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Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.
Win her with gifts, if she respect not words;
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
More than quick words do move a woman's mind.
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them.
Macbeth (1605)
I charge thee, fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels.
Henry VIII (1613)
For in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork.
Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheath'd their light;
And, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay,
Till they might open to adorn the day.
The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
Your great goodness, out of holy pity,
Absolv'd him with an axe.
Henry VIII (1613)
Thy soul's flight,
If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.
Macbeth (1605)
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!
King John (1598)
All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall
On her ungrateful top.
King Lear (1608)
I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.
Macbeth (1605)
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;
Dash him to pieces!
Julius Cæsar (1599)
I thank you for your voices: thank you:
Your most sweet voices.
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.
Now do I play the touch,
To try if thou be current gold indeed.
Richard III (1591)
The thing of courage
As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
Retorts to chiding fortune.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
But clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike.
Cymbeline (1611)
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.