CREATURE.-The creature's at his dirty work again.
POPE.-Epi. to Arbuthnot.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 677.

CREED.-I make no man's creed but my own.

STERNE-Tristram Shandy, Vol. VIII. Chap. 8.

CRIMES.-Tremble thou wretch,

That hast within thee undivulged crimes,
Unwhipp'd of justice.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act III. Scene 2.
(The King.)

CRIPPLE.-Amongst all honest christian people,
Whoe'er breaks limbs maintains the cripple.

PRIOR.-TO Fleetwood Shepard, Esq.

CRITIC.-I am nothing if not critical.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 1. (Iago
to Desdemona.)

Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the good-natured man.

GOLDSMITH.-Epi. to "Good-natured Man."

Ah, ne'er so dire a thirst of glory boast,
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

POPE.-Essay on Criticism, Part II. Line 523.

CROSS-On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore.

POPE.-Rape of the Lock, Canto II. Line 7.

Near to that spot where Charles bestrides a horse,
In humble prose the place is Charing Cross.

FOOTE.-Prol. to The Englishman Returned from
Paris, Line 12.

CROTCHET.-Thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.
SHAKSPERE.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II.
Scene 1. (Mrs. Ford to her Husband.)

CROW. The impudent crow with full throat invites the rain, and solitary stalks by herself on the dry sand.

DAVIDSON'S VIRGIL.-(Buckley), Georgics,

Book I. p. 45.

F

CROW. If the old shower-foretelling crow
Croak not her boding note in vain,

To-morrow's eastern storm shall strow

The woods with leaves, with weeds the main.

FRANCIS' HORACE.-Book III. Ode XVII. Line 9.

It warn't for nothing that the raven was croaking on my left hand.

RILEY'S PLAUTUS.-Vol. I. The Aulularia, Act IV.
Scene 3.

That raven on the left-hand oak

(Curse on his ill-betiding croak)

Bodes me no good.

GAY.-Fable XXXVII. Farmer's Wife and the
Raven.

CRUEL.-I must be cruel, only to be kind.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.
(To his Mother.)

CRY.-The author raises mountains seeming full,
But all the cry produces little wool.

KING.-Art of Cookery, Line 195; SWIFT, Prol. to
a Play.

CRYING.-We came crying hither,

Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air
We wawl and cry.—

When we are born, we cry, that we are come

To this great stage of fools.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act IV. Scene 6.
(The King to Gloster.)

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

WISDOM OF SOLOMON.-Chap. VII. Verse 3.

CUCKOO.-How sweet the sound of the cuckoo's note!

Whence is the magic pleasure of the sound?

GRAHAME.-Birds of Scotland, Part II. Line 1.

Cuckoo! Cuckoo! O word of fear,

Unpleasing sound to the married ear.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act V.
Scene 2. (A Song at the end of the act.)

CUCKOO.-The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,

The plain-song cuckoo gray,

Whose note full many a man doth mark,

And dares not answer, nay.

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III.
Scene 1. (Bottom, singing.)

Why do you weep, you cuckoo?

RILEY'S Plautus, Vol. I. The Pseudolus, Act I.
Scene 1.

CUP.-The iron cup chained for the general use.
ROGERS.-Inscription in the Crimea.

The cups

That cheer but not inebriate.

COWPER.-Winter Evening, Book IV.

[In an essay on the excellences of Tar Water, Bishop Berkeley says, "It emulates the virtues of that famous plant Gin Seng, so much valued in China as the only cordial that raises the spirits without depressing them." See his Siris, Vol. II. Division 66.-The effect of all wines and spirits upon me is strange. It settles, but it makes me gloomy.-BYRON, Diary 1821.

CUR.-O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies!

SHAKSPERE. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Act IV. Scene 4. (Launce with his dog.)

CURB.-Curb this cruel devil of his will.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1. (Bassanio to Portia.)

CURFEW. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
GRAY.-Elegy, Verse 1.

CURIOSITY.-Let us satisfy our eyes
With the memorials, and the things of fame,

That do renown this city.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 3. (Sebastian to Antonio.)

68

CURIOSITY.—

CURIOSITY-CYPHER,

I will bespeak our diet,

Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
With viewing of the town.

SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. (Antonio to Sebastian.)

CUSTOM.-The breach of custom

Is breach of all.

SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2.
(Imogen to Guiderius.)

Custom calls me to 't;

What custom wills, in all things should we do 't?
SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 3.

(Solus.)

It is a custom,

More honour'd in the breach than the observance. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4. (Hamlet to Horatio.)

New customs,

Though they be never so ridiculous,

Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 3. (Sands to the Chamberlain.)

CUT.-Can ready compliments supply,

On all occasions cut and dry.

SWIFT.-Furniture of Woman's Mind.

Jokes of all kinds, ready cut and dry.

MICROCOSM.-Vol. I. No. VIII. Page 68.

According to her cloth she cut her coat.

DRYDEN.-Cock and the Fox.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

SHAKSPERE.Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Anthony to the Citizens.)

CYNOSURE.-Where perhaps some Beauty lies,
The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.

MILTON.-L'Allegro, Line 79.

CYPHER.-The Whigs are a parcel of cyphers, and I am the only unit that gives a value to them.

LORD BROUGHAM.

CYPHER.-Here's another of your cyphers to fill up the

number:

That come before the swallow dares.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act IV. Scene 3.
(Perdita to Florizel.)

DAGGER.-Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act II. Scene I.
(Macbeth solus.)

DAMES.-Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,
How mony lengthen'd sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!

BURNS.-Tam o'Shanter, Line 33.

DAMN-Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.
POPE.-Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 201.

Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell damn'd to everlasting fame.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 283.

DANCE.- When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act IV. Scene 3.
(Florizel to Perdita.)

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII., Act V. Scene 2. (The King to Butts.)

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,

Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven.

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. IV. Line 143.

DANCING. The dancing pair, that simply sought renown, By holding out, to tire each other down.

GOLDSMITH.-Deserted Village, Line 25.

Though civil persons they, you ruder were,
And had more humours than a dancing bear.
ROWE.-Tonson and Congreve.