Term
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; |
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| Romeo and Juliet: prologue - fate vs. free will |
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I fear, too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels... |
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| Romeo and Juliet: Romeo - fate |
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- O, let us hence, I stand on sudden haste.
- Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast. |
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| Romeo and Juliet: Romeo and Friar Lawrence - free will |
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These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. |
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| Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence - warning against hasty actions |
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Term
...'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse,
a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a
villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic!... |
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| Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio - dying curse ("a plague..." |
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- O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.
- And trust me, love, in my eye so do you;
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
- O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle;
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, Fortune:
For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet and Romeo |
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| Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars! |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Romeo - curse of fate |
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Term
Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge,
Of dear import... |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence |
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Term
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence to Juliet |
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Term
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this. |
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Term
"Yea," quoth he, "dost thou fall up on thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit,
Wilt thou not,______?" |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Nurse to Juliet |
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My only love spring from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late! |
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| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet after meeting/falling in love with Romeo |
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Term
Within the infant rind of this weak flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power;
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part,
Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
IN man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. |
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| Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence - talking about plants, foreshadow of Romeo and Juliet's fate |
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Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet to Nurse, waiting to hear from Romeo |
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O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honorable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever brook containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous place! |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, reacting to the news that Romeo killed Tybalt |
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Term
- My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
- Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this:
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
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- Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg'd. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Romeo and Juliet on their first meeting - kiss |
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Term
Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-night,
It is too rash, to unadvis'd, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say it lightens. Sweet, good night! |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet - romance happening too suddenly |
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Term
Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is ________, that thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for _______!
How much salt water thrown away in waste,
To season love, that of it doth not taste!
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And art thou chang'd? Pronounce this sentence then:
Women may fall, when there's no strength in men. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence, upon hearing of Romeo's changed love |
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Term
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me
But old folks - many feign as they were dead,
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, impatient for the Nurse's return with news from Romeo |
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Term
These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Friar Lawrence, cautioning against the speed of Romeo and Juliet's love |
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Term
| He jests at scars that never felt a wound. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Romeo - regarding Mercutio's teasing |
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Term
| Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet - why is Romeo indeed Romeo? |
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Term
| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet... |
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear -
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Romeo, upon first seeing Juliet |
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Term
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging; such a waggoner
As Phaeton would whip you to the west,
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
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O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess'd it, and though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd. So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Juliet - waiting for Romeo after they've married |
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Term
| (Examine Juliet before drinking potion) |
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Definition
| Fears possible outcomes of her drinking potion (waking in the tomb and dying, among the bones of her ancestors - Tybalt's ghost fighting Romeo). |
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Term
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agot-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Over men's noses as the lie asleep.
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And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on cur'sies straight;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breath with sweetmeats tainted are.
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This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage. |
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Definition
| Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio - Queen Mab speech; dreams are the product of brains that do nothing. |
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Term
...I woo'd thee with my sword,
and won thy love doing thee injuries;
But I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling. |
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Definition
| Midsummer: Theseus, to Hippolyta - love vs. war |
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Term
| The course of true love never did run smooth |
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Definition
| Midsummer: Lysander - to Hermia, consoling her after confrontation with Egeus |
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Term
-...Why art thou here
Come from the farthest steep of India?
But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
Your buskin'd mistress, and your warrior love,
To ______ must be wedded, and you come
To give their bed joy and prosperity.
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Didst not thou lead him through the glimmering night
From Perigenia, whom he ravished?
And make him with fair Aegles break his faith,
With Ariadne, and Antiopa?
- These are the forgeries of jealousy;
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Definition
| Midsummer: Titania and Oberon - relationship(s) between Oberon, Hippolyta, Theseus and Titania |
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Term
-I love thee not; therefore pursue me not.
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- You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.
- Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
Or rather do I not in plainest truth
Tell you I do not nor I cannot love you?
- And even for that do I love you the more:
I am your spaniel...
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-I will not stay thy questions. Let me go;
Or if thou follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
- Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
You do me mischief. Fie, ________!
Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do.
We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo.
I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well. |
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Definition
| Midsummer: Helena and Demetrius - Helena's unrequited love for him |
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Term
-...But who is here? ____! on the ground?
Dead or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.
______, if you live, good sir, awake.
- And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake. |
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| Midsummer: Helena and Lysander - Lysander awakes and falls for Helena |
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Term
I pray you all, stand up.
I know you two are rival enemies.
How comes this gentle concord in the world,
That hatred is so far from jealousy
To sleep by hate and fear no enmity? |
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| Midsummer: Theseus to Lysander and Demetrius - where does this love come from this hate? |
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Term
| (Review play at end of Midsummmer) |
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| love and war - comic presentation of tragic story at a wedding |
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- How now, my love? why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
- Belike for want of rain; which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
- Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth;
But either it was different in blood- |
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| Midsummer: Hermia and Lysander |
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Term
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
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As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjur'd every where; |
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- Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
When every thing seems double
- So methinks;
And I have found ______ like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.
- Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
The Duke was here, and bid us follow him? |
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| Midsummer: Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander - waking up, unsure if awake or dreaming |
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| I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about t' expound this dream...The eye of man hat not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his hear to report, what my dream was. |
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| Midsummer: Bottom - waking up from dream |
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- 'Tis strange...that these lovers speak of.
- More strange than true. I never may believe
These antic fables, nor these fairy toys.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact. |
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| Midsummer: Theseus - response to the lovers |
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The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed, 'tis almost fairy time.
I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn
As much as we this night have overwatch'd. |
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How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him for he is a Christian;
But more, for that in low simplicity
He lends out money gratis, and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
He hates our sacred nation, and he rails
Even there where merchants most do congregate
On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe
If I forgive him! |
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Definition
| Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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Term
| Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me... |
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Definition
| Merchant of Venice: Launcelot |
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Term
| In sooth, I know not why I am so sad....my little body is weary of this great world. |
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Definition
| Merchant of Venice: Antonio |
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Term
What says the leaden casket?
"Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath."
Must give-for what? for lead, hazard for lead?
This casket threatens. Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages;
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Prince of Morocco - "hazard" of losing the world to gain the world |
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Term
I pray you tarry, pause a day or two
Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong
I lose your company; therefore forbear a while. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Portia - warning Bassanio before he chooses a casket |
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If you deny me, fie upon your law!
There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
I stand for judgment. Answer-shall I have it? |
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| Merchant of Venice: Shylock - demand for justice in trial |
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes
the throned monarch better than his crown. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Portia - plea for mercy from Shylock in court |
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All that glisters is not gold,
Often have you hear that told;
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Prince of Morocco reading scroll - appearance vs. reality |
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Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
Clamber not you up to the casements then,
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces; |
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| Merchant of Venice: Shylock to Jessica - appearance vs. reality of Christians |
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Term
I hold the world but as the world, _____,
A stage, where very man must play a part,
And mine a sad one. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Antonio |
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| If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Portia |
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-The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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- You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Antonio and Shylock |
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Term
If I do not put on a sober habit,
Talk with respect, and swear but now and then,
Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,
Nay more, while grace is saying hood mine eyes
Thus with my hat, and sigh and say amen,
Use all the observance of civility,
Like one well studied in a sad ostent
To please his grandam, never trust me more. |
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| Merchant of Venice: Gratiano |
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Term
So may the outward shows be at least themselves-
The world is still deceiv'd with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being season'd with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?...
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. |
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Definition
| Merchant of Venice: Bassanio - after picking correct casket |
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How much I was a braggart: when I told you
My state was nothing, I should then have told you
That I was worse than nothing;... |
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Definition
| Merchant of Venice: Bassanio - telling Portia of his debt to Antonio |
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| Merchant of Venice: act 5 - love and music, poetic yet sad |
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