"That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
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"The eagle suffers little birds to sing."
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"Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum."
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"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."
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"Few things loves better Than to abhor himself."
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"The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice."
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"Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object."
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"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven."
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"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent."
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"My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy."
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"We will have rings and things and fine array"
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"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor."
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"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
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"Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin."
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"I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities."
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"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."
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"I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist."
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"What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended."
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"For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em."
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"Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone."
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