LAW,-continued. And many an error, by the same example, It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, For terror, not to use; in time the rod M.V. iv. 1. T. A. iii. 5. T. A. iii. 5. Becomes more mock'd than fear'd: so our decrees, And liberty plucks justice by the nose. What's open made to justice, That justice seizes. What know the laws, M. M. i. 4. That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant, The bloody book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter, If by this crime he owes the law his life, M.M. ii. 1. O. i. 3. T. A. iii. 5. H.VI. PT. I. ii. 4. But, I pr'ythee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king?-and resolution thus fobb'd as it is, with the rusty curb of old father antic, the law? H. IV. PT. I. i. 2. ABUSE OF. The usurer hangs the cozener. LAWYERS. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, LEADER. Another of his fashion they have not; K. L. iv. 6. H.VI. PT. II. iv. 2. T. S. i. 2. O. i. 1, LEAN VISAGE. Would he were fatter:-But I fear him not:- I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, J. C. i. 2. T. S. i. 2. LEARNING (See also LIGHT, KING HENRY V., STUDY). L. L. iv. 3. A mere hoard of gold, kept by a devil; till sack com. mences it, and sets it in use. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 3 LEEK, THE Will you mock at an antient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour, and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words? H. V. v. 1. LEERING. spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. LEGITIMACY. Sirrah, your brother is legitimate: M. W. i. 3. Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him: K. J. i. 1. LENITY. For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air? My gracious liege, this too much lenity LETTER. H. VI. PT. III. ii. 6. H.VI. PT. III. ii. 2. An' it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to signify. M. V. ii. 4. LETTER,-continued. Why, what read you there, Let us see:— Leave, gentle wax; and manners, blame us not. And after, this; and then to breakfast, with What appetite you have. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words H.V. ii. 2. K.L. iv. 6. H.VIII. iii. 2. M.V. iii. 2. Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers, here's a letter for thee. LIAR. LIES. LYING. T.C. v. 1. One that lies three-thirds, and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten. You told a lie; an odious, damned lie; He will lie, Sir, with such volubility, Two beggars told me, A. W. ii. 5. 0. v. 2. that you would A. W. iv. 3. I could not miss my way: Will poor folks lie, A punishment, or trial? Yes; no wonder, When rich ones scarce tell true: To lapse in fulness Is worse in kings than beggars. Cym. iii. 6. Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen. Detested kite! thou liest. W. T. iv. 3. K. L. i. 4. These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4. This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull-street; and every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute.) Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou. H. IV. PT. II. iii. 2. T. iii. 2. Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, A very honest woman, but something given to lie; as a woman should not do, but in the way of honesty. A.C. v. 2. LIAR,-continued. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! H. IV. PT. II. iii. 4. HIS OWN DUPE. Like one, Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, To credit his own lie. LIBERTY. Blessed be those, How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills, LICENTIOUSNESS. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, LIFE (See also ILLUSION, MAN, Death). Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, O gentlemen, the time of life is short; T. i. 2. Cym. i. 7. M. M. i. 3. K. L. iv. 6. M. v. 5. H. IV. PT. I. v. 2. To spend that shortness basely, were too long, Cym. iii. 6. 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 virtues. A. W. iv. 3. The sands are number'd that make up my life. Life is a shuttle. Thus play I, in one person, many people, H.VI. PT. III. i. 4. O excellent! I love long life better than figs! M. W. v. 1. R. II. 5. 4. C. i. 2. LIFE,-continued. Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, As they were living; think, you see them great, How soon this mightiness meets misery! H. VIII. prologue. 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. M. M. v. 1. H. VI. PT. II. 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 : So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. LIGHT INFANTRY. W. T. i. 1. L. L. i. 1. 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 H. IV. PT. II. iii. 2. ones. LIGHTNING (See also QUICKNESS). Like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, R. J. ii. 2. |