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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York. |
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Why I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see mt shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity. |
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Was ever woman in this humor wooed?
Was ever woman in this humor won?
I'll have her, but I will not keep her long. |
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And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain |
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But yet I run before my horse to market.
____still breathes, and ____ still lives and reigns;
When they are gone, then must I count my gains. |
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He cannot live, I hope, and must not die
Till ___ be packed with post-horse up to heaven. |
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| Shall I compare thee to a summer's day |
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
And dig a deep trench in thy beauty's field |
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This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. |
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| "treasure of thy lust days" |
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed |
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So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. |
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A woman;s face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion |
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But since she pricked thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. |
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A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion |
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I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate |
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Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate |
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For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. |
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought |
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end. |
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Not marble not the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme |
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So, toll the judgement that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes. |
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But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. |
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end,
Each changing place with that which goes before |
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And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth |
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And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow.
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth despite his cruel hand. |
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That time of year thou mayest in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang |
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Upon these boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang. |
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Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all the rest. |
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In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie
As the deathbed whereon it must expire |
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This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long. |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediment. Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds |
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come |
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If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. |
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The'expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and, till action, lust
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of shame, |
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All this the world knows; yet non knows well
To shun the heaven that leads to this hell. |
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| Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme |
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red |
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My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. |
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| Sonnet that compares qualities of his mistress as being not as vivid as things seen in nature |
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When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though she lies |
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But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old? |
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Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flattered be. |
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Two loves have I, of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still |
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| good angel vs. bad spirit |
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My love is a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease |
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| My reason, the physician to my love |
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For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,
Who art black as hell, as dark as night. |
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The tyrannous and bloody act is done,
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of. |
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At young _____, my brother's daughter,
And by that knot looks proudly on the crown,
TO her I go, a jolly thriving wooer. |
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Come to me, ____, soon after-supper,
When thou shalt tell the process of their death. |
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I say, without characters fame lives long.
Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity,
I moralize two meanings in one word. |
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Foul devil, for God's sake hence and trouble us not,
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell |
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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking glass |
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As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep
And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by. |
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O Thou whose captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye;
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath |
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| Make us thy ministers of chastisement |
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Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
Have mercy, Jesu!-- Soft, I did but dream. |
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| God and our good cause fight upon our side |
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A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'ercloyed country vomits forth |
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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again
And make poor England weep in streams of blood! |
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Oh, Lord, methought what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of water in my ears!
What sights of ugly death within my eyes! |
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Why came I hither but to that intent?
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar? |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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I pray you, do.
I'll attend here,
And woo her with some spirit when she comes. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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Sat that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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Another way I have to man her keeper's call:
That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
That bate and beat and will not be obedient |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced
To give my hand opposed against my heart
Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Kate |
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Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;
Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Tranio about Petruchio |
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Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not crossed
me, thou shoudst have heard how her horse fell and
she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard in how
miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her... |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Grumio about Kate and Petruchio |
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Fie, Fie! Unknit that threatening, unkind, brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Kate |
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Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Kate |
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Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
To make a bondmaid and a slave of me. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Bianca |
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Come, on i'God's name, once more toward our father's.
Good lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon! |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
So I to her, and so she yields to me,
For I am rough and woo not like a babe. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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No shame but mine. I must forsooth, be forced
To give my hand opposed against my heart
Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen,
Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure.
I told you, I, he was a frantic fool |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Kate |
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| Such a mad marriage never was before. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Gremio about the marriage of Petruchio and Kate |
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And in conclusion she shall watch all night,
And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl,
And with the clamor keep her still awake.
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio |
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But I, who never knew how to entreat,
Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed...
He does it under name of perfect love. |
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| Taming of the Shrew: Kate |
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| By my troth, ____, my little body is aweary of this great world. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Portia |
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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's palaces. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Portia |
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I told the world but as the world____--
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Antonio |
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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, |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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| In sooth, I know not why I am so sad |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Antonio |
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| "Budge," says the fiend "Budge not," says my conscience. "Conscience," say I, "You counsel well."...To be ruled by my conscience, I should stay... |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Lancelot |
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| Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: The lead casket |
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To bait fish. If it will feed nothing else,
It will feed my revenge. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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| Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer... |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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| Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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| How shalt though hope for mercy, rendering none? |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Duke |
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| What judgement shall I dread, doing no wrong? |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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| I stand for judgement. Answer: shall I have it? |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock |
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Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith
To hold opinions with Pythagoras
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Gratiano |
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The quality of mercy is not strained.
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. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Portia |
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It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Portia |
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It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Portia |
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I pray you, tarry. Pause a day or two
Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong
I lose your company. Therefore forbear awhile. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Portia to Bassanio |
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Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Nor thrust your head into the public street
To gaze on Christian fools with varnished faces |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Shylock to Jessica |
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Farewell, and if fortune be not crossed,
I have a father, you a daughter, lost. |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Jessica |
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So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being seasoned with gracious voice,
Obscures the show of religion? |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Bassanio |
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Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,
When I did first impart my love to you,
I freely told you all the wealth I had
Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman...
Rating myself at nothing, you shall see
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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| The Merchant of Venice: Bassanio |
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this,
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
And they did make no noise, in such a night... |
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| The Merchant of Venice: Lorenzo |
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| Lord, what fools these mortals be! |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck |
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_____, I wooed thee with my sword
And won thy love doing thee injuries; |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus |
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Now, fair ____, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in
Another moon; but, oh, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus |
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The course of love never did run smooth;
But either it was different blood-- |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lysander |
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| Ill met by moonlight, proud _____. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Oberon |
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But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
Your buskined mistress and your warrior love, |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania to Oberon |
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Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night
From Perigenia, whom he ravished? |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Oberon to Titania |
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These are the forgeries of jealousy;
And never, since the middle summer's spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania |
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And even for that do I love you the more.
I am your spaniel...
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Helena |
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How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears;
If so, my eyes are oft'ner washed than hers.
No, no, I am as ugly as a bear,
For beasts that meet me run away for fear. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Helena |
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Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Helena |
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Content with ___? No! I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not____ but ____ I love. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lysander |
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These things seem small and undistinguishable,
Like far-off mountains turned into clouds. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Demetrius |
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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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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Demetrius |
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus |
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Wall, that vile wall which did these lovers sunder;
And through the Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
To whisper. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Prologue to Pyramus and Thisbe play |
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| Lovers, to bed, 'tis almost fairy time. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus |
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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck |
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Tongue, lose thy light;
Moon, take thy flight.
Now, die, die, die, die, die. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: Pyramus |
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