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As You Like It
[II, 3] |
Adam |
713 |
Master, go on; and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
From seventeen years till now almost four-score
Here lived I, but now live here no more.
At seventeen years many their fortunes seek,
But at fourscore it is too late a week;
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well and not my master's debtor. Exeunt
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2 |
King Lear
[IV, 1] |
Old Man |
2261 |
O my good lord,
I have been your tenant, and your father's tenant,
These fourscore years.
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3 |
King Lear
[IV, 7] |
Lear |
2978 |
Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant
What place this is; and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;
For (as I am a man) I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
639 |
Are you of fourscore pounds a year?
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5 |
Merchant of Venice
[III, 1] |
Tubal |
1341 |
Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
night fourscore ducats.
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6 |
Merchant of Venice
[III, 1] |
Shylock |
1343 |
Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my
gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
fourscore ducats!
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7 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
1246 |
I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never
heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so
wide of his own respect.
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8 |
Timon of Athens
[II, 2] |
Fool |
790 |
A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
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9 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Old Shepherd |
2377 |
I cannot speak, nor think
Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!
You have undone a man of fourscore three,
That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,
To die upon the bed my father died,
To lie close by his honest bones: but now
Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,
That knew'st this was the prince,
and wouldst adventure
To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!
If I might die within this hour, I have lived
To die when I desire.
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