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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

William Shakespeare
Morning, Husband, Blessing
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.525, Wordsworth Editions

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

William Shakespeare
Uncles, Husband, Niece
William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Heart, Grace
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

William Shakespeare
Time, Goes On, Crutches
1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.334-5.

When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.

William Shakespeare
Love, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, the Whole of His Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes Compiled from Various Commentators”, p.122

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

William Shakespeare
Art, Looks, Midsummer

He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.

William Shakespeare
Hours, Stage
"Macbeth".

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

William Shakespeare
Loyalty, Truth, Goes On
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.194

Put money in thy purse.

William Shakespeare
Purses
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [345]

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Men, Purpose
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare (2009). “William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar”, p.132, Infobase Publishing

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Tempest, Awake
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3844, BookCaps Study Guides

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

William Shakespeare
Fields, Towns, Midsummer
William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc

What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

William Shakespeare
Ocean, Heart, Eye
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Night, Hair
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Night, Names
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Fire, Long
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Mischief, Millions
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.668

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

William Shakespeare
Play, Villain
William Shakespeare (1822). “The school-Shakspeare; or, Plays and scenes from Shakspeare illustr. for the use of schools, with glossarial notes selected from the best annotators by J.R. Pitman. [26 plays & extr. from 9 others & from the sonnets].”, p.293

Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Ivory, Erotic
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.24

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

William Shakespeare
Beautiful, Wise, Art
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, Charles Whittingham (1830). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.125

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Bitter, Rebuke
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Mr Theobald (Lewis) (1803). “Much ado about nothing. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it”

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Mean, Men
"King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare
Devil, Firsts, Sin
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.833, Wordsworth Editions

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Sith, Thee
William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear”, p.11, Booklassic

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

William Shakespeare
Water, Tears, Hamlet And Ophelia
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186

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