Cuckold. I will kill thee, if thou doft deny thou haft made me a cuckold
If thou canst cuckold him, thou doeft thyself a pleasure, and me a sport
That cuckold lives in blifs, who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger
Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch?
Cuckoo. Take heed, ere fummer comes, or cuckoo birds do fing
-'s fong

-

The plain-fong cuckow gray

Who would give a bird the lye, though he cry cuckoo, never fo
He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckow, by the bad voice
O' horfeback, ye cuckow! but, a-foot, he will not budge a foot

A. S. P. C. L.

Cym. 2 4 905/244 Othello. 1 31050 2 55 Ibid. 3 3 1061 139

Ibid. 4 3 1073222

M.W.of Windf.2|

Love's Lab. Left. 5 2

1742 11

Midf. N. Dream. 3 1

1841 52

Ibid. 3

1

1841 56

He was but as the cuckow is in June, heard, not regarded
You us'd us fo as that ungentle gull, the cuckow's bird, ufeth the sparrow
Since the cuckow builds not for himself, remain in't as thou may'ft Ant. and Cleop.[2] 6
The hedge-fparrow fed the cuckoo fo long, that it had its head bit off by its young

Meafure for Measure.1

Merry W. of Windfor.2 2

That hand, which had the ftrength, even at your door, to cudgel take the hatch

If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels

thy brains no more about it

Cudgell'd. That I might have cudgell'd thee out of thy fingle life

Cue. The clock gives me the cue

Remember you your cue

'Tis your cue

Merchant of Venice. 2 2 203 1 35 you, and make you

King John. 5 2 409 116
Henry v.51 5372 53
Hamlet. 511033258

Mu. Ado Abt. Notb. 5 4 146240
Merry Wives of Windfor.3 2
Ibid. 3 3

Much Ado About Nothing.2 I
Mid. Night's Dream. 3 1

My cue is villainous melancholy, with a figh, like Tom o' Bedlam
What would he do, had he the motive and the cue for paffion, that I have
Were it my cue to fight, I fhould have known it without a prompter

Cuff. I fwear I'll cuff you, if you strike again

Ibid. 4 1

59 211

60 146 128 114

183 241

1912 5

Ibid. 5 1 1941 9 Henry v.3 6 524231 Richard iii. 3 4 652111

Lear. I

2 934 119

This mad-brain'd bridegroom took him fuch a cuff, that down fell priest and book Ib. 3
And this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech lift'ning

267 250 Ibid. 4 3 2711 I

Hamlet. 2 210141 4

1 Henry iv. 41 464 2 49 K.Jobn. 2 1 39117 Ibid. 2 2 3941 34 Julius Caefar. 1 I 7421 6 Troi. and Creff 2 3 8712 2 Love's Labor Left. 4 3 1622 54 King John. 5 2 408 249 Henry v.3cb5201 4 Titus Andron. 4 1845 155 Rom. and Ju. 4 3 9912 5 Ibid. 5 1 9941 35 Tam. of the Shrew. 4 2 2692 6 Lear. 2 2 940238

That will not follow thefe cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France For love of her that's gone, perhaps the cull'd it from among the reft We have cull'd fuch neceffaries as are behoveful for our state to-morrow Culling of fimples

Cullion. And makes a god of fuch a cullion

Cullionly barber-monger

Cullions. Away bafe cullions!

2 Henry vi. 1 3 5752 I

Cumber. Domestick fury, and fierce civil ftrife, fhall cumber all the parts of Italy 7. Cæf. 31 754223

Let it not cumber your better remembrance

Cunning. In the boldness of my cunning I will lay myself in hazard
Or like a cunning inftrument cas'd up

Too cunning to be understood

Timon of Athens. 36817243
Meaf. for Meaf.4 2 951 10
Richard ii. 1 31172 38

Mu. Ado About Noth. 5 1 1431 36

I have fome sport in hand, wherein your cunning can affft me much

A. S. P. C. L.

Cunning. The cunning of her paffion invites me in this churlish meffenger Tw. Night. 21 2,314|1 26 Wherein cunning, but in craft

I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning
Some with cunning gild their copper crowns
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides

1 Henry iv. 2 4 456 I Troilus and Creff31 8711 5 Ibid. 4 4 S80 238

There's the cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the casement of my clofet

In cunning I muft draw my sword upon you

Go hire me twenty cunning cooks

Errs in ignorance, and not in cunning

Cunning cruelty. If there be any cunning cruelty

Cupid fwears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows
Now Cupid is a child of confcience

a good hare-finder

For the fign of blind Cupid

If Cupid hath not spent all his quiver in Venice

Romeo and

Lear. 1

1932146 Ibid. 1 2 933141 Ibid. 2 1 939138 Juliet. 4 2 990262 Othello. 3 3 1059255

Ibid. 5 21079211
Tempeft. 41

Merry Wives of Windfor. 5 5
Much Ado About Nothing.1

17137

71215

1123136

Ibid. 1

1123246

Ibid. 2 1

128 229

Ibid. 3 1 131252

If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer
Of this matter is little Cupid's crafty arrow made
Some Cupid kills with arrows, fome with traps
He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-ftring, and the little hangman dare not
shoot at him

Methinks I should outswear Cupid

Ibid. 3 1 132/2/29

Cupid's butt-fhaft is too hard for Hercules' club
He is Cupid's grandfather

Love's Lab. Loft.|1| 2 150 254
Ibid. 1 2 151251

characterized

Ibid. 2 1 154223
Ibid.31 156 222

It is a plague that Cupid will impofe, for my neglect of his almighty, dreadful little might

- Proceed, fweet Cupid; thou haft thump'd him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap

I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, by the best arrow with the golden head

That very time I saw (but thou could'st not) flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd

The weak wanton Cupid fhall from your neck unloose his amorous fold
Though forfeiters you caft in prifon, yet you clasp young Cupid's tables
With Cupid's arrow, fhe hath Dian's wit

We'll have no Cupid hood-wink'd with a scarf

You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, and foar with them above a common bound

Young Adam Cupid, hé that shot so trim

- And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings
Light-wing'd toys of feather'd Cupid

Cups. Be in their flowing cups freilly remember'd
Cur. Did not this cruel hearted cur fhed one tear

Ibid. 1 4 972131
Ibid. 2

1975 1 22

Ibid. 2 5 980216 Othello. 1 31049 250 Henry v.4 3 5312 8

Tavo Gent. of Ver.2 3

Merch. of Venice. 1

Ibid. 1

3

29 142

2012 2 3 2012 6

Ibid. 3 3 212/247

As You Like It.x 3 227 233
Twelfth Night. 2 5 318 553
Richard ii. 2 2 424 113
2 Henry vi. 31 53151
Ibid. 51 600|2|25

Oft have I feen a hot o'er-weening cur run back and bite, because he was withheld b.[5] 2|600|2|32

Cur. What valour is there when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth

3 Hen, vi

God, how do I thank thee, that this carnal cur preys on the iffue of his mother's body

But like to village curs, bark when their fellows do

What would you have, you curs, that like not peace, nor war?
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate as reek o' the rotten fens
Your judgements, my grave lords, muft give this cur the lie
Whilft damned Cafca, like a cur, behind, ftruck Cæfar on the neck
Two curs fhall tame each other

And now is the cur Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles
Curan. D. P.

A. S. P. C. L.

608133

Julius Cæfar. 51

7622 2

Troil. and Creff13
Ibid. 5 4
Lear.

865 213

888 231

929

Curbed. Whofe want, and whose delay, is ftrewed with sweets, which they diftil now in the curbed time

All's Well. 2 4 2891 8 Ibid. 1 3 281257 Winter's Tale. 4 3 351142 Love's Lab. Lof.5 2 160|1|42

Curd. God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood, to say I am thy mother?
Curds and cream. Good footh fhe is the queen of curds and cream

Cure. Paft cure is ftill paft care

I'd venture the well-loft life of mine on his grace's cure, by fuch a day and hour All's W.1 3 282249

For my little cure, let me alone

My hopes, not furfeited to death, stand in bold cure

Curer. He is a curer of fouls, and you a curer of bodies
Curfew. Solemn curfew

None fince the curfew rung

The curfew bell hath rung; 'tis three o'clock

Curio. D. P.

Equalities are fo weighed, that curiofity in neither can make choice of either's

moiety

And permit the curiosity of nations to deprive me

Curious. For curious I cannot be with you

Lear. I 1929 110

Ibid. 1 2 932231

Taming of the Shrew. 4 4 2722] 6

You shall not find, though you be therein curious, the leaft caufe for what you feem to fear

Curiously. It were to confider too curiously to confider fo

Curled.

Or fwell the curled waters 'bove the main

Ant. and Cierp.3 2 782 226
Hamlet. 511035218
Lear. 31 946121

So oppofite to marriage, that she shunn'd the wealthy curled darlings of our nation

Current of water, compared to love

makes sweet mufic with the enamel'd ftones

Othello. I 21046 215

Two Gent. of Ver.2 7 32/2/41
Ibid. 2 7 32/2/44

This is no answer, thou unfeeling man, to excufe the current of thy cruelty
Say, fhall the current of our right run on

Oh, two fuch filver currents, when they join, do glorify the banks

them in

Thy word is current with him for my death

M. of Ven. 41 215138
K. John. 2 2393 237

that bound

Timen

With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lofe the name of action 'Currents.

And all the 'currents of a heady fight

Currifh. So the could intreat fome power to change this currish Jew

Curry. If to his men I would curry with mafter Shallow
Curs'd. For had I curs'd now, I had curs'd myself

Curfes. I give him curfes, yet he gives me love

The curfes he hall have, the tortures he thall feel
-not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath
Dreading the curfe, that money may buy out
Haft thou not fpirit to curfe thine enemies?
Well could I curfe away a winter's night

Ibid. 2 2 394 228 Richard ii. 1 3 418150 Ibid. 5 3 438

1 Henry iv. 2 1448213
Richard iii. 1 2 636127
Coriolanus. 3 1 720125
of Athens. 1
Hamlet. 3

1 Henry iv. 2

1803214

110172 8

3 4502 57

Mer. of Venice. 4 1 217142

2 Henry iv.5 1 501 227
Rich. ii. 13 640252

Mid. Night's Dream. 1 1 177 148
Winter's Tale. 4 3 3571

9

Macbeth 5 3 384161

K. Jubn 3 1

397223

2 Henry vi. 3 2 589251

Itid. 3 2 590123

Curfes.

Curfes. Can curfes pierce the clouds, and enter heaven

never pafs the lips of those that breath them in the air

Now Margaret's curfe is fallen upon our heads

A. S. P. C. L.

Richard iii.)
Ibid. 1

Margaret, now thy heavy curfe is lighted on poor Haftings' wretched head

Their curfes now, live where their prayers did

31 639'2126 640 217

Ibid. 3 3 651,225

Ibid. 3 4 652227 2 675117 660 145

Henry viii. 1

Coriolanus. 2

O thou well skill'd in curfes! stay a while, and teach me how to curfe mine enemies R.. 4
A curse begin at very root of's heart, that is not glad to see thee
The common curfe of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in

I was never curft; I have no gift at all in shrewishness

Nor longer stay in your curft company

Here the comes, curft, and fad

She is intolerably curst and shrewd, and froward

1 713 242

Much Ado About Nothing.5 I

143 115

Ibid. 2

125:1 58

Katharine the curft! a title for a maid, of all titles the worst

If the be curft, it is for policy

That the should still be curft in company

Be curft and brief: it is no matter how witty
With curft speech I threaten'd to discover him
Curftnefs. Touch you the foureft points with sweetest terms, nor curstness grow to the

matter

Curtail. When a gentleman is difpos'd to fwear, it is not for any ftanders-by to curtail
his oaths

Cymbeline. 2
Merry Wives of Windfar. 2 I
If my breast had not been made of faith, and my heart of steel, the had transform'd
me to a curtail-dog, and made me turn i' the wheel

Curtail-dog. Hope is a curtail dog in fome affairs

This abfence of your father's draws a curtain, that fhews the ignorant a kind of fear, before not dreamt of

Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose Curtain'd. Curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave

1 Hen. iv. 41464211 Henry v. 4 2 530 231 Titus And. 2| 38381 38

Curt fy. What is that curt'fy worth? or those dove's eyes, which can make gods forfworn?

Scarce blood enough in all their fickly veins to give each naked curtle-ax, a ftain H. v. 4 Curtfies there to me

2

7302 7

T. Night. 2

5

318134

Curvets. Cry, hollo! to thy tongue, I pr’ythee, it curvets unfeasonably
Cufbien. This cushion my crown

If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again; you have but eleven now 2 H. v. 5 4
O, ftand up bleft! whilft, with no fofter cushion than the flint, I kneel before thee Cori. 5 3
Custard. You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs and all, like him who leapt
into the custard

455124 505231 735214

Hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp As Y. L. It. 2
Would beguile nature of her cuftom

2291 9

Winter's Tale. 15 2

360 249

Nice customs curt'fy to great kings

Henry v.52

540 2 16

New customs, though they be never fo ridiculous, nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, of habits devil, is angel yet in this Antiquity forgot, custom not known, the ratifiers and props of every ward Cuftom-forunk. I am cuftom-fhrunk

Customer. I think thee now fome common cuítomer

Ibid. 3| 4|1025|1|44 Ibid. 4 51029156 2 77 149 All's Well. 5 3 395 37 Otbello.4 11068|2|15

Measure for Measure.1

Cut.

Cut. If thou haft her not i' the end, call me cut

I thank him that he cuts me from my tale

A. S. P. C.L.

Twelfth Night. 21 3 3161148
1 Henry iv. 5 2 469239
Ant. and Cleop. 1
Merry Wives of Windfor. 3 4

If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut Cut and long tail

Cut-purfe. purfe

To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is neceflary for a cut

Bawd will I turn, and something lean to cut-purse of quick hand
Nor cut-purfes come not to thongs

A cut-purfe of the empire and the rule

Cut-throats. Thou art the best o' the cut-throats

Cuts. We will draw cuts for the fenior

Beat Cut's faddle, put a few flocks in the point

Cutler's poetry. Whofe poefy was for all the world like Cutler's poetry
Cutter. The cutter was as another nature, dumb

Cutting. I would the cutting of my garments would ferve the turn
Cuttle. An you play the faucy cuttle with me

Cyclops. No big-bon'd men, fram'd of the Cyclops fize

hammers

Cydnus River

And Cydnus fwell'd above the banks

Cygnet. I am the cygnet to this pale faint fwan

To whose soft seizure the cygnet's down is harsh

Cymbals.

CYMBELINE.

Cynic. How vilely doth this Cynic rhime

Cyon. We marry a gentler Cyon to the wildeft stock
Cypher of a function

To prove you a cypher

And therefore, like a cypher, yet standing in rich place, I multiply

Cyprefs. Their fweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees
Cyprus. A cyprus, not a bofom, hides my poor heart

A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus

Cytherea all in fedges hid

How bravely thou becom'ft thy bed

2

7701 18 62227

Induc. to Taming of the Shrew.

Cymbeline. 2

83 128 150/246 2334111 2 5901 9 1 32117

310471 14 2253255 2 902128

Damon. Thy dæmon, that's thy fpirit, which keeps thee, is noble, courageous, high,|

unmatchable, where Cæfar's is not

Daffe. Canft thou fo daffe me

Daff'd. I would have daff'd all other refpects

That daff'd the world afide, and bid it pass
Daffodils, that come before the fwallow dares
Dagger. Hath no man's dagger here a point for me
And wear my dagger with the braver grace
Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing
My dagger muzzled, left it fhould bite its mafter
-Art thou but a dagger of the mind; a falfe creation, proceeding from the heat-op-
preffed brain

Their daggers unmannerly breech'd with gore

Taming of the Shrew. 41
Winter's Tale. I 2335230

As I flew my beft lover for the good of Rome, I have the fame dagger for myfelf,

when it shall please my country to need my death

I wear not my dagger in my mouth

Then will I lay the ferving creature's dagger on your pate

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