"The Greeks are strong, and skilful to their strength,

Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant .

But I amı . . . tamer than sheep, fonder than ignorance .
Skilless as unpractised infancy.”—Tr. Cr. ii. 3.

"I would rather be a tick in a sheep, than such a piece of valiant ignorance."-Tr. Cr. iii. 3.

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"O gull! O dolt!

As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed!

I care not for thy sword."-Oth. v. 2.

Ely with Richmond troubles me more near

Than Buckingham, and his rash-levied strength.
this arm of mine (shall soon chastise)

The petty rebel, dull-brained Buckingham."

"All the unsettled humours of the land,
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries

-Rich. III. iv. 4.

With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' spleens,

.. make hazard of new fortunes here.

In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits

Did never

do offence and scathe in Christendom."

...

-John ii. 1.

CALUMNY. (See Slander.)

"There is nothing so good that it may not be perverted by reporting it ill.”—Promus, 1072 (Latin).

"Fashion-mongering boys that deprave and slander."

-M. Ado v. 1.

"Calumny the whitest virtue strikes.”—M. M. ii. 4.

"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."-Hum. i. 3. "Be thou chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."-Ham. iii. 1.

"O slanderous world," &c.-See Tam. Sh. ii. 1. "She is slandered, she is undone.

Done to death by

slanderous tongues," &c.-M. Ado iv. 1; rep. v. 1.; v. 3, Scroll.

CANNIBALS of Hearts.

"The parable of Pythagoras is dark but true, "Cor ne edito❞—eat not the heart. Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."Ess. of Friendship.

"He that is proud eats up himself.

whatever praises itself,

(but in the deed) devours the deed in itself."-Tr. Cr. ii. 3.

"Pride hath no other glass

To show itself but pride; for supple knees
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees
How one man eats into another's pride,

While pride is feasting in his wantonness!"

-Tr. Cr. iii. 3.

"These lords

do so much admire,

...

That they devour their reason."-Temp. v. 1.

CARE-Anxiety Caused by Affection.

"Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of

unfeigned affection."-Letter to Queen Elizabeth.

"A care-crazed mother of many children."-Rich. III. iii. 7.

"I express to you a mother's care."-All's Well i. 3.

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Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me

I thank them for their tender, loving care."

CAT-Who Dared Not.

-2 Hen. VI. iii. 2, and Ib. 1, 67, 68.

"The cat would eat fish, but she will not wet her foot." -Promus, 639.

"Would'st thou have that

Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life.
And live like a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting, I dare not wait upon I would,
Like the poor cat the adage."-Macb. i. 7.

"Here's a purr of Fortune, sir, or Fortune's cat . . . that has fallen into the unclean fish-pond of her displeasure."—All's Well v. 2.

CAUSES-Effects and Defects.

"Ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect even the effects discovered are due to cause sole cause and root of every defect is this.

the present sciences are useless for the discovery of effects, so the present system of logic is useless for the sciences."-Nov. Org. i. 3.

CEREMONY.

"Now remains

That we find out the cause of this effect,

Or, rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause,
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus
Perpend."-Ham. ii. 2.

"Not to use ceremonies at all, is to teach others not to use them again, and so diminisheth respect to himself, especially if they be not to be omitted to strangers and formal natures. But the dwelling upon them, and exalting them above the moon, is not only tedious, but doth diminish the faith and credit of him that speaks." -Ess. of Ceremonies and Respect.

"Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrained yourselves within the lists of too cold an adieu. Be more expressive to them; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time, there, do muster true gait, eat, speak, and move under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed. After them, and take a more dilated farewell."-All's Well, ii. 1.

"Ceremony that to great ones 'longs."-M. M. ii. 2. "Ceremonies and green rushes are for strangers."—

Promus 118.

"Where's the cook? Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the serving-men in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every officer his wedding garment on? Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without, the carpets laid, and everything in order? All ready?"-Tam. Sh. iv. 1.

. . the grass whereon thou tread'st, the presence

"Suppose strewed."-Rich. II. i. 3.

"Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands. then; the appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremmy. comply with you in this garb.”—Ham. ii. 2.

CEREMONY Amongst Equals.

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Come

Let me

Amongst a man's peers, a man shall be sure of familiarity; and, therefore, it is good to keep a little state. Amongst a man's inferiors, one shall be sure of reverence; and, therefore, it is good a little to be familiar. He that is too much in anything, so that he giveth another occasion of satiety, maketh himself cheap."-Ess. of Ceremony.

"Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
Opinion, that did help me to the crown
Had still kept loyal in possession,
And left me in reputeless banishment,
A fellow of no mark or likelihood.
But, being seldom seen, I could not stir
But, like a comet, I was wondered at.
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Seldom, but sumptuous, showed like a feast,
And won by rareness such solemnity.
The skipping king, he ambled up and down
With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled, and soon burned; carded his state,
Mingled his Majesty with capering fools;
Had his great name profaned with their scorns,
And gave his countenance against his name

To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push
Of every beardless vain comparative :
Grew a companion to the common streets;
Enfeoffed himself to popularity;

That, being daily swallowed by men's eyes
They surfeited with honey, and began

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.
So when he had occasion to be seen,

He was but as the cucoo is in June,

Heard, not regarded," &c.-1 Hen. IV. iii. 2.

CEREMONY Not to be Desired. (See of Place.)

"The dwelling upon ceremonies, and exalting them above the moon, is not only tedious, but doth diminish the faith and credit of him that speaks. It is a loss in business to be too full of respects, or two curious in observing times and opportunities."-Ess. of Ceremony.

"Men in great place have no freedom, neither in their persous, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Retire men cannot when they would. . . Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling they cannot find it."-Ess. of Great Place.

"And what have kings that privates have not too,

Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

And what art thou, idol ceremony?

What kind of God art thou?

What is thy soul of adoration?

Art thou ought else but Place, Degree, and Form?
O be sick, great greatness!

And bid thy ceremony give the cure," &c.

-Hen. V. iv. 1.

"When love begins to sicken and decay,

It uses an enforced ceremony."-Jul. Cæs. iv. 2.