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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Ice
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Flower, Blood
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Flower, Violet
William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

William Shakespeare
Country, Lying, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Good Luck, Numbers
1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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

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

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare
Lying, Venice, Shylock
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Heaven
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

Full fathom five thy father lies

William Shakespeare
Father, Lying, Nymphs
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Home, Feet
'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Good Luck, Numbers
'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

William Shakespeare
Lying, Ears, Prosperity
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Wedding, Lying
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.323

While we lie tumbling in the hay.

William Shakespeare
Love, Lying, Hay
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Winter
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1

The let-alone lies not in your good will.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Good Will
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.322, Classic Books Company

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Ears, Tongue
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Anxiety, Mind
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Father, Eye
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Eye, Dark
William Shakespeare (1862). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.52

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Eye
William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Hurt, Lying
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.71

How long a time lies in one little word?

William Shakespeare
Lying, Long, Littles
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 213

His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Spring
'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 3, l. [22]

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