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All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3] |
Bertram |
1005 |
My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,
In such a business give me leave to use
The help of mine own eyes.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 5] |
Lafeu |
2524 |
I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to
tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and
that my lord your son was upon his return home, I
moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of
my daughter; which, in the minority of them both,
his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did
first propose: his highness hath promised me to do
it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath
conceived against your son, there is no fitter
matter. How does your ladyship like it?
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 5] |
Lafeu |
2536 |
His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able
body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here
to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such
intelligence hath seldom failed.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
Lafeu |
2707 |
All that he is hath reference to your highness.
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
Gentleman |
2824 |
Gracious sovereign,
Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:
Here's a petition from a Florentine,
Who hath for four or five removes come short
To tender it herself. I undertook it,
Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech
Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know
Is here attending: her business looks in her
With an importing visage; and she told me,
In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern
Your highness with herself.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
Bertram |
2879 |
My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,
Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness
Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
Than for to think that I would sink it here.
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7 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5] |
Charmian |
1190 |
Good your highness, patience.
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8 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[V, 2] |
Guard |
3683 |
Here is a rural fellow
That will not be denied your highness presence:
He brings you figs.
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9 |
As You Like It
[I, 3] |
Rosalind |
448 |
I do beseech your Grace,
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me.
If with myself I hold intelligence,
Or have acquaintance with mine own desires;
If that I do not dream, or be not frantic-
As I do trust I am not- then, dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn
Did I offend your Highness.
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10 |
As You Like It
[I, 3] |
Rosalind |
463 |
So was I when your Highness took his dukedom;
So was I when your Highness banish'd him.
Treason is not inherited, my lord;
Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
What's that to me? My father was no traitor.
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
To think my poverty is treacherous.
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11 |
As You Like It
[III, 1] |
Oliver |
1115 |
O that your Highness knew my heart in this!
I never lov'd my brother in my life.
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12 |
Comedy of Errors
[V, 1] |
Luciana |
1647 |
Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night,
But she tells to your highness simple truth!
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13 |
Cymbeline
[I, 1] |
Posthumus Leonatus |
94 |
Please your highness,
I will from hence to-day.
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14 |
Cymbeline
[I, 1] |
Pisanio |
228 |
I humbly thank your highness.
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15 |
Cymbeline
[I, 5] |
Cornelius |
497 |
Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:
[Presenting a small box]
But I beseech your grace, without offence,—
My conscience bids me ask—wherefore you have
Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,
Which are the movers of a languishing death;
But though slow, deadly?
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16 |
Cymbeline
[I, 5] |
Cornelius |
518 |
Your highness
Shall from this practise but make hard your heart:
Besides, the seeing these effects will be
Both noisome and infectious.
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17 |
Cymbeline
[I, 6] |
Iachimo |
614 |
Change you, madam?
The worthy Leonatus is in safety
And greets your highness dearly.
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18 |
Cymbeline
[IV, 3] |
Pisanio |
2838 |
Sir, my life is yours;
I humbly set it at your will; but, for my mistress,
I nothing know where she remains, why gone,
Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,
Hold me your loyal servant.
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19 |
Cymbeline
[V, 5] |
First Lady |
3440 |
We did, so please your highness.
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20 |
Cymbeline
[V, 5] |
Caius Lucius |
3458 |
Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day
Was yours by accident; had it gone with us,
We should not, when the blood was cool,
have threaten'd
Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods
Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives
May be call'd ransom, let it come: sufficeth
A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer:
Augustus lives to think on't: and so much
For my peculiar care. This one thing only
I will entreat; my boy, a Briton born,
Let him be ransom'd: never master had
A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,
So tender over his occasions, true,
So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join
With my request, which I make bold your highness
Cannot deny; he hath done no Briton harm,
Though he have served a Roman: save him, sir,
And spare no blood beside.
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