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And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan
A lady fair.

n. BURNS--To Dr. Blacklock. None but the brave deserves the fair. 0. DRYDEN Alexander's Feast. St. 1. The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. p. EMERSON --Society and Solitude.

Courage. Courage the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,

By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.

Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers

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Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

20. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. Why, courage, then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament, or fear. x. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc. 4. Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail. Richard II. Act III. Sc. 2.

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A man of courage is also full of faith. 2. YONGE'S Cicero. The Tusculan

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Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. I hold it cowardice, To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act. IV. Sc. 2. 1 may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry. Henry IV. Pt I. Act V. Sc. 1. It was great pity, so it was, That villainous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier. y. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 3.

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Plague on't; an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.

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Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4.

So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome stench,

Are from their hives, and houses, driven away.

They call'd us, for our fierceness, English dogs;

Now, like whelps, we crying run away.
b. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act. I. Sc. 5.

So cowards fight when they can fly no further;

As doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,

Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.

C. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4.

What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword as thou hast done; and then say, it was in fight.

d. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4.

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass, That every braggart shall be found an ass. e. All's Well That Ends Well. Act IV. Sc. 3.

Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i' the adage?

f. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7.

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