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Most admired disorder.

Now spurs the lated traveller apace,
Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. To gain the timely inn.

Macbeth, act iii. sc. 3.

Most lame and impotent conclusion,

Othello, act ii. sc. 1.
Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors.
Othello, act i. sc. 3.
Motley's the only wear.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.
Moving accidents by flood and field.

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My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.

My cake is dough.

Othello, act i. sc. 3.

Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 1.

My friends were poor but honest.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 5.
O thou invisible spirit of mine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Othello, act ii. sc. 3.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the
Devil.
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act iii. sc. 1.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3. Oftentimes, excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
King John, act iv. sc. 2.
Oh, Hamlet, what a falling off was there.
Old father antic, the law.
One fell swoop.

All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3.
My library was dukedom large enough.
My man's as true as steel.*

Tempest, act i. sc. 2.
Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4.
My poverty but not my will consents.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 5.
Henry IV., pt. i. act i. sc. 2.
Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3.
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2.
One, that loved not wisely, but too well.

Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. 1.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 3.
Never shake thy gory locks at me.
Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4.
Othello's occupation's gone.
No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act ii. sc. 4. Out-herods Herod.
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough.

Othello, act v. sc. 2.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3.

Othello, act iii. sc. 3.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.

Pale its ineffectual fire.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 5.

Tempest, act iv. sc. 1.
K. Henry VIII., act ii. sc. 3.

Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 1.
No, 'tis slander,
Our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Whose edge is sharper than a sword.
Cymbeline, act iii. sc. 4. Perked up in a glistering grief.
All's Well that Ends Well, act v. sc. 3.
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
Romeo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 2.

Noiseless foot of time.

Piping time of peace.

Richard III., act i. sc. 1.

Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Plain as the way to parish church.

Rome more.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.

Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 2. Plenty as blackberries.

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K. Henry IV., pt. i. act ii. sc. 4.

Othello, act ii. sc. 3.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. Potations pottle deep.
set down aught in
Praising what is lost
Othello, act v. sc. 2. Makes the remembrance dear.
All's Well that ends Well, act v. sc. 3.
Present fears

Nothing in his life
Became him, like the leaving it.
Macbeth, act i. sc. 4. Are less than horrible imaginings.

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CHAUCER, Troilus and Creseide, bk. v. Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon.
SHAKSPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, act iii.sc. 2.

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Richard's himself again.*
Richard III., act v. sc. 3.
Round belly with good capon lined.

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As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. Suit the action to the word.
Saint-seducing gold.
Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1. Supp'd full with horrors.
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.
Sat, like patience on a monument.
Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4.
Screw your courage to the sticking place.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.
Macbeth, act v. sc. 5.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
K. Henry VI., pt. iii. act v. sc. 6.
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens !

Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.
Seeking the bubble reputation,
E'en at the cannon's mouth.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.

Sermons in stones.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Sweets to the sweet.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 2.
Sweet mercy's nobility's true badge.
Titus Andronicus, act i. sc. 2.
Hamlet, act v. sc. 1.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1.
That in the captain's but a choleric word.
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Hamlet, act v. sc. 1.
Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2,
That keep the word of promise to the ear,
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act iii. sc. 3. And break it to the hope.

Set the table on a roar.

She never told her love.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 7.

Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4. That never set a squadron in the field.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;
She's a woman, and therefore to be won.
K. Henry VI., pt. i. act v. sc. 3.
Shut up

In measureless content.

Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1.
Skyey influences.
Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1.
Sleep in dull, cold marble.

K. Henry VIII., act iii. sc. 2.
Small have continual plodders ever won.

Love's Labor's Lost, act i. sc. 1.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
K. Henry VI., pt. ii. act iii. sc. 1.

So are they all, all honorable men.

Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 2.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 4.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.

Othello, act i. sc. 1.

That within which passeth show.
The air, a charter'd libertine.
The baseless fabric of this vision.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.
K. Henry IV., act i. sc. 1.
The Tempest, act iv. sc. 1.
The better part of valour is-discretion.
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act v. sc. 4.
Othello, act i. sc. 1.
The course of true love never did run smooth.*
Midsummer Night's Dream, act i. sc. 1.
The cry is still," They come."

The bookish theorick.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 5.
The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 2.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.
Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1.
The glass of fashion, the mould of form,
Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. Th' observed of all observers.

Macbeth, act iv. sc. 4.

Stands Scotland where it did?

Merry Wives, act i. sc. 1. The green-eyed monster.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.

Star chamber matter.
Othello, act iii. sc. 3.
Started like a guilty thing.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1.
Stony limits cannot hold love out.
Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2. The labor we delight in physics pain.

Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.
The law's delay, the insolence of office.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.

*This occurs in a speech of Gloucester's inter-
polated in Shakespeare's Richard III. by Colley The Lady doth protest too much methinks.
Cibber, and is to be found in Bell's edition of
Shakespeare's plays as performed at Drury Lane
Theatre. The speech concludes thus:
Perish that thought! no, never be it said
That fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.
Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten me in

vain,

Conscience avaunt! Richard's himself again.

True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on
ground.

SPENSER, The Faery Queen, bk. i. canto 9.

The lunatic, the lover and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact.

Midsummer Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1.

The milk of human kindness.

Thereby hangs a tale.

As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.
Taming of the Shrew, act iv. sc. 1.
There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
Antony and Cleopatra, act i. sc. 1.
They fool me to the top of my bent.
Julius Cæsar, act iv. sc. 2. They laugh that win,

The most unkindest cut of all.

Macbeth, act i. sc. 5.

The pelting of this pitiless storm.

King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. Thick coming fancies.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.

Midsummer Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1.
The rankest compound of villainous smell that
ever offended nostril.

Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 5.

The retort courteous
tial and the lie direct.

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Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.

Othello, act iv. sc. 1.
Macbeth, act v. sc. 3.

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This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
K. John, act v. sc. 7.
Merry Wives of Windsor, act ii. sc. 2.
This is the very ecstasy of love.

Lie circumstan- This is the short and the long of it.

As You Like It, act v. sc. 4.

The ripest fruit first falls.

K. Richard II., act ii. sc. 1.

The sear, the yellow leaf.
The short and long of it.

Thou hast damnable iteration.

Hamlet, act iì. sc. 1.

K. Henry IV., pt. i. act i. sc. 2.
Though this be madness, yet there's method in't.
Hamlet, act iì. sc. 2.
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just.
K. Henry VI., pt. ii. act iii. sc. 2.

Macbeth, act v. sc. 3.
Merry Wives, act ii. sc. 2.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
K. Henry VI., pt. iii. act ii. sc. 2. Throw physie to the dogs!
The time is out of joint.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 5.
The thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns.

Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1.

The very head and front of my offending.

Othello, act i. sc. 3.
The very pink of courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4.
The very witching time of night.
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.
The vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife.
Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

The weakest goes to the wall.

Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1.
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.

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Othello, act i. sc. ii. To be once in doubt,

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn.

All's Well that Ends Well, act iv. sc. 3.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees.
Is left this vault to brag of.
Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1.
There are more things in heav'n and earth,
Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet, act i. sc. 5.
There is a tide in the affairs of man.
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,
Julius Cæsar, act iv. sc. 3.

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Is once to be resolved.

Othello, act iii. sc. 3.

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E però fare della necessitade

Virtù, quando bisogna, è sapientia,

E il contrario è chiara vanitate.

To maken vertue of necessité.

CHAUCER, Knightes Tale-Canterbury Tales.

To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

To the manner born.

Othello, act ii. sc. 1.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 4.

Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks.
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1.
Too early seen unknown, and known too late.
Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 5.

Trifles light as air.
Triton of the minnows.

Othello, act iii. sc. 3.
Coriolanus, act iii. sc. 1.
Two lovely berries molded on one stem.

What a hell of witchcraft lies,
In the small orb of one particular tear.
A Lover's Complaint, st. xlii.
What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee
twice?
The Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1.
What's in a name?

Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2.
What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
Measure for Measure, act v. sc. 1.

When King Cophetua lov'd the beggar maid.
Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 1.
When shall we three meet again.

Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii. sc. 2.
Under which king, Bezonian? speak. or die.
K. Henry IV., pt. ii. act v. sc. 3.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
K. Henry IV., pt. ii. act iii. sc. 1. Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
Use every man after his desert, and who should
'scape whipping?

Macbeth, act i. sc. 1.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.*

Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.

Tempest, act v. sc. 1.
Where merchants most do congregate.
Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3.

Othello, act iii. sc. 3.
Whose words all ears took captive.

All's Well, act v. sc. 3.
Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4.

Windy side of the law.

Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2.
Vasty deep.
K. Henry IV., pt. i. act iii. sc. 1. Who steals my purse, steals trash.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.
Very like a whale.

Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. Why, this is very Midsummer madness.

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Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4.
As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7.
With all appliances and means to boot.
K. Henry IV., pt. ii. act iii. sc. 1.
With all my imperfections on my head.

Wise saws and modern instances.

Woman's reason.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 5.

Two Gentlemen, act i. sc. 2.

Timon of Athens, act iv. sc. 2.
We know what we are, but know not what we You are my true and honorable wife.
may be.

Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.
We've scotched the snake, not killed it.
Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2.
Weariness

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth.
Finds the down pillow hard.

Cymbeline, act iii. sc. 6.
We have scotched the snake, not killed it.
Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2.
Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out
sighing.
Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3.
Weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 2.

Julius Cæsar, act ii. sc. 1.
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office.

K. Henry IV., pt. ii. act i. sc. 1.
Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue
in If.
As You Like It, act v. sc. 4.

* One woe doth tread upon another's heel-
So fast they follow.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, act iv. sc. 7.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
HERRICK, Hesperides—Sorrows Succeed.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
YOUNG, Night Thoughts.

INDEX TO ALL OF SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS,

WITH THE PLAYS, ACTS AND SCENES IN WHICH THEY APPEAR.

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