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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Fall, Men
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.564

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

William Shakespeare
Children, Lying, Grief
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Sleep
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Sweet, Lying
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.186

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

William Shakespeare
Queens, Lying, Team
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Lying, Needs
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.50

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

William Shakespeare
Travel, Lying, Home

So. Lie there, my art.

William Shakespeare
Art, Lying
William Shakespeare (1857). “Dramatic Works, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed, with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc”, p.110

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Lying, Garden
William Shakespeare, Gayle Holste (2002). “Othello”, p.68, Barron's Educational Series

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Fall, Greek
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.745, Wordsworth Editions

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Heart, Eye
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Men, May
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Ivory, Erotic
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.24

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Mean, Men
"King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

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

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Grace, May
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [161]

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Angel, Men
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

William Shakespeare
Lying, Owl, Bells
William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Wife, Hearing
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Eye
William Shakespeare (1840). “Poems”, p.28

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Eye, Guilt
William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.118

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Memorable, Understanding
William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.63

If money go before, all ways do lie open.

William Shakespeare
Money, Lying, Way
1597-8 Ford (as Brooke).The MerryWives ofWindsor, act 2, sc.2, l.164-5.

Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

William Shakespeare
Lying, War, Men
'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Humanity, Flattery
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [107]

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