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... better . Fie , fie , unreverend tongue ! to call her bad , Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd With twenty thousand soul - confirming oaths . I cannot leave to love , and yet I do ; But there I leave to love , where I should ...
... better . Fie , fie , unreverend tongue ! to call her bad , Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd With twenty thousand soul - confirming oaths . I cannot leave to love , and yet I do ; But there I leave to love , where I should ...
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... better , indeed , when you hold your peace . Thu. What says she to my valour ? Pro . O , sir , she makes no doubt of that . Jul . She needs not , when she knows ardice . Thu. What says she to my birth ? Pro . That you are well deriv'd ...
... better , indeed , when you hold your peace . Thu. What says she to my valour ? Pro . O , sir , she makes no doubt of that . Jul . She needs not , when she knows ardice . Thu. What says she to my birth ? Pro . That you are well deriv'd ...
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... better in thy youth , Than in a nuncio of more grave aspect . Vio . I think not so , my lord . Duke . Dear lad , believe it ; For they shall yet belie thy happy years That say thou art a man : Diana's lip Is not more smooth and rubious ...
... better in thy youth , Than in a nuncio of more grave aspect . Vio . I think not so , my lord . Duke . Dear lad , believe it ; For they shall yet belie thy happy years That say thou art a man : Diana's lip Is not more smooth and rubious ...
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... better fool . Clo . God send you , sir , a speedy infirmity , for the better increasing your folly ! Sir Toby will be sworn , that I am no fox ; but he will not pass his word for two pence that you are no fool . Oli . How say you to ...
... better fool . Clo . God send you , sir , a speedy infirmity , for the better increasing your folly ! Sir Toby will be sworn , that I am no fox ; but he will not pass his word for two pence that you are no fool . Oli . How say you to ...
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... better To fall before the lion , than the wolf ? Fab . I will prove it legitimate , sir , upon the oaths of judgment and reason . Sir To . And they have been grand jury - men since before Noah was a sailor . Fab . She did show favour to ...
... better To fall before the lion , than the wolf ? Fab . I will prove it legitimate , sir , upon the oaths of judgment and reason . Sir To . And they have been grand jury - men since before Noah was a sailor . Fab . She did show favour to ...
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Alençon arms art thou Banquo Bardolph bear better Biron blood Boyet brother Claud Claudio cousin daughter death doth ducats Duke Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Falstaff father fear fool Ford France gentle gentleman give Gloster grace hand hath hear heart Heaven Hermia hither honour Isab Kath king knave lady Laun Leon Leonato live look lord Lucio Macbeth Macd madam maid majesty Malvolio marry master Master Doctor mistress Moth never night noble Northumberland pardon peace Pedro Pist Poins Pompey pray prince prithee Proteus queen Re-enter Reignier SCENE Shal shame Signior Sir John Sir John Falstaff soul speak Suffolk swear sweet tell thee there's thine thou art thou hast thou shalt Thurio tongue true unto villain What's wife wilt word
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Page 320 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 303 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 175 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? 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, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 432 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 272 - But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 103 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 272 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids...
Page 181 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That in the course of justice none of us...
Page 107 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts...
Page 151 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part.