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... heart . BAR . Have you had quiet guard ? FRAN . Not a mouse stirring . me ] i . e . me who am already on the watch , and have a right to demand the watch - word . STEEVENS . bunfold ] i . e . announce , make known . Long live , & c ...
... heart . BAR . Have you had quiet guard ? FRAN . Not a mouse stirring . me ] i . e . me who am already on the watch , and have a right to demand the watch - word . STEEVENS . bunfold ] i . e . announce , make known . Long live , & c ...
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... hearts in grief , and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe ; Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature , That we with wisest sorrow ' think on him , Together with remembrance of ourselves . Therefore our sometime ...
... hearts in grief , and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe ; Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature , That we with wisest sorrow ' think on him , Together with remembrance of ourselves . Therefore our sometime ...
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... heart , Colleagued with the dream ] i . e . united with this wild conceit . b power to business ] i . e . for the purpose of , commission to transact , business . You cannot speak of reason to the Dane , And lose your voice ] i . e . of ...
... heart , Colleagued with the dream ] i . e . united with this wild conceit . b power to business ] i . e . for the purpose of , commission to transact , business . You cannot speak of reason to the Dane , And lose your voice ] i . e . of ...
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... heart unfortified , or mind impatient ; An understanding simple and unschool'd . For what , we know , must be , and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense , Why should we , in our peevish opposition , Take it to heart ? Fye ...
... heart unfortified , or mind impatient ; An understanding simple and unschool'd . For what , we know , must be , and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense , Why should we , in our peevish opposition , Take it to heart ? Fye ...
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... heart : in grace whereof , No jocund health , that Denmark drinks to - day , ( 44 ) But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ; And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again , ( 45 ) Re - speaking earthly thunder . Come away . d ...
... heart : in grace whereof , No jocund health , that Denmark drinks to - day , ( 44 ) But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ; And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again , ( 45 ) Re - speaking earthly thunder . Come away . d ...
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Page 86 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 65 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 24 - Take that ; and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold : All this I give you. Let me be your servant : Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility : Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
Page 39 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 26 - If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.
Page 34 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Page 23 - Ham. Alas, poor ghost ! Ghost. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. Ham. Speak ; I am bound to hear.
Page 34 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 73 - But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 8 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...