Coward. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Coward


Where’s the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? Scott.—Marmion, Canto IV. Stanza 30.	1
Cowardice Hath made us by-words to our enemies. Shakespeare.—King Henry VI., Part III. Act I. Scene 1. (Warwick to Plantagenet, Duke of York.)	2
Yon trembling coward who forsook his master. Home.—Douglas, Act II. Scene 1.	3
Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act II. Scene 2. (Cæsar to Calphurnia.)	4
A plague of all cowards! Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? You rogue, here’s lime in this sack too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man: yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act II. Scene 4. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)	5
Is there no virtue in the world? Longfellow.—The Spanish Student, Act I. Scene 5.	6