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DEATH-DECEIT.

DEATH-continued.

Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes,

I woo thee, death!

Oh! what a shadow o'er the heart is flung,

Porteus, Death.

When peals the requiem of the lov'd and young! W. G. Clark,

She's gone! for ever gone! The king of terrors

Lays his rude hands upon her lovely limbs,

And blasts her beauties with his icy breath. Dennis, Ap. Vir.

DEATH-BED.

A death-bed's a detector of the heart:

Here tired dissimulation drops her mask,

Through life's grimace, that mistress of the scene,

Her real and apparent are the same.

DEBT.

He that dies, pays all debts.

You say, you nothing owe; and so I say:

Young, N. T. 641.

Sh. Temp. III. 2.

He only owes, who something hath to pay. Martial (Hay), 11. 3.

There died my father, no man's debtor;

And there I'll die, nor worse, nor better.

Pope.

Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth!

With friends there is not such a word as debt:

Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,

All benefits are there in common set. Lady Carew, Mariam.

DECAY-see Ambition, Reverses.

All that in this world is great and gay,

Doth as a vapour vanish and decay.

Spenser.

You are as a candle, the better part burnt out. Sh. H. IV. 2. And those decays, to speak the naked truth,

Through the defects of age, were crimes of youth. Denham.

Before decay's effacing fingers

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. Byron, Giaour.

All that's bright must fade,—

The brightest still the fleetest;

All that's sweet was made

But to be lost when sweetest.

DECEIT DECEITFULNESS-DECEPTION-HYPOCRISY.

What man so wise, what earthly wit so rare,

As to descry the crafty, cunning train

By which Deceit doth mask in visor fair,

And seem like Truth, whose shape she well can feign. Spenser.

O that deceit should dwell

In such a gorgeous palace !

Sh. Rom. J. III. 2.

T. Moore, All that's bright.

DECEIT, DECEITFULNESS, DECEPTION.

DECEIT, DECEITFULNESS, DECEPTION-continued.
Look to her, Moor; have a quick eye to see:
She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee.

The devil can cite scripture for his purposes.
An evil soul, producing holy witness,

Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;

A goodly apple rotten at the heart;

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Sh. Oth. 1. 3.

0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Sh M. of Ven. 1. 3.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;

One foot in sea, and one on shore;

To one thing constant never.

Sh. M. Ado, 11. 3.

And be the juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,

And break it to our hope.

Sh. Macb. v. 7.

Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep;
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.

Sh. H. VI. III. 1.

Sh. R. III. II. 2.

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice.
Mother, for love of grace,

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Sh. Ham.111,4.
Every man in this age has not a soul
Of crystal, for all men to read their actions

Through That

= Men's hearts and faces are so far asunder

they hold no intelligence. Beaum. and Fl. Philaster.

He seem'd

For dignity compos'd and high exploit :
But false and hollow.

His tongue

Milton, P. L. 11. 111.

Dropt and could make the worse

manna,

Milton, P. L. 11. 113.

reason.
A villain, when he seems most kind

Is most to be suspected.

Before
To

her

Lansdowne, Jew of Venice.

face her handkerchief she spread,
flood of tears-she did not shed.

'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts,
Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face,
When sits heavy at my heart.

discontent

Pope.

Addison, Cato.

132 DECEIT, DECEITFULNESS, DECEPTION-DECISION.

DECEIT, DECEITFULNESS, DECEPTION-continued.

A villain, when he most seems kind,

Is most to be suspected.

Lansdowne, Jew of Venice.

Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,
Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit.

Even innocence itself hath many a wile.

Byron to Southey.

Byron, Don Juan.

Byron, Lara.

Love on his lips and hatred in his heart,
His motto-constancy; his creed-to part.
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life

Do bask their spotted skins in fortune's sun,

And sting the soul.

O, what a tangled web we weave,

When first we practise to deceive.

Joanna Baillie, De Montford, 1. 2.

Scott, Marmion, vi. 17.

Content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Pope, M. Es. 11. 163.

Immodest words admit of no defence,

DECENCY.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour.

For want of decency is want of sense. Roscommon, Essay I.

DECISION-see Dispatch, Promptitude.

Away, then; work with boldness and with speed,
On greatest actions greatest dangers feed.

Marlowe.

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly.

Sh. Macb. 1. 7.

Be the juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,

And break it to our hope.

Sh. Macb. v. 7.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

Sh. Jul. C. IV. 3.

Sighs, groans, and tears proclaim his inward pains,

But the firm purpose of his heart remains.

Dryden.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it

Catch, ere the change, the Cynthia of the minute.

Pope, M. Es. 11. 19.

DECISION-DEFEAT.

DECISION-continued.

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The keen spirit

Seizes the prompt occasion-makes the thought

Start into instant action, and at once

Plans and performs, resolves and executes! Hannah More.

DECLARATION-see Love, Proposal.

Wooing thee, I found thee of more value

Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;

And 'tis the very riches of thyself

That now I aim at.

Helen, I love thee; by my life I do:

I swear by that, which I will lose for thee,

[Daniel, I.

Sh. Mer. W. 111. 4.

To prove him false, that says I love thee not. Sh. M. N. 111. 2.

Why should I blush to own I love ?

'Tis love that rules the realms above;

Why should I blush to say to all,

That virtue holds my heart in thrall?

DECORUM.

So, with decorum all things carried,

Henry Kirk White.

Miss frowned, and blushed, and then was married. Goldsmith.

DECREE.

It must not be; there is no power in Venice

Can altera decree established:

'Twill be recorded for a precedent;

And many an error by the same example,

Will rush into the state.

DEDICATIONS.

Leave nattery to fulsome dedicators,

Sh. M. of V. 1V. 1.

Whom when they praise the world believes no more,

Than when they promise to give scribbling o'er.

DEEDS.

Pope.

Where deeds pull down, words can repair no faith. Chapman.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

DEFEAT.

Such a numerous host

Fled not in silence through the frighted deep,

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion worse confounded.

DEFENCE.

In causes of defence, 'tis best to weigh

The
So the
Which

enemy

Bailey, Festus.

Milton, P. L. 993-996.

more mighty than he seems;

Proportions of defence are fill'd;
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
Of a weak and niggardly projection
A little cloth.

Sh. Hen. V. II. 4.

I do defy him, and I spit at him;
Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain :
Which to maintain, I would allow him odds;
And meet him, were I tied to run a-foot,
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.

I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face,

Sh. Ric. 11. 1. 1.

Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee. Sh. Hen. VI. 3. v. 1.

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

Shall I be frighted, when a madman stares? Sh. Jul. C. 1v. 3.
If thou deny'st it, twenty times thou liest;
And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. Sh. Ric. II. IV. 1.

Who sets me else? by heaven I'll throw at all;

I have a thousand spirits in my breast,

To answer twenty thousand such as you.

Thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,

Sh. Ric. II. IV. 1.

A chafed lion by the mortal paw,

A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,

Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.

If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,

Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,

Sh. K. John, 111. 1.

I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime,

Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,

That you shall think the devil has come from hell. Ib. 1v. 3.

Come one, come all-this rock shall fly

From its firm base as soon as I.

Scott, L. of L. v. 10.

Thou think'st I fear thee, cursed reptile,
And hast a pleasure in the damned thought.

Though my heart's blood should curdle at thy sight,
I'll stay and face thee still. Joanna Baillie, De Montford.

DEITY-see God, Creator, Omnipotence, Providence.

Father of light and life! thou Good Supreme!
O teach me what is good! teach me thyself!
Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,

From every low pursuit! and feed my soul
With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure;

Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss Thomson, Winter, 217.