"Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure."
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"All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one."
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"As chaste as unsunned snow."
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"Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty."
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"For you and I are past our dancing days."
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"Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."
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"Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . ."
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"I cannot do it without comp[u]ters."
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"Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects."
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"Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own."
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"Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end."
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"The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing."
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"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
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"My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!"
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"So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies."
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"Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!"
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"The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow."
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"If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father."
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"Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded."
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"It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring."
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