The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, Scene I
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I will attend her here, |
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And woo her with some spirit when she comes. |
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Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain |
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She sings as sweetly as a nightingale: |
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Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear |
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As morning roses newly wash'd with dew: |
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Say she be mute and will not speak a word; |
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Then I'll commend her volubility, |
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And say she uttereth piercing eloquence: |
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If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks, |
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As though she bid me stay by her a week: |
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If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day |
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When I shall ask the banns and when be married. |
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The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene I
PETRUCCIO |
Thus have I politicly begun my reign, |
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And 'tis my hope to end successfully. |
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My falcon now is sharp and passing empty; |
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And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, |
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For then she never looks upon her lure. |
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Another way I have to man my haggard, |
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To make her come and know her keeper's call, |
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That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites |
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That bate and beat and will not be obedient. |
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She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat; |
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Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not; |
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The Taming of the Shrew, Act V, Scene II
KATHARINE |
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Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, |
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Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, |
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And for thy maintenance commits his body |
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To painful labour both by sea and land, |
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To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, |
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Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; |
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And craves no other tribute at thy hands |
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But love, fair looks and true obedience; |
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Too little payment for so great a debt. |
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Such duty as the subject owes the prince |
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Even such a woman oweth to her husband; |
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And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, |
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And not obedient to his honest will, |
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What is she but a foul contending rebel |
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And graceless traitor to her loving lord? |
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ˇ§Romeo & Julietˇ¨ Prologue,
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive
to mend.
ˇ§Romeo & Julietˇ¨ Act 2, Scene 1[2]
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?}
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
ˇ§Romeo & Julietˇ¨ Act 5, Scene 3,
Romeo:
Ah, dear
Juliet,
Why art 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
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
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Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II
BRUTUS |
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If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of |
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Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar |
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was no less than his. If then that friend demand |
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why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: |
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--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved |
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Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and |
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die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live |
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all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; |
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as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was |
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valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I |
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slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his |
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fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his |
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ambition. |
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Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II
ANTONY |
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; |
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. |
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The evil that men do lives after them; |
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The good is oft interred with their bones; |
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So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus |
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Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: |
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If it were so, it was a grievous fault, |
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And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. |
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Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- |
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For Brutus is an honourable man; |
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So are they all, all honourable men-- |
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Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. |
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me: |
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But Brutus says he was ambitious; |
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And Brutus is an honourable man. |
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King Lear, Act III, Scene VI
EDGAR |
When we our betters see bearing our woes, |
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We scarcely think our miseries our foes. |
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Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind, |
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Leaving free things and happy shows behind: |
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But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip, |
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When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship. |
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How light and portable my pain seems now, |
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When that which makes me bend makes the king bow, |
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He childed as I father'd! Tom, away! |
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Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray, |
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When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee, |
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In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee. |
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What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king! |
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