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DOUBT-DREAMERS.

DOUBT.-Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,
To hang a doubt on: or woe upon thy life!

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3.
(Othello to Iago.)

DOUBTLESS.-Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.

BUTLER —Hudibras, Part II. Canto III.

DOUBTS.-O, what damned minutes tells he o'er,
Who dotes yet doubts; suspects, yet fondly loves!
SHAKSPERE. Othello, Act III. Scene 3.

(Iago to Othello, warning him against Jealousy.)
Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act I.
Scene 5. (Lucio to Isabella.)

DOVE.-The dove returning bore the mark
Of earth restored to the long labouring ark,
The relics of mankind, secure of rest,
Oped every window to receive the guest,
And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

DRYDEN.-To Her Grace of Ormond, Line 70.

The dove was twice employ'd abroad, before
The world was dried, and she return'd no more.
IBID.-Line 99.

DOVE-COTE.-Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioli:

Alone, I did it.

SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 5.

DOWN-He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low no pride.

BUNYAN.-Pilgrim's Progress, Part II.

DREAM.-If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago to Roderigo.)

DREAMERS.-1. Dreamers often lie.

2. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. 1. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 4. (Mercutio and Romeo.)

DREAMERS.-And mourn, in lamentation deep,
How life and love are all a dream.

BURNS.-The Lament, Verse 1.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream still let me sleep.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act IV. Scene 1.
(Sebastian.)

Like the dreams,

Children of night, of indigestion bred.

CHURCHILL.-The Candidate, Line 784.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

DANTE.-Inferno, Canto XXVI. Line 7.
BEN JONSON.-Love Restored, a song.
BRUCE.-Elegy, written in Spring, Verse 19.

A vision after midnight, when dreams are true.

HORACE.-Book I. Sat. X. Page 179. Bohn's Ed. by Buckley.

Towards dawn, the lamp now flickering, (at the time when true visions are wont to be seen.)

OVID.-Epi. XIX, page 219. Bohn's Ed. by Riley.

Like the dream

That o'ertook me at my waking hour,

This morn; and dreams they say are then divine.

DRYDEN.-Don Sebastian, Act IV. Scene 1.

At break of day, when dreams, they say, are true.

DRYDEN.-The Spanish Friar, Act III. Scene 2.

And though it be a waking dream,

Yet let it like an odour rise:

To all the senses here,

And fall like sleep upon their eyes,

Or music in their ear.

BEN JONSON.-The Vision of Delight.

DREAMS.-Dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.

BYRON.-The Dream, Line 5.

Led by those waking Dreams of Thought,
That warm the young unpractis'd Breast.

LANGHORNE.-Owen of Carron, Verse 19.

DRESS. She bears a duke's revenues on her back.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part II. Act I.
Scene 3. (Queen Margaret to Suffolk.)

O, many

Have broke their backs with laying manors on them
For this great journey.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 1.
(Buckingham.)

To bear them

The back is sacrifice to the load.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 2. (Katherine to Wolsey.)

Dress drains our cellar dry,

And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires,
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,

Where peace and hospitality might reign.

COWPER.-The Task, Book II. Line 614.

Here's such a plague every morning, with buckling shoes, gartering, combing, and powdering.

FARQUHAR.-The Twin Rivals, Act I.

DRINK.-Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;

Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

And I'll not look for wine.

BEN JONSON.-To Celia. The Forest. This song is taken from a collection of love-letters written by Philostratus, an ancient Greek sophist.

Drink boldly, and spare not.

URQUHART'S RABELAIS.-Chap. XXXIV.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee; but before
Mayst rule it, as thou list; and pour the shame
Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.
It is most just to throw that on the ground,

Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

GEORGE HERBERT.-The Temple, Stanza 5.

Drink to day, and drown all sorrow;

You shall not do it to-morrow:

Best while you have it, use your breath;

There is no drinking after death.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Bloody Brother,

Act II. Scene 2.

DRINK.-I see by thy eyes thou hast been reading a little

Geneva print.

ANONYMOUS.-The Merry Devil of Edmonton.

Potations pottle deep.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 3.

(Iago's plot against Cassio.)

DRINKING.-Not to-night-I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I have drunk but one cup to-night, and-behold what innovation it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 3.
(Cassio to Iago.)

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 3.
(Cassio.)

If we do not drink to his cost, we shall die in his debt.
SMART'S HORACE.-Book II. Sat. VIII.

I drank: I liked it not: 'twas rage, 'twas noise,

An airy scene of transitory joys.

In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl

Would banish sorrow and enlarge the soul.

PRIOR.-Solomon, a Poem, Book II. Line 106.

And in the flowers that wreath the sparkling bowl,
Fell adders hiss, and poisonous serpents roll.

PRIOR. Ibid. Line 140.

[See a pleasant piece of exaggeration, wherein the drunken person imagines himself on board a vessel, and in danger of shipwreck.]

HEYWOOD.-The English Traveller. Lamb's
Dramatic Poets, Page 104.

DROP-A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

PROVERBS. Chap. XXVII. Verse 15.

From the frequent drop, ever falling, even the stone is bored into a hollow.

BANKS' Bion.-Idyl XI. Page 176.

Much rain wears the marble.

SHAKSPERE. King Henry VI. Part III. Act III.
Scene 2. (Gloster.)

DROWSY.-When love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV.
Scene 3. (Birom.)

DRUNK.-We faren as he that drunk is as a mouse;
A drunken man wot well he hath a house,
But he ne wot which is the right way thider,
And to a drunken man the way is slider.

CHAUCER.-By Saunders, Vol. I. Page 24.

Get very drunk; and when

You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto II.

He that is drunken may his mother kill
Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins,
Is outlaw'd by himself: all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

The drunkard forfeits Man, and doth divest
All worldly right, save what he hath by beast.

GEORGE HERBERT-The Temple, Stanza 6.

Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it.

PRIOR.-Ballad on taking Namur.

DUDGEON.-When civil dudgeon first grew high,
And men fell out, they knew not why;

When hard words, jealousies, and fears,

Set folks together by the ears

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 1.

DULNESS.-Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move,
For fools admire, but men of sense approve :

As things seem large which we through mists descry,
Dulness is ever apt to magnify.

POPE.-On Criticism, Line 390.

Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke;

And gentle dulness ever loves a joke.

POPE.-The Dunciad, Book II. Line 33.

DUNGEON-He that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Himself is his own dungeon.

MILTON.-Comus, Line 383.

DUST.-A heap of dust alone remains of thee,

"Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be.

POPE.-To the Memory of a Lady.