Fevers and other general diseases are often referred to and very many excellent allusions have been made to them.
He is so shaked of a burning quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Henry V., Act II., Sc. I.
If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Tempest, Act II., Sc. II.
A lunatic lean-witted fool, Presuming on an ague’s privilege, Dar’st with thy frozen admonition Make pale our cheek; chasing the royal blood, With fury, from his native residence. Richard II., Act II., Sc. I.
But now will canker sorrow eat my bud, And chase the native beauty from his cheek, And he will look as hollow as a ghost, As dim and meagre as an ague’s fit, And so he’ll die. King John, Act III., Sc. IV.
Here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up. Macbeth, Act V., Sc. V.
An untimely ague Stay’d me a prisoner in my chamber. Henry VIII., Act I., Sc. I.
My wind * * * would blow me to an ague. Merchant of Venice, Act I., Sc. I.
He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake; ’tis true, this god did shake: His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend did awe the world Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan: Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas! it cried, Give me some drink, Titinius, As a sick girl. Julius Cæsar, Act I., Sc. II.
Home without boots, and in foul weather too! How ’scapes he agues? Henry IV., Act III., Sc. I.