"Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?"
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"But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!"
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"Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers."
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"O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past"
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"For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg."
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"Within the book and volume of thy brain."
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"A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony."
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"Gold were as good as twenty orators."
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"Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy."
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"If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not"
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"Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead."
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"'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous."
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"There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger."
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"There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December."
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"The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase."
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"you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now seems best."
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"Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths."
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"Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?"
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"Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten."
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"Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared."
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