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Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Orsino |
2 |
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.
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Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Orsino |
20 |
Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.
[Enter VALENTINE]
How now! what news from her?
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3 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Orsino |
37 |
O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd
Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Viola |
54 |
O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Viola |
89 |
O that I served that lady
And might not be delivered to the world,
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is!
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
190 |
O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I
see thee so put down?
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
200 |
What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had
bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in
fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but
followed the arts!
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 4] |
Orsino |
271 |
O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
517 |
O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
532 |
O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give
out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be
inventoried, and every particle and utensil
labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,
indifferent red; item, two grey eyes, with lids to
them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were
you sent hither to praise me?
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
539 |
I see you what you are, you are too proud;
But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
My lord and master loves you: O, such love
Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd
The nonpareil of beauty!
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
559 |
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me!
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 1] |
Sebastian |
641 |
O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
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14 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 2] |
Viola |
674 |
I left no ring with her: what means this lady?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me; indeed, so much,
That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger.
None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.
I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,
Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper-false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!
For such as we are made of, such we be.
How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
What will become of this? As I am man,
My state is desperate for my master's love;
As I am woman,—now alas the day!—
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time! thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie!
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15 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Feste |
738 |
[Sings]
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
785 |
[Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of December,'—
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17 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Feste |
813 |
'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'
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18 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
840 |
O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!
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19 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
869 |
O, 'twill be admirable!
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 4] |
Orsino |
936 |
O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.
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