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Simile

Lo! She is one of this confederacy

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Lo! She is one of this confederacy.
Now I perceive, they have conjoin’d all three
To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.Alliteration

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem

Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid!
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Then there is no true lover in the forest

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Rosalind, as Ganymede
Then there is no true lover
in the forest; else sighing every minute and
groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of
time as well as a clock.
Orlando
And why not the swift foot of time? Had not
that been as proper?

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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Act 3
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I would not by my will have troubled you

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Sebastian
I would not by my will have troubled you,
But, since you make your pleasure of your pains,
I will no further chide you.

I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks, and ever thanks

Antonio 
I could not stay behind you. My desire,
More sharp than filèd steel,

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Search out thy wit for secret policies

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Bastard
Search out thy wit for secret policies,
And we will make thee famous through the world.
Alanson, to Pucelle
We’ll set thy statue in some holy place
And have thee reverenced like a blessèd saint.Simile
Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.

O,
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You common cry of curs

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You common cry of curs, Anaphorawhose breath I hate
SimileAs reek a’ th’ rotten fens, whose loves I prize
SimileAs the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my airAlliteration & Metaphor
—I banish you!

For you, the city,
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You know your own degrees; sit down

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Macbeth
You know your own degrees; sit down. At first
And last, the hearty welcome.  They sit.
Lords
Thanks to your Majesty.
Macbeth
Ourself will mingle with society
And play the humble host.
Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time
We will require her welcome.

But now I am cabined,
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Naught, naught, all naught!

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Enobarbus 
Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer.
Th’ Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder.Hysteron-Proteron

To see ’t mine eyes are blasted.
  Enter Scarus.
Scarus
Gods and goddesses,
All the whole synod of them!
Enobarbus
What’s thy passion?
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Act 3
Scene 10
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This is a slight unmeritable man

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Mark Antony
This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errandsAlliteration
; is it fit,
The threefold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it?
Octavius Caesar
So you thought him,
And took his voice who should be prick’d to die
In our black sentence and proscription.
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A word, Lucilius, How he receiv’d you; let me be resolv’d

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Marcus Brutus
A word, Lucilius,
How he receiv’d you; let me be resolv’d.
Lucilius
With courtesy and with respect enough,
But not with such familiar instances,
Nor with such free and friendly conference,
As he hath us’d of old.

When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforced ceremony.
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Act 4
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O Cassius, you are yokèd with a lamb

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O Cassius, you are yokèd with a lambMetaphor
That carries anger as the flint bears fire,
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again.Simile

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