Chapter CALUMNY to CANTANKEROUS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

CALUMNY to CANTANKEROUS

CALUMNY.—Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene I. (Hamlet to Ophelia.)

Virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes.

Shakespeare.—Ibid., Act I. Scene 3. (Laertes.)

CANDLE.—1. How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
2. When the moon shone we did not see the candle;
So doth the greater glory dim the less.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act V. Scene 1. (Portia and Nerissa.)

He that adds anything to you, ’tis done
Like his that lights a candle to the sun.

Fletcher.—To Sir Walter Aston, Line 19. Beaumont and Fletcher, Vol. II. Page 13.

CANKER.—That which the palmer-worm hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten.

Joel.—Chap. I. Verse 4.

In the sweetest bud
The eating canker dwells.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 1. (Proteus to Valentine.)

Now will canker sorrow eat my bud.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act III. Scene 4. (Constance.)

Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Act II. Scene 3. (Titania.)

She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 4. (Viola.)

So far from sounding and discovery
As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 1. (Montagu to Benvolio.)

CANKER.—Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

Shakespeare.—Sonnet 35.

The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye,
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer’s breath their masked buds discloses.

Shakespeare.—Sonnet 54.

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act I. Scene 3. (Don John of his Brother.)

Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?