"Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—"
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"Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!"
"I can hardly forbear hurling things at him."
"Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold."
"Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here."
"Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe."
"The pleasing punishment that women bear."
"The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love."
"Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?"
"Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire."
"Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession."
"They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame."
"Friendly counsel cuts off many foes."
"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."
"He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get."
"For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas"
"You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!"
"The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?"
"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust."
"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."