"...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again."
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"Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that."
"Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?"
"There's a time for all things."
"Corruption wins not more than honesty."
"Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."
"Grief makes one hour ten."
"Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed."
"She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."
"Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe."
"The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature."
"Dirty days hath September April June and November From January up to May The rain it raineth every day All the rest have thirty-one Without a blessed gleam of sun And if any of them had two-and-thirty They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty." "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
"Like madness, is the glory of this life."
"I have not slept one wink."
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."