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Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Orsino |
20 |
Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.
[Enter VALENTINE]
How now! what news from her?
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2 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
516 |
To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
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3 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
766 |
'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to
call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Malvolio |
1135 |
'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let
me see, let me see, let me see.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Maria |
1223 |
If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark
his first approach before my lady: he will come to
her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will smile upon her, which will now be so
unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him
into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow
me.
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 3] |
Antonio |
1509 |
To-morrow, sir: best first go see your lodging.
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[IV, 1] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
1983 |
Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work
with him; I'll have an action of battery against
him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I
struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[IV, 2] |
Feste |
2025 |
Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself
in't; and I would I were the first that ever
dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to
become the function well, nor lean enough to be
thought a good student; but to be said an honest man
and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a
careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[V, 1] |
Viola |
2477 |
The captain that did bring me first on shore
Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[V, 1] |
Olivia |
2557 |
Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though, I confess, much like the character
But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was she
First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presupposed
Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:
This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.
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