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Delivers in such apt and gracious words
That aged ears play truant at his tales
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Act iii. Sc. 1.

By my penny of observation.

The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that 's flat.

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beadle to a humorous sigh.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.

Dictynna, goodman Dull.

Act iv. Sc. 2.

Ibid.

These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

It adds a precious seeing to the eye.

As sweet and musical

Ibid.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

Ibid.

As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

ibid.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.

Ibid.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than

the staple of his argument.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.

Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve.

Ibid.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Ibid.

In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.

They have measured many a mile,

Ibid.

To tread a measure with you on this grass. Act v. Sc. 2. Let me take you a button-hole lower.

Ibid.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.

Ibid.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.

Ibid.

When daisies pied and violets blue,

And lady-smocks all silver-white,

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight.

Bat earthlier happy is the rose distilled,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

Ibid.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

For aught that I could ever read,2

Could ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Ibid.

1 'earthly happier,' Singer, Staunton, Knight.

2 'ever I could read,' Dyce, Knight, Singer, White.

O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!"
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:

So quick bright things come to confusion.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Masters, spread yourselves.

This is Ercles' vein.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Act i. Sc. 2.

Ibid.

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale.

Ibid.

A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. lbid.

The human mortals.

The rude sea grew civil at her song,

Act ii. Sc. 1.1

And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.

Ibid.1

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Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:

It fell upon a little western flower,

Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Ibid.1

I'll put a girdle round about the earth

In forty minutes.

Ibid.1

1 Act ii. Sc. 2, Singer, Knight.

My heart

Is true as steel. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.1

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

Ibid.1

Act iii. Sc. 1.

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. Ibid. So we grew together,

Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,

But yet an union in partition.

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Ibid.

I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

The lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Act v. Sc. 1.

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name

Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

1 Act ii. Sc. 2, Singer, Knight.

Ibid.

The true beginning of our end.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

The best in this kind are but shadows.

Ibid.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

Ibid.

Now, by two-headed Janus,

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.

You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care.

Ibid.

Ibid.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.

Ibid.

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

Ibid.

There are a sort of men whose visages

Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

Ibid.

I am Sir Oracle,

And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

Ibid.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,

I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight

The selfsame way, with more advised watch,

To find the other forth; and by adventuring both,

I oft found both.

Ibid.

Ibid.

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