Chapter PIOUS to PLAY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

PIOUS to PLAY

PIOUS.—When pious frauds and holy shifts,
Are dispensations and gifts.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto 3, Line 1145; Smith. — Phædra and Hyppolitus, Act II.; Pope. —Eloisa and Abelard; Thomson. — Spring, Line 697; Churchill.—The Ghost, Book VIII.; Dryden.—Baucis and Philemon; Rowe.—Lucan, Book III. Line 1141; Dry- den.—Iphis and Ianthe, Book IX.; and Somer- ville.—Mahomet Ali Beg.

PIRATE.—Thou notable pirate ! thou salt-water thief ! Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act V. Scene 1.

PITCH.—He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Ecclesiasticus.—Chap. XIII. Verse 1.

Timon. All the lands thou hast
Lie in a pitch’d field,
Alcib. Ay, defil’d land, my lord.

Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act I. Scene 2; King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Scene 4; Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Scene 3.

PITY.—What comfort can a wretch like me bestow?
He best can pity who has felt the woe.

Gay.—Dione, Act II. Scene 2.

Pity melts the mind to love.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast.

1. I pity you.
2. That’s a degree to love.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 1. (Viola to Olivia.)

Do pity me;
Pity’s akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Southern.—Oroonoka, Act II. Scene 1.

Pity, some say, is the parent
Of future love.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Spanish Curate, Act V. Scene 1.

And some say pity is the child of love.

Cotton.—Love’s Triumph, Verse 5.

Pity swells the tide of love.

Young.—Night III. Line 106.

PITY.—They would your virgin soul to pity move,
And pity may at last be chang’d to love.

Pomfret.—Fortunate Complaint.

If pity move
Your generous bosom, pity those who love.

Gay.—Dione, Act I. Scene 1.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 161.

Those that can pity—may—let fall a tear.