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Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
147 |
Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as
things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow;
impiety has made a feast of thee.
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Mistress Overdone |
157 |
Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw
him carried away; and, which is more, within these
three days his head to be chopped off.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
599 |
Nay; I beseech you, mark it well.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Angelo |
1083 |
Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak
Against the thing I say. Answer to this:
I, now the voice of the recorded law,
Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:
Might there not be a charity in sin
To save this brother's life?
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Angelo |
1099 |
Nay, but hear me.
Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,
Or seem so craftily; and that's not good.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Angelo |
1152 |
Nay, women are frail too.
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Isabella |
1153 |
Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;
Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar
In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;
For we are soft as our complexions are,
And credulous to false prints.
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Claudio |
1385 |
Nay, hear me, Isabel.
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Elbow |
1514 |
Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will
needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we
shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Vincentio |
1541 |
Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:
Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit.
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11 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Isabella |
2243 |
Nay, but it is not so.
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12 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Vincentio |
2250 |
This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot;
Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven.
Mark what I say, which you shall find
By every syllable a faithful verity:
The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes;
One of our convent, and his confessor,
Gives me this instance: already he hath carried
Notice to Escalus and Angelo,
Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,
There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom
In that good path that I would wish it go,
And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,
And general honour.
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Lucio |
2294 |
Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee
I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.
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14 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Lucio |
2303 |
By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end:
if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of
it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
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15 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Vincentio |
2433 |
Nay, it is ten times strange.
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16 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Isabella |
2434 |
It is not truer he is Angelo
Than this is all as true as it is strange:
Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
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