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Hamlet
[III, 2] |
Hamlet |
2242 |
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You
would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would
pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my
lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music,
excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it
speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be play'd on than a
pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me,
you cannot play upon me.
[Enter Polonius.]
God bless you, sir!
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2 |
King John
[III, 1] |
Lewis |
1127 |
Bethink you, father; for the difference
Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,
Or the light loss of England for a friend:
Forego the easier.
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3 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1] |
Costard |
1774 |
O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.
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4 |
Macbeth
[II, 4] |
Macduff |
995 |
Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
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5 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 2] |
Portia |
206 |
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to
do, chapels had been churches and poor men's
cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that
follows his own instructions: I can easier teach
twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the
twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may
devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the
youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the
cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to
choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may
neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I
dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed
by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,
Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?
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6 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2] |
Ford |
971 |
Sir, I hear you are a scholar,—I will be brief
with you,—and you have been a man long known to me,
though I had never so good means, as desire, to make
myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a
thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine
own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have
one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,
turn another into the register of your own; that I
may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you
yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Beatrice |
1949 |
You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.
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Richard III
[V, 3] |
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester) |
3513 |
I will not sup to-night.
Give me some ink and paper.
What, is my beaver easier than it was?
And all my armour laid into my tent?
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9 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Camillo |
2440 |
O my lord!
I would your spirit were easier for advice,
Or stronger for your need.
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