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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Lafeu |
27 |
He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very
lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he
was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge
could be set up against mortality.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Helena |
517 |
Then, I confess,
Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,
That before you, and next unto high heaven,
I love your son.
My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:
Be not offended; for it hurts not him
That he is loved of me: I follow him not
By any token of presumptuous suit;
Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;
Yet never know how that desert should be.
I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
Yet in this captious and intenible sieve
I still pour in the waters of my love
And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,
Religious in mine error, I adore
The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,
But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,
Let not your hate encounter with my love
For loving where you do: but if yourself,
Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,
Did ever in so true a flame of liking
Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian
Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity
To her, whose state is such that cannot choose
But lend and give where she is sure to lose;
That seeks not to find that her search implies,
But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
King of France |
813 |
Here is my hand; the premises observed,
Thy will by my performance shall be served:
So make the choice of thy own time, for I,
Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.
More should I question thee, and more I must,
Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.
Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4] |
Parolles |
1221 |
You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them
on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Second Lord |
2112 |
Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course
of all treasons, we still see them reveal
themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,
so he that in this action contrives against his own
nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Bertram |
2357 |
A pox on him, he's a cat still.
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7 |
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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8 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 5] |
Lafeu |
2500 |
Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this
to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;
serve him still.
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9 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 1] |
Philo |
70 |
Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,
He comes too short of that great property
Which still should go with Antony.
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10 |
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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11 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 3] |
Cleopatra |
336 |
Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Then was the time for words: no going then;
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,
But was a race of heaven: they are so still,
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Art turn'd the greatest liar.
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12 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 3] |
Cleopatra |
394 |
And target. Still he mends;
But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,
How this Herculean Roman does become
The carriage of his chafe.
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13 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 3] |
Antony |
1015 |
Get thee gone:
Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:
[Exit Soothsayer]
He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;
And in our sports my better cunning faints
Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;
His cocks do win the battle still of mine,
When it is all to nought; and his quails ever
Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:
And though I make this marriage for my peace,
I' the east my pleasure lies.
[Enter VENTIDIUS]
O, come, Ventidius,
You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;
Follow me, and receive't.
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14 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5] |
Cleopatra |
1172 |
The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?
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15 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Domitius Enobarus |
1354 |
I think so too. But you shall find, the band that
seems to tie their friendship together will be the
very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a
holy, cold, and still conversation.
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16 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 2] |
Octavius |
1667 |
No, sweet Octavia,
You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
Out-go my thinking on you.
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17 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 13] |
Domitius Enobarus |
2486 |
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,
Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek
Some way to leave him.
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18 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 5] |
Soldier |
2679 |
Hadst thou done so,
The kings that have revolted, and the soldier
That has this morning left thee, would have still
Follow'd thy heels.
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Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 6] |
Soldier |
2736 |
Mock not, Enobarbus.
I tell you true: best you safed the bringer
Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Continues still a Jove.
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20 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 11] |
Octavius |
2893 |
But being charged, we will be still by land,
Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force
Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.
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