Myself for quiet. . . am retired to Gray's Inn; for when my chief friends were gone so far off it was time for me to go to a cell.

(Let. to Sir F. Cottington, 1622.)

I am master of a full poor cell. (Temp. i. 2.)

His arms in this sad knot. (Temp. i. 2.)

And as my duty springs, so perish they
That grudge one thought against your majesty!
(1 Hen. VI. i. 1.)

If ever I were traitor,

My name be blotted from the book of life.

(Frequent instances.)

(R. II. i. 3.)

Curst be the heart. (Tit. And. iv. 1, 74.)

Cursed be the heart. . . .

O cursed be the hand.
Cursed the blood. (R. III. i. 2.)

5 & 6 See Promus, No. 510.

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6

Our aged father's right. (Lear, iv. 5.)

O thou, the youthful author of my blood,
Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
Doth with a two-fold vigour lift me up. . . .
Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers.

(R. II. i. 3.)

For the continuance whereof (your virtues) in the prolonging of your days, I will still be your beadsman. (Let. to Lord Burghley, 1597.)

Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,

For I will be thy beadsman. (Tw. G. Ver. i. 1.)

APPENDIX E.

SIMILES AND METAPHORS IN THE 'PROMUS' AND ALSO IN THE PLAYS. THESE do not include all the Metaphors derived from the Bible texts, from the Proverbs, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, and from the Latin adages of Erasmus, which are noted in the Promus.

Danger between sen

Common danger compared to being in the same ship

being between hammer and

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