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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Countess |
45 |
'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;
go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect
a sorrow than have it.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Lord |
2121 |
That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see
his company anatomized, that he might take a measure
of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had
set this counterfeit.
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3 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Alexas |
166 |
Here, at your service. My lord approaches.
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4 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 3] |
Antony |
347 |
Hear me, queen:
The strong necessity of time commands
Our services awhile; but my full heart
Remains in use with you. Our Italy
Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius
Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:
Equality of two domestic powers
Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,
Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,
Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,
Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;
And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
By any desperate change: my more particular,
And that which most with you should safe my going,
Is Fulvia's death.
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5 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 11] |
Eros |
2160 |
Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:
Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but
Your comfort makes the rescue.
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6 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Volumnia |
1017 |
Honourable Menenius, my boy CORIOLANUS approaches; for
the love of Juno, let's go.
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7 |
Coriolanus
[V, 6] |
Tullus Aufidius |
3904 |
He approaches: you shall hear him.
[Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and]
colours; commoners being with him]
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8 |
Hamlet
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1 |
Enter two Sentinels-[first,] Francisco, [who paces up and down at his post; then] Bernardo, [who approaches him].
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9 |
Henry V
[II, 4] |
King of France |
897 |
Thus comes the English with full power upon us;
And more than carefully it us concerns
To answer royally in our defences.
Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,
Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,
And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
To line and new repair our towns of war
With men of courage and with means defendant;
For England his approaches makes as fierce
As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
It fits us then to be as provident
As fear may teach us out of late examples
Left by the fatal and neglected English
Upon our fields.
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10 |
Henry VIII
[V, 3] |
(stage directions) |
3065 |
[CRANMER enters and approaches the council-table]
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11 |
Macbeth
[III, 3] |
First Murderer |
1239 |
Then stand with us.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
The subject of our watch.
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12 |
Macbeth
[V, 4] |
Siward |
2345 |
The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:
Towards which advance the war.
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 1] |
Vincentio |
1856 |
Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
The vaporous night approaches.
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14 |
Timon of Athens
[V, 1] |
First Senator |
2441 |
Therefore, so please thee to return with us
And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take
The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
Allow'd with absolute power and thy good name
Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back
Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,
Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up
His country's peace.
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Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Malvolio |
1086 |
Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make
out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind
up watch, or play with my—some rich jewel. Toby
approaches; courtesies there to me,—
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