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 The Passionate Pilgrim. 
 
 IV 15 
 
 Romeo and Juliet. 
 
 Act 1, Scene V ,. 17 
 
 Love's Labour's Lost. 
 
 Act IV, Scene II 18 
 
 As \'ou Like It. 
 
 Act III. Scene II. 19 
 
 Love's Labour's Lost, 
 
 Act IV, Scene III 21 
 
 Romeo and Juliet. 
 
 Act 11. Scene II 23 
 
 As You Like It. 
 
 Act II, Scene IV 25 
 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona, 
 
 Act IV, Scene II 27 
 
 The Taming of The Shrew, 
 
 Act V, Scene II 28 
 
 Sonnet, 
 
 CXVI ^ 31 
 
 Love s Labour's Lost, 
 
 Act IV, Scene III 32 
 
 Sonnet, 
 
 CV 35 
 
 The Tempest, 
 
 Act III, Scene I 36 
 
 The Merchant of Venice, 
 
 Act II, Scene VII 39 
 
 Hamlet, 
 
 Act II, Scene II 41 
 
 As You Like It, 
 
 Act III, Scene II 42 
 
 Titus Andronicus, 
 
 Act II, Scene I 43 
 
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 Loves Labour s Lost, 
 
 Act IV, Scene III ^ 46 
 
 Hamlet, 
 
 Act IV, Scene V ■ 49 
 
 King Lear, 
 
 Act I, Scene 1 51 
 
 Romeo and Juliet, 
 
 Act 11, Scene II 52 
 
 Much Ado About Nothing, 
 
 Act 11, Scene 111 55 
 
 Venus and Adonis 57 
 
 Romeo and Juliet, 
 
 Act 11, Scene III. . , 59 
 
 Measure for Measure, 
 
 Act IV. Scene 1 61 
 
 Twelfth Night, 
 
 Act II, Scene III 63 
 
 Romeo and Juliet, 
 
 Act III, Scene V 64 
 
 Troilus and Cressida, 
 
 Act III. Scene I , 67 
 
 Sonnet. 
 
 XCIX 68 
 
 As You Like It, 
 
 Act 111, Scene II 69 
 
 The Passionate Pilgrim, 
 
 VI , 71 
 
 The Winter's Tale, 
 
 Act IV, Scene IV 72 
 
 Sonnet, 
 
 XXXI.. ... 73 
 
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 
 
 Act II, Scene 1 . , 75 
 
 The Merchant of Venice, 
 
 Act 111, Scene 11 76 
 
 Othello, The Moor of Venice, 
 
 Act V, Scene II 77 
 
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 CLIII 81 
 
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 CXLIX 82 
 
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 LXXII , 83 
 
 Romeo and Juliet, 
 
 Act V. Scene III ,.. 85 
 
 Love's Labour's Lost, 
 
 Act 1, Scene H . 86 
 
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 LXXXVII 87 
 
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 CXXX 89 
 
 As You Like It, 
 
 Act V, Scene IV 91 
 
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 XCVII 93 
 
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 All's Well That Ends Well, 
 
 Act I, Scene III. ^ . 95 
 
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 Othello, The Moor ol Venice, 
 
 Act II, Scene I , ., 99 
 
 Hamlet, 
 
 ActIV, Scene V 101 
 
 As You Like It, 
 
 Act III, Scene V 102 
 
 Much Ado About Nothing, 
 
 Act 111, Scene II 103 
 
 Sonnet, 
 
 CXLV... . 105 
 
 The Merchant of Venice, 
 
 Act III. Scene II 106 
 
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 Indecision, . Joseph Coomans 
 
 Cupid Breaking His Bow. A. J. Chantron 
 
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 Hamlet and Ophelia H. Merle 
 
 A May Morning Hermann Koch 
 
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 Cordelia . . .Gabriel Max 
 
 The Breeze. Jean Aubert 
 
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 Othello and Desdemona 
 
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 Day Dreams 
 
 Easter Morning B. Plockhorst 
 
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 Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle; 
 
 Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty; 
 
 Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle; 
 
 Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty: 
 A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her. 
 None fairer, nor none falser to deface her. 
 
 Her lips to mine how often hath she joined, 
 Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing! 
 How many tales to please me hath she coined. 
 Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing ! 
 Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, 
 Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were 
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 This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: 
 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand 
 
 To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. 
 
 Juliet. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too 
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 Which mannerly devotion shows in this; 
 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch. 
 
 And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. 
 
 Romeo. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too ? 
 
 Juliet. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. 
 
 Romeo. O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; 
 
 They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. 
 
 Juliet. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' 
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 Romeo. Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. 
 Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purg'd. 
 
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 Juliet. Then have my lips the sin that they have took. 
 
 Romeo. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd! 
 Give me my sin again. 
 
 Juliet. You kiss by the book. 
 
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 If love make me forsworn, how sfiall I swear to love? 
 
 Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd! 
 Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; 
 
 Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers 
 bow'd. 
 Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes, 
 
 Where all those pleasures live that art would com- 
 prehend; 
 If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice ; 
 
 Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend, 
 All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder; 
 
 Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire; 
 Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful 
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 Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire. 
 Celestial as thou art, O, pardon love this wrong. 
 That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue. 
 
 
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 Why should this a desert be ? 
 
 For It is unpeopled ? No ; 
 Tongues I'll hang on every tree, 
 
 That shall civil sayings show : 
 Some, how brief the life of man 
 
 Runs his erring pilgrimage. 
 That the stretching of a span 
 
 Buckles in his sum of age ; 
 Some, of violated vows 
 
 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend. 
 But upon the fairest boughs, 
 
 Or at every sentence end. 
 Will I Rosalinda write. 
 
 Teaching all that read to know 
 The quintessence of every sprite 
 
 Heaven would m little show. 
 Therefore Heaven Nature charg'd 
 
 That one body should be fill'd 
 With all graces wide-enlarg'd : 
 
 Nature presently distill'd 
 Helen's cheek, but not her heart, 
 
 Cleopatra's majesty, 
 Atalanta's better part. 
 
 Sad Lucretia's modesty. 
 
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 On a day — alack the day! — 
 Love, whose month is ever May, 
 Spied a blossom passing fair 
 Playing in the wanton air; 
 Through the velvet leaves the wind. 
 All unseen can passage find; 
 That the lover, sick to death, 
 Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. 
 Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow ; 
 Air, would I might triumph so! 
 But, alack, my hand is sworn 
 Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn ; 
 Vow, alack ! for youth unmeet. 
 Youth so apt to pluck a sweet! 
 Do not call it sin in me. 
 That I am forsworn for thee ; 
 Thou for whom Jove would swear 
 Juno but an Ethiope were. 
 And deny himself for Jove, 
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 Romeo. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.— 
 
 [Juliet appears above at a window. 
 But, soft! what hght through yonder window breaks ? 
 It is the east, and Juhet is the sun. — 
 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon. 
 Who is already sick and pale with grief, 
 That thou her maid art far more fair than she. 
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 And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. — 
 
 It is my lady, O, it is my love! 
 
 O, that she knew she were! — 
 
 She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? 
 
 Her eye discourses; I will answer it, 
 
 I am too bold, 't is not to me she speaks. 
 
 Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven. 
 
 Having some business, do entreat her eyes 
 
 To twinkle in their spheres till they return. 
 
 What if her eyes were there, they in her head ? 
 
 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, 
 
 As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven 
 
 Would through the airy region stream so bright 
 
 That birds would sing and think it were not night. 
 
 See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! 
 
 O, that I were a glove upon that hand. 
 
 That I might touch that cheek! 
 
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 O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art 
 As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, 
 As is a winged messenger of heaven 
 Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes 
 Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him. 
 When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds 
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 Con'n. That is the way to make her scorn you still. 
 Silvius. O Conn, that thou knew'st how I do love her ! 
 Corin. I partly guess; for I have lov'd ere now. 
 Silvius. No, Conn, being old, thou canst not guess, 
 Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover 
 As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow; 
 But if thy love were ever like to mine — 
 As sure I think did never man love so — 
 How many actions most ridiculous 
 Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? 
 Corin. Into a thousand that I have forgotten. 
 Silvius. O thou didst then ne'er love so heartily! 
 If thou remember'st not the slightest folly 
 That ever love did make thee run into. 
 Thou hast not lov'd: 
 Or if thou hast not sat as I do now. 
 Wearing thy hearer m thy mistress' praise. 
 Thou hast not lov'd: 
 Or if thou hast not broken from company 
 Abruptly, as my passion now makes me. 
 Thou hast not lov'd. 
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 Who is Silvia? what is she, 
 
 That all our swains commend her? 
 Holy, fair, and wise is she; 
 
 The heaven such grace did lend her. 
 That she might admired be. 
 
 Is she kind, as she is fair, — 
 
 For beauty lives with kindness? 
 
 Love doth to her eyes repair. 
 To help him of his blindness. 
 
 And, being help'd, inhabits there. 
 
 Then to Silvia let us sing. 
 
 That Silvia is excelling; 
 She excels each mortal thing 
 
 Upon the dull earth dwelling: 
 To her let us garlands bring. 
 
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 Katherina. Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, 
 And dart not scornful glances from those eyes. 
 To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor; 
 It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, 
 Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, 
 And in no sense is meet or amiable. 
 A woman mov'd is like a fountam troubled, 
 Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty; 
 And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty 
 Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. 
 Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
 Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, 
 And for thy maintenance commits his body 
 To painful labour both by sea and land. 
 To watch the night in storms, the day in cold. 
 While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; 
 And craves no other tribute at thy hands 
 But love, fair looks, and true obedience — 
 Too little payment for so great a debt. 
 Such duty as the subject owes the prince. 
 Even such a woman oweth to her husband; 
 And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, 
 And not obedient to his honest will, 
 What is she but a foul contending rebel 
 And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? 
 I am asham'd that women are so simple 
 To offer war where they should kneel for peace. 
 Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
 When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 
 
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 Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, 
 
 Unapt to toil and trouble in the world, 
 
 But that our soft conditions and our hearts 
 
 Should well agree with our external parts? 
 
 Come, come, you froward and unable worms I 
 
 My mind hath been as big as one of yours. 
 
 My heart as great, my reason haply more. 
 
 To bandy word for word and frown for frown ; 
 
 But now I see our lances are but straws. 
 
 Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare. 
 
 That seeming to be most which we indeed least are. 
 
 Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot. 
 
 And place your hands below your husband's foot: 
 
 In token of which duty, if he please. 
 
 My hand is ready; may it do him ease. 
 
 
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 Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
 Admit impediments. Love is not love 
 Which alters when it alteration finds, 
 Or bends with the remover to remove: 
 O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark 
 That looks on tempests and is never shaken; 
 It IS the star to every wandering bark, 
 Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 
 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
 Within his bending sickle's compass come; 
 Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
 But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 
 
 If this be error and upon me prov'd, 
 
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 Biron. Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace! 
 
 As true we are as flesh and blood can be : 
 The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face; 
 
 Young blood doth not obey an old decree. 
 We cannot cross the cause why we were born; 
 Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn. 
 Kinj. What, did these rent lines show some love of thine ? 
 Biron. Did they, quoth you ? Who sees the heavenly 
 
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 That, like a rude and savage man of Inde, 
 
 At the first opening of the gorgeous east. 
 Bows not his vassal head, and, strucken blind 
 
 Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? 
 What peremptory eagle-sighted eye 
 
 Dares look upon the heaven of her brow. 
 That IS not blinded by her majesty? 
 King. What zeal, what fury hath inspir'd thee now? 
 My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon; 
 
 She an attending star, scarce seen a light. 
 Biron. My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron. 
 
 O, but for my love, day would turn to night! 
 Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty 
 
 Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek. 
 Where several worthies make one dignity. 
 
 Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. 
 Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues, — 
 
 Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not: 
 To things of sale a seller's praise belongs. 
 
 She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot. 
 
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 A witherd hermit, five-score winters worn, 
 Might shake off fifty, looising in her eye; 
 
 Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, 
 And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. 
 
 O, 't is the sun that maketh all things shine. 
 

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 Let not my love be call'd idolatry. 
 Nor my beloved as an idol show, 
 Smce all alike my songs and praises be 
 To one, of one, still such, and ever so. 
 Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind, 
 Still constant in a wondrous excellence; 
 Therefore my verse to constancy confln d, 
 One thing expressing, leaves out difference. 
 "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, 
 "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; 
 And in this change is my invention spent, 
 TTiree themes in one, which wondrous scope affords. 
 "Fair, kind, and true" have often liv'd alone. 
 Which three, till now never kept seat in one. 
 
 
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 Ferdinand. Admir'd Miranda! 
 
 Indeed the top of admiration worth 
 What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady 
 I have eyed with best regard, and many a time 
 The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage 
 Brought my too diligent ear. For several virtues 
 Have I liked several women, never any 
 With so full soul but some defect m her 
 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed 
 And put it to the foil ; but you, O you. 
 So perfect and so peerless, are created 
 Of every creature's best ! 
 
 Miranda. I do not know 
 
 One of my sex, no woman's face remember. 
 Save, from my glass, mine own ; nor have I seen 
 More that I may call men than you, good friend. 
 And my dear father. How features are abroad, 
 I am skilless of; but, by my modesty. 
 The jewel m my dower, I would not wish 
 Any companion in the world but you; 
 Nor can imagination form a shape. 
 Beside yourself, to like of. — But I prattle 
 Something too wildly, and my father's precepts 
 I therein do forget. 
 
 Ferdinand. I am, in my condition, 
 
 A prince, Miranda'; I do think, a king; — 
 I would, not so I — and would no more endure 
 This wooden slavery than to suffer 
 The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak : 
 
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 And crown what I profess with kind event, 
 If I speak true; if hollowly, invert 
 What best is boded me to mischief! I, 
 Beyond all limit of what else i' the world. 
 Do love, prize, honour you. 
 
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 To weep at what I am glad of. 
 
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 Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace 
 On that which breeds between em ! 
 
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 What 1 desire to give, and much less take 
 
 What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; 
 
 And ail the more it seeks to hide itself. 
 
 The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! 
 
 And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! 
 
 I am your wife if you will marry me ; 
 
 If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow 
 
 You may deny me, but I'll be your servant. 
 
 Whether you will or no. 
 
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 Why, that's the lady: all the world desires her; 
 From the four corners of the earth they come, 
 To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint. 
 The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds 
 Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now 
 For princes to come view fair Portia. 
 The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head 
 Spets in the face of heaven, is no bar 
 To stop the foreign spirits, but they come. 
 As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia. 
 One of these three contains her heavenly picture. 
 Is't like that lead contains her? 'T were damnation 
 To think so base a thought; it were too gross 
 To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. 
 Or shall I think in silver she's immur'd, 
 Being ten times undervalued to tried gold? 
 O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem 
 Was set in worse than gold. They have in England 
 A coin that bears the figure of an angel 
 Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon; 
 But here an angel in a golden bed 
 Lies all within. — Deliver me the key; 
 Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may! 
 
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 And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey 
 With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above. 
 
 Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway. 
 O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books. 
 
 And in their barks my thoughts I'll character. 
 That every eye which in this forest looks 
 Shall see thy virtue witness'd everywhere. 
 Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree 
 The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 
 
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 She is a woman, therefore may be woo d; 
 She IS a woman, therefore may be won; 
 She is Lavinia, therefore must be lov'cl. 
 What, man! more water glideth by the mill 
 Than wots the miller of, and easy it is 
 Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know; 
 Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother, 
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 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 
 Thou art more lovely and more temperate : 
 Rough wmds do shake the darling buds of May, 
 And summer's lease hath all too short a date; 
 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 
 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 
 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 
 By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; 
 But thy eternal summer shall not fade 
 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ovv'est; 
 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade. 
 When in eternal lines to time thou growest. 
 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 
 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 
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 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, 
 And make the earth devour her own sweet brood ; 
 Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, 
 And burn the long-hv'd phoenix in her blood; 
 Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets. 
 And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time, 
 To the wide world and all her fading sweets; 
 But I forbid thee one most heinous crime; 
 O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow. 
 Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen; 
 Him in thy course untainted do allow 
 For beauty's pattern to succeeding men. 
 
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 Act IV, Scene III 
 
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 Lives not alone immured in the brain, 
 
 But, with the motion of all elements. 
 
 Courses as swift as thought in every power. 
 
 And gives to every power a double power. 
 
 Above their functions and their offices. 
 
 It adds a precious seeing to the eye; 
 
 A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; 
 
 A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound. 
 
 When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd ; 
 
 Love's feeling is more soft and sensible 
 
 Than are the tender horns of cockled snails; 
 
 Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste; 
 
 For valour, is not Love a Hercules, 
 
 Still climbing trees m the Hesperides? 
 
 Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical 
 
 As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; 
 
 And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods 
 
 Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. 
 
 Never durst poet touch a pen to write 
 
 Until his mk were temper'd with Love's sighs; 
 
 O then his lines would ravish savage ears 
 
 And plant in tyrants mild humility ! 
 
 From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: 
 
 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; 
 
 They are the books, the arts, the academes. 
 
 That show, contain, and nourish all the world 
 
 Else none at all in aught proves excellent. 
 
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 Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools 
 For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love. 
 Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men, 
 Or for men's sake, the authors of these women, 
 Or women's sake, by whom we men are men. 
 Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves. 
 Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths. 
 It IS religion to be thus forsworn. 
 For charity itself fulfils the law, — 
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 Most choice forsaken, and most lov'd despis'd. 
 
 Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon; 
 
 Be it lawful I take up Vt'hat's cast away. 
 
 Gods, gods! t IS strange that from their cold'st neglect 
 
 My love should kindle to inflam'd respect. — 
 
 Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance. 
 
 Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France. 
 
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 Act ii, Scene II 
 Juliet. By whose direction found'st thou out this place ? 
 Romeo. By love, that first did prompt me to mquire; 
 He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. 
 I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far 
 As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea, 
 I would adventure for such merchandise. 
 Juliet. Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, 
 Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek 
 For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. 
 Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny 
 What I have spoke; but farewell compliment! 
 Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say ay, 
 And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st. 
 Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, 
 They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, 
 If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: 
 Or if thou thinkst I am too quickly won, 
 I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay. 
 So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. 
 In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond. 
 And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light; 
 But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true 
 Than those that have more cunning to be strange. 
 I should have been more strange, I must confess. 
 But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware. 
 My true love's passion; therefore pardon me. 
 And not impute this yielding to light love, 
 Which the dark night hath so discovered. 
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 Juliet. O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, 
 
 That monthly changes in her circled orb. 
 
 Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 
 
 Romeo. What shall I swear by? 
 
 Juliet. Do not swear at all: 
 
 Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self. 
 
 Which is the god of my idolatry. 
 
 And I'll believe thee. 
 
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 Juliet. Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, 
 
 I have no joy of this contract to-night; 
 
 It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden. 
 
 Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be 
 
 Ere one can say it lightens. Sweet, good night ! 
 
 This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 
 
 May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. 
 
 Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest 
 
 Come to thy heart as that within my breast! 
 
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 What satisfaction canst thou have to-night •* 
 The exchange of thy love's faithful \ow for 
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 And yet I would it were to give again. 
 Romeo. Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, 
 
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 Juliet. But to be frank, and give it thee again 
 And yet I wish but for the thing I have : 
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 My love as deep; the more I give to thee, 
 The more I have, for both are infinite. 
 
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 I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu! — 
 Anon, good nurse! — Sweet Montague, be true. 
 Stay but a little, I will come again. [Exit. 
 
 Romeo. O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard. 
 Being in night, all this is but a dream. 
 Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. 
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 Juliet. Three words, dear Romeo, and good night 
 If that thy bent of love be honourable, [indeed. 
 
 Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow. 
 By one that I'll procure to come to thee. 
 Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite ; 
 And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay, 
 And follow thee my lord throughout the world. 
 Nurse. [Within] Madam! 
 
 Juliet. I come, anon. — But if thou mean'st not well, 
 I do beseech thee — 
 Nurse. [Within] Madam! 
 
 Juliet. By and by, I come. — 
 
 To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief; 
 To-morrow will I send. 
 
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 Juliet. A thousand times good night! [Exit. 
 
 Romeo. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. — 
 Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books. 
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 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. 
 
 Men were deceivers ever. 
 One foot in sea and one on shore, 
 
 To one thing constant never; 
 Then sigh not so, but let them go, 
 
 And be you blithe and bonny. 
 Converting all your sounds of woe 
 
 Into Hey nonny, nonny. 
 
 Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, 
 Of dumps so dull and heavy; 
 
 The fraud of men was ever so, 
 Smce summer first was leavy: 
 
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 Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, 
 Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green. 
 Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair. 
 Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen ; 
 Love IS a spirit all compact of fire. 
 Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. 
 
 Witness this primrose bank whereon I he ; 
 
 These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me ; 
 
 Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, 
 
 From morn till night, even where I list to sport me : 
 Is love so light, sweet boy, and may it be 
 That thou shouldst think it heavy unto thee? 
 
 
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 Juliet. Hist! Romeo, hist! — O, for a falconer's voice, 
 To lure this tassel-gentle back again! 
 Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud; 
 Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, 
 And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine. 
 With repetition of my Romeo's name. 
 Romeo. It is my soul that calls upon my name; 
 How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
 Like softest music to attending ears! 
 Juliet. Romeo ! 
 
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 Romeo. At the hour of nine. 
 
 Juliet. I will not fail; 't is twenty years till then. 
 I have forgot why I did call thee back. 
 Romeo. Let me stand here till thou remember it. 
 Juliet. I shall forget, to have thee still stand there. 
 Remembering how I love thy company. 
 Romeo. And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, 
 Forgetting any other home but this. 
 
 Juliet. 'T is almost morning; I would have thee gone. 
 And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, 
 Who lets it hop a little from her hand. 
 Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves. 
 And with a silk thread plucks it back again. 
 So loving-jealous of his liberty. 
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 Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. 
 
 Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, 
 
 That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 
 
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 Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! 
 Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell. 
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 Take, O, take those lips away. 
 
 That so sweetly were forsworn, 
 And those eyes, the break of day, 
 Lights that do mislead the morn; 
 But my kisses bring again, bring again, — 
 Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain. 
 
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 O, stay and hear; your true love's coming. 
 
 That can smg both high and low : 
 Trip no further, pretty sweeting ; 
 Journeys end in lovers meetmg, 
 
 Every wise man's son doth know. 
 
 What is love ? t is not hereafter ; 
 Present mirth hath present laughter; 
 
 What's to come is still unsure : 
 In delay there lies no plenty ; 
 Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; 
 
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 Juliet. Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: 
 It was the nightingale, and not the lark. 
 That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear; 
 Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree. 
 Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. 
 Romeo. It was the lark, the herald of the morn, 
 No nightingale; look, love, what envious streaks 
 Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. 
 Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
 Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. 
 I must be gone and live, or stay and die. 
 Juliet. Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I; 
 It is some meteor that the sun exhales. 
 To be to thee this night a torch-bearer. 
 And light thee on thy way to Mantua : 
 Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to' be gone. 
 Romeo. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death; 
 I am content, so thou wilt have it so. 
 I'll say yon gray is not the mornings eye, 
 'T is but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow ; 
 Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat 
 The vaulty heaven so high above our heads. 
 I have more care to stay than will to go; 
 Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. 
 How is 't, my soul ? let's talk, it is not day. 
 Juliet. It is, it is ; hie hence, be gone, away ! 
 It IS the lark that sings so out of tune. 
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 Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes; 
 O, now I would they had chang'd voices too! 
 Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, 
 Huntmg thee hence with hunts-up to the day. 
 O, now be gone; more light and light it grows. 
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 The forward violet thus did I chide : 
 
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 Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 
 
 In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. 
 
 The lily I condemned for thy hand. 
 
 And buds of marjoram had stolen thy hair; 
 
 The roses fearfully on thorns did stand. 
 
 One blushing shame, another white despair; 
 
 A third, nor red nor white, had stolen of both. 
 
 And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; 
 
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 More flowers I noted, yet I none could see 
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 From the east to western Ind, 
 No jewel is like Rosalind. 
 Her worth, being mounted on the wind, 
 Through all the world bears Rosalind. 
 All the pictures fairest hn'd. 
 Are but black to Rosalind. 
 Let no face be kept in mind 
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 Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; 
 Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; 
 Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. 
 Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short ; 
 
 Youth IS nimble, age is lame; 
 Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; 
 
 Youth is wild, and age is tame. 
 Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee; 
 
 O, my love, my love is young! 
 Age, I do defy thee : O, sweet shepherd, hie thee. 
 
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 I'd have you buy and sell so, so give alms, 
 Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs. 
 To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you 
 A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
 No'hing but that; move still, still so. 
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 Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, 
 Which I by lacking have supposed dead, 
 And there reigns love and all love's loving parts. 
 And all those friends which I thought buried. 
 How many a holy and obsequious tear 
 Hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye 
 As interest of the dead, which now appear 
 But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie! 
 Thou art the grave where buried love doth live, 
 Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone. 
 Who all their parts of me to thee did give ; 
 Tliat due of many now is thine alone : 
 Their images I lov'd I view in thee, 
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 Flying between the cold moon and the earth, 
 Cupid all arm'd. A certain aim he took 
 At a fair vestal throned by the west, 
 And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. 
 As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; 
 But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft 
 Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon. 
 And the imperial votaress passed on, 
 In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 
 Yet marled I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; 
 It fell upon a litde western flower. 
 Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, 
 And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 
 Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once. 
 The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid 
 Will make or man or woman madly dote 
 Upon the next live creature that it see 
 Fetch me this herb, and be thou here again 
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 Act hi, Scene II 
 You that choose not by the view, 
 Chance as fair, and choose as true 
 Since this fortune falls to you, 
 Be content and seek no new. 
 If you be well pleas'd with this. 
 And hold your fortune for your bliss, 
 Turn you where your lady is. 
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 It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood. 
 
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 And smooth as monumental alabaster. 
 
 Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. 
 
 Put out the light, and then —put out the light ! 
 
 If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, 
 
 I can again thy former light restore. 
 
 Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light, 
 
 Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, 
 
 I know not where is that Promethean heat 
 
 That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the 
 
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 I cannot give it vital growth again. 
 It must needs wither; I'll smell it on the tree. 
 
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 Ah, balmy breath, that dost almost persuade 
 Justice to break her sword! One more, one more. 
 Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee, 
 And love thee after. One more, and this the last; 
 So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep, 
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 Why is my verse so barren of new pride, 
 So far from variation or quick change? 
 Why with the time do I not glance aside 
 To new-found methods and to compounds strange? 
 Why write I still all one, ever the same, 
 And keep invention in a noted weed, 
 That every word doth almost tell my name, 
 Showing their birth and where they did proceed? 
 O, know, sweet love, I always write of you. 
 And you and love are still my argument; 
 So all my best is dressmg old words new. 
 Spending again what is already spent: 
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 Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep : 
 A maid of Dian's this advantage found, 
 And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep 
 In a cold valley-fountain of that ground; 
 Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love 
 A dateless lively heat, still to endure, 
 And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove 
 Against strange maladies a sovereign cure. 
 But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-flr'd. 
 The boy for trial needs would touch my breast; 
 I, sick withal, the help of bath desir'd, 
 And hither hied, a sad distemper'd guest. 
 
 And found no cure: the bath for my help lies 
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 The little Love-god lying once asleep 
 
 Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, 
 
 Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep 
 
 Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand 
 
 The fairest votary took up that fire 
 
 Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd. 
 
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 Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd. 
 
 This brand she quenched in a cool well by. 
 
 Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual. 
 
 Growing a bath and healthful remedy 
 
 For men diseas'd; but I, my mistress' thrall, 
 
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 Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not, 
 When I against myself with thee partake? 
 Do I not think on thee, when I forgot 
 Am of myself, all tyrant, for thy sake? 
 Who hateth thee that 1 do call my friend? 
 On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon? 
 Nay, if thou lower'st on me, do I not spend 
 Revenge upon myself with present moan? 
 What merit do I in myself respect, 
 That is so proud thy service to despise. 
 When all my best doth worship thy defect, 
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 What merit liv'd in me, that you should love 
 After my death, dear love, forget me quite, 
 For you in me can nothing worthy prove; 
 Unless you would devise some virtuous he. 
 To do more for me than mine own desert, 
 And hang more praise upon deceased I 
 Than niggard truth would willingly impart: 
 O, lest your true love may seem false in this, 
 That you for love speak well of me untrue. 
 My name be buried where my body is. 
 And live no more to shame nor me nor you! 
 
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 Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, 
 ; _.;.!j Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: 
 :«.yr_ I Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet 
 Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. 
 And death's pale flag is not advanced there. — 
 Tybalt, hest thou there in thy bloody sheet ? 
 O, what more favour can I do to thee 
 Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain 
 To sunder his that was thine enemy? 
 Forgive me, cousin! — Ah, dear Juliet, 
 Why are thou yet so fair? shall I believe 
 That unsubstantial Death is amorous. 
 And that the lean abhorred monster keeps 
 Thee here in dark to be his paramour? 
 For fear of that, I still will stay with thee ; 
 And never from this palace of dim night 
 Depart again: here, here will I remain 
 With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here 
 Will I set up my everlasting rest. 
 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 
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 -;^!#; Arms, take your last embrace ! and, lips, O you 
 
 ''''jl|||: The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss 
 
 ^j-i A dateless bargain to engrossing death! 
 
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 Li Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on 
 
 _r__ . The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark ! 
 
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 Thy drugs are quick. — Thus with a kiss I die. [Dies. 
 
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 Her faults will ne'er be known. 
 For blushing cheeks by faults are bred 
 
 And fears by pale white shown; 
 Then if she fear, or be to blame. 
 
 By this you shall not know. 
 For still her cheeks possess the same, 
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 Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, 
 And like enough thou know'st thy estimate : 
 The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing ; 
 My bonds in thee are all determinate. 
 For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? 
 And for that riches where is my deserving? 
 The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, 
 And so my patient back again is swerving. 
 Thyself thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing, 
 Or me, to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking; 
 So thy great gift, upon misprision growing. 
 Comes home again, on better judgment making. 
 Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter, 
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 Coral is far more red than her hps' red ; 
 
 If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; 
 
 If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 
 
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 Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. 
 
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 That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 
 
 I grant I never saw a goddess go; 
 
 My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground : 
 And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare 
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 That o'er the green corn-field did pass 
 
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 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : 
 
 Sweet lovers love the spring. 
 
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 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, 
 These pretty country folks would lie. 
 
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 This carol they began that hour, 
 
 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, 
 
 How that a life was but a flower 
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 What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen ! 
 What old December's bareness every where! 
 
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 Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long 
 To speak of that which gives thee all thy might ? 
 Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song, 
 Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light ? 
 Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem 
 In gentle numbers time so idly spent; 
 Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem 
 And gives thy pen both skill and argument. 
 Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey. 
 If Time have any wrinkle graven there; 
 If any, be a satire to decay. 
 And make Time's spoils despised every where. 
 
 Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life ; 
 
 So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife. 
 
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 Here on my knee, before higli heaven and you. 
 That before you, and next unto high heaven, 
 I love your son. 
 
 My friends were poor, but honest ; so's my love : 
 Be not offended; for it hurts not him 
 That he is lov'd of me. I follow him not 
 By any token of presumptuous suit; 
 Nor would I have him till I do deserve him ; 
 Yet never know how that desert should be. 
 I know I love in vain, strive against hope ; 
 Yet in this captious and intenible sieve 
 I still pour m the waters of my love 
 And lack not to lose still : thus, Indian-like, 
 Religious in mine error, I adore 
 The sun, that looks upon his worshipper. 
 But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, 
 Let not your hate encounter with my love 
 For loving where you do : but if yourself, 
 Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth. 
 Did ever in so true a flame of liking 
 Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian 
 Was both herself and love, O, then give pity 
 To her whose state is such that cannot choose 
 But lend and give where she is sure to lose; 
 That seeks not to find that her search implies, 
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 Othello- It gives me wonder great as my content 
 To see you here before me. O my soul's joy! 
 If after every tempest come such calms, 
 May the wmds blow till they have waken'd death I 
 And let the labourmg bark climb hills of seas 
 Olympus-high, and duck again as low 
 As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die, 
 'T were now to be most happy; for, I fear. 
 My soul hath her content so absolute 
 That not another comfort like to this 
 Succeeds in unknown fate. 
 
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 But that our loves and comforts should increase. 
 Even as our days do grow! 
 
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 I cannot speak enough of this content ; 
 It stops me here ; it is too much of joy : 
 And this, and this, the greatest discords be 
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 From another one? 
 By his cockle hat and staff. 
 And his sandal shoon. 
 Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? 
 Say you? nay, pray you, mark. 
 [iS'm^s] He is dead and gone, lady, 
 He IS dead and gone; 
 At his head a grass-green turf, 
 At his heels a stone. 
 Nay, but, Ophelia, — 
 Pray you, mark. 
 
 [5'!ngs] White his shroud as the mountain snow, — 
 Enter King. 
 Queen. Alas, look here, my lord. 
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 Which bewept to the grave did not go 
 With true-love showers. 
 
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 "Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight ?" 
 
 Silvias. Sweet Phebe, — 
 
 Phebe. Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius ? 
 
 Silvias. Sweet Phebe, pity me. 
 
 Phebe. Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius. 
 
 Silvias. Wherever sorrow is, rehef would be : 
 
 If you do sorrow at my grief in love. 
 
 By giving love your sorrow and my grief 
 
 Were both extermin'd. 
 
 Phebe. Thou hast my love; is not that neighbourly? 
 
 Silvias. I would have you. 
 
 Phebe. Why, that were covetousness. 
 
 Silvius, the time was that I hated thee. 
 
 And yet it is not that I bear thee love : 
 
 But since that thou canst talk of love so well. 
 
 Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, 
 
 I will endure, and I'll employ thee too: 
 
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 Beatrice. What fire is in mine ears ? 
 
 Can this be true? 
 
 Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much ? 
 Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! 
 
 No glory lives behind the back of such. 
 And, Benedick, love on ; I will requite thee. 
 
 Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand : 
 If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee 
 
 To bind our loves up in a holy band; 
 For others say thou dost deserve, and I 
 Believe it better than reportingly. 
 
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 Those lips that Love's own hand did make 
 Breath'd forth the sound that said "I hate " 
 To me that languish'd for her sake; 
 But when she saw my woeful state, 
 Straight in her heart did mercy come, 
 Chiding that tongue that ever sweet 
 Was us'd in giving gentle doom. 
 And taught it thus anew to greet. 
 "1 hate" she alter'd with an end. 
 That follow'd it as gentle day 
 Doth follow night, who like a fiend 
 From heaven to hell is flown away ; 
 "I hate" from hate away she threw. 
 And sav'd my life, saying "not you." 
 
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 Act hi, Scene II 
 
 Portia. You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand. 
 
 Such as I am : though for myself alone 
 
 I would not be ambitious m my wish. 
 
 To wish myself much better, yet for you 
 
 I would be trebled twenty times myself, 
 
 A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich. 
 
 That only to stand high in your account, 
 
 I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, 
 
 Exceed account : but the full sum of me 
 
 Is sum of nothing; which, to term in gross. 
 
 Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd: 
 
 Happy in this, she is not yet so old 
 
 But she may learn; happier than this. 
 
 She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; 
 
 Happiest of all in that her gentle spirit 
 
 Commits itself to yours to be directed. 
 
 As from her lord, her governor, her king. 
 
 Myself and what is mine to you and yours 
 
 Is now converted : but now I was the lord 
 
 Of this fair mansion, master of my servants. 
 
 Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now. 
 
 This house, these servants, and this same myself 
 
 Are yours, my lord. I give them with this ring; 
 
 Which when you part from, lose, or give away. 
 
 Let it presage the ruin of your love. 
 
 And be my vantage to exclaim on you. 
 
 Bassanio. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. 
 
 Only my blood speaks to you in my veins ; 
 
 And there is such confusion in my powers 
 
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 As, after some oration fairly spoke 
 By a beloved prince, there doth appear 
 Among the buzzing pleased multitude, 
 Where every something, being blent together. 
 Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy, 
 Express'd and not express'd But when this ring 
 Parts from this finger, then parts lite from hence ; 
 O, then be bold to say, Bassanio's dead! 
 
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 Being your slave, what should I do but tend 
 Upon the hours and times of your desire? 
 I have no precious time at all to spend, 
 Nor services to do, till you require. 
 Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour 
 Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, 
 Nor think the bitterness of absence sour 
 When you have bid your servant once adieu ; 
 Nor dare I question with my jealous thought 
 Where you may be, or your affairs suppose. 
 But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought 
 Save, where you are how happy you make those 
 So true a fool is love that in your will. 
 
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 That god forbid that made me first your slave, 
 I should m thought control your times of pleasure, 
 Or at your hand the account of hours to crave. 
 Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure! 
 O, let me suffer, being at your beck. 
 The imprison'd absence of your liberty; 
 And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check. 
 Without accusing you of injury. 
 Be where you list, your charter is so strong 
 That you yourself may privilege your time 
 To what you will; to you it doth belong 
 Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime. 
 
 I am to wait, though waiting so be hell ; 
 
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 Petruchio. I pray you do. — {Exeunt all but Peiruchio. 
 
 I will attend her here, 
 And woo her with some spirit when she comes. 
 Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain 
 She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. 
 Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear 
 As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. 
 Say she be mute and will not speak a word; 
 Then I'll commend her volubility, 
 And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. 
 If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks. 
 As though she bid me stay by her a week. 
 If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day 
 When I shall ask the banns and when be married. 
 But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak. — 
 
 Enter Katherina. 
 Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear. 
 Katherina. Well have you heard, but something hard 
 
 of hearing; 
 They call me Katherina that do talk of me. 
 Petruchio. You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain 
 
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 And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst; 
 But, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, 
 Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, 
 For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, 
 Take this of me, Kate of my consolation : 
 Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town. 
 Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, 
 
 
 
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 I find you passing gentle. 
 'T was told me you were rough and coy and sullen, 
 And now I find report a very liar; 
 For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, 
 But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers. 
 Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance, 
 Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will. 
 Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk; 
 But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers, 
 With gentle conference, soft and affable. 
 Why does the world report that Kate doth limp? 
 O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig 
 Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue 
 As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. 
 
 O, let me see thee walk; thou dost not halt. 
 
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 And therefore, setting all this chat aside. 
 Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented 
 That you shall be my wife ; your dowry greed on : 
 And, will you, nill you, I will marry you. 
 Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn; 
 For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty. 
 Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well, 
 Thou must be married to no man but me ; 
 For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; 
 And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate 
 Conformable as other household Kates. 
 Here comes your father: never make denial; 
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 Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 
 
 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument, 
 Persuade my heart to this false perjury? 
 
 Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. 
 A woman I forswore; but I will prove, 
 
 Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee : 
 My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love ; 
 
 Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me. 
 Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is : 
 
 Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, 
 Exhal'st this vapour-vow; in thee it is. 
 
 If broken then, it is no fault of mine ; 
 If by me broke, what fool is not so wise 
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 Act IV, Scene III 
 
 So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not 
 
 To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, 
 As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote 
 
 The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows : 
 Nor shmes the silver moon one half so bright 
 
 Through the transparent bosom of the deep, 
 As doth thy face through tears of mine give light; 
 
 Thou shin'st in every tear that I do weep: 
 No drop but as a coach doth carry thee; 
 
 So ridest thou triumphing in my woe. 
 Do but behold the tears that swell in me. 
 
 And they thy glory through my grief will show: 
 But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep 
 My tears for glasses, and still make me weep. 
 O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel. 
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 O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head, 
 Which have no correspondence with true sight! 
 Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled, 
 That censures falsely what they see aright ? 
 If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote. 
 What means the world to say it is not so? 
 If it be not, then love doth well denote 
 Love's eye is not so true as all men's no. 
 How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true, 
 That is so vex'd with watching and with tears ? 
 No marvel then, though I mistake my view ; 
 The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. 
 
 O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind, 
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 From you have I been absent in the spring, 
 
 When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim 
 
 Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, 
 
 That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. 
 
 Yet nor the lays of birds nor the svveet smell 
 
 Of different flowers in odour and in hue 
 
 Could make me any summer's story tell. 
 
 Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; 
 
 Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, 
 
 Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose : 
 
 They were but sweet, but figures of delight. 
 
 Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. 
 
 Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, 
 As with your shadow I with these did play. 
 
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 In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes. 
 For they in thee a thousand errors note, 
 But 't is my heart that loves what they despise, 
 Who in despite of view is pleased to dote ; 
 Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, 
 Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone. 
 Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited 
 To any sensual feast with thee alone: 
 But my five wits nor my five senses can 
 Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee. 
 Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man, 
 TTiy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be ; 
 Only my plague thus far I count my gain. 
 That she that makes me sin awards me pain. 
 
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 Art thou god to shepherd turn'd, 
 That a maiden's heart hath burn'd ? — 
 
 Why, thy godhead laid apart, 
 
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 Whiles the eye of man did woo me, 
 That could do no vengeance to me. — 
 
 If the scorn of your bright eyne 
 
 Have power to raise such love in mine, 
 
 Alack, in me what strange effect 
 
 Would they work m mild aspect! 
 
 Whiles you chid me, I did love; 
 
 How then might your prayers move ! 
 
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 Little knows this love in me; 
 
 And by him seal up thy mind: 
 
 Whether that thy youth and kind 
 
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 Of me and all that I can make ; 
 
 Or else by him my love deny. 
 
 And then I'll study how to die. 
 
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