PATIENCE.—Like Patience, gazing on kings’ graves and smiling
Extremity out of act.
Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act V. Scene 1.
’Tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity.
Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act IV. Scene 4.
As patient as the female dove,
When that her golden couplets are disclos’d.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1.
Patience, and shuffle the cards.
George Combe.—Don Quixote, Part II. Book II. Chap. XXII.
On one hand, ever gentle Patience sat,
On whose calm bosom I reclin’d my head;
And on the other silent
Contemplation.
Lillo.—Fatal Curiosity, Act I. Scene 2.
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pin’d
in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat, like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at
grief.
Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 4.
’Tis hard: but patience must endure,
And soothe the woes it cannot cure.
Francis’ Horace.—Ode XXIV. Book I. Line 31.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3.
PATIENT.—1. How does your patient, doctor?
2. Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming
fancies,
That keep her from her rest.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.
PATIENT.—Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.
PATRIOTS.—True patriots we, for be it understood,
We left our country for our country’s good.
Barrington.—Prologue written by a celebrated Pickpocket, to a play performed by Convicts at Sidney or Botany Bay.
PAUNCHES.—Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankerout the wits.
Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I. Scene 1.
PAUSE.—I pause for a reply.
Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. Prior.—The Conversation.