=Dew.=

What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

548 BEN JONSON: _Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet._

=Dial.=

True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.

549 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 175.

=Difficulty.=

It is as hard to come, as for a camel To thread the postern of a needle's eye.

550 SHAKS: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

=Dignity.=

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

551 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 488.

=Digression.=

And there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.

552 BURNS: _The Twa Dogs._

=Dinner.=

Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.

553 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., St. 99.

=Disappointment.=

Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd!

554 MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet of Khorassan._

=Discord.=

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

555 SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iii., Canto ii., St. 15.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.

556 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

=Discourse.=

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.

557 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 4.

=Discretion.=

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

558 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

It shewed discretion, the best part of valor.

559 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _King and No King,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Diseases.=

Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.

560 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Disguise.=

'T is great, 't is manly, to disdain disguise; It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength.

561 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night viii., Line 372.

=Dislike.=

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.

562 TOM BROWN: _Trans. of Martial's Ep. I.,_ 33.

=Disobedience.=

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

563 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 1.

=Disorder.=

You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder.

564 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Disposition.=

He is of a very melancholy disposition.

565 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act i., Sc. 1.