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All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5] |
Bertram |
1287 |
I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,
Given order for our horses; and to-night,
When I should take possession of the bride,
End ere I do begin.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2] |
Clown |
1409 |
I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our
old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing
like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:
the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to
love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1] |
Parolles |
1926 |
Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be
time enough to go home. What shall I say I have
done? It must be a very plausive invention that
carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces
have of late knocked too often at my door. I find
my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the
fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not
daring the reports of my tongue.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Lord |
2344 |
I begin to love him for this.
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Soldier |
2405 |
If you could find out a country where but women were
that had received so much shame, you might begin an
impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France
too: we shall speak of you there.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 5] |
Lafeu |
2512 |
Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I
tell thee so before, because I would not fall out
with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well
looked to, without any tricks.
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7 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Antony |
271 |
No more light answers. Let our officers
Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
The cause of our expedience to the queen,
And get her leave to part. For not alone
The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too
Of many our contriving friends in Rome
Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius
Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands
The empire of the sea: our slippery people,
Whose love is never link'd to the deserver
Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
Pompey the Great and all his dignities
Upon his son; who, high in name and power,
Higher than both in blood and life, stands up
For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,
The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,
Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,
And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,
To such whose place is under us, requires
Our quick remove from hence.
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8 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Pompey |
1287 |
We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's
Draw lots who shall begin.
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9 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 13] |
Domitius Enobarus |
2294 |
[Aside] Mine honesty and I begin to square.
The loyalty well held to fools does make
Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure
To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord
Does conquer him that did his master conquer
And earns a place i' the story.
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10 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 6] |
Octavius |
2704 |
Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:
Our will is Antony be took alive;
Make it so known.
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11 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[V, 2] |
Cleopatra |
3377 |
My desolation does begin to make
A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;
Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,
A minister of her will: and it is great
To do that thing that ends all other deeds;
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;
Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,
The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
[Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS,]
GALLUS and Soldiers]
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12 |
As You Like It
[I, 1] |
Oliver |
73 |
Is it even so? Begin you to grow upon me? I will physic
your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla,
Dennis!
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13 |
As You Like It
[IV, 1] |
Rosalind |
1905 |
You must begin 'Will you, Orlando'-
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14 |
As You Like It
[V, 4] |
Duke |
2593 |
Proceed, proceed. We will begin these rites,
As we do trust they'll end, in true delights. [A dance] Exeunt EPILOGUE
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15 |
As You Like It
[V, 4] |
Rosalind |
2596 |
It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but
it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it
be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play
needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and
good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a
case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot
insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My
way is to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge
you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of
this play as please you; and I charge you, O men, for the love
you bear to women- as I perceive by your simp'ring none of you
hates them- that between you and the women the play may please.
If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that
pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defied
not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces,
or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy,
bid me farewell.
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Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1] |
Antipholus of Ephesus |
1001 |
Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse
Your breach of promise to the Porpentine.
I should have chid you for not bringing it,
But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.
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17 |
Coriolanus
[I, 9] |
Coriolanus |
856 |
The gods begin to mock me. I, that now
Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
Of my lord general.
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Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
1114 |
A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep
And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome.
A curse begin at very root on's heart,
That is not glad to see thee! You are three
That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,
We have some old crab-trees here
at home that will not
Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:
We call a nettle but a nettle and
The faults of fools but folly.
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19 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Sicinius Velutus |
1164 |
He cannot temperately transport his honours
From where he should begin and end, but will
Lose those he hath won.
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Coriolanus
[V, 6] |
First Lord |
3897 |
And grieve to hear't.
What faults he made before the last, I think
Might have found easy fines: but there to end
Where he was to begin and give away
The benefit of our levies, answering us
With our own charge, making a treaty where
There was a yielding,—this admits no excuse.
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