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1532. Love is wise in folly, foolish-witty. (Ven. Ad. 1. 838.)

O hard-believing love . .

Despair and hope make thee ridiculous.

(Ib. 1. 988; M. Ado, ii. 3, 7–21.)

1588. Whom thou would'st observe, blow off thy cap. (Tim. Ath. iv. 3.) 1537. Have honey in thy mouth. Thy sugared tongue. (Lucrece, 1. 893.) 1561. Love delights in youth. (2 Hen. IV. ii. 4, 272-277.)

1573. Il n'est pas si fol qu'il en porte l'habit.

He with the Romans was esteemed so,

As silly-jeering idiots are with kings,

For sportive words, and uttering foolish things;

But now he throws that shallow habit by,

Wherein deep policy did him disguise. (Lucrece, 1. 1807–1820.)

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Temptations have since then been born to us. (W. T. i. 2.)

APPENDIX L.

A COMPARATIVE TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF PROMES ENTRIES ALLUDED TO IN THE PLAYS.1

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These lists do not include the extra quotations in Appendix K, nor repetitions of expressions or ides when these occur very close together. Much difficulty has been found in classifying the entries, which often seem to have been used in several different ways-similes drawn from proverbs, turns of expression free classical quotations, &c. The second and third columns include only sentences in English. A far larer number of similes, &c., will be found amongst the entries from Erasmus, which are reckoned amongst Lat quotations in column 5.

In the early plays, the turns of expression are few, but often repeated.

entries on folios 110 and 111.

The Comedy of Errors and 2 Henry VI. have no morning and evening salutations, nor any allusions to Hereabouts begin the improvements in 'continuances' noticed at No. 1379.

In this and the following plays there is much more variety in the entries alluded to and far less repetition

INDEX.

[N.B.-The figures refer to the numbering under which the various words and
phrases occur, and not to the pages of the book.]

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ARG

Argentangina, 837
Argues, it, 1079
Arguments at wine, 777
fighting upon, 210
Argus, Hill of, 801
Arms, dying in, 1074
fury in, 1073

of kings are long, 1115
of the waves, 743
single, 1031

Arrest you there, I, 319
Arrow from quiver, 1633
Artificer of fortune, 357
Art simulates chance, 1028
Arts, worthy, 1013

honourable, 1216
slippery, 55, 1018a
As far come as nigh, 638
As good a whit, 506
Ashamed, 1118
As is, 285

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Barajar, to shuffle, 1434
Barber, young, 581
Bargain, fool's, 1463
Bark and tree, 655

worse than bite, 1475
Base-born, 371

Baseness incapable, 1341
Bashful, 652

Bastard, 1501

Battle wished for, 1301

Be as you are reported, 509
like yourself, 1142

Bear with that, 312

Beard, 921

Bearing the evils one has caused.
1021

Beat the bush, 628

Beautiful hard to attain, 52, 989
Beauty in autumn, 370

Beck, a, 479

Bed, lying in, 1227, 1228
Beef, salt, 1584

Bees killed for their honey, 929
Beggars no choosers, 478, 1488
Beginning, end, 1354

to conceive, 194

well, 950

Begun well, half-done, 979
Behaviour, bad, 48

Belief, in a good, 424

Believe me, it, 1406, 1407

Believing speaking, 5, 225

writing, 262

Bell on cat, 645

Bellerophon's letters, 826
Belly, a clock, 1470

Benediction, out of God's, 661

Bent of nature, 1340

Best of all, 314

the, chosen, 1253

to sit still, 963

Bets, 1180

Better days, 417

not born, 1004

than nothing, 1039
things, 1250-1253

suffer wrong than do it, 1253
Betrothings before marriages,

771

Bird, bolt, 588

catching, 1543

in the hand, 1527
dead, 847

Birds love their nests, 1587
Birth and blood, 387, 1014

faults of, 1448
of noble, 387
Biscuits, 1637

embarking without, 1639

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Botches, 835

Bought and sold, 735

Bound to obey, 961

Bow rather than break, 944
Bowing to acquaintances, 623

Bowling, to give ground in, 1240

Boy, ice, 828

rise, 1208

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Business, let's to, 1042
Buskin for both legs, 792
Busy without judgment, 1239
Buyer, fastidious, 432
Buy house built, 1476
Buzzers, 690

By your favour, 206

CA Calf, Milo carrying the, 511

YACUS' oxen, 1368

Calm, 1435

Calumny, 1073

Cammock, 500

Candle burnt at both ends, 1504
candlestick, 1484

to the devil, 635
Caps, high (talk), 1538
Cardinal, her, 1645
Cards, tell your, 641
Care, drive away, 182

prevents sleep, 1203, 1479
Cases come together, 210
Casting a man's chance, 770
Cat and her skin, 1652
Cat knows her friends, 505
may look at a king, 489
mouse, 657

with bell, 645

would eat fish, 639

Cat's nature, 575

Cause is clear, 315

is there a, 455

Causes for delay, 1007
of wrath, 272

Censure, 41

spares the great, 541
Centres, 1452
Ceremonies, 118
Certainty, 1527

Chain, dragging one's, 1627
Chalking out, 710

Chameleon, Proteus, &c., 794
Chance or Art, 1028

governed by, 738
Chances of life, 1320
Chaos, older than, 802
Character-judging, 104
pursuits form, 1121
Charity edifieth, 250
Charon's fare, 821

Chaste if unsolicited, 1124

Chattering teeth, 1494

Cheater's wit, 1246

Cherish, 1414

Cherries and news, 149

Chevalier de Cornevaile, 1647

Child fed with wine, 1544

kissing the, 495

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