PROMISE.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Musoeus of Hero and Leander. G. CHAPMAN.
He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Measure for Measure, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.
Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE.
His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
King Henry VIII., Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
There buds the promise of celestial worth.
The Last Day, Bk. III. DR. E. YOUNG.
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens
That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.
King Henry VI., Pt. I. Act i. Sc. 6. SHAKESPEARE.