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

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

Brain


The times have been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth, at sight of Banquo’s ghost.)	1
O rare The headpiece, if but brains were there. Phædrus.—Book I. Fable 7.	2
Thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix’d with baser matter. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (Hamlet, obedient to his father’s command.)	3
An excellent scholar: One that hath a head fill’d with calves’ brains without any sage in them. Webster.—The White Devil, Act I. Scene 1.	4
Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (First Clown to the second Clown.)	5