BODIES (our) [885].

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Iago. Othello, Act i. Sc. 3.

BODY [420].

when wilt thou . . . . begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?

Doll Tearsheet. 2nd Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;

Juliet. Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 2.

BONES (in grave-yard) [840].

Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't.

BOOK (worthless) [18].

Hamlet. Hamlet, Act v. Sc. I.

And deeper than did ever plummet sound

I'll drown my book.

Prospero. Tempest, Act v. Sc. I.

BOON COMPANION (lost) [408].

I could have better spared a better man :

Prince Henry. 1st Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4.

BOORISHNESS [633].

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy:
Ulysses. Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Sc. 3.

BORE [290].

O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!

BORROWING [816].

Sir Toby Belch. Twelfth Night, Act ii. Sc. 5.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

BOWER [120].

Polonius. Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3.

steal into the pleached bower,

Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,

Forbid the sun to enter,

Hero. Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. I.

BOXES (at theatre) [736].

A beggarly account of empty boxes,

BOY [164].

Romeo. Romeo and Juliet, Act v. Sc. 1.

A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;

Puck. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act. ii. Sc. 1.

BOYHOOD [305].

Two lads that thought there was no more behind
But such a day to-morrow as to-day,

And to be boy eternal.

BRAGGADOCIO [163].

....

Polixenes. Winter's Tale, Act i. Sc. 2.

This is Ercles' vein,

Bottom. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 2.

BRAGGART [164].

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you as 'twere any nightingale. Bottom. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 2.

BRAGGART [295].

. . for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath,
with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off,
gives manhood more approbation than ever
proof itself would have earned him. Away!

BRAGGART [274].

....

Sir Toby Belch. Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.

Who knows himself a braggart,

Let him fear this, for it will come to pass

That every braggart shall be found an ass.

Parolles. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Sc. 3.

....

Prospero. Tempest, Act v. Sc. I.

that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Launce. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iii. Sc. 1.

BREAKFAST [400].

....

I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast; love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest reason: thou seest I am pacified still.

Friar. Romeo and Juliet, Act iv. Sc. 5.

You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
Such as I am: though for myself alone
I would not be ambitious in my wish,
To wish myself much better; yet, for you
I would be trebled twenty times myself;

A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times
More rich;

That only to stand high in your account,

I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
Exceed account; but the full sum of me
Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;
Happy in this, she is not yet so old

But she may learn; happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Myself and what is mine to you and yours
Is now converted:

Portia. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 2.

BRIDEGROOM (his wedding-day) [193].

those dulcet sounds in break of day

That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear
And summon him to marriage.

Portia. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 2.

BRIDEGROOM (ill-mannered) [242].

'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom,
That take it on you at the first so roundly.

BRIDGE [113].

Katharina. Taming of the Shrew, Act iii. Sc. 2.

What need the bridge much broader than the
flood?

Don Pedro. Much Ado about Nothing, Act i. Sc. I.

BRIDGE (frail) [386].—See PERIL.

...

to o'er-walk a current roaring loud

On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.

BRIERS [275].

Worcester. 1st Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3.

time will bring on summer,

When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,

And be as sweet as sharp.

Helena. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Sc. 4.

BRITAIN [956].

which stands

As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in

With rocks unscaleable and roaring waters,

With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,

But suck them up to the topmast.

BRITAIN [959].

Queen. Cymbeline, Act iii. Sc. 1.

Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,
Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in 't ;

In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think
There's livers out of Britain.

Cymbeline. Cymbeline, Act iii. Sc. 4.