COURTIERS,-continued. But howsoe'er, no simple man, that sees COURTSHIP (See also LOVE). That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, Every night he comes H. VI. PT. I. iv. 1. I will attend her here, Say, that she frown; I'll say, she looks as clear T. G. iii. 1. A. W. iii. 7. When I shall ask the banns, and when be married. T. S. ii. 1. I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap, And deck my body in gay ornaments, And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: H. VI. PT. II. iii. 2. She swore,-In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; She wish'd she had not heard it; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : And I lov'd her that she did pity them. O. i. 3. King Edward.-What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get? Make me a willow cabin at your gate, Ꭰ H. VI. PT. 11. iii. 2. COURTSHIP,-continued. And sing them loud even in the dead of night; And make the babbling gossip of the air Between the elements of air and earth, Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For, get you gone, she doth not mean, away. Say, that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ; Go then, my mother, to your daughter go ; What! I that kill'd her husband, and his father, With God, her conscience, and these bars against me, T. N. i. 5. T.G. iii. 1. T. G. iii. 2. T. S. ii. 1. R. III. iv. 4. But the plain devil and dissembling looks, And yet to win her,-all the world to nothing! R. III. i. 2. With some sweet concert; to their instruments Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence T. G. iii. 2. Cym. ii. 3. COURTSHIP,-continued. Never give her o'er; The count he wooes your daughter, She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; T. G. iii. 1. A. W. iii. 7. Tit. And. ii. 1. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd His mind is not heroic, and there's the humour of it. You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell! A. Y. iv. 1. R. III. i. 2. L. L. v. 2. M. W. i. 3. With flight and agued fear! Mend, and charge home, So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome stench, T. N. iii. 4. A. W. i. 1. C. i. 4. H. VI. PT. 1. i. 5. Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work Cym. v. 3. COWARDS,-continued. R. II. iii. 2. A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. Slander'd to death by villains; That dare as well answer a man, indeed, H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4. M. A. v. 1. Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true bred cowards How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false M. V. iii. 2. A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! marry and amen! The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat, as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Reproach and everlasting shame Did I but suspect a fearful man, H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4. C. i. 6. H. V. iv. 5. H. VI. PT. III. v. 4. Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader. H. VI. PT. 1. iv. 1. We took him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : T. N. v. 1. Cym. iv. 2. You shames of Rome! You herd of,-Boils and plagues He which hath no stomach to this fight, C. i. 4. COWARDS,-continued. And crowns for convoy put into his purse : Perish the man whose mind is backward now. H. V. iv. 3. H. V. iv. 3. He's a great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward, to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent, he would quickly have the gift of a grave. T. N. i. 3. In a retreat, he outruns any lacquey; marry, in You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards coming on, he Foul-spoken coward! that thunderest with thy tongue, A. W. iv. 3. K. J. ii. 1. Cym. iii. 6. A. C. iii. 9. Tit. And. ii. 1. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. Turn head and stop pursuit; for coward dogs A. W. iv. 3. Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten Runs far before them. So cowards fight when they can fly no further: Cowards die many times before their deaths : COXCOMB (See also FRIBBLE). H. V. ii. 4. H. VI. PT. II. i. 4. J. C. ii. 2. Believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society, and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. H. v. 2. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, A man of compliments, whom right and wrong O murd'rous coxcomb! what should such a fool O most profane coxcomb !. L. L. i. 1. 0. v. 2. L. L. iv. 3. Thus has he and many more of the same breed, that, I know, the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them |