CHALLENGE,-continued. I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue; Like a bold champion, I assume the lists, CHANCE (See also FORTUNE). Full oft 'tis seen, Our mean secures us; and our mere defects CHANGE. H. IV. PT. I. v.2. P. P. i. 1. K. L. iv. 1. Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth! M.M. i. 2. And art thou come to this? THE NECESSITY OF. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work K. L. iii. 4. H. IV. PT. 1. i. 2. But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. CHANGELING. At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their ears, M. iv. 1. CHARM,-continued. DISSOLVING. cell. The charm dissolves apace; CHASTITY. Chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit; I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, CHEATS (See also KNAVES). They say, this town is full of cozenage; CHECK. I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice CHIDING. T. iv. 1. T. v. 1. C. v. 3. Poems. R. J. i. 1. Cym. ii. 6. R. J. i. 1. C. E. i. 2. O. iii. 3. M. V. i. 1. But I'll not chide thee; Let shame come when it will, I do not call it : I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot, Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove: Mend, when thou can'st; be better at thy leisure: I can be patient. K. L. ii. 4. O, what a beast was I to chide him! R. J. iii. 2. CHILDREN, UNDUTIFUL (See also FILIAL INGRATITUDE). I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. K. L. iii. 7. There's a small choice in rotten apples. CHRISTENING. 36 H. VI. PT. 1. iv. 6. 'H. V. iv. 6. H. IV. PT. I. v. 1. T. S. i. 1. You must be seeing christenings! Do you look for ale and cakes here, you rude rascals! It was both impious and unnatural, That such immanity and bloody strife Who should be pitiful if you be not? H. VIII. v. 3. H. VI. PT. I. v. 1. H.VI. PT.I. iii. I. Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition; H. VIII. v. 2. M. W. i. 1. I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence, to make atonements and compromises between you. If we did think His contemplations were above the earth, And fix'd on spiritual objects, he should still His thinkings are below the moon, not worth CHURCH MILITANT. H. VIII. iii, 2. What! the sword and the word! do you study them both, master parson? CHURLISHNESS. My master is of churlish disposition, M. W. iii. 1. And little recks to find the way to heaven, CIRCUMLOCUTION. Thou shalt never get such a secret from me, but by a parable. CIRCUMSPECTION. Wear your eye,-thus, not jealous nor secure : I would not have your free and noble nature, Out of self bounty, be abus'd; look to't. T. G. ii. 5. O. iii. 3. Lay thy finger, thus, and let thy soul be instructed. Q. ii. 1. CLAIM, ANTIQUATED. 'Tis no sinister, nor no aukward claim, Pick'd from the worm-holes of long vanish'd days, CLEOPATRA, SAILING. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, H. V. ii. 4. The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver; Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, CLERICAL FUNCTION. The very opener and intelligencer, Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, CLOUDS. A. C. ii. 2. H. IV. PT. 11. iv. 2. That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A forked mountain, or blue promontory, With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, A. C. iv. 12. And mock our eyes with air: Thou hast seen these signs; CLOWN. A. C. iv. 12. A clod of wayward marle. M. A. ii. 1. It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. A. Y. v. 1. COAST AT SUN-RISE. Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red, M. N. iii. 2. COCK, CROWING. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, COCKATRICES. H. i. 1. This will so fright them both, that they will kill one another by the look, like cockatrices. COLDNESS (See also FRIGIDITY). Tut, tut, thou art all ice; thy kindness freezes. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd In mangled forms. T. N. iii. 4. R. III. iv. 2. W. T. iv. 2. A. Y. ii. 7. W. T. iv. 3. Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work. A poor humour of mine, Sir, to take that that no man else will. 4. Y. v. 4. COMBAT. COMFORT. T. C. v. 4. Thoughts tending to content, flatter themselves, That they are not the first of fortune's slaves, Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars, Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame,— R. II. v.5. A. W. iv. 3. How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses. COMMODITY. Commodity, the bias of the world; |