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Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could

Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Night, Giving
William Shakespeare (1806). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear. Hamlet. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.555

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Black
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.277

Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Men, Rocks
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen”

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

William Shakespeare
Men, May, Excellent
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1398, Oxford University Press

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Hands, Lady Macbeth
William Shakespeare (2012). “Macbeth Thrift Study Edition”, p.56, Courier Corporation

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Oath, Swear
1592 Salisbury to Henry. Henry VI PartTwo, act 5, sc.1, l.180-1.

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.

William Shakespeare
Issues, Spirit, Fine
William Shakespeare (2009). “Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and All's Well that Ends Well”, p.29, Bantam Classics

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

William Shakespeare
Book, Philosophical, Rain
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Passion, Pride
1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

William Shakespeare
Nature, Science, Medicine
William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

We were not born to sue, but to command.

William Shakespeare
Negotiation, Born, Command
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 196

You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!

William Shakespeare
Gratitude, Heart, Thankfulness
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1049, Barnes & Noble Publishing

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Listening, Unjust

Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Queens, Kings
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly Hearing us praise our loves of Italy For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva, Postures beyond brief nature; for condition, A shop of all the qualities that man Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving, Fairness which strikes the eye- CYMBELINE.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Quality
William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare”, p.678

And she's fair I love.

William Shakespeare
Fairness, Fairs
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

William Shakespeare
Jealous, Play, Wife
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, ROMEO and JULIET. HAMLET, PRINCE of DENMARK. OTHELLO, the MOOR of VENICE. VOLUME the TENTH”, p.361

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Desire, Heirs
William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.258

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

William Shakespeare
Ems, Fairness, Vengeance
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2772, Oxford University Press

Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Fairness, Ends
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1855). “The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author”, p.371

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

William Shakespeare
Cypresses, Maids, Fairness
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Blood, Choices
William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.366

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Moon, Men
Sonnet 35

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

William Shakespeare
Order, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms
'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow By that same god, what god soe'er it be, That thou adorest and hast in reverence, To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, Or else I will discover naught to thee.

William Shakespeare
Religious, Art, Boys
William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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