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I would be loath to cast away my speech, for besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it.
When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
They have measured many a mile,
To tread a measure with you on this grass.
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Richard III (1591)
That we two are asunder; let that grieve him;
Some griefs are medicinable.
Cymbeline (1611)
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say "It lightens."
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention.
Henry V (1599)
The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.
King Lear (1608)
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows!
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.
You have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm, of cloudiness.
Travell'd gallants,
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
Henry VIII (1613)
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
Omission to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish what they sue for.
Measure for Measure (1603)
O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook!
Measure for Measure (1603)
Decrepit miser; base, ignoble wretch;
I am descended of a gentler blood.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal.