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Wager
Wager: Though't be a sportful combat, Yet in the trial much opinion dwells.
Waggery
Waggery: A waggish courage; Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy, and As quarrelous as a weasel.
Wanderer
Wanderer: He that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get I to the world am like a drop of water, That in…
Want
Want: Where nothing wants, that want itself doth seek.
War
War: The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. Slaves for pillage fighting, Obdurate vassals, fell exploits effecting, In bloody deaths…
Waste
Waste: To paint the lily is wasteful.
Watchman
Watchman: Why, you speak like an antient and most quiet watchman; iii.
Weakness
Weakness: This milky gentleness, and course of yours, Though I condemn it not, yet, under pardon, You are much more attask'd for want of…
Wealth
Wealth: How i' the name of thrift doth he rake this together?
Weeping
Weeping: Give me no help in lamentation, I am not barren to bring forth laments:
Welcome
Welcome: A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light, and heavy: welcome: A curse begin at very root of his…
Well Doing
Well Doing: Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Well Doing, The Duty Or
Well Doing, The Duty Or: Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues. Did not go forth of…
Welsh
Welsh: But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learn'd thy language; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd…
Whisperers
Whisperers: Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm, But thus his simple truth must be abus'd By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
White
White: Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Wife
Wife: My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: To you I am bound for life and education; My life and education both do learn me…
Wilfulness
Wilfulness: O, Sir, to wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure Must be their schoolmasters.
Will
Will: For death remember'd, should be like a mirror, Who tell us, life's but breath; to trust it, error. I'll make my will then; and, as…
Wind
Wind: III blows the wind that profits nobody. H. VI. PT. III. ii.
Wine
Wine: Drunk! and speak parrot? and squabble? and swaggeri and speak fustian with one's own shadow? O, thou invisi ble spirit of wine, if…
Winning
Winning: Winning would put any man into courage.
Wisdom
Wisdom: Ay, marry; now unmuzzle your wisdom.
Wit
Wit: We will spare for no wit, I warrant you. He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the preunder the presentation of that, he…
Wit, Reflections On The Scull Of A
Wit, Reflections On The Scull Of A: chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this…
Woe
Woe: O, what a sympathy of woe is this! As far from help as limbo is from bliss!
Woman
Woman: Ah me! how weak a thing
Wonder
Wonder: Masters, I am to discourse wonders.
Wooing, Wedding, And Repenting
Wooing, Wedding, And Repenting: Wooing, wedding, and repenting, are as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot…
Words
Words: A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.
World
World: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women, merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his…
Worms
Worms: Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us; and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king, and…
Worst
Worst: O gods! who is't can say, I'm at the worst I am worse than e'er I was.
Wound
Wound: The private wound is deepest.
Wrongs
Wrongs: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, 'Twill come, Humanity must perforce…