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DESERT-DETRACTION.

DESERT.-Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping!

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

O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it, to lock it in the wards of covert bosom.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act V.
Scene 1. (The Duke to Angelo.)

DESERTED.-Deserted at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,

With not a friend to close his eyes.

DRYDEN.-Alexander's Feast, Verse 4.

DESPAIR.-Despair, sir, is a dauntless hero.

HOLCROFT.-The Road to Ruin, Act III. Scene 2.

DESPERATE.-Diseases desperate grown,

By desperate appliance are reliev'd.

SHAKSPERE.

(The King.)

Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 3.

DESTINY.-Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd;
Joys only flow where Fate is most conceal'd:
Too busie Man wou'd find his Sorrows more,
If future Fortunes he shou'd know before;

For by that knowledge of his Destiny

He would not live at all, but always die.

DRYDEN.-The Indian Queen, Act III. Scene 1.

Marriage is ever made by destiny.

CHAPMAN. All Fools, Act V. Scene 1.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 9.
(Nerissa to Portia.)

FARQUHAR-The Recruiting Officer, Act III.
Scene 2.

1 You remember who encouraged me to love, and promis'd me his assistance?

2. Ay, while there was Hope, Frank, while there was Hope; but there's no contending with one's destiny.

DRYDEN.-Evening's Love, Act II. Scene 1.

DETRACTION.-Mankind praise against their will,
And mix as much detraction as they can.

YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 494.

DETRACTION-DEVOTION.

DETRACTION.—I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.

GAY.-Fable XLV. Line 1.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
MASSINGER.-The Guardian, Act I. Scene 1.

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DEVELOPED.-1. What's the meaning of this? 2. That Gentleman can tell you-'twas he enveloped the affair to

me.

SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.

DEVIL.-The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. near the end.

What, can the devil speak true?

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 3. (Banquo.)

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Antonio to Bassanio.)

And thus I clothe my naked villainy

With odd old ends, stolen forth of holy writ;

And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act I. Scene 3. (Solus.)

Qui non dat quod habet, Damon infra ridet.

ANONYMOUS.

The devil below laughs at him who will not give of that which he has.

[The Latin is from an inscription over a well at Wavertree, and bears date A.D. 1414, or in the 2nd year of the reign of King Henry the 5th.-Each letter is a capital, and between each capital is a period, so that the reader is for some time puzzled to make it out.]

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be;

The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

RABELAIS.-Vol. II. Book IV. Chap. XXIV.

DEVOTION. With devotion's visage,

And pious action, we do sugar o'er

The devil himself.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.
(Polonius to Ophelia and the King.)

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DEW.-The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. PSALM CX. Verse 3; and SPENSER :

Her birth was of the womb of morning dew,

And her conception of the joyous prime.

Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto VI.

DEW-DROP.-And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,
Be shook to airy air.

SHAKSPERE.-Troilus and Cressida, Act III.
Scene 3. (Patroclus to Achilles.)

DIDO AND ENEAS.-When Dido found Eneas would not

come,

She mourned in silence, and was Di-do-dum.

V. Notes and Queries 68; PORSON, the supposed author.

DIE.-Shall I, wasting in dispaire,

Dye because a woman's faire ?

Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosie are?
Be shee fairer then the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May;

If she be not so to me,

What care I how faire shee be?

GEO. WITHER. From the "Mistresse of Philarete,"
Vol, I. 3 Percy Reliques, Page 245.

Die all die nobly! die like demi-gods!

REYNOLDS.-The Dramatist, Act IV. Scene 2.

At least we'll die with harness on our backs.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5.
(Macbeth.)

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;

To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot.

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

It is appointed once for all to die.

LILLO.-The Christian Hero, Act III.

To die, to sleep,

No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,-tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.
(His Soliloquy on Life and Death.)

DIE.

DIE DIGESTION.

To die,-to sleep ;

To sleep! perchance to dream;-ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause.

SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act III. Scene 1.

(The Soliloquy continued.) See "Whips."
What pity is it

That we can die but once to serve our country.

ADDISON.-Cato, Act IV.

But shall die like men; and fall like one of the princes.
PSALM LXXXII. Verse 7.

Acquit yourselves like men.

LILLO. The Christian Hero, Act V.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

BACON.-On Death, Essay II.

The slender debt to nature 's quickly paid,

Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
QUARLES.-Book II. No. XIII. Line 17.

DIES.-He that dies, pays all debts.

SHAKSPERE. The Tempest, Act III. Scene 2.
(Stephano.)

DIFFERENT.-Different good, by art or nature given,
To different nations, makes their blessings even.

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 79.

DIGESTION.-Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4.
(To his Lady.)

A good digestion to you all: and, once more,
I shower a welcome on you; welcome all.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 4.
(Wolsey.)

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act I. Scene 3. (Gaunt to the King.)

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act V. Scene 1. (The Abbess to Adriana.)

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DISCORD-DISHONOUR.

DISCORD.-Discords make the sweetest airs.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part III. Canto I. Line 919.

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

SPENSER.-Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto II.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.

ADDISON. Cato, Act V. Scene 4.

DISCOURSE.-She'd come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 3.
(How he won Desdemona.)

It will discourse most excellent music.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.
(The Prince to Guildenstern.)

DISCRETION.-Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
Not to out-sport discretion.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 3.
(To Cassio to look to the guard.)

It show'd discretion, the best part of valour.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-A King and No
King, Act IV. Scene 3.

Discretion! hang discretion! hang ye all!

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Pilgrim, Act II.
Scene 1.

DISCUSSION.-Friendly free discussion calling forth
From the fair jewel Truth its latent ray.

THOMSON.-Liberty, Part II.

DISEASE.-Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth

In strange eruptions.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act III.
Scene 1. (Hotspur to Glendower.)

DISGRACE.-Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

COWPER.-Hope, Line 316.

DISHONOUR.-Put on him

What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank

As

may dishonour him.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 1.
(Polonius to Reynaldo.)

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