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Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 15] |
Cleopatra |
3204 |
Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!
Our strength is all gone into heaviness,
That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,
The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,
And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,—
Wishes were ever fools,—O, come, come, come;
[They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA]
And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:
Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,
Thus would I wear them out.
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Cymbeline
[V, 2] |
Iachimo |
2993 |
The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
Takes off my manhood: I have belied a lady,
The princess of this country, and the air on't
Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,
A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me
In my profession? Knighthoods and honours, borne
As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.
If that thy gentry, Britain, go before
This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds
Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
[Exit]
[The battle continues; the Britons fly; CYMBELINE is]
taken: then enter, to his rescue, BELARIUS,
GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]
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Cymbeline
[V, 4] |
First Gaoler |
3312 |
A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is,
you shall be called to no more payments, fear no
more tavern-bills; which are often the sadness of
parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in
flint for want of meat, depart reeling with too
much drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and
sorry that you are paid too much; purse and brain
both empty; the brain the heavier for being too
light, the purse too light, being drawn of
heaviness: of this contradiction you shall now be
quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up
thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and
creditor but it; of what's past, is, and to come,
the discharge: your neck, sir, is pen, book and
counters; so the acquittance follows.
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4 |
Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1] |
Glendower |
1763 |
She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth you
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep.
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
As is the difference betwixt day and night
The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
Begins his golden progress in the east.
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Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Archbishop Scroop |
2526 |
Against ill chances men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.
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Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 5] |
Prince Thomas |
2896 |
I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
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King Lear
[IV, 7] |
Gentleman |
2934 |
Ay, madam. In the heaviness of sleep
We put fresh garments on him.
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8 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 8] |
Salanio |
1122 |
I think he only loves the world for him.
I pray thee, let us go and find him out
And quicken his embraced heaviness
With some delight or other.
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Demetrius |
1116 |
There is no following her in this fierce vein:
Here therefore for a while I will remain.
So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:
Which now in some slight measure it will pay,
If for his tender here I make some stay.
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10 |
Rape of Lucrece |
Shakespeare |
1334 |
'But, lady, if your maid may be so bold,
She would request to know your heaviness.'
'O, peace!' quoth Lucrece: 'if it should be told,
The repetition cannot make it less;
For more it is than I can well express:
And that deep torture may be call'd a hell
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.
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11 |
Rape of Lucrece |
Shakespeare |
1648 |
At last he takes her by the bloodless hand,
And thus begins: 'What uncouth ill event
Hath thee befall'n, that thou dost trembling stand?
Sweet love, what spite hath thy fair colour spent?
Why art thou thus attired in discontent?
Unmask, dear dear, this moody heaviness,
And tell thy grief, that we may give redress.'
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Richard II
[II, 2] |
Bushy |
994 |
Madam, your majesty is too much sad:
You promised, when you parted with the king,
To lay aside life-harming heaviness
And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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13 |
Romeo and Juliet
[III, 4] |
Lady Capulet |
2068 |
I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;
To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.
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14 |
Romeo and Juliet
[III, 5] |
Lady Capulet |
2213 |
Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;
One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,
Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,
That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for.
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15 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
448 |
The strangeness of your story put
Heaviness in me.
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16 |
Tempest
[V, 1] |
Prospero |
2254 |
There, sir, stop:
Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.
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Titus Andronicus
[III, 2] |
Marcus Andronicus |
1493 |
Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,
Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness.
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