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It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come, when it will come.

Act 11.

Scene 2.

The choice and master spirits of this age.

Act III.

Scene I.

Though last, not least in love.

Ibid.

Cæsar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Até by his side, come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice,
Cry Havock, and let slip the dogs of war.

Ibid.

The evil that men do lives after them ;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

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V Brutus is an honourable man ;

So are they all : all honourable men.

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Ibid.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

Ibid.

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O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!

Ibid.
I am no orator, as Brutus is ;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,
That love my friend.

Ilid.

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Thou hast describ'd
A hot friend cooling : Ever note, Lucilius,
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.

Act iv.

Scene 2.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman,

Act iv.

Scene 3:

threats ;

There is no terror, Cassius, in

your For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not

Ibid.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries.

Ibid.

The last of all the Romans, fare thee well !

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His life was gentle ; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, This was a man !

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CYMBELINE.

Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings.*

And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs

On chalic'd flowers that lies ;
And winking Mary-buds begin

To ope their golden eyes ; With

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bin My lady sweet, arise ;

Arise, arise. Song. Act 11.

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Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

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Weariness
Can snore upon the fint, when restive sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

Scene 6.

Act III.

* None but the lark so shril and clear !

How at Heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morn not waking till she sings.

ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE,

by John Lyly, Act v. Scene i KING LEAR.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

Act 1.

Scene 4.

You are old ;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine.

Act II.

Scene 4.

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Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these ?

Act Ill.

Scene 4

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.

Ibid,

Aye, every inch a king.

Act in.

Scene 6.

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

Ibid.

When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools.

Ibid.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices,
Make instruments to scourge us.

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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low: an excellent thing in woman.

Ibid.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

The weakest goes to the wall.

Act 1.

Scene I.

One fire burns out another's burning :
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

Act 1.

Scene 4.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ;
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.

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My only love sprung from my only hate !
Too early seen unknown, and known too late !

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