| Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
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| THE MONOLOGUES | |
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| All's Well That Ends Well: | |
| Helena: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| I think not on my father. What was he like? . . . . . . . . . . . | 31 |
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| Parolles: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Are you meditating on virginity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 33 |
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| Helena: Act 1, Scene 3, | |
| I confess, Here on my knee, before high heaven and you . . . . . . | 35 |
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| Helena: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| 'Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.' . . . . . . . . . | 37 |
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| Parolles:Act 4 Scene 1, | |
| Ten o'clock. Within these three hours 'twill be time enough to go home. | 39 |
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| Diana: Act 4 Scene 2, | |
| Ay, so you serve us till we serve you; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 41 |
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| Parolles: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. . . . . . . . . . . | 43 |
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| As You Like It: | |
| Duke Senior: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 45 |
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| Orlando: Act 2 Scene 7, | |
| Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you-- . . . . . . . . . . . | 47 |
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| Rosalind: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| Love is merely a madness, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 49 |
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| Phebe: Act 3 Scene 5, | |
| I would not be thy executioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 51 |
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| Rosalind: Act 3 Scene 5 | |
| And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother, . . . . . . . . . . | 53 |
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| Touchstone: Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| Then learn this of me: to have, is to have! . . . . . . . . . . . | 55 |
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| Cymbeline: | |
| Imogen: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| 'Dearest of creatures, take notice that I am in Cambria, . . . . . | 57 |
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| Hamlet: | |
| Bernardo/Marcellus/Horation: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| It was about to speak, when the cock crew . . . . . . . . . . . . | 59 |
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| Horation: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Two nights together had these gentlemen, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 61 |
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| Ophelia: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 63 |
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| Hamlet: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| At supper. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten . . . . . . . | 65 |
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| Gentleman: Act 4 Scene 5, | |
| She is importunate, indeed distract; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 67 |
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| Gertrude: Act 4 Scene 7, | |
| One woe doth tread upon another's heel, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 69 |
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| Hamlet: Act 5 Scene 2, | |
| Give me your pardon, sir, I have done you wrong; . . . . . . . . . | 71 |
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| Henry IV, Part 1: | |
| Prince: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| I know you all, and will a while uphold . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 73 |
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| Hotspur: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| My liege, I did deny no prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 75 |
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| Hotspur: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| I'll keep them all! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 77 |
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| Lady Percy: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| O my good lord, why are you thus alone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 79 |
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| Prince: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| God forgive them that so much have swayed . . . . . . . . . . . . | 81 |
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| Henry IV, Part 2: | |
| Lady Percy: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| Oh, yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars! . . . . . . . . . . | 83 |
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| Henry VI, Part 1: | |
| Third Messenger: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| My gracious lords, to add to your laments, . . . . . . . . . . . . | 85 |
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| Joan la Pucelle: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| I am by birth a shepherd's daughter, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 87 |
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| Henry VI, Part 2: | |
| York: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Anjou and Maine are given to the French; . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 89 |
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| Queen: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| Not all these lords do vex me half so much . . . . . . . . . . . . | 91 |
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| Queen: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Can you not see? Or will ye not observe . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 93 |
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| York: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts, . . . . . . . . . | 95 |
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| Warwick: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| See how the blood is settled in his face . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 97 |
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| Cade: Act 4 Scene 2, | |
| We, John Cade, so termed of our supposed father-- . . . . . . . . | 99 |
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| York: Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| How now! Is Somerset at liberty? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 101 |
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| Julius Caesar: | |
| Marullus: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? . . . . . . . . . | 103 |
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| Cassius: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| I cannot tell what you and other men think . . . . . . . . . . . . | 105 |
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| Brutus: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, . . . . . . . . . . | 107 |
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| Caesar: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Let me have men about me that are fat, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 109 |
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| Casca: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Why, there was a crown offered him; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 111 |
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| Casca: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth . . . . . . . . . . | 113 |
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| Brutus: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| It must be by his death; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 115 |
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| Portia: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Y'have ungently, Brutus, Stole from my bed . . . . . . . . . . . . | 117 |
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| Portia: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Brutus is wise and, were he not in health, . . . . . . . . . . . . | 119 |
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| Calpurnia: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth? . . . . . . . . . | 121 |
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| Servant: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel; . . . . . . . . . . . . | 123 |
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| Antony: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 125 |
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| King John: | |
| Bastard: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, . . . . . . | 127 |
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| Constance: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Gone to be married! Gone to swear a peace! . . . . . . . . . . . . | 129 |
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| Blanche: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| The sun's o'ercast with blood. Fair day, adieu! . . . . . . . . . | 131 |
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| Constance: Act 3 Scene 4, | |
| O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! . . . . . . . . . . | 133 |
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| Arthur: Act 4 Scene 1, | |
| Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes? . . . . . . . . . | 135 |
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| King John: Act 4 Scene 2, | |
| It is the curse of kings to be attended . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 137 |
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| Bastard: Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| But wherefore do you droop? Why look you sad? . . . . . . . . . . | 139 |
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| Lewis: Act 5 Scene 2, | |
| Your grace shall pardon me; I will not back . . . . . . . . . . . | 141 |
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| King Lear: | |
| Cordelia: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Nothing, my lord, Nothing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 143 |
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| France: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; . . . . . . . . | 145 |
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| Edmond: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Thou, Nature, art my goddess-- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 147 |
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| Goneril: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| By day and night, he wrongs me! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 149 |
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| Albany: Act 4 Scene 2, | |
| O Goneril, you are not worth the dust which the rude wind . . . . | 151 |
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| Cordelia: Act 4 Scene 7, | |
| 0 my dear father! Restoration hang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 153 |
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| Edmond: Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| To both these sisters have I sworn my love; . . . . . . . . . . . | 155 |
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| Love's Labour's Lost: | |
| Berowne: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| I can but say their protestation over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 157 |
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| Berowne: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| Have at you then, affection's men-at-arms! . . . . . . . . . . . . | 159 |
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| Macbeth: | |
| Captain: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers, . . . . . . . . . . . . | 161 |
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| Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| Two truths are told, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 163 |
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| Lady Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 5, | |
| The raven himself is hoarse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 165 |
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| Lady Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 7, | |
| What beast was't then . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 167 |
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| Lady Macbeth: Act 1 Scene 7, | |
| We fail?--But screw your courage to the sticking place, . . . . . | 169 |
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| Macbeth: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, . . . . . . . . . | 171 |
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| Macbeth: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 173 |
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| Macbeth: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| We have scorched the snake, not killed it . . . . . . . . . . . . | 175 |
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| Macbeth: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| Ere the bat hath flown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 177 |
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| The Merchant of Venice: | |
| Portia: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, . . . . . . | 179 |
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| Portia: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| I pray you tarry; pause a day or two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 181 |
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| Portia: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, . . . . . . . . . . . . | 183 |
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| Portia: Act 3 Scene 4, | |
| I'll hold thee any wager, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 185 |
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| Portia: Act 4 Scene 1, | |
| A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine, . . . . . . . . . | 187 |
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| Lorenzo: Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| The moon shines bright. In such a night as this, . . . . . . . . . | 189 |
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| Lorenzo:Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this blank! . . . . . . . . . | 191 |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream: | |
| Lysander: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| I am, my lord, as well derived as he, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 193 |
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| Lysander: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 195 |
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| Hermia: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| My good Lysander, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 197 |
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| Helena: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Call you me fair? That "fair" again unsay. . . . . . . . . . . . . | 199 |
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| Helena: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| How happy some o'er other some can be! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 201 |
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| Puck: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| The king doth keep his revels here tonight . . . . . . . . . . . . | 203 |
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| Titania: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| These are the forgeries of jealousy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 205 |
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| Titania: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Set your heart at rest, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 206 |
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| Demetrius: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. . . . . . . . . . . . . | 209 |
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| Puck: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| Through the forest have I gone, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 211 |
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| Helena: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| O, I am out of breath in this fond chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 213 |
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| Lysander:Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| Content with Hermia? No. I do repent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 215 |
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| Helena: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? . . . . . . . . . . . . | 217 |
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| Hermia: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| Help me, Lysander, help me; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 219 |
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| Bottom: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves-- . . . . . . . . . | 221 |
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| Titania: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Out of this wood do not desire to go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 223 |
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| Hermia: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse, . . . . . . . . . . | 225 |
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| Helena: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 227 |
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| Helena: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| Lo, she is one of this confederacy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 229 |
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| Oberon: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight, . . . . . . . . . . | 231 |
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| Demetrius: Act 4 Scene 1, | |
| My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, . . . . . . . . . . | 233 |
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| Much Ado About Nothing: | |
| Don John: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| I wonder that though--being, as thou say'st thou art, . . . . . . | 235 |
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| Beatrice: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! . . . | 237 |
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| Benedick: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| I do much wonder that one man, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 239 |
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| Benedick: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| This can be no trick: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 241 |
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| Hero: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Nature never framed a woman's heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 243 |
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| Beatrice: Act 4 Scene 1 | |
| You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy . . | 245 |
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| Othello: | |
| Iago: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| 'Tis the curse of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 247 |
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| Desdemona: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| Most gracious Duke, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 249 |
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| Cassio: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 251 |
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| Desdemona: Act 3 Scene 3, | |
| Good my lord, if I have any grace or power to move you, . . . . . | 253 |
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| Othello: Act 3 Scene 3, | |
| Ha! ha! false to me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 254 |
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| Desdemona: Act 4 Scene 2, | |
| Alas, Iago, What shall I do to win my lord again? . . . . . . . . | 257 |
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| Emilia: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| I do think it is their husbands' faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 259 |
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| Richard II: | |
| Mowbray: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot . . . . . . . . . . . | 261 |
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| Richard: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| For God's sake let us sit upon the ground, . . . . . . . . . . . . | 263 |
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| Richard: Act 3 Scene 3, | |
| What must the king do now? Must he submit? . . . . . . . . . . . . | 265 |
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| Richard: Act 5 Scene 1, | |
| Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 267 |
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| York: Act 5 Scene 2, | |
| As in a theatre the eyes of men, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 269 |
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| Richard III: | |
| Anne: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| Set down, set down your honorable load-- . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 271 |
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| Richard: Act 1 Scene 3, | |
| They do me wrong, and I will not endure it! . . . . . . . . . . . | 273 |
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| Clarence: Act 1 Scene 4, | |
| O, I have passed a miserable night, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 275 |
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| Second Murderer: Act 1 Scene 4, | |
| I'll not meddle with it; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 277 |
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| Richard:Act 4 Scene 4, | |
| Look, what is done cannot be now amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 279 |
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| Richmond: Act 5 Scene 3, | |
| More than I have said, loving countrymen, . . . . . . . . . . . . | 281 |
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| Romeo and Juliet: | |
| Chorus: Prologue, | |
| Two households, both alike in dignity, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 283 |
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| Romeo: Act 1 Scene 5, | |
| What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand . . . . . . . . . . . | 285 |
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| Romeo: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? . . . . . . . . | 287 |
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| Juliet: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? . . . . . . . . . . . . | 289 |
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| Friar: Act 2 Scene 3, | |
| O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies . . . . . . . . . . . . | 291 |
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| Juliet:Act 2 Scene 5, | |
| The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; . . . . . . . . . | 293 |
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| Mercutio: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Thou art like one of these fellows that, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 295 |
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| Romeo: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| This gentleman, the Prince's near ally, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 297 |
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| Benvolio Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay . . . . . . . . . . | 299 |
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| Juliet: Act 3 Scene 2, | |
| O, what a beast was I to chide at him! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 301 |
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| Romeo: Act 3 Scene 3, | |
| Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'; . . . . . . . . . . . . | 303 |
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| Juliet: Act 4 Scene 1, | |
| Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this, . . . . . . . . . . | 305 |
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| The Taming of the Shrew: | |
| Lucentio: Act 1 Scene 1, | |
| Tranio, since for the great desire I had . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 307 |
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| Petruchio: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench! . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 309 |
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| Petruchio: Act 4 Scene 1, | |
| Thus have I politicly begun my reign, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 311 |
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| Kate: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| The more my wrong, the more his spite appears . . . . . . . . . . | 313 |
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| The Tempest: | |
| Ariel: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 315 |
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| Ferdinand: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| Admired Miranda! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 317 |
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| Miranda: Act 3 Scene 1, | |
| I do not know one of my sex; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 319 |
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| Twelfth Night: | |
| Viola: Act 2 Scene 2, | |
| I left no ring with her. What means this lady? . . . . . . . . . . | 321 |
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| Sebastian: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| This is the air; that is the glorious sun; . . . . . . . . . . . . | 323 |
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| The Two Gentlemen of Verona: | |
| Julia: Act 1 Scene 2, | |
| And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter . . . . . . . . . . . | 325 |
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| Speed: Act 2 Scene 1, | |
| Marry, by these special marks: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 327 |
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| Valentine: Act 2 Scene 4, | |
| I have done penance for contemning Love, . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 329 |
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| Proteus:Act 2 Scene 4, | |
| Even as one heat another heat expels, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 331 |
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| Julia: Act 2 Scene 7, | |
| Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me; . . . . . . . . . . . . | 333 |
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| Silvia: Act 4 Scene 3, | |
| O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman-- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 335 |
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| Silvia: Act 5 Scene 4, | |
| By thy approach thou mak'st me most unhappy . . . . . . . . . . . | 337 |
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| The Two Noble Kinsmen: | |
| Jailer's Daughter: Act 2 Scene 4, | |
| Why should I love this gentleman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 339 |