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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
239 |
Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it
A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,
With caution that the Florentine will move us
For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend
Prejudicates the business and would seem
To have us make denial.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Countess |
458 |
Nay, a mother:
Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'
Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'
That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;
And put you in the catalogue of those
That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen
Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign seeds:
You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,
Yet I express to you a mother's care:
God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood
To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,
That this distemper'd messenger of wet,
The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?
Why? that you are my daughter?
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Lafeu |
670 |
O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?
Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if
My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine
That's able to breathe life into a stone,
Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch,
Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,
To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,
And write to her a love-line.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Lafeu |
693 |
Nay, I'll fit you,
And not be all day neither.
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Lafeu |
698 |
Nay, come your ways.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Lafeu |
700 |
Nay, come your ways:
This is his majesty; say your mind to him:
A traitor you do look like; but such traitors
His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,
That dare leave two together; fare you well.
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7 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Helena |
781 |
Tax of impudence,
A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame
Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name
Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse—if worse—extended
With vilest torture let my life be ended.
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8 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 2] |
Clown |
844 |
As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,
as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's
rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove
Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his
hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen
to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the
friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.
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9 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 2] |
Clown |
869 |
O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.
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10 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3] |
Parolles |
919 |
Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the
brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most
facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the—
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11 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2] |
Clown |
1434 |
Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some
comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I
thought he would.
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12 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5] |
Widow |
1607 |
Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we
shall lose all the sight.
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13 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6] |
Second Lord |
1729 |
Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his
way.
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14 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1] |
Parolles |
1985 |
O, let me live!
And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,
Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that
Which you will wonder at.
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15 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Lord |
2129 |
Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.
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16 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Parolles |
2272 |
I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,
from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's
fool with child,—a dumb innocent, that could not
say him nay.
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17 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Bertram |
2276 |
Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know
his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls.
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18 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Lord |
2280 |
Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your
lordship anon.
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19 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Soldier |
2300 |
Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.
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20 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 2] |
Parolles |
2623 |
Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake
but by a metaphor.
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