DISCONTENT.- Cynical.

D. John. I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace; and it better fits my blood to be disdain'd of all, than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle, and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth I would bite; if I had my liberty I would do my liking: in the mean time, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.

Con. Can you make no use of your discontent?

D. John. I make all use of it, for I use it only. M. A., I: 3. 229.

-Destruction.

Lady M. Nought 's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content: "T is safer to be that which we destroy, Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. M., III: 2. 1370.

-Its Winter.

Glo. Now is the winter of our discon

tent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds, that lower'd upon our house,

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

-With Everything.

Ham.

R. III., I: 1. 1001.

- Delays. Mont.

L. L., V: 2. 302.

We thought not good to bruise an injury, till it were full ripe.

-Disguised.

Con.

H. V., III: 6. 837.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those

roots

That shall first spring, and be most delicate. H. V., II: 4. 829.

-Prudently Submits.

York. So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty;

So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.

H. VI., 3 pt., I: 4. 960.

-Relation to Valor.

Fal.

T. C., I: 3. 1108.

**

* The better part of valour is discretion; in which better part I have

ness,

And shame thine honourable age with blood?

Why art thou old, and want'st experience? Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it? For shame! in duty bend thy knee to me,

France:

For that I have laid by my majesty,
And plodded like a man for working-days;
II. V., I: 2. 823.

-Strange Fancy for.

D. Pedro. There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be a Dutchman to-day; a Frenchman to-morrow; or in the shape of two countries at once, as, a German from the waist downward, all slops; and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet.

II. VI., 2 pt., V: 1. 943. DISMAY.-Never Disarms the Brave. Dismay'd not this Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? Sold. Yes;

Dun.

As sparrows, eagles; or the hare, the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks,
So they

Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.

O., I: 3. 1499.