Chapter TEARS to TEARS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

The big round tears
Cours’d one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 1. (A Lord to the Duke.)

And, as she wept, her tears to pearl he turned,
And wound them on his arm, and for her mourned.

Marlowe.—Hero and Leander, 1st Sestiad.

TEARS.I’ll decke her tomb with flowers,
The rarest ever seen,
And with my tears, as showers,
I’ll keepe them fresh and green.

Anonymous.—Corydon’s Doleful Knell, 2 Percy Rel.281.

Upon her cheeks she wept, and from those showers
Sprang up a sweet nativity of flowers.

Herrick’s Hesperides.—Electra’s Tears, No.142.

I have no orators,
More than my tears, to plead my innocence.

Ford.—The Lady’s Trial, Act II. Scene 2.

He has strangled his language in his tears.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act V. Scene 1. (The King, after he had dismissed Cranmer.)

And sure his tongue had more exprest,
But that his tears forbad the rest.

Herrick’s Hesperides.—Leander, No.139.

Thrice he assay’d, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

Milton—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 619.

So looks the lily after a shower, while drops of rain run gently down its silken leaves, and gather sweetness as they pass.

Fielding.—The Grub Street Opera, Act III. Scene 9.