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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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As You Like It
[I, 2] |
Le Beau |
329 |
He cannot speak, my lord.
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2 |
As You Like It
[I, 2] |
Orlando |
372 |
What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
I cannot speak to her, yet she urg'd conference.
O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!
Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.
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3 |
As You Like It
[I, 3] |
Rosalind |
460 |
Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor.
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
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4 |
As You Like It
[I, 3] |
Celia |
489 |
Pronounce that sentence, then, on me, my liege;
I cannot live out of her company.
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5 |
As You Like It
[II, 2] |
Frederick |
622 |
Can it be possible that no man saw them?
It cannot be; some villains of my court
Are of consent and sufferance in this.
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6 |
As You Like It
[II, 2] |
First Lord |
625 |
I cannot hear of any that did see her.
The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
Saw her abed, and in the morning early
They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress.
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7 |
As You Like It
[II, 3] |
Orlando |
700 |
O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion,
And having that do choke their service up
Even with the having; it is not so with thee.
But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry.
But come thy ways, we'll go along together,
And ere we have thy youthful wages spent
We'll light upon some settled low content.
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8 |
As You Like It
[II, 3] |
Adam |
713 |
Master, go on; and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
From seventeen years till now almost four-score
Here lived I, but now live here no more.
At seventeen years many their fortunes seek,
But at fourscore it is too late a week;
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well and not my master's debtor. Exeunt
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9 |
As You Like It
[II, 4] |
Celia |
729 |
I pray you bear with me; I cannot go no further.
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10 |
As You Like It
[II, 5] |
Amiens |
832 |
My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you.
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11 |
As You Like It
[II, 5] |
Jaques (lord) |
873 |
'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. I'll
go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the
first-born of Egypt.
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12 |
As You Like It
[III, 1] |
Frederick |
1103 |
Not see him since! Sir, sir, that cannot be.
But were I not the better part made mercy,
I should not seek an absent argument
Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
Find out thy brother wheresoe'er he is;
Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living
Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
To seek a living in our territory.
Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,
Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother's mouth
Of what we think against thee.
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13 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Touchstone |
1190 |
That is another simple sin in you: to bring the ewes
and the rams together, and to offer to get your living by the
copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to betray
a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,
out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not damn'd for this,
the devil himself will have no shepherds; I cannot see else how
thou shouldst scape.
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14 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1413 |
With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath
not the gout; for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study,
and the other lives merrily because he feels no pain; the one
lacking the burden of lean and wasteful learning, the other
knowing no burden of heavy tedious penury. These Time ambles
withal.
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15 |
As You Like It
[III, 3] |
Touchstone |
1514 |
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's
good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it
strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
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16 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Celia |
1904 |
I cannot say the words.
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17 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Rosalind |
1940 |
Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall never
take her without her answer, unless you take her without her
tongue. O, that woman that cannot make her fault her husband's
occasion, let her never nurse her child herself, for she will
breed it like a fool!
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18 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Rosalind |
1946 |
Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours!
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19 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Rosalind |
1968 |
O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst
know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded;
my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
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20 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Rosalind |
1973 |
No; that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of
thought, conceiv'd of spleen, and born of madness; that blind
rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, because his own are
out- let him be judge how deep I am in love. I'll tell thee,
Aliena, I cannot be out of the sight of Orlando. I'll go find a
shadow, and sigh till he come.
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