Chapter OWN to PAINT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

OWN to PAINT

OWN.—Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

St. Matthew.—Chap. XX. Verse 15.

The king shall enjoy his own again.

Anonymous.—Chorus to a Cavalier song. Scott’s Woodstock, Chap. XVI.

OWE.—Owe no man any thing, but to love one another.

Romans.—Chap. XIII. Verse 8.

Come, that’s very well—very well indeed!
Thank you, good sir—I owe you one.

Colman.—The Poor Gentleman, Act IV. Scene 1.

Thou owest me thy love.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 3.

OYSTER.—The eating of the oyster, and giving a shell to each of the clowns who found it, is usually laid at the door of the attorney. Somerville lays it at the door of the parson, (Fable 8.) Both are wrong; for the clowns agreed to leave their dispute to the first person they met, and he became the judge between them. Pope says—

Dame justice, weighing long the doubtful right,
Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.

See his Miscellanies—Verbatim from Boileau. And Dryden—A judge erected from a country clown. (Cymon and Iphigenia.)

We strive as did the houndès for the bone:
They fought all day, and yet their part was none:
There came a kite, while that they were so wroth,
And bare away the bone betwixt them both.

Saunders’ Chaucer, Vol. I. Page 21.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster: but I’ll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 3.

An oyster may be cross’d in love.

Sheridan.—The Critic, Act III. Scene 1.

OYSTERS.—Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli,—
For love must be sustain’d like flesh and blood,—
While Bacchus pours out wine, or hands a jelly:
Eggs, oysters, too, are amatory food.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 170.

PACING.— Pacing forth
With solemn steps and slow.

Gray.—Ode for Music, Stanza IV. Line 1.

PADDLING.—Paddling in your neck with his damn’d fingers.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.