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Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

William Shakespeare
4th Of July, Liberty, Cry
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedie of Julius Caesar”, p.146, Classic Books Company

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Flower, Air

And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

William Shakespeare
Beer, Drink, Felony
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

William Shakespeare
Risk, Path, Smooth
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.509

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

William Shakespeare
Inspiration, Angel, Orbs
1596-7 Lorenzo to Jessica.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 5, sc.1, l.58-61.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

William Shakespeare
Book, Fate, Science
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

William Shakespeare
Science, Moon, Night
William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Halloween, Lying
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.50

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Funeral, Mirth
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Moving, Thrift
William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

William Shakespeare
Love, Errors, Punishment
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely New Collation of the Old Editions, with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.114

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

William Shakespeare
Love, Moon, Gentleman
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [28]

Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

William Shakespeare
Love, Play, Crowns
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [95]

Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.

William Shakespeare
Love, Summer, Sweet
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [207]

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

William Shakespeare
Love, Art, Mouths
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [257]

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

William Shakespeare
Love, Art, Influence
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?

William Shakespeare
Love, Humour
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 229

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

William Shakespeare
Love, War, Soul
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

William Shakespeare
Love, Glasses, Nymphs
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!

William Shakespeare
Love, Long, Wenches
William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price (2002). “Taming of the Shrew”, p.13, Theatrefolk

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

William Shakespeare
Love, Eye, Feet
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 54

Is she not passing fair?

William Shakespeare
Love, Passing, Passings
William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

William Shakespeare
Love, Men, Perfect
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 110

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

William Shakespeare
Love, Ballads, Print
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [262]

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

William Shakespeare
Conceited, Body Work, Strongest

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