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CLOAKS to COLOSSUS

CLOAKS.—When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act II. Scene 3. (Third Citizen to his Companions.)

CLOCK.—The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus.)

Great Nature’s well-set clock in pieces took;
On all the springs and smallest wheels did look
Of life and motion; and with equal art
Made up again the whole of every part.

Cowley.—The Davideis, Book I. Line 743.

CLOUD.—Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish:
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion,
A tower’d citadel, a pendant rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon ’t, that nod unto the world,
And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs;
They are black vesper’s pageants.

Shakespeare.—Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 12. (Anthony to Eros.)

Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer cloud,
Without our special wonder?

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth, after he had seen the Ghost of Banquo.)

COACH.—Go call a coach, and let a coach be call’d;
And let the man that calls it be the caller;
And in his calling, let him nothing call,
But Coach, Coach, Coach! O for a Coach, ye Gods!

Carey.—Chrononhotonthologos, Scene 5.

COCK-A-HOOP.—And having routed the whole troop,
With victory was cock-a-hoop.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 13.

You’ll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoop! you’ll be the man!

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5. (Capulet to Tybalt.) The origin of this phrase is very doubtful. See Knight’s Shakespeare.

COCK-CROWING.— . . The early village cock
Hath twice done salutation to the morn.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (Ratcliff to Richard.)

Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo.

Shakespeare.—Tempest, Act I. Scene 2. A Song (Ariel.)

COFFIN.—No useless coffin enclos’d his breast,
Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him:
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.

Rev. Chas. Wolfe.—Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore.

COIN.— … . Coin heaven’s image
In stamps that are forbid.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 4. (Angelo to Isabella.)

This is the very coinage of your brain.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (The Queen to Hamlet.)