Chapter 14

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? 1957 ROBERT BROWNING: _The Ring and the Book,_ Line 1185.

=Trouble.=

Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 1958 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. 1959 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Truth.=

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. 1960 CHAUCER: _The Frankeleines Tale,_ Line 11789.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 1961 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers. 1962 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Battle-field._

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1963 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 13.

Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd, needs only to be seen. 1964 DRYDEN: _Hind and Panther,_ Pt. i., Line 33.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. 1965 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 133.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity. 1966 WHITTIER: _Miriam._

Truth is truth howe'er it strike. 1967 ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 198.

I love truth: truth's no cleaner thing than love. 1968 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. iii., Line 735.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 1969 KEATS: _Ode on a Grecian Urn._

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. 1970 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis,_ St. 8.

=Tulips.=

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 1971 THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 539.

=Tune.=

Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long! 1972 WATTS: _Hymns and Spiritual Songs,_ Bk. ii., Hymn 19.

=Turf.=

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! 1973 FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _On Joseph Rodman Drake._

=Turk.=

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 1974 POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 197.

=Twilight.=

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. 1975 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598.

Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done. 1976 CELIA THAXTER: _A Summer Day,_ St. 15

=Tyranny.=

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 1977 SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known-- Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. 1978 HERRICK: _Aph. Kings and Tyrants._

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? 1979 BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

==U.==

=Uncertainty.=

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! 1980 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Unity.=

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. 1981 MARIA WHITE LOWELL: _Ingomar the Barbarian,_ Act ii.

=Unkindness.=

This was the most unkindest cut of all. 1982 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Use.=

These things are beyond all use, And I do fear them. 1983 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

==V.==

=Vacuity.=

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 1984 DRYDEN: _Cym. and Iph.,_ Line 84.

=Valentine.=

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day; But by their flight I never can divine When I shall couple with my Valentine. 1985 HERRICK: _Aph. To His Valentine._

=Valor.=

Fear to do base unworthy things is valor; If they be done to us, to suffer them, Is valor too. 1986 BEN JONSON: _New Inn,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Vanity.=

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 1987 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

What dotage will not Vanity maintain? What web too weak to catch a modern brain? 1988 COWPER: _Expostulation,_ Line 630.

=Vapor.=

A wing vapor melting in a tear. 1989 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xix., Line 143.

=Variety.=

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. 1990 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. ii., Line 606.

=Vault.=

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright. 1991 SHELLEY: _Queen Mab._

=Vengeance.=

In high vengeance there is noble scorn. 1992 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iv.

=Venice.=

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. 1993 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 1.

In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier. 1994 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 3.

=Venus.=

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. 1995 POPE: _Wife of Bath, Her Prologue,_ Line 369.

=Verse.=

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. 1996 POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings. 1997 RICHARD GIFFORD: _Contemplation._

=Vice.=

There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 1998 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. 1999 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 760.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 2000 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 217.

=Victory.=

Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. 2001 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

"But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory." 2002 ROBERT SOUTHEY: _Battle of Blenheim._

=Village.=

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain. 2003 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village._

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets, Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze With all a July sun's collected rays, Delight the citizen, who gasping there, Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air. 2004 COWPER: _Retirement,_ Line 481.

=Villain.=

Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him I may avoid him. 2005 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Vine.=

Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! 2006 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

=Violet.=

A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. 2007 WORDSWORTH: _She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways._

Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. 2008 SHELLEY: _Music, When Soft Voices Die._

What thought is folded in thy leaves! What tender thought, what speechless pain! I hold thy faded lips to mine, Thou darling of the April rain! 2009 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: _The Faded Violet._

=Virtue.=

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. 2010 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 2011 SHAKS.: _Henry III.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Assume a virtue if you have it not. 2012 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt; Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. 2013 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 589.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 2014 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 149.

=Vision.=

And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. 2015 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 453.

=Voice.=

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. 2016 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

=Vows.=

Unheedful vows may needfully be broken. 2017 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 6.

It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word. 2018 BYRON: _Parisina,_ St. 1.

==W.==

=Wagers.=

Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers. 2019 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 297.

=Walks.=

A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. 2020 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 1106.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see! 2021 WATTS: _Divine Songs,_ Song iv.

=War.=

O war, thou son of hell, Whom angry heav'ns do make their minister, Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part Hot coals of vengeance!--Let no soldier fly; He that is truly delicate to war Hath no self-love: nor he that loves himself. 2022 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. 2023 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 2024 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 186.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!" 2025 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 86.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, Sweet is the smell of powder. 2026 LONGFELLOW: _Courtship of Miles Standish,_ Pt. iv., Line 135.

=Warning.=

Men that stumble at the threshold, Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 2027 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.

=Warrior.=

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. 2028 CHARLES WOLFE: _Burial of Sir John Moore._

=Washington.=

Washington's a watchword such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. 2029 BYRON: _Age of Bronze,_ St. 5.

=Water.=

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 2030 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth: If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You'd wish yourself where truth is--in a well. 2031 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto ii., St. 84.

=Wave.=

So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 2032 MRS. BARBAULD: _Death of the Virtuous._

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! 2033 EPES SARGENT: _Life On the Ocean Wave._

=Way.=

Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide, pathless way. 2034 MILTON: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 65.

=Weakness.=

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. 2035 MILTON: _Sam. Agonistes,_ Line 831.

=Wealth.=

If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee. 2036 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

To purchase heaven, has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life, can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? 2037 DR. JOHNSON: _To a Friend._

=Weeds.=

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. 2038 MILTON: _Tr. of Horace,_ Bk. i., Ode 5.

=Welcome.=

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. 2039 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome. 2040 SHAKS.: _Coriolanus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Wheel.=

I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. 2041 RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES: _The Brookside._

=Wickedness.=

There is a method in man's wickedness,-- It grows up by degrees. 2042 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _A King and No King,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

=Widows.=

May widows wed as often as they can, And ever for the better change their man; And some devouring plague pursue their lives, Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. 2043 DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 543.

=Wife.=

She is mine own: And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 2044 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 2045 SHAKS.: _Mer. W. of W.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. 2046 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 267.

She is a bonnie wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. 2047 BURNS: _My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing._

The world well tried--the sweetest thing in life Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. 2048 N.P. WILLIS: _Lady Jane,_ Canto ii., St. 11.

=Wilderness.=

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade. 2049 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

=Will.=

A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God. 2050 JOHN PIERPONT: _A Word from a Petitioner._

=Willow.=

A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree; Oh, willow, willow, willow! With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, Oh, willow, willow, willow! 2051 THOMAS PERCY: _Willow, Willow, Willow._

=Wind.=

What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Not the ill wind which blows none to good. 2052 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

The wind is rising; it seizes and shakes The doors and window-blinds and makes Mysterious moanings in the halls; The convent-chimneys seem almost The trumpets of some heavenly host, Setting its watch upon our walls! 2053 LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Abbot Joachim._

A gentle wind of western birth, From some far summer sea, Wakes daisies in the wintry earth. 2054 GEORGE MACDONALD: _Songs of the Spring Days._

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. 2055 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Rain Dream._

=Windows.=

Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. 2056 GRAY: _A Long Story._

=Wine.=

Wine makes Love forget its care, And mirth exalts a feast. 2057 PARNELL: _Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc.",_ St. 2.

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. 2058 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xiv., Line 520.

=Wing.=

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. 2059 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 85.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings. 2060 JOHN LYLY: _Cupid and Campaspe,_ Act v., Sc. 1

=Winter.=

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. 2061 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, Vapors, and clouds, and storms. 2062 THOMSON: _Seasons, Winter,_ Line 1.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes--he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues. 2063 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 2064 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 171.

In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane The redbreast looks in vain For hips and haws, Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane The silver pencil of the winter draws. 2065 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _Winter._

=Wisdom.=

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it. 2066 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iii., Sc. 11.

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel your own. 2067 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 260.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible. 2068 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Wisdom of All._

And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude. 2069 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 373.

=Wishes.=

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 2070 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 4.

Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. 2071 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 662.

=Wit--Wits.=

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but one hole for to sterten to. 2072 CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, The Wif of Bathes Prologue,_ Line 6154.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. 2073 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 41.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 2074 DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., Line 163.

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain. 2075 CRABBE: _Patron,_ Line 229.

Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit. 2076 GEORGE WITHER: _The Shepherd's Hunting._

=Witches.=

Midnight hags, By force of potent spells, of bloody characters, And conjurations, horrible to hear, Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep, And set the ministers of hell at work. 2077 ROWE: _Jane Shore,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Woe.=

But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 2078 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. 2079 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iii., Line 63.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. 2080 BURNS: _Sweet Sensibility._

=Wolf.=

He's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through, His spectre sits at the door or cave, And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air. 2081 HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Gaunt Gray Wolf._

=Woman.=

Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 2082 SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

Honor to women! to them it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven. 2083 SCHILLER: _Honor to Women._

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. 2084 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 232.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you. 2085 OTWAY: _Venice Preserved,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't. 2086 _Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury._ [_Examiner_: May 31, 1829.]

And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man. 2087 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 269.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 2088 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Irene._

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify A woman; so she's good, what does it signify? 2089 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiv., St. 57.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! 2090 SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 30.

The woman that deliberates is lost. 2091 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was. 2092 GEORGE ELIOT: _The Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. ii.

Till we are built like angels, with hammer, and chisel, and pen, We will work for ourselves and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen. 2093 RUDYARD KIPLING: _An Imperial Rescript._

=Wonder.=

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! 2094 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 2.

=Woodland.=

Yon woodland, like a human mind, Has many a phase of dark and light; Now dim with shadows wandering blind, Now radiant with fair shapes of light. 2095 PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE: _The Woodland._

=Woodman.=

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 2096 GEORGE P. MORRIS: _Woodman, Spare that Tree._

=Woods.=

Fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub. 2097 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 508.

=Words.=

'Tis well said again, And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. 2098 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. 2099 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Apt words have power to 'suage The tumors of a troubled mind; And are as balm to fester'd wounds. 2100 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 184.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. 2101 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iii.

Words, however, are things. 2102 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto ii., St. 6.

=Wordsworth.=

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? 2103 MATTHEW ARNOLD: _Memorial Verses._

=Work.=

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. 2104 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. viii., Line 752.

Men must work, and women must weep. 2105 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _The Three Fishers._

=World.=

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. 2106 SHAKS.: _Mer. W. of W.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. 2107 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Fast by hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star. 2108 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1051.

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow-- There 's nothing true but Heaven. 2109 MOORE: _This World is all a Fleeting Show._

I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 2110 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 113.

=Worm.=

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 2111 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Worship.=

There may be worship without words. 2112 LONGFELLOW: _My Cathedral._

=Worth.=

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. 2113 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 203.

=Wounds.=

Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. 2114 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. 2115 POPE: _Prol. to the Satires,_ Line 201.

=Wrath.=

Come not within the measure of my wrath. 2116 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing! 2117 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. i., Line 1.

=Wreaths.=

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. 2118 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Wrecks.=

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon. 2119 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

=Wretch.=

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living dead man. 2120 SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Writing.=

You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curs'd hard reading. 2121 SHERIDAN: _Clio's Prot._