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‘Fore God, they have given me a rouse already
Read the QuoteCassio
‘Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.
Montano
Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I
am a soldier.
Iago
Some wine, ho! Sings.
And let me the cannikin clink, clink,
And let me the cannikin clink.
A soldier's a man,
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‘Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love
Read the QuoteUlysses
‘Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love
With one of Priam's daughters.
Achilles
Ha? Known?
Ulysses
Is that a wonder?
The providence that's in a watchful state
Knows almost every grain of Pluto's gold,
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deep,
Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods,
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‘Tis now the very witching time of night
Read the Quote’Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother.
O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.
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‘Tis time to part
Read the QuoteTrebonius
’Tis time to part.
Cassius
But it is doubtful yet
Whether Caesar will come forth today or no,
For he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the main opinion he held once
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
But when I tell him he hates flatterers
He says he does,
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‘Tis true, fair daughter
Read the QuoteKing Philip, to Blanche
‘Tis true, fair daughter, and this blessèd day
Ever in France shall be kept festival.
To solemnize this day the glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold.
The yearly course that brings this day about
Shall never see it but a holy day.
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’Tis certain he hath passed the river Somme
Read the QuoteKing of France
’Tis certain he hath passed the river Somme.
Constable
An if he be not fought withal, my lord,
Let us not live in France. Let us quit all,
And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
Dauphin
Ô Dieu vivant, shall a few sprays of us,
The emptying of our fathers’ luxury,
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’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.
Read the QuoteHippolyta
’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.
Theseus
More strange than true. I never may believe
These antique fables nor these fairy toys.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
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’Tis ten to one this play can never please
Read the QuoteEpilogue
’Tis ten to one this play can never please
All that are here.
Some come to take their ease
And sleep an act or two
Some come to take their ease
And sleep an act or two—but those, we fear,
We’ve frighted with our trumpets; so, ’tis clear,
They’ll say ’tis naught—others,
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A father cruel and a stepdame false
Read the QuoteImogen
A father cruel and a stepdame false,
A foolish suitor to a wedded lady
That hath her husband banished. O, that husband,
My supreme crown of grief and those repeated
Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol’n,
As my two brothers, happy; but most miserable
Is the desire that’s glorious. Blessed be those,
How mean soe’er,
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A fault unknown is as a thought unacted.
Read the QuoteA fault unknown is as a thought unacted.
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A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest
Read the QuoteJaques
A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool. A miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool,
Who laid him down, and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
“Good morrow,
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities
Read the QuoteCassius
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities;
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Marcus Brutus
I do not, till you practice them on me.
Cassius
You love me not.
Marcus Brutus
I do not like your faults.
Cassius
A friendly eye could never see such faults.
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A glooming peace this morning with it brings
Read the SonnetA glooming peace this morning with it brings,Metaphor & Hyperbaton
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.Personification and Alliteration
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punishèd:Alliteration & Ellipsis
For never was a story of more woeEllipsis
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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A goodly medicine for my aching bones!
Read the QuoteA goodly medicine for my aching bones!
O world, world, world ! Thus is the poor agent despised.
O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are
you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should
our endeavor be so loved and the performance so
loathed? What verse for it? What instance for it?
Let me see:
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
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A little harm done to a great good end
Read the QuoteA little harm done to a great good end.
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A Plague and a Scourge
Read the NoteMercutio's curse, “A plague o' both your houses!” is fulfilled, although not literally. Despite the numerous ways scores of characters die in Shakespeare's plays, no one in this play or any other Shakespeare play dies of the plague. But the plague is the proximate cause of Romeo's and Juliet's deaths. When Friar Lawrence sends Friar John to deliver a letter to Romeo telling him of Juliet's fake death,
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A sentence is but a chev'ril glove
Read the QuoteA sentence is but a chev'ril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turn'd outward!
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A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
Read the QuoteJulia
A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
Much less shall she that hath Love’s wings to fly,
And when the flight is made to one so dear,
Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
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A woeful Cressid ‘mongst the merry Greeks
Read the QuoteCressida
A woeful Cressid ‘mongst the merry Greeks.
When shall we see again?
Troilus
Hear me, my love. Be thou but true of heart—
Cressida
I true? How now, what wicked deem is this?
Troilus
Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,
For it is parting from us.
I speak not “Be thou true”
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A woman of quick sense
Read the QuoteNestor
A woman of quick sense.
Ulysses
Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;
Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue,
That give accosting welcome ere it comes
And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
To every tickling reader!
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