CLAY.-For ever will I sleep, while

"Alas! for pity stay,

And let us die

With thee; men cannot mock us in the clay."
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Captain.

Ay; these look like the workmanship of Heaven:
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.

DRYDEN.-Don Sebastian, Act I. Scene 1.

CLEAN YOUR SHOES?

GAY.-Trivia, Book I. Line 24; Book II.
Line 100.

CLIMB.-Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!
BEATTIE.-The Minstrel, Verse I. Line 1.

Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall.

[A line written by SIR WALTER RALEIGH, with a diamond ring, on the glass of a window in a pavilion of Queen Elizabeth, who, on being informed of it, wrote underneath it :]

"If thy mind fail thee, do not climb at all." SCOTT.-Kenilworth, Chap. XVII.

1. I am lost in thought.

2. Thought of the Queen, perhaps?

1. Why, if it were,

Heaven may be thought on, though too high to climb. 2. Oh! now I find where your ambition drives.

DRYDEN.-Spanish Friar, Act I. Scene 1.

He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

Who dares not put it to the touch,

To win or lose it all.

SCOTT.-Intro. to Chron. of the Canongate,
Vol. XIX.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
SCOTT.-The Talisman, Chap. XXVI.

The lower still you crawl, you'll climb the higher.
SMOLLETT.-Advice, Line 64.

Downward to climb, and backward to advance.

POPE.-The Dunciad, Book II. Line 320.

CLOAKS.-When clouds are seen, wise men put on their

cloaks.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act II. Scene 3. (Third Citizen to his Companions.)

CLOCK. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus.)

Great Nature's well-set clock in pieces took;
On all the springs and smallest wheels did look
Of life and motion; and with equal art

Made up again the whole of every part.

COWLEY.-The Davideis, Book I. Line 743.

CLOUD.-Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish :
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion,

A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,

A forked mountain, or blue promontory

With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world,

And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs;
They are black vesper's pageants.

SHAKSPERE.-Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV.
Scene 12. (Anthony to Eros.)

Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer cloud,
Without our special wonder?

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Mac-
beth, after he had seen the Ghost of Banquo.)

COACH.—Go call a coach, and let a coach be call'd;
And let the man that calls it be the caller;

And in his calling, let him nothing call,

But Coach, Coach, Coach! O for a Coach, ye Gods!

CAREY.-Chrononhotonthologos, Scene 5.

COCK-A-HOOP.-And having routed the whole troop,
With victory was cock-a-hoop.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 13.

You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5.
(Capulet to Tybalt.) The origin of this phrase
is very doubtful. See Knight's Shakspere.

The early village cock

Hath twice done salutation to the morn.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (Ratcliff to Richard.)

Hark, hark! I hear

The strain of strutting chanticleer

Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo.

SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act I. Scene 2.
A Song (Ariel.)

COFFIN.-No useless coffin enclos'd his breast,
Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him:

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.

COIN.

REV. CHAS. WOLFE.-Monody on the Death of
Sir John Moore.

Coin heaven's image

In stamps that are forbid.

SHAKSPERE. Measure for Measure, Act II.
Scene 4. (Angelo to Isabella.)

This is the very coinage of your brain.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.
(The Queen to Hamlet.)

COLD.-The air bites shrewdly.

SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act I. Scene 4.

(The Prince to Horatio and Marcellus.)

Is very snow-broth.

A man whose blood

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act I. Scene 5. (Lucio to Isabella.)

Cold as the turkies coffin'd up in crust.

SHIRLEY.-The Sisters.

The cold in clime are cold in blood,

Their love can scarce deserve the name;

But mine was like a lava flood,

That boils in Etna's breast of flame.
BYRON.-The Giaour.

COLOSSUS.-Why, man,

he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus; and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs, and peep about

To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2.
(Cassius to Brutus.)

COLOURS.-Mocking the air with colours idly spread. SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act V. Scene 1. (The Bastard to the King.)

COLUMN.-Where London's column, pointing to the skies
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.

POPE.-Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epi. III.
Line 339.

COMBINATION.--A combination, and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.
(The Prince to his Mother.)

COME.-Come what come may;

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 3. (Macbeth to Banquo.)

Come, live with me, and be my love.

MARLOW.-A Song. It is also in COTTON, in his
invitation to Phillis.

COMFORT-That comfort comes too late;
Tis like a pardon after execution:

That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me;
But now I am past all comforts here, but prayers.
SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act IV.
Scene 2. (Katherine to Capucius.)

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act II. Scene 1.
(Sebastian to Alonzo.)

COMMEND.-Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend.

POPE.-Prologue to Satires, Line 205.

COMMENTATORS.-Some future strain, in which the muse

shall tell

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

YOUNG.-Love of Fame, Sat. VII. Line 95.

COMMON.—As common as a barber's chair.

BURTON.-Anat. of Melancholy, Ed. 1651.
Page 665.

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COMMON-COMPANY.

COMMON.-Like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks. SHAKSPERE.-All's Well that Ends Well, Act II. Scene 2. (Clown to the Countess.)

As common as the stairs,

That mount the capitol.

SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 7.
(Iachimo to Imogen.)

As common as the highway.

OLD PROVERB.-Knight's Shak. Sup.

This comes of visiting commoners.

GARRICK.-High Life below Stairs, Act II.

COMMUNION.-They eat, they drink, and in communion

sweet

Quaff immortality and joy.

MILTON.-Par. Lost, Book V. Line 637.

Thus may we abide in union,
With each other and the Lord,
And possess in sweet communion

Joys which earth cannot afford.

BENEDICTION.

COMPANY.-It is certain that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught as men take diseases, one of another; therefore, let men take heed of their company.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act V.
Scene 1. (Falstaff solus.)

Get thee gone;

I see thou art not for my company.

SHAKSPERE.-
-Titus Andronicus, Act III. Scene 2.
(Titus to Marcus.)

Is all our company here?

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I.
Scene 2. (Quince to Bottom.)

I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Jaques to Orlando.)

Catius is ever moral, ever grave,

Thinks who endures a knave, is next a knave,

Save just at dinner-then prefers, no doubt,

A rogue with venison, to a saint without.

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. I. To Temple, Line 77.