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She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

William Shakespeare
Dance, Husband, Feet
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.

William Shakespeare
Love, Husband, Eye
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Home
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Depression, Husband
'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Ifs
William Shakespeare (1825). “The Plays of Shakespeare, in Nine Volumes..”, p.68

Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Heart, Boys
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 29

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Use
1604-5 Paroles to Helen. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.209-10.

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

William Shakespeare
Husband, Alliances, World
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1459, Oxford University Press

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Men
William Shakespeare (2010). “Coriolanus”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Husband, Joy
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Maids, Want

My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Mother, Husband
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

No worse a husband than the best of men.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Men, Best Of Me
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.681

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

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Fool
1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Men, Bait
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Husband, Smell
1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare
Art, Husband, Vines
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Light
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Lying
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [31]

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Art, Husband
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

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