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But this denoted a foregone conclusion.

Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,

For 't is of aspics' tongues!

Like to the Pontic sea,

Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic and the Hellespont,

Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge

Swallow them up.

Our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.

To beguile many, and be beguil'd by one.
They laugh that win.1

Ibid.

Ibid.

Sc. 4.

Act iv. Sc. 1.

Ibid.

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

I understand a fury in your words,

But not the words.

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.

But, alas, to make me

A fixed figure for the time of scorn

To point his slow unmoving finger2 at!

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.

O thou weed,

Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet

Ibid.

Sc. 2.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er

been born.

O Heaven, that such companions thou 'ldst unfold,

And put in every honest hand a whip

Ibid.

To lash the rascals naked through the world!

1 CERVANTES: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. i.

2 "His slow and moving finger" in Knight and Staunton.

Ibid.

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Sc. 2.

And smooth as monumental alabaster.

Put out the light, and then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore

Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,

I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.

Ibid.

So sweet was ne'er so fatal.

Ibid.

Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge

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I have done the state some service, and they know 't.

No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,

Ibid

Nor set down aught in malice. Then, must you speak

Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away

Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,

Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees

Their medicinal gum.

I took by the throat the circumcised dog,

And smote him, thus.

Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon❜d.

Ibid.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 1.

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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that

Sc. 2.

The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,

Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made

The water which they beat to follow faster,

As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description.

Ibid.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety.

Ibid.

I have not kept my square; but that to come
Shall all be done by the rule.

Sc. 3

'T was merry when

You wager'd on your angling; when your diver
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he

With fervency drew up.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 5.

Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!

Who does i' the wars more than his captain can
Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition,
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Than gain which darkens him.

He wears the rose

Of youth upon him.

Men's judgments are

A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
Do draw the inward quality after them,
To suffer all alike.

To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to 't with delight.

This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
The shirt of Nessus is upon me.

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish;
A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,

Sc. 7.

Act iii. Sc. 1.

Sc. 13.

Ibid.

Act iv. Sc. 4.

Ibid.

Sc. 12.

A forked mountain, or blue promontory

With trees upon 't.

Sc. 14.

That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,

As water is in water.

Ibid.

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O, wither'd is the garland of the war,

The soldier's pole is fallen.1

Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 15.

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion.

For his bounty,

There was no winter in 't; an autumn 't was
That grew the more by reaping.

If there be, or ever were, one such,

It 's past the size of dreaming.

Mechanic slaves

With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

I have

Immortal longings in me.

Ibid.

Act v. Sc. 2.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Cymbeline. Act i. Sc. 4.

Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.

Hath his bellyful of fighting.

How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Sc. 2.

The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace.

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,

And Phoebus 'gins arise,"

His steeds to water at those springs

On chaliced flowers that lies;

And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes :

With everything that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise.

As chaste as unsunn'd snow.

Some griefs are medicinable.

Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.

1 See Marlowe, page 41.

2 See Lyly, page 32.

Sc. 3.

Ibid.

Sc. 5.

Act ii. Sc. 2.

Sa 3.

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