Line 409.
=Cloak.=
Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune,
Then take thine old cloake about thee.
343
PERCY: _Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee._
=Clock.=
Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
344
DRYDEN: _Oedipus,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Clothes.=
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.
345
GOLDSMITH: _Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog._
=Clouds.=
Circling the mountains the gray clouds go
Heavy with storms as a mother with child,
Seeking release from their burden of snow
With calm slow motion they cross the wild--
Stately and sombre, they catch and cling
To the barren crags of the peaks in the west,
Weary with waiting, and mad for rest.
346
HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Clouds._
Clouds on the western side
Grow gray and grayer, hiding the warm sun.
347
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI: _Twilight Calm._
Those clouds are angels' robes.--That fiery west
Is paved with smiling faces.
348
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
=Coach.=
Go, call a coach, and let a coach be call'd,
And let the man who calleth be the caller,
And in his calling let him nothing call
But coach! coach! coach! oh, for a coach, ye gods!
349
CAREY: _Chrononhotonthologos,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
=Cock-crowing.=
The early village cock
Hath twice done salutation to the morn.
350
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.
=Coincidence.=
A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase
By which such things are settled nowadays.
351
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto vi., St. 78.
=Cold.=
The cold in clime are cold in blood,
Their love can scarce deserve the name.
352
BYRON: _Giaour,_ Line 1099.
For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
353
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
=Coliseum.=
"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls--the world."
354
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 145.
=Colossus.=
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
355
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
=Colors.=
I took it for a faery vision
Of some gay creatures of the element,
That in the colors of the rainbow live,
And play i' th' plighted clouds.
356
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 298.
=Columbia.=
Columbia, Columbia, to
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