"Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon."
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"It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell."
"A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour."
"Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!"
"There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."
"Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me."
"And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused."
"Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter."
"A flock of blessings light upon thy back"
"My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love."
"Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision."
"Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men."
"Well, honor is the subject of my story."
"He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
"Despair and die. The ghosts"
"Greatness knows itself."
"in black ink my love may still shine bright."
"No profit grows where no pleasure is taken."
"[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain."
"And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears."