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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Tongue |
| They say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; When words are scarce, they’re seldom spent in vain: For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act II. Scene 1. (Gaunt to York.) | 1 |
| And makes his tongue the midwife of his mind. Carey.—Chrononhotonthologos, Scene 1. | 2 |
| The tongue the ambassador of the heart. Lyly.—Euphues, Page 406. (Reprint 1868.) | 3 |
| With blandish’d parleys, feminine assaults, Tongue batteries, she surceased not. Milton.—Samson Agonistes. | 4 |
| The artillery of words. Swift.—Ode to Sancroft. | 5 |
| Wine, that makes cowards brave, the dying strong, Is a poor cordial ’gainst a woman’s tongue. Somerville.—The Wife, Line 27. | 6 |
| And, though you duck them ne’er so long, Not one salt drop e’er wets their tongue: ’Tis hence they scandal have at will, And that this member ne’er lies still. Gay.—The Mad Dog, last four Lines. | 7 |
| 1. Her clam’rous tongue Strikes pity deaf. 2. Then only hear her eyes. Dryden.—Don Sebastian, Act II. Scene 1. | 8 |
| Oh, learn to read what silent love hath writ! To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit. Shakespeare.—Sonnet XXIII. last Lines. | 9 |
| Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puff’d up with wind, Rage like an angry boar, chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven’s artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud ’larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets clang? And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue? Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Scene 2. (Petruchio to Grumio.) | 10 |
| Is there a tongue, like Delia’s o’er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up? Dr. Young.—Satire I. Line 281. | 11 |
| The tongue is a world of iniquity. St. James, Chap. iii. Ver. 6. | 12 |
| Tongues I’ll hang on every tree, That shall civil sayings show. Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Celia reading a paper.) | 13 |
| Tongues that syllable men’s names. Milton.—Comus, Line 208. | 14 |
| A maiden hath no tongue but thought. Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 2. (Portia to Bassanio.) | 15 |
| My dear Propria quæ maribus hold your tongue, or I’ll depose you. Colley Cibber.—The Rival Fools, Act I. Scene 1. | 16 |
| Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cow’d my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7. (Macbeth to Macduff.) | 17 |
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