The Works of Shakespear: As you like it. The taming of the shrew. All's well, that ends well. Twelfth-night: or, What you will |
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I tell thee , Charles , he is the stubborneft young fellow of France ; full of ambition , an envious emulator of every man's good parts , a secret and villanous ...
I tell thee , Charles , he is the stubborneft young fellow of France ; full of ambition , an envious emulator of every man's good parts , a secret and villanous ...
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I would I were invisible , to catch the strong fellow by the leg ! ( They wreftlé . Rof . Ó excellent young man ! Cel . If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye , I who should down . [ Shout . Duke . No more , no more . Charles is thrown .
I would I were invisible , to catch the strong fellow by the leg ! ( They wreftlé . Rof . Ó excellent young man ! Cel . If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye , I who should down . [ Shout . Duke . No more , no more . Charles is thrown .
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There were none principal , they were all like one another , as half - pence are ; every one fault seeming monstrous , ' till his fellow fault came to match it . Orla . I prythee , recount some of them . Ros , No ; I will not cast away ...
There were none principal , they were all like one another , as half - pence are ; every one fault seeming monstrous , ' till his fellow fault came to match it . Orla . I prythee , recount some of them . Ros , No ; I will not cast away ...
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And will you , being a man of your breeding , be married under a bush like a beggar ? get you to church , and have a good priest that can tell you what marriage is ; this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot ...
And will you , being a man of your breeding , be married under a bush like a beggar ? get you to church , and have a good priest that can tell you what marriage is ; this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot ...
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They say , you are a melancholy fellow . Jaq . I am so ; I do love it better than laughing . Rof . Those , that are in extremity of either , are abominable fellows ; and betray themselves to every modern censure , worse than drunkards .
They say , you are a melancholy fellow . Jaq . I am so ; I do love it better than laughing . Rof . Those , that are in extremity of either , are abominable fellows ; and betray themselves to every modern censure , worse than drunkards .
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Page 33 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...
Page 306 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 32 - 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 25 - 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: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 63 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 21 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.