I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night;

For I have need of many orisons

To move the Heavens to smile upon my state,

Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.

ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 3.

Unto my

mother's prayers, I bend my knee.

RICHARD II. v. 3.

He concludes in hearty prayers,
That your attempts may overlive the hazard.

2 HENRY IV. iv. 1.

With wild wood-leaves and weeds I have strew'd his

grave,

And on it said a century of prayers.

CYMBELINE, iv. 2.

Are you so gospell'd

To pray for this good man, and for his issue,

Whose heavy hand hath bow'd

you to the grave ?

MACBETH, iii. 1.

O, that my prayers could such affection move!

Beg often our own harms, which the wise Powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit,

By losing of our prayers.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 1.

We had need pray,

And heartily, for our deliverance.

HENRY VIII. ii. 2.

If thou dost slander her, and torture me,

Never

pray more.

OTHELLO, iii. 3.

O! what form of prayer

Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!— That cannot be; since I am still possess'd

Of those effects for which I did the murder.

HAMLET, iii. 3.

I saw her,

As I thought, dead; and have, in vain, said many

With such gifts that Heaven shall share with you;

Not with foul shekels of the tested gold,

That shall be up at Heaven, and enter there,

Ere sun-rise.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2.

O, let me pray before I take my death!

3 HENRY VI. i. 3.

Shakespeare.

Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.

RICHARD II. v. 3.

They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.

HENRY V. iv. 2.

Consider this,

That, in the course of justice, none of us

Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, iv. 1.

I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,

To join your hearts in love and amity.

1 HENRY VI. iii. 1.

If ever danger do environ thee,

Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, i. 1.

Shakespeare.

HOLY.

Most holy and religious fear it is,
To keep those many many bodies safe,
That live.

HAMLET, iii. 3.

What is not holy, that we swear not by,

But take the Highest to witness.

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

I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,

To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.

RICHARD II. v. 6.

True is it, that we have seen better days,

And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church.

AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 7.

Do not count it holy

To hurt by being just: it is not lawful