DEATH.-What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,
To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?
Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way,
And kindly point us to our journey's end.
YOUNG.-Night VII. Line 2.

The hour conceal'd, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 75.

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost,
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act IV.
Scene 5. (Capulet on seeing Juliet apparently
dead.)

Death lays his icy hands on kings.

ANONYMOUS.-1 Percy Reliques, Book III.
Page 284. Death's Final Conquest.

His tongue is now a stringless instrument.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act II. Scene 1. (Northumberland to the King, announcing Gaunt's death.)

All that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.
(The Queen to Hamlet.)

From the first corse, till he that died to day,
This must be so.

Why should we, in our peevish opposition,
Take it to heart?

SHAKSPERE. Ibid. (The King to Hamlet.)

The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act III.
Scene 1. (Isabella to her brother.)

The weariest and most loathed worldly life,
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act III.
Scene 1. (Claudio to Isabella.)

DEATH.-Death will have his day.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act III. Scene 2.
(The King.)

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death;

The young disease, that must subdue at length,

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 133.

Death is the worst

That fate can bring, and cuts off ev'ry hope.

LILLO.-Fatal Curiosity, Act I. Scene 2.

Death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

JOHN WEBSTER.-The Duchess of Malfy; MAS-
SINGER. The Parliament of Love, Act IV.
Scene 2. Death hath a thousand doors to
let out life; MASSINGER.-A very Woman,
Act V. Scene 4.

Death rides in triumph,-fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about him
His many thousand ways to let out souls.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-Bonduca, Act III.
Scene 5.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Custom of the
Courts, Act II. Scene 2.

Death's thousand doors stand open.

BLAIR.-The Grave, Line 394.

Death in a thousand shapes.

VIRGIL. Æneid, Book II. Line 370.

Death's shafts fly thick!

BLAIR.-The Grave, Line 447.

Devouring famine, plague, and war,
Each able to undo mankind,

Death's servile emissaries are,
Nor to these alone confin'd,
He hath at will

More quaint and subtle wayes to kill;

A smile or kiss, as he will use the art,

Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart.

SHIRLEY.-Victorious Men of Earth, Percy
Reliques, 240.

DEATH-Still at the last, to his beloved bowl
He clung, and cheer'd the sadness of his soul;
For though a man may not have much to fear,
Yet death looks ugly, when the view is near.

CRABBE-The Borough, Letter XVI.

Death comes but once.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Sea-Voyage,
Act I. Scene 1.

Death is the crown of life.

YOUNG.-Night III. Line 526.

DEATH AND THE PALE HORSE.-I looked, and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death.

REVELATIONS.-Chap. VI. Verse 8.

Behind her Death,

Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
On his pale horse.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book X. Line 588.

DEBORAH'S SONG.-His mother look'd from her lattice high

Why comes he not? His steeds are fleet,

Why sends not the Bridegroom his promised gift?

Is his heart more cold, or his barb less swift!

BYRON.-The Giaour.

[Compare these lines with the Song of Deborah, JUDGES, Chap. V. Verses 28-30.]

DECAY.-A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy body to decay,

And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.

DRYDEN.-Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I.
Line 156.

Those domes where Cæsars once bore sway,

Defaced by time, and tottering in decay.

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 159.

DECIDE.-Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. III.

DECOCTIONS.-Therefore their nourishment of farce you

choose,

Decoctions of a barley-water Muse.

DRYDEN.-A Prologue, No. XI. Johnson's Poets.

DECREE.-It must not be; there is no power in Venice

Can alter a decree established :

"Twill be recorded for a precedent;

And many an error by the same example,
Will rush into the state.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1. (Portia to the Court of Justice.)

DEED.-A little water clears us of this deed.
SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2.
(Lady Macbeth to her husband.)

A deed without a name.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1.
(Answer of the Witches to Macbeth.)

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.

SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act IV. Scene 2.
(The King to Hubert.)

A bloody deed; almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.
(To his Mother.)

DEGREE.-And though that I of auncestry

A baron's daughter be,

Yet have you proved howe I you loved

A squyer of lowe degrè.

ANONYMOUS.-The Nut-Browne Maid, 2 Percy
Reliques, 28.

Yet was he but a squire of low degree.

SPENSER. Faerie Queen, Book IV. Canto VII.
Stanza 15.

DEEP.-In the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 76.

The always-wind-obeying deep.

SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act I. Scene 1.
(Egeon to the Duke.)

DEEPER.-She by the river sat, and sitting there,
She wept, and made it deeper by a tear.

HERRICK.-Hesp. No. 332. (Julia, weeping.)

DELIBERATION.-Deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat, and public care.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 302.

DELIGHT.-But such a sacred and home-felt delight,
Such sober certainty of waking bliss,

I never heard till now.

MILTON.-Comus, Line 262.

To scorn delights and live laborious days.

MILTON.-Lycidas, Line 72.

In this Fool's paradise he drank delight.

CRABBE-The Borough, Letter XII.

DELIGHTFUL.-Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enliv'ning spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
THOMSON.-Spring, Line 1149.

DEMOCRACY.-1. Lycurgus! set up a Democracy in Sparta. 2. Do you first set up a Democracy in your own house. PLUTARCH.-Morals, Apothegms of Kings.

DENIED.-Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,-
In part she is to blame who has been tried;

He comes too near, who comes to be denied.

MONTAGUE, Lady M. W.-The Woman's Resolve.

DERBY DILLY.—So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides,

The Derby Dilly, carrying three insides.

One in each corner sits, and lolls at ease,

With folded arms, propp'd back, and outstretch'd knees;

While the press'd bodkin, punch'd and squeezed to death,

Sweats in the midmost place, and pants for breath.

CANNING. LOves of the Triangles, last lines.

DESCRIPTION.-For her own person,

It beggar'd all description.

SHAKSPERE.-Antony and Cleopatra, Act II.
Scene 2. (Enobarbus to Agrippa.)

I have described her, and sure my picture is not so bad as to require its name under it.

FIELDING.-Love in Several Masques, Act I.

Scene 1; COLLEY CIBBER, the Comical Lovers,
Act I. Scene 1.