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Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Captain |
83 |
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight of men.
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2 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
124 |
Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:
these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be
these boots too: an they be not, let them hang
themselves in their own straps.
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3 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
147 |
By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors
that say so of him. Who are they?
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Maria |
149 |
They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
230 |
Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to
take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost
thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in
a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not
so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What
dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?
I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy
leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 4] |
Orsino |
277 |
Dear lad, believe it;
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man: Diana's lip
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman's part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. Some four or five attend him;
All, if you will; for I myself am best
When least in company. Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
323 |
Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
[Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO]
God bless thee, lady!
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
711 |
Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists
of eating and drinking.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
863 |
He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,
that they come from my niece, and that she's in
love with him.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 4] |
Viola |
933 |
And so they are: alas, that they are so;
To die, even when they to perfection grow!
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Twelfth Night
[II, 4] |
Orsino |
992 |
There is no woman's sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much: make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me
And that I owe Olivia.
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 4] |
Viola |
1005 |
Too well what love women to men may owe:
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Malvolio |
1080 |
And then to have the humour of state; and after a
demure travel of regard, telling them I know my
place as I would they should do theirs, to for my
kinsman Toby,—
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14 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 1] |
Viola |
1249 |
Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with
words may quickly make them wanton.
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15 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 1] |
Olivia |
1338 |
For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,
Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me!
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 2] |
Sir Toby Belch |
1418 |
And they have been grand-jury-men since before Noah
was a sailor.
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17 |
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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18 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 4] |
Sir Toby Belch |
1820 |
Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such a
firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and
all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal
motion, that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he
pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they
step on. They say he has been fencer to the Sophy.
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19 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 4] |
(stage directions) |
1858 |
[They draw]
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 4] |
(stage directions) |
1867 |
[They draw]
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