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the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this

the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Fire, Wife
William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60

Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)

William Shakespeare
Running, Passion, Mistress

The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

William Shakespeare
Night, Iron, Bed
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [372]

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

William Shakespeare
Dedication, Water, Shore

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

William Shakespeare
Men, Years, Let It Go
William Shakespeare, A. R. Humphreys (1967). “King Henry IV Part 2: Second Series”, p.107, Cengage Learning EMEA

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Clouds, Riches
'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Moon, Men
William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

William Shakespeare
Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important
1595 Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.93-4.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Denmark In Hamlet, Ghost
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 84

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

William Shakespeare
Care, Juliet, Tybalt
William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

William Shakespeare
Mending
"The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare".

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

William Shakespeare
Son, Mad, Noble
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.840

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

William Shakespeare
Son, Grandmother, Thinking
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.

William Shakespeare
Hurling, I Can
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.258

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all

William Shakespeare
Angel, Cutting, Judging
William Shakespeare, William Oxberry, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Owen Fawcett (1822). “Julius Caesar: A Tragedy”, p.55

All the world's a stage.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Motivational, Dance
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

William Shakespeare
Firsts, Cry, Enough

Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Fall, Eye
William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.616

What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

William Shakespeare
Art, Spring, Years
William Shakespeare (2015). “Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

William Shakespeare
Trouble, Stills
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.65, Classic Books Company

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

William Shakespeare
Heart, Ears
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.429

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Valor
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Nice, Customs
William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

William Shakespeare
Our Generation, Generations, Kind
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Dream, Flower
1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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