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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
294 |
Would I were with him! He would always say—
Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words
He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,
To grow there and to bear,—'Let me not live,'—
This his good melancholy oft began,
On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,
When it was out,—'Let me not live,' quoth he,
'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses
All but new things disdain; whose judgments are
Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies
Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;
I after him do after him wish too,
Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,
I quickly were dissolved from my hive,
To give some labourers room.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
King of France |
689 |
Now, good Lafeu,
Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
By wondering how thou took'st it.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Helena |
770 |
The great'st grace lending grace
Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,
Ere twice in murk and occidental damp
Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,
Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass
Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,
What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,
Health shall live free and sickness freely die.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3] |
Bertram |
1013 |
But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
Must answer for your raising? I know her well:
She had her breeding at my father's charge.
A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain
Rather corrupt me ever!
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3] |
Lafeu |
1101 |
I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which
title age cannot bring thee.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5] |
Widow |
1716 |
The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you
Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents
There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,
Already at my house.
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7 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6] |
Second Lord |
1747 |
I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly
surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he
knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink
him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he
is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when
we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship
present at his examination: if he do not, for the
promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of
base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the
intelligence in his power against you, and that with
the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never
trust my judgment in any thing.
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8 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6] |
Bertram |
1789 |
Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you
think your mystery in stratagem can bring this
instrument of honour again into his native quarter,
be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will
grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you
speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it.
and extend to you what further becomes his
greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your
worthiness.
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9 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Bertram |
2185 |
I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to
hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this
dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,
bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived
me, like a double-meaning prophesier.
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10 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Second Lord |
2190 |
Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,
poor gallant knave.
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11 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 4] |
Helena |
2456 |
Yet, I pray you:
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
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12 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 2] |
Parolles |
2659 |
It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,
for you did bring me out.
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13 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
King of France |
2846 |
The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,
To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:
Go speedily and bring again the count.
I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,
Was foully snatch'd.
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14 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
Widow |
2862 |
I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour
Both suffer under this complaint we bring,
And both shall cease, without your remedy.
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15 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
King of France |
2909 |
Find him, and bring him hither.
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16 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Domitius Enobarus |
91 |
Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough
Cleopatra's health to drink.
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17 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Cleopatra |
164 |
Seek him, and bring him hither.
Where's Alexas?
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18 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Antony |
190 |
Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:
Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;
Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults
With such full licence as both truth and malice
Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,
When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us
Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.
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19 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 4] |
Messenger |
476 |
Caesar, I bring thee word,
Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
With keels of every kind: many hot inroads
They make in Italy; the borders maritime
Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:
No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon
Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more
Than could his war resisted.
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Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5] |
Cleopatra |
1088 |
Why, there's more gold.
But, sirrah, mark, we use
To say the dead are well: bring it to that,
The gold I give thee will I melt and pour
Down thy ill-uttering throat.
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