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Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Despair, Should
1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Kindness, Wife
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Exhibitions, Levels
William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.241

'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

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Maids, May
'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Wife, Mind
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [116]

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

William Shakespeare
Kings, Children, Wife
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

William Shakespeare
Country, Profound, Wife
William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.147

You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Orange, Wife
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.330

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Art, Wife
1598 Benedick to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.121-2.

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

William Shakespeare
War, Dark, Wife
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570

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

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

William Shakespeare
Good Luck, Giving, Wife
William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

William Shakespeare
Grieving, Dust, Wife
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Pace, World
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Fire, Wife
William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60

You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.

William Shakespeare
Relationship, Heart, Wife
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 285

Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

William Shakespeare
Men, Two, Wife
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1559

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