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tremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain, to do you service.. Philo. a. 5 s. 1

I love not to see wretched

ness o'er charged, and duty in his service perishing..Hip. a. 5 s. 1

It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. Lys. a. 5 s. 1

Love looks not with the Eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.. Helena a. 8. 1

Lovers, and mad-men have such seething brains such shaping phantasies, that comprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.. The. a. 5 8. 1

Love therefore, and tongue tied simplicity, in least speak most, to my capacity.. The. a. 5 s. 1

My hounds are bred, out of the Spartan kind, so flew'd so sanded and their heads are hung with ears, that sweep away the morning dew &c... The. a. 4 s. 1

My love to Hermia melted as doth the suow, seems to me now as the remembrance of idle gaud, which in my childhood I did doat upon.. Dem.

a.

4 8. 1 Methinke

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things with parted-eye, when every thing seems double.. Hermia. a. 4 8. 1

Merry, and tragical, tedious and brief, that is hot ice aud wondrous strange snow! How shall we find the concord of this discord.. The. a. 5 s. 1

Now they never meet, in grove or green, by fountain clear or spangled star-light sheen but they do square ; that all their elves for fear, creep into acorn cups, and hide them there Puck. a. 2 s. 1

Nature here shows art, that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.. Lysander a. 2 a. 3

Not Hermia, but Helena, do I love, who will not change. a Raven for a Dove.. Lysander a. 2 s. 3

Nights swift dragons, cut the clouds full fast, and yonder shines Aurora's harbinger Puck a. 3 s. 2

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Never so weary, never so in woe, bedabbl'd with dew, and torn with briars, I can no further crawl, no further go, my legs, can keep no pace with my desires.. Her. a. 3 s. 2

Never did I hear, such gallant chiding! for besides

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fountains, every region near, seemed all one mutual cry, I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet Thunder ..Hip. a. 4 s. 1

Oh! that your frowns, would teach my smiles such skill.. Helena a. 1 s. 1

Over hill, over dale

school-days friendship, childhood Innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial God's have with our neelds created both one flower &c... Helena a. 3 s. 2

Oh weary night! oh long and tedious night, abate thy hours, shime comfort from, the East, that I may back to Athens by daylight.. Helen a

me

Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal awhile from mine own company.. Hel. a. 2 3 s.

Through bush, through briar a. 3 s. 2
Over park, over pale
Through flood, through fire
I do wander every where
Swifter than the moon's sphere
And I serve the fairy Queen
To dew her orbs upon the green
The cowslips tall her pension-

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One turf shall serve as pillow for us both, one heart, one bed two bosoms, and one troth.. Lysander a. 2 s. 3

O take the sense sweet of mine innocence love takes the meanings in love's conference, I mean that my heart, unto yours is knit, so that, but one heart we can make of it. Lys. a. 2 s. 3

O, and is all forgot! all

So doth the woodbine, the honeysuckle, gently entwine, the female ivy so enrings the barky fingers of the elm.. Titania a. 4 s. 1

Such tricks hath strong imagination, that if it would but comprehend some joy, it comprehends some bringer of that joy.-Or in the night imagining some fear, how easy is a bush sup posed a bear.. The. a. 5 s. 1

Say, what abridgment have you for this evening?..The. a. 5 s. 1

To you, your father should be as a God, one that composed your beauties; yea, and one to whom you are but

as a form in wax, by him imprinted, and within his power to leave the figure or disfigure it..The. a. 1 s. 1

The course of true love never did run smooth... Lys. a. 1 s. 1

To morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold her silver visage in the watery glass, decking with liquid pearl, the bladed grass . Lys. a. 1 s. 1

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.. Helena a. 1 s. 1

That will ask some tears in the true performing of it, if I do it let the audience look to their eyes.. Bottom a. 1

8. 2

Through this distemperature we see the seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, and on old Hiems' chin and icy crown an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds, is as in mockery set. The spring, the summer, the chiding autumn, the angry winter, change their liveries; and the mazed world, by their increase now knows not which is which.. Titania a. 2 8. 2

Thou rememberest since

once, I sat upon a promontory and heard a mermaid on a Dolphin's back, uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea, grew civil at her song, and certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maids music.. Oberon a. 2 s. 2

Tempt not too much, the hatred of my spirit !..Dem. a. 2 s. 2

The will of man is by his reason swayed, and reason says you are the worthier maid; things growing are not ripe until their season, so I being young, till now, not ripe to reason, and tuching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshall to my will, and leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook love's stories written in love's richest book..Lysander a. 2

8. 3

The sun was not so true unto the day, as he to me; would he have stolen away from sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon, this whole earth may be bor'd, and that the moon may through the centre creep, and so displease her brother's noontide with the Antipodes..Hermia a. 3

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There is no following her in this fierce view, here therefore for a while I will remain, So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow, For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe. Dem, a. 3 s. 2 Then will two at once woo one, That must needs be sport alone And those things do best please

me,

That befal preposterously..
Puck. a. 3 s. 2

To what my love shall I compare thine eyne ? crsytal is muddy.. Dem. a. 3 s. 2

This sport well carried shall be chronicled.. Hel. a. 1 8. 2

Tis partly mine own fault, which death or absence soon shall remedy.. Hel. a. 3 s. 2

Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.. Lys. a. 3 8.2

Thou coward! art thou bragging to the stars? telling to the bushes that thou look'st for wars, and wilt not come.. Puck. a. 3 s. 2

These things seem small and undistinguishable, like far-off mountains turned into clouds.. Dem. a. 4 s. 1

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact, &c., &c. |

The poet's eve in

frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and as imagination bodies forth, the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing, a local habitation and a name.. The. a. 5 8. I

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.. The. a. 5 s. 1

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What tho' I be not so in grace, as you, so hung upon with love, so fortunate, but miserable most to love unlov'd, this you should pity

fine rather than disnise Hel

a. 3 s. 2 What, can you do me greater harm than hate?.. Hermia a. 3 8. 2

We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top, and mark the musical confusion of hounds and echo in conjunction.. Theseus a. 4 8. 1

Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.-It fell upon a little western flower, before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, and maidens call it love in idleness.. Oberon a. 2 s. 2 You drew me you hard

hearted adamant, but yet you drew not Iron, for my heart is true as steel.. Helena a. 2 s. 2

You spend your passion on a misprised mood; I am not guilty of Lysanders blood, nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.. Dem. a. 3 s. 2

You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your service.. Dem. a. 3 s. 2

Your hands than mine, are quicker for a fray, my legs are longer tho' to run away..Hel. a. 3 s. 2

MERCHANT OF VENICE.

And yet, for ought I see they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.. Ner. a. 1 s. 2

Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue, &c., &c.

These foolish drops do somewhat drown my manly spirit. ..Lann. a. 2 s. 3

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.. Gra. a. 2 s. 3

All that glisters is not gold,

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often have you heard that told many a man his life hath sold, but my outside to behold.. Mor. a. 2 s. 7

A day in April never came so sweet, to show how costly summer was at hand, as this fore-spurrer comes before his lord..A Servant a. 2 s, 9

And speaks between the change of man and boy with a reed voice.. Por. a. 3 s. 4

Beshrew me, but I love her

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