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We will unite the white rose and the red	Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, That long have frown'd upon their enmity! What traitor hears me, and says not amen? England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,
Clown	I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land! but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point.
VIRGILIA	Indeed, madam?
Nurse	God ye good morrow, gentlemen.
LEONTES	Satisfy! The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy! Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo, With all the nearest things to my heart, as well My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been Deceived in thy integrity, deceived In that which seems so.
GRUMIO	Thou hast faced many things.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE	Good aunt, stand up.
Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit	Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, Digressing from the valour of a man; Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish; Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, Misshapen in the conduct of them both, Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask, Is set afire by thine own ignorance, And thou dismember'd with thine own defence. What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead; There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,
DUKE OF AUMERLE	Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air, After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects	O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!
GONZALO	Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you: so you may continue and laugh at nothing still.
O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth	'Tis but his policy to counterfeit, Because he would avoid such bitter taunts Which in the time of death he gave our father.
ISABELLA	Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls
ROMEO	Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
KING RICHARD III	I will not sup to-night. Give me some ink and paper. What, is my beaver easier than it was? And all my armour laid into my tent?
Never was seen so black a day as this	O woful day, O woful day!
By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd	Where every horse bears his commanding rein, And may direct his course as please himself, As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent, In my opinion, ought to be prevented.
When as the enemy hath been ten to one	Why should I not now have the like success? 3 KING HENRY VI
First Servingman	Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
SICINIUS	Nay. but his taunts.
Was it more precious to me than 'tis now	Think you, but that I know our state secure, I would be so triumphant as I am?
LUCIO	But speedily.
Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel	Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doting like me and like me banished, Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
The other down, unseen and full of water	That bucket down and full of tears am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
With too much riches it confound itself	Had he done so to great and growing men, They might have lived to bear and he to taste Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches
ANGELO	Hark, how the villain would close now, after his treasonable abuses!
KING RICHARD III	Catesby!
Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep	I'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
GLOUCESTER	Well guess'd, believe me; for that was my meaning.
JULIET	Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
DORSET	It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.
CLARENCE	A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
HENRY BOLINGBROKE	Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.
POMPEY	If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a commission for more heads: if this law hold in Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this come to pass, say Pompey told you so.
GREMIO	Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
CURTIS	Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?
Provost	His name is Barnardine.
KING RICHARD II	I have been studying how I may compare
NORTHUMBERLAND	Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power, Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent, Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud, Can set the duke up in despite of me.
QUEEN ELIZABETH	And wilt thou learn of me?
Your brother and his lover have embraced	As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.
And many more of noble fame and worth	And towards London they do bend their course, If by the way they be not fought withal.
MARCIUS	How far off lie these armies?
MENENIUS	Be gone; Put not your worthy rage into your tongue; One time will owe another.
O, yes, my lord, but very idle words	For though you lay here in this goodly chamber, Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door; And rail upon the hostess of the house; And say you would present her at the leet,
HASTINGS	I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced. But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?
BIONDELLO	Nay, by Saint Jamy, I hold you a penny, A horse and a man Is more than one, And yet not many.
QUEEN ELIZABETH	Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.
That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief	The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath	What further woe conspires against mine age?
CATESBY	My lord?
BENVOLIO	In love?
Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair	In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd, Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,
Boatswain	Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to sea again; lay her off.
To visit him to-morrow or next day	He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation; And no worldly suit would he be moved, To draw him from his holy exercise.
PRINCE EDWARD	And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.
GLOUCESTER	Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?
ANGELO	Well; come to me to-morrow.
BRUTUS	Caius Marcius was A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent, O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking, Self-loving,--
NORTHUMBERLAND	Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains, Of capital treason we arrest you here. My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge To keep him safely till his day of trial. May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.
GLOUCESTER	She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
KATHARINA	What, in the midst of the street?
KING RICHARD II	We will descend and fold him in our arms. Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right, So be thy fortune in this royal fight! Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed, Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
KING EDWARD IV	Why, Clarence, to myself.
GLOUCESTER	Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother;
QUEEN	This way the king will come; this is the way To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower, To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
YORK	So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty; So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.
That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her	If she be curst, it is for policy, For she's not froward, but modest as the dove; She is not hot, but temperate as the morn; For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
A thousand hearts are great within my bosom	Advance our standards, set upon our foes Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! Upon them! victory sits on our helms.
With promise of high pay and great rewards	But all in vain; they had no heart to fight, And we in them no hope to win the day; So that we fled; the king unto the queen; Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,
Clown	Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't like you, sir?
PETRUCHIO	Well, I say no: and therefore for assurance Let's each one send unto his wife; And he whose wife is most obedient To come at first when he doth send for her, Shall win the wager which we will propose.
SLY	Are you my wife and will not call me husband? My men should call me 'lord:' I am your goodman.
PAULINA	It is required You do awake your faith. Then all stand still; On: those that think it is unlawful business I am about, let them depart.
CAMILLO	Unbuckle, unbuckle. Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face, Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken The truth of your own seeming; that you may-- For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard Get undescried.
Nurse	My fan, Peter.
FRIAR LAURENCE	Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
AUFIDIUS	If I fly, Marcius, Holloa me like a hare.
LADY ANNE	And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused; For doing worthy vengeance on thyself, Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
Second Murderer	Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.
YORK	I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.
VOLUMNIA	I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said My praises made thee first a soldier, so, To have my praise for this, perform a part Thou hast not done before.
PERDITA	Happy be you! All that you speak shows fair.
DUCHESS OF YORK	At that sad stop, my lord, Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.
MENENIUS	For corn at their own rates; whereof, they say, The city is well stored.
I may entitle thee my loving father	The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman, Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not, Nor be grieved: she is of good esteem, Her dowery wealthy, and of worthy birth; Beside, so qualified as may beseem The spouse of any noble gentleman. Let me embrace with old Vincentio, And wander we to see thy honest son, Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man	No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
ANTIGONUS	If it be so,
Clown	Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners. Come, strike up!
This is good news	I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians, A city full; of tribunes, such as you,
The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone	A merrier day did never yet greet Rome, No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins.
KING EDWARD IV	Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.
CLARENCE	By heaven, I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore. Heard ye not what an humble suppliant Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?
First Lord	The higher powers forbid!
ELBOW	Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.
FLORIZEL	Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence, A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd, To execute the charge my father gave me For visiting your highness: my best train I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd; Who for Bohemia bend, to signify Not only my success in Libya, sir, But my arrival and my wife's in safety Here where we are.
But in the presence of the prioress	Then, if you speak, you must not show your face, Or, if you show your face, you must not speak. He calls again; I pray you, answer him.
YORK	Then is he more beholding to you than I.
SAMPSON	Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
MIRANDA	Certainly, sir, I can.

We will unite the white rose and the red

Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, That long have frown'd upon their enmity! What traitor hears me, and says not amen? England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,

Clown

I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land! but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point.

VIRGILIA

Indeed, madam?

Nurse

God ye good morrow, gentlemen.

LEONTES

Satisfy! The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy! Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo, With all the nearest things to my heart, as well My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been Deceived in thy integrity, deceived In that which seems so.

GRUMIO

Thou hast faced many things.

HENRY BOLINGBROKE

Good aunt, stand up.

Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit

Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, Digressing from the valour of a man; Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish; Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, Misshapen in the conduct of them both, Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask, Is set afire by thine own ignorance, And thou dismember'd with thine own defence. What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead; There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,

DUKE OF AUMERLE

Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air, After your late tossing on the breaking seas?

Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects

O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!

GONZALO

Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you: so you may continue and laugh at nothing still.

O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth

'Tis but his policy to counterfeit, Because he would avoid such bitter taunts Which in the time of death he gave our father.

ISABELLA

Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls

ROMEO

Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.

KING RICHARD III

I will not sup to-night. Give me some ink and paper. What, is my beaver easier than it was? And all my armour laid into my tent?

Never was seen so black a day as this

O woful day, O woful day!

By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd

Where every horse bears his commanding rein, And may direct his course as please himself, As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent, In my opinion, ought to be prevented.

When as the enemy hath been ten to one

Why should I not now have the like success? 3 KING HENRY VI

First Servingman

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.

SICINIUS

Nay. but his taunts.

Was it more precious to me than 'tis now

Think you, but that I know our state secure, I would be so triumphant as I am?

LUCIO

But speedily.

Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel

Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doting like me and like me banished, Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave.

The other down, unseen and full of water

That bucket down and full of tears am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.

With too much riches it confound itself

Had he done so to great and growing men, They might have lived to bear and he to taste Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches

ANGELO

Hark, how the villain would close now, after his treasonable abuses!

KING RICHARD III

Catesby!

Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep

I'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.

GLOUCESTER

Well guess'd, believe me; for that was my meaning.

JULIET

Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?

DORSET

It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.

CLARENCE

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud

HENRY BOLINGBROKE

Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.

POMPEY

If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a commission for more heads: if this law hold in Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this come to pass, say Pompey told you so.

GREMIO

Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.

CURTIS

Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?

Provost

His name is Barnardine.

KING RICHARD II

I have been studying how I may compare

NORTHUMBERLAND

Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power, Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent, Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud, Can set the duke up in despite of me.

QUEEN ELIZABETH

And wilt thou learn of me?

Your brother and his lover have embraced

As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.

And many more of noble fame and worth

And towards London they do bend their course, If by the way they be not fought withal.

MARCIUS

How far off lie these armies?

MENENIUS

Be gone; Put not your worthy rage into your tongue; One time will owe another.

O, yes, my lord, but very idle words

For though you lay here in this goodly chamber, Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door; And rail upon the hostess of the house; And say you would present her at the leet,

HASTINGS

I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced. But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?

BIONDELLO

Nay, by Saint Jamy, I hold you a penny, A horse and a man Is more than one, And yet not many.

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.

That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief

The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.

Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath

What further woe conspires against mine age?

CATESBY

My lord?

BENVOLIO

In love?

Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair

In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd, Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,

Boatswain

Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to sea again; lay her off.

To visit him to-morrow or next day

He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation; And no worldly suit would he be moved, To draw him from his holy exercise.

PRINCE EDWARD

And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.

GLOUCESTER

Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?

ANGELO

Well; come to me to-morrow.

BRUTUS

Caius Marcius was A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent, O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking, Self-loving,--

NORTHUMBERLAND

Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains, Of capital treason we arrest you here. My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge To keep him safely till his day of trial. May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.

GLOUCESTER

She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?

KATHARINA

What, in the midst of the street?

KING RICHARD II

We will descend and fold him in our arms. Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right, So be thy fortune in this royal fight! Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed, Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.

KING EDWARD IV

Why, Clarence, to myself.

GLOUCESTER

Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother;

QUEEN

This way the king will come; this is the way To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower, To whose flint bosom my condemned lord

YORK

So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty; So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.

That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her

If she be curst, it is for policy, For she's not froward, but modest as the dove; She is not hot, but temperate as the morn; For patience she will prove a second Grissel,

A thousand hearts are great within my bosom

Advance our standards, set upon our foes Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! Upon them! victory sits on our helms.

With promise of high pay and great rewards

But all in vain; they had no heart to fight, And we in them no hope to win the day; So that we fled; the king unto the queen; Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,

Clown

Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't like you, sir?

PETRUCHIO

Well, I say no: and therefore for assurance Let's each one send unto his wife; And he whose wife is most obedient To come at first when he doth send for her, Shall win the wager which we will propose.

SLY

Are you my wife and will not call me husband? My men should call me 'lord:' I am your goodman.

PAULINA

It is required You do awake your faith. Then all stand still; On: those that think it is unlawful business I am about, let them depart.

CAMILLO

Unbuckle, unbuckle. Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face, Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken The truth of your own seeming; that you may-- For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard Get undescried.

Nurse

My fan, Peter.

FRIAR LAURENCE

Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

AUFIDIUS

If I fly, Marcius, Holloa me like a hare.

LADY ANNE

And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused; For doing worthy vengeance on thyself, Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.

Second Murderer

Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.

YORK

I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.

VOLUMNIA

I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said My praises made thee first a soldier, so, To have my praise for this, perform a part Thou hast not done before.

PERDITA

Happy be you! All that you speak shows fair.

DUCHESS OF YORK

At that sad stop, my lord, Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.

MENENIUS

For corn at their own rates; whereof, they say, The city is well stored.

I may entitle thee my loving father

The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman, Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not, Nor be grieved: she is of good esteem, Her dowery wealthy, and of worthy birth; Beside, so qualified as may beseem The spouse of any noble gentleman. Let me embrace with old Vincentio, And wander we to see thy honest son, Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.

Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

ANTIGONUS

If it be so,

Clown

Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners. Come, strike up!

This is good news

I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians, A city full; of tribunes, such as you,

The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone

A merrier day did never yet greet Rome, No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins.

KING EDWARD IV

Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.

CLARENCE

By heaven, I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore. Heard ye not what an humble suppliant Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?

First Lord

The higher powers forbid!

ELBOW

Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.

FLORIZEL

Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence, A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd, To execute the charge my father gave me For visiting your highness: my best train I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd; Who for Bohemia bend, to signify Not only my success in Libya, sir, But my arrival and my wife's in safety Here where we are.

But in the presence of the prioress

Then, if you speak, you must not show your face, Or, if you show your face, you must not speak. He calls again; I pray you, answer him.

YORK

Then is he more beholding to you than I.

SAMPSON

Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

MIRANDA

Certainly, sir, I can.