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"Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us."
"But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them."
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
"What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts."
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"
"His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse."
"The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease."
"There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered."
"So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity."
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
"O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!"
"Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind."
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
"Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe."
"Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!"
"Sweets to the sweet."
"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
"Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence."
"There's small choice in rotten apples."
"There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples."