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He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

William Shakespeare
Party, House, Pieces
William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.264, A&C Black

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Oysters, House
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.827, BookCaps Study Guides

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

William Shakespeare
Doors, Play, House
1600-1 Hamlet, of Polonius. Hamlet, act 3, sc.1, l.134-5.

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

William Shakespeare
Dark, Love Is, House
William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

William Shakespeare
Dark, Love Is, House
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

William Shakespeare
House, Tears, Venus
William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.225, Perfection Learning

I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Horse, House
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

William Shakespeare
Breathing, House, Way
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.87

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

William Shakespeare
Mean, House, Plot
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. [41]

A plague on both your houses.

William Shakespeare
House, Plague
William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.137, Heinemann

Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

William Shakespeare
Sleep, House, Murder
1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

William Shakespeare
Clouds, Giving, House
William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Night, House
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [289]

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

William Shakespeare
Jewels, House, Ancestor
1604-5 Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 4, sc.2, l.47-50.

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!

William Shakespeare
House, Citizens, London
'Henry V' (1599) act 5, chorus, l. 22

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

William Shakespeare
Blessed, Flames, House
1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

William Shakespeare
House, Temples, Spirit
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.67

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare
Home, Memorable, House
1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

William Shakespeare
Dark, House, Devil
William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan

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