"A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost."
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"thou art the best o' the cut-throats"
"Muster your wits; stand in your own defence."
"I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth"
"whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die."
"O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!"
"Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks."
"Men should be what they seem."
"Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!"
"Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!"
"This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."
"Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft."
"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it."
"The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens."
"Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth"
"No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone."
"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."
"Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand."
"The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
"Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!"