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of mine own wit till I break my shins against it.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Under the greenwood tree

Who loves to lie with me.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5.

I met a fool i' the forest,

A motley fool.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

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And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,

In good set terms.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,

And looking on it with lack-lustre eye,

Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:

Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,

And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;

And thereby hangs a tale.[68:1]

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,

That fools should be so deep-contemplative;

And I did laugh sans intermission

An hour by his dial.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Motley 's the only wear.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

If ladies be but young and fair,

They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit

After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd

With observation, the which he vents

In mangled forms.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

I must have liberty

Withal, as large a charter as the wind,

To blow on whom I please.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

The "why" is plain as way to parish church.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Under the shade of melancholy boughs,

Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time;

If ever you have look'd on better days,

If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,

If ever sat at any good man's feast.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

True is it that we have seen better days.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

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And wiped our eyes

Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

All the world 's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.[69:1]

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard;

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

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Blow, blow, thou winter wind!

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

This is the very false gallop of verses.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Let us make an honourable retreat.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

With bag and baggage.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Answer me in one word.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Neither rhyme nor reason.[70:1]

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I would the gods had made thee poetical.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Down on your knees,

And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5.

  It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

I have gained my experience.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

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  I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

As You Like it. Act iv. Sc. 1.

I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

I 'll warrant him heart-whole.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Good orators, when they are out, they will spit.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

  Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?[71:1]

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

For ever and a day.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

  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.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn

Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Chewing the food[71:2] of sweet and bitter fancy.

As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3.

It is meat and drink to me.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.

  "So so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.

  The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.

  No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.

  How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.

  Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.

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An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.

  Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.

  The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.

Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.

Good wine needs no bush.[72:1]

As You Like It. Epilogue.

What a case am I in.

As You Like It. Epilogue.

  Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror.

The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.

Let the world slide.[72:2]

The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.

I 'll not budge an inch.

The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.

As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece,

And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell,

And twenty more such names and men as these

Which never were, nor no man ever saw.

The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 2.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.

There 's small choice in rotten apples.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.

Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.

Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.

And do as adversaries do in law,—

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.[72:3]

The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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And thereby hangs a tale.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.

My cake is dough.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 1.

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,—

Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,

Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.

'T were all one

That I should love a bright particular star,

And think to wed it.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

The hind that would be mated by the lion

Must die for love.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,

Which we ascribe to Heaven.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

Service is no heritage.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.

He must needs go that the devil drives.[73:1]

All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.

My friends were poor but honest.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there

Where most it promises.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.

I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.

All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,

The place

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