Chapter CONSTABLE to CONVERSE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

CONSTABLE to CONVERSE

CONSTABLE.—Quoth Hudibras, “Friend Ralph, thou hast,
Out-run the constable at last.”

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 1367.

Who thinks you the most desartless man to be constable?

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 3. (Dogberry to 1st Watch.)

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lantern.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 3. (Dogberry to 2nd Watch.)

What does this fellow of a constable mean by interrupting our play?

Fielding.—The Author’s Farce, Act III. Scene 1.

CONSTANCY.—Hang constancy, you know too much of the world to be constant, sure.

Fielding.—Love in several Masques, Act IV. Scene 2.

’Tis often constancy to change the mind.

Hoole’s Anastatio.—(Sieves) Vol. I. Section 8.

CONSTRUE.—But men may construe things, after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 3. (Cicero to Casca.)

CONSUMMATION.—’Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (His Soliloquy.)

CONTEMPLATION.—To contemplation’s sober eye,
Such is the race of man,
And they that creep, and they that fly,
Shall end where they began.

Gay.—On the Spring, Verse 4.

For contemplation he, and valour form’d;
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 297. (Adam and Eve.)

CONTENT.—Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Dryden.—29th Ode, Horace, Book III. Verse 8.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Philippians.—Chap. IV. Verse 11.

Mecænas, what’s the cause, that no man lives
Contented with the lot which reason gives,
Or chance presents; yet all with envy view
The schemes that others variously pursue?

Francis’ Horace.—Book I. Sat. I.

Learn this of me, where’er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all.