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Alas, sweet wife, my honor is at pawn
Read the QuoteNorthumberland
Alas, sweet wife, my honor is at pawn,
And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.
Lady Percy
O yet, for God’s sake, go not to these wars.
The time was, father, that you broke your word
When you were more endeared to it than now,
When your own Percy, when my heart’s dear Harry,
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Alas, the part I had in Woodstock’s blood
Read the QuoteGaunt
Alas, the part I had in Woodstock’s blood
Doth more solicit me than your exclaims
To stir against the butchers of his life.
But since correction lieth in those hands
Which made the fault that we cannot correct,
Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven,
Who, when they see the hours ripe on Earth,
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Alas! And would you take the letter of her?
Read the QuoteCountess
Alas! And would you take the letter of her?
Might you not know she would do as she has done
By sending me a letter? Read it again.
Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!
Steward reads the letter
I am Saint Jaques’ pilgrim, thither gone.
Ambitious love hath so in me offended
That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,
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Alexas did revolt and went to Jewry
Read the QuoteEnobarbus
Alexas did revolt and went to Jewry on
Affairs of Antony, there did dissuade
Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar
And leave his master Antony. For this pains,
Caesar hath hanged him. Canidius and the rest
That fell away have entertainment but
No honorable trust. I have done ill,
Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
That I will joy no more.
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All good people, You that thus far have come to pity me
Read the QuoteBuckingham
All good people,
You that thus far have come to pity me,
Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
Go with me like good angels to my end,
And as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice
I have this day received a traitor’s judgment,
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All the infections that the sun sucks up
Read the QuoteCaliban
All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inchmeal a disease!
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
His spirits hear me,
And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i’ th’ mire,
Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark
Out of my way,
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All things are ready
Read the QuoteAll things are ready if our minds be so.
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All this was ordered by the good discretion
Read the QuoteNorfolk
All this was ordered by the good discretion
Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.
No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.
Buckingham
The devil speed him! No man’s pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.Metaphor What had he
To do in these fierce vanities?
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All tongues speak of him
Read the QuoteAll tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
Are spectacled to see himSynecdoche. Your prattling nurse
Into a rapture lets her baby cry
While she chats him; the kitchen malkin pins
Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,
Clamb'ring the walls to eye him; stalls, bulks, windows
Are smother'd up, leads fill'd,
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All unavoided is the doom of destiny
Read the QuoteRichard
All unavoided is the doom of destiny.
Queen Elizabeth
True, when avoided grace makes destiny.
My babes were destined to a fairer death
If grace had blessed thee with a fairer life.
Richard
You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
No doubt the murd’rous knife was dull and blunt
Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,
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All's done, my lord
Read the QuoteUlysses
All's done, my lord.
Troilus
It is.
Ulysses
Why stay we then?
Troilus
To make a recordation to my soul
Of every syllable that here was spoke.
But if I tell how these two did co-act,
Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?
Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
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Am not I your Rosalind?
Read the QuoteRosalind, as Ganymede
Am not I your Rosalind?
Orlando
I take some joy to say you are because I
would be talking of her.
Rosalind, as Ganymede
Well, in her person I say I will not have you.
Men have died from time to time and
worms have eaten them,
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Ambassadors from Harry King of England
Read the QuoteMessenger
Ambassadors from Harry King of England
Do crave admittance to your Majesty.
King of France
We’ll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.
Messenger exits.
You see this chase is hotly followed, friends.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting
Dauphin
Turn head and stop pursuit,
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An ’t please your Grace, the two great cardinals
Read the QuoteGentleman
An ’t please your Grace, the two great cardinals
Wait in the presence.
Queen Katherine
Would they speak with me?
Gentleman
They willed me say so, madam.
I do not like their coming, now I think on ’t.
They should be good men, their affairs as righteous.
But all hoods make not monks.
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An untimely ague Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber
Read the QuoteBuckingham
An untimely ague
Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when
Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,Anaphora, Pun & Metaphor
Met in the vale of Andren.
Norfolk
’Twixt Guynes and Arde.
I was then present, saw them salute on horseback,
Beheld them when they lighted,
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And God forgive them that so much have swayed
Read the QuotePrince Hal
And God forgive them that so much have swayed
Your Majesty’s good thoughts away from me.
And I will call him to so strict account
That he shall render every glory up,
Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
I will redeem all this on Percy’s head,
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And here comes Claudio’s pardon
Read the QuoteDuke, as Friar
And here comes Claudio’s pardon.
Messenger, giving Provost a paper
My lord hath sent you this note, and by me
this further charge: that you swerve not from
the smallest article of it, neither in time, matter,
or other circumstance. Good morrow, for, as
I take it,
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And here is my speech
Read the QuoteFalstaff
And here is my speech. As King. Stand
aside, nobility.
Hostess
O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!
Falstaff, as King
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
Hostess
O the Father, how he holds his countenance!
Falstaff,
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And how doth thy master, Bardolph?
Read the QuotePrince Hal
And how doth thy master, Bardolph?
Bardolph
Well, my good lord. He heard of your
Grace’s coming to town. There’s a letter for you.
He gives the Prince a paper.
Poins
Delivered with good respect. And how doth the
Martlemas your master?
Bardolph
In bodily health,
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And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?
Read the QuoteCorin
And how like you this shepherd’s life, Master Touchstone?
Touchstone
Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a
good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd’s life, it
is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very
well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile
life.
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