LAY.—
Lay on, Macduff;
And damn’d be he that first cries “Hold, enough.”
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7. (Macbeth to Macduff.)
Lay not that flatt’ring unction to your soul,
That not your trespass, but my madness, speaks.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.)
LEAD APES IN HELL.—Poor Gratia, in her twentieth year,
Chose to attend a
monkey here,
Shenstone.—To a Lady buried in Marriage, Verse 6.
LEAP.—Methinks, it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac’d moon.
Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Scene 3. (Hotspur with Northumberland and Worcester.)
LEARNED.—Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 161.
LEARNED.—The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Pope.—On Criticism, Line 612.
I’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (Lear with Kent and Edgar.)