CAPTAIN.

.I saw your brother,

Most provident in peril, bind himself
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves,
So long as I could see.

VIOLA.

There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain;
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee

I will believe, thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive,

If

you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.

OLIVIA.

. How does he love me?

VIOLA.

With adorations, with fertile tears,

With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.

DUKE.

If ever thou shalt love,

In the sweet pangs of it remember me.

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....the song we had last night;

Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain :

The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,

And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it.

VIOLA.

She never told her love,

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit.

OLIVIA.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
If one should be a prey, how much the better
To fall before the lion than the wolf?

...by the roses of the spring,

By maidhood, honour, truth, and every thing,
I love thee.

SEBASTIAN.

I can no other answer make, but thanks,

And thanks, and ever thanks. Often good turns

Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.

VIOLA.

I hate ingratitude more in man,

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.

PRIEST.

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands.

SEBASTIAN.

You throw a strange regard upon me, and By that I do perceive it hath offended you.

VIOLA.

And all those sayings will I over-swear;
And all those swearings keep as true in soul,
As doth that orbed continent the fire

That severs day from night.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

BEATRICE.

.he wears his faith but as the fashion

of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.

.I had rather hear a dog bark at a crow,

than a man swear he loves me.

BENEDICK.

⚫prove, that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen, and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.

I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed she would have made Hercules have turned spit; yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.

.I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so

long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? ....Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

HERO.

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
.I never yet saw man,

How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
But she would spell him backward :......
So turns she every man the wrong side out.

LEONATO.

O, she is fallen

Into a pit of ink! that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again.

I pray thee, cease thy counsel,

Which falls into mine ears as profitless

As water in a sieve; give not me counsel;
Nor let no comforter delight mine ear,

But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine :
Bring me a father that so lov'd his child,

Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,

And let him speak of patience.

..there was never yet philosopher