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Work
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1 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6] |
Second Lord |
1735 |
Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,
without any malice, but to speak of him as my
kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and
endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner
of no one good quality worthy your lordship's
entertainment.
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2 |
Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2] |
Smith the Weaver |
2352 |
[Aside] But now of late, notable to travel with her
furred pack, she washes bucks here at home.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Escalus |
2680 |
We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and
enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a
notable fellow.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
229 |
Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
wilt prove a notable argument.
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5 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Iago |
2499 |
Stand you awhile apart;
Confine yourself but in a patient list.
Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief—
A passion most unsuiting such a man—
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,
Bade him anon return and here speak with me;
The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,
That dwell in every region of his face;
For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
He hath, and is again to cope your wife:
I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;
Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,
And nothing of a man.
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6 |
Othello
[V, 1] |
Iago |
3233 |
O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
Who they should be that have thus many led you?
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Maria |
845 |
The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing
constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,
that cons state without book and utters it by great
swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so
crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is
his grounds of faith that all that look on him love
him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find
notable cause to work.
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Sir Toby Belch |
1032 |
Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly
rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Maria |
1223 |
If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark
his first approach before my lady: he will come to
her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will smile upon her, which will now be so
unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him
into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow
me.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 4] |
Sir Toby Belch |
1724 |
Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior
of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good
capacity and breeding; his employment between his
lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this
letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no
terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a
clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by
word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable report
of valour; and drive the gentleman, as I know his
youth will aptly receive it, into a most hideous
opinion of his rage, skill, fury and impetuosity.
This will so fright them both that they will kill
one another by the look, like cockatrices.
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[V, 1] |
Orsino |
2257 |
Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!
What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,
Hast made thine enemies?
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12 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 5] |
Speed |
913 |
'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest
thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
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13 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 5] |
Launce |
917 |
A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
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14 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
First Gentleman |
3115 |
I make a broken delivery of the business; but the
changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were
very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with
staring on one another, to tear the cases of their
eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language
in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard
of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable
passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest
beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not
say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the
extremity of the one, it must needs be.
[Enter another Gentleman]
Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more.
The news, Rogero?
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