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CANKER-CANTANKEROUS

CANKER.-Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
SHAKSPERE.-Sonnet 35.

The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye,
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly

When summer's breath their masked buds discloses.
SHAKSPERE.-Sonnet 54.

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace. SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act I. Scene 3. (Don John of his Brother.)

Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset ?

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part I. Act II.
Scene 4. (Plantagenet.)

And but he's something stain'd

With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st call him

A goodly person.

SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act I. Scene 2.
(Prospero to Miranda.)

As killing as the canker to the rose.
MILTON. Lycidas, Line 45.

The canker galls the infants of the spring,
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3.
(Laertes.)

CANNONADE.-E'en the whole world, blockheads and men

of letters,

Enjoy a cannonade upon their betters.

DR. WALCOT.-The Romish Priest, a Tale.

Many saints have been canonized who ought to have been cannonaded.

COLTON.-Lacon; or, Many Things in a Few
Words.

CANTANKEROUS.-Well, now, that's mighty provoking! But I hope, Mr Faulkland, as there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantanckerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

SHERIDAN. The Rivals, Act V. Scene 3.

[The same word will be found in "The Waterman," by DIBDIN, Act II. Scene 3.]

CANVAS-CARVE.

CANVAS-LELY on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.

POPE.-To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 149.

CAP.-PET. Why, this was moulded on a porringer;
A velvet dish; fye, fye! "Tis lewd and filthy;
Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut shell,

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap;
Away with it, come, let me have a bigger.

KATE. I'll have no bigger; this doth fit the time,
And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.

SHAKSPERE.-Taming the Shrew, Act IV.
Scene 3.

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CAPTIVATE.-Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
COWPER.-Hope, Line 758.

CARCANET.-Say, that I lingered with you at your shop,
To see the making of her carcanet,

And that to-morrow you will bring it home.

SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act III. Scene 1.

In Harrington's Orlando Furioso, we haveAbout his neck a carknet rich he ware.

KNIGHT'S SHAKSPERE.-Supra.

CARE.-Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 3.
(Friar Lawrence.)

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene 3.
(Sir Toby to Maria.)

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
And ev'ry grin, so merry, draws one out.

DR. WALCOT.-Ode XV. Vol. II. Edition 1794.

CARVE.-Ill carve your names on barks of trees,
With true-love knots and flourishes.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 565.

'Tis hard to carve for others meat, And not have time one's self to eat. Though, be it always understood,

Our appetites are full as good.

LLOYD. The Author's Apology.

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CARVE.-Rural carvers, who with knives deface the panels. COWPER.-The Sofa, Line 281.

CASE.-1. I know your good nature in a case like this, and

2. State the symptoms of the case, Sir Charles.

COLMAN.-The Poor Gentleman, Act I. Scene 2.

CAST. I have set my life upon a cast,

And I will stand the hazard of the die.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act V. Scene 4.
(Solus.)

CASTLES-Leaving the wits the spacious air,
With licence to build castles there.

SWIFT.-Vanbrugh's House.

[And see the same idea in his “Duke of Grafton's Answer to Dean Smedley's Petition;' BROOME.-Poverty and Poetry; CHURCHILL.-Night, Epi. to Robert Lloyd; SHENSTONE.-On Taste, Part II.; and LLOYD, Epi. to Colman.]

CAT.-Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act I. Scene 2.
(Westmoreland.)

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

OLD SAYING.

CATASTROPHE.-So! so! here's fine work!-here's fine suicide, parricide, and simulation, going on in the fields! and Sir Anthony not to be found to prevent the antistrophe! SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.

I'll tickle his catastrophe for this.

ANONYMOUS.-The Merry Devil of Edmonton.

CATCH-Catch as catch can.

ATHENEUS-Lib. V. Page 193; a saying of Anti-
ochus Epiphanes.

For why? Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them; the simple plan,

That they should take who have the power,

And they should keep who can.

WORDSWORTH.-Rob Roy's Grave.

CATO. The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day:

The great, th' important day, big with the fate
Of Cato, and of Rome.

ADDISON.-Cato, Act I. Scene 1.

CAVIARE-CHANGE.

CAVIARE. Twas caviare to the general.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.
(The Prince to the Players.)

CENSORIOUS.-Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master's hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim;-
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.
ROSCOMMON.-Art of Poetry.

CENSURE.—But we contemn the fury of these days,
And revere no less their censure than their praise.
COWLEY.-Prologue to the Guardian.

Numbers err in this;

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
POPE.-On Criticism, Line 5.

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Censure is the tax a many pays to the public for being eminent. ANON.-Spectator, No. ĆI.

CHAMBER.-Sitting in my dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-cole fire.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act II.
Scene I. (Hostess to Falstaff.)

CHANCE.-A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.

THOMSON.-Summer.

CHANGE.-Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 261.

Where yet was ever found a mother

Who'd give her booby for another?

GAY.-Fable III. Line 33.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
BYRON.-The Dream, Line 75.

Fear of change

Perplexes monarchs.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I.

No:-Let the eagle change his plume,
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom;
But ties around his heart were spun,
That could not, would not, be undone!

CAMPBELL.-O'Connor's Child.

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CHANGE.-Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

JEREMIAH. Chap. XIII. Verse 23.

The French and we still change, but here's the curse,
They change for better, and we change for worse.
DRYDEN.-Prologue to the Spanish Friar.

Nothing is thought rare

Which is not new and follow'd: yet we know
That what was worn some twenty years ago
Comes into grace again.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-Prologue to the Noble
Gentleman, Line 4.

Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind,
Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. I. To Sir R. Temple.
Line 127.

How chang'd, alas, from what it once had been! 'Tis now degraded to a public inn.

GAY.-A True Story.

The hearts

Of all his people shall revolt from him,
And kiss the lips of unacquainted change.

SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act III. Scene 4.
(Pandulph to Lewis.)

CHAOS.-For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

SHAKSPERE.-
-Venus and Adonis, Stanza 170.

Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not

Chaos is come again.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3.
(Othello's love for his Wife.)

But, should he hide his face, th' astonish'd sun,
And all th' extinguish'd stars, would loosening reel
Wide from their spheres, and chaos come again.
THOMSON.-Summer, Line 182.

CHAPEL.-Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The devil's sure to have a chapel there.

DE FOE.-The True-born Englishman.

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