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Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
308 |
That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and
you may speak as small as you will.
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2 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
310 |
An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll
speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,
Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,
and lady dear!'
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3 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1] |
Demetrius |
574 |
Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?
Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2] |
Lysander |
689 |
Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;
And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:
We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
And tarry for the comfort of the day.
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5 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2] |
Hermia |
806 |
[Awaking] Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best
To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!
Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!
Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:
Methought a serpent eat my heart away,
And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.
Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!
What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?
Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;
Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.
No? then I well perceive you all not nigh
Either death or you I'll find immediately.
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6 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
851 |
Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must
be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself
must speak through, saying thus, or to the same
defect,—'Ladies,'—or 'Fair-ladies—I would wish
You,'—or 'I would request you,'—or 'I would
entreat you,—not to fear, not to tremble: my life
for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it
were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a
man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name
his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.
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7 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
893 |
Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.
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8 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Flute |
903 |
Must I speak now?
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
911 |
'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that
yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your
part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue
is past; it is, 'never tire.'
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10 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Hermia |
1231 |
You speak not as you think: it cannot be.
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11 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Hermia |
1337 |
Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.
Now I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures; she hath urged her height;
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.
And are you grown so high in his esteem;
Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
How low am I? I am not yet so low
But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
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12 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Demetrius |
1382 |
You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services.
Let her alone: speak not of Helena;
Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend
Never so little show of love to her,
Thou shalt aby it.
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13 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Lysander |
1460 |
Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.
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14 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Demetrius |
1467 |
Lysander! speak again:
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?
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15 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Theseus |
1687 |
No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May, and hearing our intent,
Came here in grace our solemnity.
But speak, Egeus; is not this the day
That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
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16 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Lysander |
1704 |
My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,
I cannot truly say how I came here;
But, as I think,—for truly would I speak,
And now do I bethink me, so it is,—
I came with Hermia hither: our intent
Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,
Without the peril of the Athenian law.
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17 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Hippolyta |
1830 |
'Tis strange my Theseus, that these
lovers speak of.
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18 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Theseus |
1929 |
The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.
Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:
And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect
Takes it in might, not merit.
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent in their fears
And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,
Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;
And in the modesty of fearful duty
I read as much as from the rattling tongue
Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity.
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19 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Lysander |
1962 |
He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows
not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not
enough to speak, but to speak true.
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20 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Theseus |
1996 |
I wonder if the lion be to speak.
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