Chapter HABIT to Don Scipio of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

HAND.—Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No! this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnardine,
Making the green one red.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2. (To his Lady.)

Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turn’d
Green Neptune into purple.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act V. Scene 1.

Connected as the hand and glove,
Is madam, poetry, and love.

Lloyd.—Epistle to a Friend.

And prate and preach about what others prove,
As if the world and they were hand and glove.

Cowper.—Table Talk, Line 173.

HANDSOME.—Handsome is, that handsome does.

Goldsmith.—Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. 1.

He is gentle that doth gentle deeds.

Saunders’ Chaucer, Vol. 1. Page 152.

HANGED.—If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.

Shakespeare.—The Tempest, Act I. Scene 1. (Gonzalo.)

Go, go, begone, to save your ship from wrack;
Which cannot perish, having thee aboard,
Being destin’d to a drier death on shore.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 1.

I’ll see thee hang’d on Sunday first.

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene 1. (Kate to Petruchio.)

Don Scipio. I’ll have you hanged, you villain!
Spado. Hanged! dear sir, ’twould be the death of me.

O’Keeffe.—Castle of Andalusia, Act III. Scene 4.