Careful Words

rouse (n.)

rouse (v.)

The blood more stirs

To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

My fell of hair

Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir

As life were in 't: I have supp'd full with horrors.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5.

  Rouse the lion from his lair.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): The Talisman. Chap. vi.