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Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.

      — Macbeth, Act I Scene 5

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KEYWORD: madam

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1

Cymbeline
[I, 3]

Pisanio

278

And kiss'd it, madam.

2

Cymbeline
[I, 3]

Pisanio

281

No, madam; for so long
As he could make me with this eye or ear
Distinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind
Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on,
How swift his ship.

3

Cymbeline
[I, 3]

Pisanio

291

Madam, so I did.

4

Cymbeline
[I, 3]

Pisanio

299

Be assured, madam,
With his next vantage.

5

Cymbeline
[I, 3]

Lady

315

The queen, madam,
Desires your highness' company.

6

Cymbeline
[I, 3]

Pisanio

319

Madam, I shall.

7

Cymbeline
[I, 5]

First Lady

493

I, madam.

8

Cymbeline
[I, 5]

Cornelius

497

Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:
[Presenting a small box]
But I beseech your grace, without offence,—
My conscience bids me ask—wherefore you have
Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,
Which are the movers of a languishing death;
But though slow, deadly?

9

Cymbeline
[I, 5]

Cornelius

530

[Aside] I do suspect you, madam;
But you shall do no harm.

10

Cymbeline
[I, 6]

Pisanio

612

Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome,
Comes from my lord with letters.

11

Cymbeline
[I, 6]

Iachimo

614

Change you, madam?
The worthy Leonatus is in safety
And greets your highness dearly.

12

Cymbeline
[I, 6]

Iachimo

661

Thanks, madam; well.
[To PISANIO]
Beseech you, sir, desire
My man's abode where I did leave him: he
Is strange and peevish.

13

Cymbeline
[I, 6]

Iachimo

670

Well, madam.

14

Cymbeline
[I, 6]

Iachimo

690

Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter:
It is a recreation to be by
And hear him mock the Frenchman. But, heavens know,
Some men are much to blame.

15

Cymbeline
[I, 6]

Iachimo

841

O, I must, madam:
Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please
To greet your lord with writing, do't to-night:
I have outstood my time; which is material
To the tender of our present.

16

Cymbeline
[II, 2]

Lady

920

Please you, madam

17

Cymbeline
[II, 2]

Lady

922

Almost midnight, madam.

18

Cymbeline
[III, 2]

Pisanio

1534

Madam, here is a letter from my lord.

19

Cymbeline
[III, 2]

Pisanio

1580

One score 'twixt sun and sun,
Madam, 's enough for you:
[Aside]
and too much too.

20

Cymbeline
[III, 2]

Pisanio

1593

Madam, you're best consider.

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