show and we all therein but pantaloons and antics.... Men.... when they have played their parts and had their exits must step out and give the moral of their scenes. SIR THOMAS BROWNE (Religio Medici) 1635-1643. PERUSE THIS PAPER : His Lordship desired me to leave with him the papers....till he had perused them. BACON (Letter to KING JAMES) 1614. I humbly pray your Majesty to peruse this enclosed paper. BACON (Letter to KING JAMES) 1616. Please you at any of your more leisured hours to vouchsafe the perusal of these slight papers. HEYWOOD (Fair Maid of West. DEDI.) 1631. Please but your excellence to peruse that paper. MIDDLETON (Women beware Women v. 1.) 1623. Pray you peruse that letter. SHAKESPEARE (Twelfth Night v. 1.) 1623. Please you peruse this letter. ROWLEY, FORD, & DEKKER (Witch of Edmonton 1. 2.) 1658. FORD (Perkin Warbeck 1. 2.) 1634. Please you peruse this paper. Please you peruse [this letter]. BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (Laws of Candy III. 2.) 1647. At your opportunity peruse this paper. Peruse this letter. ANON (King John) 1591. Stage directions. ("presents Sophonisba with a paper which she having perused. ") MARSTON (Sophonisba 11. 1.) 1606. WALK INVISIBLE. The wits of these days are too much refined..... for any man to walk invisible. BACON (Observations on a Libel) 1592. We walk invisible. SHAKESPEARE (I Henry IV 11. 1.) 1598. That I may walk invisible to all. MARLOWE (Dr. Faustus 8.) 1588-1604. Ha! not know me; do I walk invisible? SHIRLEY (Witty Fair One v. 2.) 1628?-1633 Did he think to walk invisibly before our eyes ? MARSTON (The Fawn 111. 3.) 1606. DEATH-TIPPED SWORD. Death sat on the point of that enchanted spear. SPENSER (Fairy Queen III. 1.) 1590. Upon my swords sharp point standeth pale Death. ANON (Selimus) 1594. Pale Death sits on my panting soul. KYD (Soliman v. 5.) 1599. Upon the point Death sat. Upon this point thy death sits. BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (The False One v. 4.) 1620-1647. IBID (The Custom of the Country 1. 2.) 1628-1647. Warlike John, and in his forehead sits a bare [ribbed Death. SHAKESPEARE (King John v. 2.) 1623. I reserve my rage to sit on my sword's point. WEBSTER (Devil's Law Case 11. 1.) 1623. See'st thou revenge sit pale upon the point? FALKLAND (Marriage Night Iv. 1.) 1664. Sirrah, prepare you For angry Nemesis sits on my sword. IFS AND ANDS GREENE (Orlando) 1591-1594. The judges thought it was a dangerous thing to admit Ifs and Ands to qualify words of treason. BACON (Henry VII) 1621. Ped. If madame Belimperia be in loveLor. What villain! Ifs and Ands! (Offers to kill him) KYD (Spanish Tragedy 11. 1.) 1594-1602. Hastings. If they have done this thing my gracious lord Gloucester. If! Thou protector of this damned strumpet Talk'st thou to me of Ifs? Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! SHAKESPEARE (Richard III. 111. 4.) 1597. Away with these Ifs and Ands. DEKKER (Shoemakers Holiday v. I.) 1599-1600. FALSE FIRE I think also it were not amiss to make a false fire.... to see what that will work with him [i. e. with a view to frightening the prisoner Peacham into confessing.] BACON (Letter to KING JAMES) 1614. What! frighted with false fire! SHAKESPEARE (Hamlet.) 1603. I only give false fire and would be loth to shoot you off. CHAPMAN (Conspiracy of Byron IV. 1.) 1608. This false fire has so took with him that he's ravished. MARSTON (Insatiate Countess 11. 2.) 1606-1613. Like false fires flash to fright our trembling senses. FORD (Lover's Melancholy Iv. 1.) 1629. These old saws.... are but false fires. LYLY (Mother Bombie III. 1.) 1594. Feeding his false fire. MASSINGER (Great Duke of Florence 1. 1.) 1636. False fires that never come from your heart. DAY (Humour out of Breath III. 1.) 1608. BUZZES. Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes. But suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others have stings. BACON (Essay: Suspicion) 1625. You buzz into my head strange likelihoods And fill me full of doubts. BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (The Prophetess 1. 1.) 1622-1647. Swift starting fear Hath buzzed a cold dismay through all our army. ANON (Edward III. iv. 6.) 1596. They have hired me to undermine the duchess And buzz these conjurations in her brain. SHAKESPEARE (II Henry VI. 1. 2.) 1592. Buzz'd in the brain of the unhappy mother a dreadful dream. PEELE (Tale of Troy) 1589. See thou buzz into the countys ear.... He will not think t'is feigned. GREENE (Orlando) 1591-1594. I will buzz Andreas landing Which once but crept into the vulgar mouth, Is hurried here and there and sworn for truth. KYD (Jeronimo II. 2.) 1588-1605. "Thou art a spirit. God cannot pity thee." "Who buzzed in mine ear I am a spirit?" MARLOWE (Faustus 6.) 1588-1604. 'Twas but a buzz devised by him to set your brains awork. CHAPMAN (Widow's Tears 11. 1.) 1612. This murderous devil having slain my father. Buzz'd cunningly into my credulous ears. IBID (Alphonsus v. 4.) 1654. The people may buzz and talk of't. WEBSTER (Devil's Law Case 1. 2.) 1623. CHEW, SWALLOW, DIGEST. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. BACON (Essay, Studies.) 1598. Go turn the volumes over I have read, eat and digest them. BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (Elder Brother My travel, reading, wit; All these digested... Chews his thoughts double. IBID (Wit Without Money 1. 1.) 1639. |