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VICTORY-(continued).

To whom God will, there be the victory!

3 HENRY VI. ii. 5.

Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!
And either victory, or else a grave !

3 HENRY VI. ii. 2.

O Thou, whose captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye;

Make us Thy ministers of chastisement,
That we may praise Thee in Thy victory!

RICHARD III. v. 3.

VISION.

Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop
Invite me to a banquet; whose bright faces
Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?

They promised me eternal happiness.

HENRY VIII. iv. 2.

VOWS.

This, in the name of God, I promise here;
The which, if He be pleas'd, I shall perform :

And I will die a hundred thousand deaths,

Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.

1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.

Holy Writ.

VICTORY-(continued).

Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory.

1 CORINTHIANS, XV.

And the Lord wrought a great victory that day.

2 SAMUEL, Xxiii.

Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory.

1 CHRONICLES, Xxiii.

VISION.

He saw in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

VOWS.

ACTS, X.

Yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.

ISAIAH, Xix.

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

ECCLESIASTES, V.

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VOWS (continued).

It is the purpose, that makes strong the vow;
But vows, to every purpose, must not hold.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 3.

It is religion, that doth make vows kept.

KING JOHN, iii. 1.

'Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth;
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
What is not holy, that we swear not by,
But take the Highest to witness.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 2.

He hath given countenance to his speech,
With almost all the holy vows of Heaven.

I have toward Heaven breath'd a secret vow,
To live in prayer and contemplation.

HAMLET, i. 3.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, iii. 4.

WAR.

How

you awake the sleeping sword of war,

We charge you, in the name of God, take heed.

HENRY V. i. 2.

WICKEDNESS.

If the wickedness of these men have defeated the law, and

outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God.

HENRY V. iv. 1.

Holy Writ.

VOWS-(continued).

So I will sing praises unto Thy name for ever; that I may daily perform my vows.

PSALM 1xi.

If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word.

NUMBERS, Xxx.

That mayest thou offer for a free-will offering, but for a vow, it shall not be accepted.

LEVITICUS, Xxii.

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it.

WAR.

DEUTERONOMY, Xxiii.

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

WICKEDNESS.

ISAIAH, ii.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the

wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

PROVERBS, Xi.

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WIDOW.

Where, then, alas! may I complain myself?—
To Heaven, the widow's champion and defence.

RICHARD II. i. 2.

Arm, arm, you Heavens, against these perjur'd kings!
A widow cries; be husband to me, Heavens!

KING JOHN, iii. 1.

WILL OF HEAVEN.

The words of Heaven;-on whom it will, it will:
On whom it will not, so; yet still, 't is just.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

I HENRY IV. i. 2.

The fool doth think he is wise; but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

WITCH.

AS YOU LIKE IT, V. 1.

Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,

And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st.

1 HENRY VI. i. 5.