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Comedy of Errors
[II, 1] |
Adriana |
286 |
There's none but asses will be bridled so.
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King Lear
[I, 5] |
Fool |
909 |
Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the seven stars
are no moe than seven is a pretty reason.
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3 |
Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1] |
Shylock |
2021 |
What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
You have among you many a purchased slave,
Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
You use in abject and in slavish parts,
Because you bought them: shall I say to you,
Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds
Be made as soft as yours and let their palates
Be season'd with such viands? You will answer
'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:
The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.
If you deny me, fie upon your law!
There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
I stand for judgment: answer; shall I have it?
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Demetrius |
1997 |
No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.
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5 |
Othello
[I, 3] |
Iago |
740 |
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
If I would time expend with such a snipe.
But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:
And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets
He has done my office: I know not if't be true;
But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;
The better shall my purpose work on him.
Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:
To get his place and to plume up my will
In double knavery—How, how? Let's see:—
After some time, to abuse Othello's ear
That he is too familiar with his wife.
He hath a person and a smooth dispose
To be suspected, framed to make women false.
The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.
I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
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Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1] |
Katherina |
1047 |
Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
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7 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Apemantus |
746 |
Asses.
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8 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 2] |
Pandarus |
391 |
Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran!
porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the
eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look: the eagles
are gone: crows and daws, crows and daws! I had
rather be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and
all Greece.
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Twelfth Night
[IV, 2] |
Malvolio |
2109 |
They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness,
send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to
face me out of my wits.
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