DISTRACTION.

Contending with the fretful elements;

Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,
Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,

That things might change or cease: tears his white hair;
Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
Catch in their fury and make nothing of:
Strives in his little world of man to outscorn
The to-an-fro-conflicting wind and rain.

DISTRESS.

The thorny point

Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility.

DISTURBERS.

Who rather had,

Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold
Dissentious numbers pestering streets, than see
Our tradesmen singing in their shops, and going
About their functions freely.

DISUNION.

When that the general is not like the hive,
To whom the foragers shall all repair,
What honey is expected?

How, in one house,

Should many people, under two commands,
Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.

DOOM.

Away! By Jupiter,

This shall not be revok'd.

DOTARD.

K.L. iii. 1.

A. Y. ii. 7.

C. v. 6.

T.C. i. 3.

K. L. ii. 4.

K.L. i. 1.

The brains of my Cupid's knock'd out; and I begin to love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.

DOVER CLIFFS.

How fearful

A. W. iii. 2.

And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes below!
The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air,
Show scarce so gross as beetles: Half way down
Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!
Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:
The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,
Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark,
Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy,
Almost too small for sight: The murm'ring surge,
That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,

DOVER CLIFFS,-continued.

Cannot be heard so high: I'll look no more;
Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
Topple down headlong.

DRAMAS.

K. L. iv. 6.

The best of this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

DREAMS.

I talk of dreams;

Which are the children of an idle brain,

M. N. v. 1.

Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;

Which is as thin of substance as the air;

And more inconstant than the wind, which wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,

And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.

R. J. i. 4.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream; past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

M. N. iv. 1.

'Tis still a dream; or else such stuff as madmen
Tongue and brain out; either both, or nothing;
Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such
As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,
The action of my life is like it, which

I'll keep, if but for sympathy.

By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard,
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers,

Cym. v. 4.

Armed in proof, led on by shallow Richmond. R. III. v. 3.

Poor wretches, that depend

On greatness' favour, dream as I have done,

Awake, and find nothing.

This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal.

Cym. v. 4.

P. P. v. 1.

In thy faint slumbers, I by thee have watch'd,
And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars:
Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;
Cry, Courage!-to the field! And thou hast talk'd
Of sallies, and retires; of trenches, tents,

Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets;

Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin;
Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain,
And all the currents of a heady fight.
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,

H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 3.

DREAMS, continued.

And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,
Like bubbles on a late disturbed stream:

And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden haste.

H. IV. PT. I. ii. 3.

There is some ill a-brewing toward my rest,
For I did dream of money bags to-night.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
DRESS (See also ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN).

M.V. ii. 5. R. III. v. 3.

O. iii. 3.

T. S. iv. 3.

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
What, is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel,
Because his painted skin contents the eye?
And now, my honey love,

We will return unto thy father's house;
And revel it as bravely as the best;

T. S. iv. 3.

With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings,
With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things:
With scarfs, and fans, and double change of bravery,
And amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
The tailor stays thy leisure,

To deck thy body with his rustling treasure.
My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
I do mistake my person all this while:
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass;
And entertain a score or two of tailors,
To study fashions to adorn my body.
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost.

T. S. iv. 3.

R. III. i. 2.

The gown? why, ay ;-Come, tailor, let us see't.
O mercy, God! what masking stuff is here?
What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon:
What! up
and down, carv'd like an apple-tart?
Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash,
Like to a censer in a barber's shop:-

Why, what, o' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?

T. S. iv. 3.

DRESS,-continued.

Cloten.-Thou villain base,

Know'st thou not me by my cloaths?

Guiderius.-No, nor thy tailor, rascal,

Who is thy grandfather: he made those cloaths,
Which, as it seems, make thee.

Cym. iv. 2.

I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean; nor believe he can have every thing in him for keeping his apparel neatly.

DROWNING.

Lord! methought what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of water in my ears!
What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;
A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon.

Often did I strive

To yield the ghost; but still the envious flood
Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth
To seek the empty, vast, and wand'ring air :
But smother'd it within my panting bulk,
Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.

A pox of drowning thyself! it is clean out

DRUMS.

Strike up the drums: and let the tongue of war
Plead for our interest.

Do but stir

An echo with the clamour of thy drum,
And even at hand a drum is ready brac'd,
That shall reverberate all as loud as thine;
Sound but another, and another shall,
As loud as thine, rattle the welkin's ear,
And mock the deep mouth'd thunder.

He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty

A. W. iv. 3.

R. III. i. 4.

R. III. i. 4. of the way. O. i. 3.

K. J. v. 2.

K. J. v. 2.

orator.
A. W. v. 3.

I'll no more drumming; a plague of all drums.

DRUNKARD (See WINE).

A howling monster: a drunken monster.

A. W. iv. 3.

T. iii. 2.

O that men should put an enemy into their mouths, to steal away their brains!-that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into

O. ii. 3.

DRUNKARD,-continued.

O monstrous beast!-how like a swine he lies!

T. S. IND. 1.

When he is best, he is little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

M.W. i. 2.

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.

O. ii. 3.

Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman; one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

You see this fellow that is gone before ;

He is a soldier fit to stand by Cæsar

And give direction: and do but see his vice;
"Tis to his virtue a just equinox,

The one as long as th' other.

T. N. i. 4.

O. ii. 3.

I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me, I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast. One drunkard loves another of the name. He'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog.

O. ii. 3. L. L. iv. 3.

O. ii. 3.

I will, like a true drunkard, utter all to thee.

And now, in madness,

M. A. iii. 3.

Being full of supper, and distempering draughts,
Upon malicious bravery dost thou come,

To start my quiet.

They were red hot with drinking;

So full of valour that they smote the air
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kissing of their feet.

0. i. 1.

T. iv. 1.

Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk;-this is my antient; this is my right hand, and this my left hand :-I am not drunk:-I can stand well enough; and speak well enough: Why, very well then; you must not think then that I am drunk. O. ii. 3.

PIOUS.

I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick; if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves. M. W. i. 1.

DUELLIST.

Room for the incensed worthies.

L. L. v. 2.