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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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1 |
As You Like It
[I, 2] |
Frederick |
268 |
Come on; since the youth will not be entreated, his own
peril on his forwardness.
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2 |
As You Like It
[I, 2] |
Frederick |
276 |
You will take little delight in it, I can tell you,
there is such odds in the man. In pity of the challenger's youth
I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be entreated. Speak to
him, ladies; see if you can move him.
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3 |
As You Like It
[I, 2] |
Orlando |
286 |
No, fair Princess; he is the general challenger. I come
but in, as others do, to try with him the strength of my youth.
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4 |
As You Like It
[I, 2] |
Frederick |
333 |
I would thou hadst been son to some man else.
The world esteem'd thy father honourable,
But I did find him still mine enemy.
Thou shouldst have better pleas'd me with this deed,
Hadst thou descended from another house.
But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth;
I would thou hadst told me of another father.
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5 |
As You Like It
[II, 2] |
Second Lord |
629 |
My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
Hisperia, the Princess' gentlewoman,
Confesses that she secretly o'erheard
Your daughter and her cousin much commend
The parts and graces of the wrestler
That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;
And she believes, wherever they are gone,
That youth is surely in their company.
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6 |
As You Like It
[II, 3] |
Adam |
660 |
O unhappy youth!
Come not within these doors; within this roof
The enemy of all your graces lives.
Your brother- no, no brother; yet the son-
Yet not the son; I will not call him son
Of him I was about to call his father-
Hath heard your praises; and this night he means
To burn the lodging where you use to lie,
And you within it. If he fail of that,
He will have other means to cut you off;
I overheard him and his practices.
This is no place; this house is but a butchery;
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.
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7 |
As You Like It
[II, 3] |
Adam |
682 |
But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father,
Which I did store to be my foster-nurse,
When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
And unregarded age in corners thrown.
Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
All this I give you. Let me be your servant;
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly. Let me go with you;
I'll do the service of a younger man
In all your business and necessities.
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8 |
As You Like It
[II, 4] |
Silvius |
742 |
No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,
Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow.
But if thy love were ever like to mine,
As sure I think did never man love so,
How many actions most ridiculous
Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?
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9 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1425 |
Where dwell you, pretty youth?
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10 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1432 |
I have been told so of many; but indeed an old religious
uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland
man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love.
I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I
am not a woman, to be touch'd with so many giddy offences as he
hath generally tax'd their whole sex withal.
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11 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1466 |
Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
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12 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1472 |
I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of Rosalind, I
am that he, that unfortunate he.
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13 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Rosalind |
1482 |
Yes, one; and in this manner. He was to imagine me his
love, his mistress; and I set him every day to woo me; at which
time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate,
changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish,
shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every
passion something and for no passion truly anything, as boys and
women are for the most part cattle of this colour; would now like
him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now
weep for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor from his
mad humour of love to a living humour of madness; which was, to
forswear the full stream of the world and to live in a nook
merely monastic. And thus I cur'd him; and this way will I take
upon me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's heart,
that there shall not be one spot of love in 't.
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14 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1496 |
I would not be cured, youth.
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15 |
As You Like It
[III, 2] |
Orlando |
1502 |
With all my heart, good youth.
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16 |
As You Like It
[III, 4] |
Celia |
1628 |
O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave
words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite
traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puny tilter, that
spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble
goose. But all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides. Who
comes here?
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17 |
As You Like It
[III, 5] |
Phebe |
1718 |
Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together;
I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
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18 |
As You Like It
[III, 5] |
Phebe |
1760 |
Know'st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile?
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19 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Jaques (lord) |
1797 |
I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with
thee.
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20 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Rosalind |
1876 |
No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six
thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man
died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause. Troilus had
his brains dash'd out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he
could to die before, and he is one of the patterns of love.
Leander, he would have liv'd many a fair year, though Hero had
turn'd nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for,
good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and,
being taken with the cramp, was drown'd; and the foolish
chroniclers of that age found it was- Hero of Sestos. But these
are all lies: men have died from time to time, and worms have
eaten them, but not for love.
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