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Allegiance. I did pluck allegiance from men's

hearts.

-1st K. Hen. IV. Act 3, Sc. 2.

He that can endure

To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord

Does conquer him that did his master conquer,

And earns a place i' the story.

-Ant. & Cleo. Act 3, Sc. 13.

Ambition.-Thoughts tending to ambition, they do

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Unlikely wonders.

—K. Rich. II. Act 5, Sc. 5.

Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty.

-K. Rich. III. Act 3, Sc. 7.

Fling away ambition: by that sin fell the angels.

-K. Hen. VIII.

Act 3, Sc. 2.

Love and meekness, lord,

Become a churchman better than ambition.

-Ibid. Act 5, Sc. 3.

Tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honor for his valor; and death for his ambition.

-Jul. Cæ. Act 3, Sc. 2.

When the poor hath cried, Cæsar hath wept;

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue.

-Othello. Act 3, Sc. 3.

Ambition.-Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather

makes choice of loss,

Than gain which darkens him.

-Ant. & Cleo. Act 3, Sc. 1.

Amen.-Amen stuck in my throat.

-Macbeth.

Act 2, Sc. 2.

Ancestors. All his successors gone before him hath

done 't; and all his ancestors that come after

him may.

-M. W. of W. Act 1, Sc. 1.

Angel-Angels.-What may man within him hide,

Though angel on the outward side.

-M. for M. Act 3, Sc. 2.

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.

An angel is not evil :

-Ibid. Act 2, Sc. 2.

I should have feared her had she been a devil.

Then came wandering by

A shadow like an angel, with bright hair
Dabbled in blood.

-K. Rich. III.

Act 1, Sc. 4.

brightest fell. Act 4, Sc. 3.

Angels are bright still, though the

-Macbeth.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

- Hamlet. Act 1, Sc. 4.

The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

-Pass. Pilgrim.

Answer-Answers. He might have took his an

swer long ago.

-Tw. Night. Act 1, Sc. 5.

I am not bound to please thee with my answers. -Mer. of V. Act 4, Sc. 1.

Antony.-Were I Brutus,

And Brutus, Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue in Every wound of Cæsar, that should move

The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

-Jul. Ca. Act 3, Sc. 2.

O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!

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And hereabout he dwells,-which late I noted In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. -Rom. & Jul. Act 5, Sc. 1.

Apparel.-Every true man's apparel

fits your thief.

-M. for M.

Act 4, Sc. 2.

Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

-Much Ado. Act 3, Sc. 3.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy ;

But not expressed in fancy: rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

-Hamlet. Act 1, Sc. 3.

Apparent.-Were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent.

-1st K. Hen. IV. Act 1, Sc. 2.

Appetite. Then to breakfast with what appetite you have.

-K. Hen. VIII. Act 3, Sc. 2.

Good digestion wait on appetite,

And health on both!

She would hang on him,

As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.

-Hamlet. Act 1, Sc. 2.

Applause. I do not relish well their loud applause

and Aves vehement.

-M. for M. Act 1, Sc. 1.

Apple. As much as an apple doth an oyster.

-Tam. of S. Act 4, Sc. 2.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

-Ibid. Act 1, Sc. 1.

Appliances. With all appliances and means to

boot,

Deny it to a king.

-2d K. Hen. IV. Act 3, Sc. 1.

Apollo.-Apollo's lute, strung with his hair.

-L. L. L. Act 4, Sc. 3.

Argument. He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

-Ibid. Act 5, Sc. 1.

Sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

—K. Hen. V. Act 3, Sc. 1.

Armed.—Arm'd at point exactly, cap-a-pie.

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