blood disposition, inclination, temperament,
impulse:
“Blood, thou art blood,”
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 4.
15
;
“faith melteth into blood”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 1.
159
(
“as wax, when opposed to the fire kindled by a witch, no
longer preserves the figure of the person whom it was designed to represent, but flows
into a shapeless lump; so fidelity, when confronted with beauty, dissolves into our ruling
passion, and is lost there like a drop of water in the sea,”
STEEVENS)
“wisdom and blood combating,”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii. 3.
150
;
“his important blood,”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iii. 7.
21
;
“Let thy blood be thy direction till thy death!”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3.
28
;
“Strange, unusual blood,”
TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 2. 38
;
“To let these hands obey my blood,”
KING LEAR, iv. 2. 64
;
“our bloods No more obey the heavens,”
CYMBELINE, i. 1. 1.