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chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.— H. v. 1.

-, WOMEN'S. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole: stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.— A. P. iv. 1.

Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait, And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.— Tit. And. ii. 1.

Witling

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons, pease; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedlar; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; And we that sell by the gross, the Lord doth know, Have not the grace to grace it with such show. L. L. v.

Witches

What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips: -You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.— M. i. 3.

I cónjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warder's heads; Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germins tumble altogether, Ev'n till destruction sicken, -answer me— To what I ask.

Withdrawing

So to your pleasures; am for other than for dancing measures.— A.Γ. v. 4

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