Arrogance.

Supple knees

Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. -Troi. & Cress. Act 3, Sc. 3.

Arrow.-Swifter than arrow from Tartar's bow. -Mid-S. N. D. Act 3, Sc. 2.

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,

And hurt my brother.

Art. So excellent in art, and still so rising,

That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.

-K. Hen. VIII.

More matter with less art.

-Hamlet.

Act 4, Sc. 2.

Act 2, Sc. 2.

Artificer.—Another lean unwash'd artificer.

-K. John. Act 4, Sc. 2.

Ass.-I do perceive that I am made an ass.

-M. W. of W. Act 5, Sc. 5.

That he were here to write me down an ass!

-Much Ado. Act 4, Sc. 2.

Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward

me,

For making him egregiously an ass.

Assurance.-I'll make assurance double

And take a bond of fate.

Macbeth.

sure,

Act 4, Sc. 1.

Attendance.-I dance attendance here.

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

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -K. Hen. VIII. Act 5, Sc. 2.

Attire. What are these

So wither'd and wild in their attire?

-Macbeth. Act 1, Sc. 3.

Audience. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience.

-K. John. Act 5, Sc. 2.

Authority. But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority!

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

Authority, though it err like others,

Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o' the top.

--Ibid. Act 2, Sc. 2.

Hence hath his quick celerity,

-Ibid. Act 4, Sc. 2.

When it is borne in high authority.

Thus can the demi-god Authority

Make us pay down for our offense by weight

The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will; On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just.

-M. for M. Act 1, Sc. 2.

O, some authority how to proceed;

Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.

Awe.-I had as lief not be, as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself.

-Jul. Cæ. Act 1, Sc. 2.

Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw,
Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe.

-Lucrece.

Babe. A testy babe will scratch the nurse, and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

Two G. of V. Act 1, Sc. 2.

Bachelor.-Shall I never see a bachelor of three

score again?

-Much Ado. Act 1, Sc. 1.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

-As You L. Act 3, Sc. 3.

Bacchus.-Come thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!

Badness.-He's more, had I more name for badness. -M. for M.

Act 5, Sc. 1.

Bait.-Fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

-Mer. of V. Act 1, Sc. 1.

Banishment. I have stoop'd my neck under your

injuries,

And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment.

—K. Rich. II. Act 3, Sc. 1.

Banners. Hang out our banners on the outward

walls.

-Macbeth. Act 5, Sc. 5.

Bargain. A time, methinks, too short

To make a world-without-end bargain in.

-L. L. L. Act 5, Sc. 2.

In the way of a bargain, mark ye me,
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

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

Baseness. Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone, and most poor matters

Point to rich ends.

Battle.-Never set a squadron in the field,

Nor the division of a battle known

More than a spinster.

Bay. How like a younker or a prodigal

The scarfed bark puts from her native bay.

-Mer. of V. Act 2, Sc. 6.

Beauty. In the holiday-time of my

beauty.
Act 2, Sc. 1.

-M. W. of W.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

-As You L. Act 1, Sc. 3.

Such love

Could be but recompensed, though you were

crown'd

The nonpareil of beauty.

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

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white, Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. — Ibid. Act 1, Sc. 5.

Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

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

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud.