow,-give me this man; he presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a pen-knife: And, for a retreat,-how swiftly will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off! O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones. LIGHTNING (See also QUICKNESS). H. IV. PT. II. iii. 2. Like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth; R. J. ii. 2. The jaws of darkness do devour it up. M. N. i. 1. To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, K. L. iv. 7. R. J. iii. 1. LINEAGE (See also ANCESTRY). A plague of both your houses! There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood-royal, if thou dar'st not stand for ten shillings. H. IV. PT. I. i.2. LION. 'Tis The royal disposition of that beast, A. Y. iv. 3. H. VI. PT. III. i.3. I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria. Persuade me not, I will make a star chamber matter of it. I'll answer him by law: I'll not budge an inch. LIVELIHOOD. You take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. LONELINESS. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds There's scarce a bush. T. N. iv. 1. M. W. i. 1. T. S. IND. 1. M. V. iv. 1. K. L. ii. 4. INSUPPORTABLE. But whate'er I am, Nor I, nor any man, that but man is, With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd R. II. v. 5. LONGEVITY. A light heart lives long. LONG STORIES. Men, pleas'd themselves, think others will delight Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord. LORD'S ANOINTED. A flourish, trumpets!-strike alarum, drums! LOVE (See also COURTSHIP, FIDELITY). Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, L. L. v. 2. Poems. T. S. IND. 2. T. S. IND. 2. R. III. iv. 4. Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, To be wise, and love, exceeds man's might. Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of faith and service, All made of passion, and all made of wishes ; All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, As love is full of unbefitting strains; Poems. T. C. iii. 2. A. Y. v. 2. L. L. v. 2. LOVE,-continued. Above their functions and their offices. Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; L. L. iv. 3. R. J. i. 1. M. W. ii. 2. Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pursues; T. G. ii. 7. M. N. i. 1. Love is a familiar: love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet Sampson was so tempted; and he had an excellent strength yet was Solomon so seduced; and he had a very good wit. L. L. i. 2. Adieu, valour! rust, rapier! be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth. O king, believe not this hard-hearted man; O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! Come hither, boy: If ever thou shalt love, L. L. i. 2. R. II. v. 3. T. N. i. 1. It is as easy to count atomies, as to resolve the propositions of a lover. The strongest, love will instantly make weak: Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, I know I love in vain, strive against hope; And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, We, that are true lovers, run into strange capers; A. Y. iii. 2. Poems. O. iii. 3. A. W. i. 3. but as all is A. Y. ii. 4. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip, as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured, is, that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in love too. A. Y. iii. 2. O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded; my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal. Break an hour's promise in love! A. Y. iv. 1. A. Y. iv. 1. By heaven, I do love; and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy. L. L. iv. 3. If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs: he brushes his hat o' mornings ;-what should that bode? The greatest note of it is his melancholy. M. A. iii. 3. M. A. iii. 2. I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn. A. Y. iii. 2. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For, if they could, Cupid himself would blush. M. V. ii. 6. This is the very ecstacy of love : Whose violent property foredoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings, Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity, H. ii. 1. T. C. iv. 4. |