valour."

"To have a month's mind to a thing." Ray's "Proverbs." So, in the "Two
Gentlemen of Verona" (i. 2), Julia says:

"I see you have a month's mind to them."[893]

[893] See page 385.

"'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all."[894] This is quoted by Silence
in "2 Henry IV." (v. 3):

"Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;
For women are shrews, both short and tall;
'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,
And welcome merry shrove-tide.
Be merry, be merry."

[894] See Bohn's "Handbook of Proverbs," p. 115.

"To have one in the wind." This is one of Camden's proverbial sentences.
In "All's Well that Ends Well" (iii. 6), Bertram says:

"I spoke with her but once,
And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,
By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,
Tokens and letters which she did re-send."

"To hold a candle to the devil"--that is, "to aid or countenance that
which is wrong." Thus, in the "Merchant of Venice" (ii. 6), Jessica
says:

"What, must I hold a candle to my shames?"

--the allusion being to the practice of the Roman Catholics who burn
candles before the image of a favorite saint, carry them in funeral
processions, and place them on their altars.

"To the dark house" ("All's Well that Ends Well," ii. 3). A house which
is the seat of gloom and discontent.

"Truth should be silent." Enobarbus, in "Antony and Cleopatra" (ii. 2),
says: "That truth should be silent I had almost forgot."

"To take mine ease in mine inn." A proverbial phrase used by Falstaff in
"1 Henry IV." (iii. 3), implying, says Mr. Drake, "a degree of comfort
which has always been the peculiar attribute of an English house of
public entertainment."[895]

[895] "Shakespeare and his Times," vol. i. p. 216.

"Twice away says stay" ("Twelfth Night," v. 1). Malone thinks this
proverb is alluded to by the Clown: "conclusions to be as kisses, if
your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why, then, the worse for
my friends and the better for my foes;" and quotes Marlowe's "Last
Dominion," where the Queen says to the Moor:

"Come, let's kisse.

_Moor._ Away, away.

_Queen._ No, no, sayes I, and twice away sayes stay."

"Trust not a horse's heel." In "King Lear" (iii. 6) the Fool says, "he's
mad that trusts a horse's health." Malone would read "heels."

"Two may keep counsel, putting one away." So A