Chapter COURT to CRADLED of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

COURT to CRADLED

COURT.—1. Wast ever in court, shepherd? 2. No, truly. 1. Then thou art d—d. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd.

Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Touchstone to Corin.)

I will make a star-chamber matter of it.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Scene 1. (Shallow to Sir Hugh Evans.)

There is a court above, of the star chamber,
To punish routs and riots.

Ben Jonson.—Magnetic Lady, Act III. Scene 4. Knight’s Note.

COURTESY.—I am the very pink of courtesy.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 4. (Mercutio to Romeo.)

COUSIN.—His master and he are scarce cater-cousins.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 2. (Gobbo to Launcelot.)

COWARD.—Where’s the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?

Scott.—Marmion, Canto IV. Stanza 30.

Cowardice
Hath made us by-words to our enemies.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act I. Scene 1. (Warwick to Plantagenet, Duke of York.)

Yon trembling coward, who forsook his master.

Home.—Douglas, Act II. Scene 1.

COWARDS.—Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act II. Scene 2. (Cæsar to Calphurnia.)

COWARDS.—A plague of all cowards! Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? You rogue, here’s lime in this sack too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man: yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Scene 4. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)

COWLEY.—He more had pleas’d us, had he pleas’d us less.

Addison.—An Account of English Poets.

CRADLE.—All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave, is uncertain.

Seneca.—Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXII.

CRADLE TO THE GRAVE.—From the maternal tomb,
To the grave’s faithful womb.

Cowley.—Life.

From the cradle to the tomb,
Not all gladness, not all gloom.