BUSY.—In the busy haunts of men,
In the still and shadowy glen.
Mrs. Hemans.—Tale of the Secret Tribunal.
Tower’d cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 118.
BUTTER.—’Twas her brother that in pure kindness to his horse butter’d his hay.
Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act II. Scene 4. (The Fool to Lear.)
But now I fear it will be said,
No butter sticks upon his bread.
Swift.—Pastoral Dialogue.
BUTTERFLY.—Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel!
Pope.—Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 305.
Ocean into tempest wrought,
To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Young.—Night I. Line 153.
BY.—By and by is easily said.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (Hamlet to his Friends.)
BY-GONES.—Let by-gones be by-gones.
Old Saying.
Let us not burthen our remembrances with
A heaviness that’s gone.
Shakespeare.—The Tempest, Act V. Scene 1. (Prospero to Alonso.)
CABIN’D.—But now, I am cabin’d, cribb’d, coffin’d, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth to First Murderer.)
CÆSAR.—Cæsar with a senate at his heels.
Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 258.
As for Cæsar,
Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
Shakespeare.—Antony and Cleopatra, Act III. Scene 2. (Enobarbus to Agrippa.)
CÆSAR.—What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene I. (Marcellus to Citizens.)
Imperial Cæsar, dead, and turn’d to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away;
O, that that earth, which
kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall, to expel the winter’s flaw!
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene I. (To Horatio.)
How like a deer, stricken by many princes,
Dost thou here lie.