Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE]
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Longaville. Costard the swain and he shall be our sport;
(stage directions). [Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD] |
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Ferdinand. And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
(stage directions). [Exeunt FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN] |
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Costard. I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was
(stage directions). [Exeunt] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH] |
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Moth. Forbear till this company be past. (stage directions). [Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA] |
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Dull. Come, Jaquenetta, away! (stage directions). [Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA] |
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Costard. Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.
(stage directions). [Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. I do affect the very ground, which is base, where
(stage directions). [Exit] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA,]
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First Lord. Here comes Boyet. (stage directions). [Re-enter BOYET] |
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Ferdinand. Thy own wish wish I thee in every place! (stage directions). [Exit] |
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Biron. I cannot stay thanksgiving. (stage directions). [Retiring] |
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Dumain. A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well. (stage directions). [Exit] |
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Boyet. Not unlike, sir, that may be. (stage directions). [Exit LONGAVILLE] |
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Boyet. Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you. (stage directions). [Exit BIRON] |
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Boyet. So you grant pasture for me. (stage directions). [Offering to kiss her] |
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Boyet. You are too hard for me. (stage directions). [Exeunt] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH] |
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Moth. Concolinel. (stage directions). [Singing] |
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Moth. Thump then and I flee. (stage directions). [Exit] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
(stage directions). [Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,
(stage directions). [Exit] |
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Costard. My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!
(stage directions). [Enter BIRON] |
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Biron. It must be done this afternoon.
(stage directions). [Giving him a shilling] |
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Costard. Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,
(stage directions). [Exit] |
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Biron. And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;
(stage directions). [Exit] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester,]
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Boyet. Here comes a member of the commonwealth. (stage directions). [Enter COSTARD] |
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Princess of France. We will read it, I swear.
(stage directions). [Reads] |
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Princess of France. Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.
(stage directions). [Exeunt PRINCESS and train] |
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Boyet. An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
(stage directions). [Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE] |
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Boyet. I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl. (stage directions). [Exeunt BOYET and MARIA] |
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Costard. By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!
(stage directions). [Shout within] |
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(stage directions). [Shout within] (stage directions). [Exit COSTARD, running] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL] |
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Holofernes. Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall
(stage directions). [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD] |
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Costard. Have with thee, my girl. (stage directions). [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA] |
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Holofernes. And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.
(stage directions). [Exeunt] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter BIRON, with a paper] |
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Biron. The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing
(stage directions). [Stands aside] |
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(stage directions). [Stands aside] (stage directions). [Enter FERDINAND, with a paper] |
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Biron. Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear! (stage directions). [Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper] |
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Longaville. By whom shall I send this?—Company! stay. (stage directions). [Steps aside] |
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Biron. I post from love: good lover, let me go. (stage directions). [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD] |
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Costard. Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio. (stage directions). [BIRON tears the letter] |
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Dumain. It is Biron's writing, and here is his name. (stage directions). [Gathering up the pieces] |
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Costard. Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay. (stage directions). [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA] |
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Biron. Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;
(stage directions). [Exeunt] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL] |
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Sir Nathaniel. A most singular and choice epithet. (stage directions). [Draws out his table-book] |
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Holofernes. Video, et gaudeo. (stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. Chirrah! (stage directions). [To MOTH] |
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Holofernes. Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away! (stage directions). [Exeunt] |
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(beginning of scene) (stage directions). [Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA] |
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Princess of France. Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face. (stage directions). [Enter BOYET] |
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Princess of France. Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt
(stage directions). [Trumpets sound within] |
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Biron. Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue! (stage directions). [Exit MOTH] |
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Ferdinand. I am best pleased with that. (stage directions). [They converse apart] |
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Biron. Therefore meet. (stage directions). [They converse apart] |
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Dumain. Please it you,
(stage directions). [They converse apart] |
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Katharine. Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry. (stage directions). [They converse apart] |
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Boyet. I will; and so will she, I know, my lord. (stage directions). [Exit] |
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Costard. We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take
(stage directions). [Exit] |
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Biron. A right description of our sport, my lord. (stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal
(stage directions). [Converses apart with FERDINAND, and delivers him a paper] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for,
(stage directions). [Exit] |
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Ferdinand. The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain. (stage directions). [Enter COSTARD, for Pompey] |
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Biron. My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy. (stage directions). [Enter SIR NATHANIEL, for Alexander] |
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Costard. [To SIR NATHANIEL] O, sir, you have overthrown
(stage directions). [Enter HOLOFERNES, for Judas; and MOTH, for Hercules] |
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Boyet. A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble. (stage directions). [HOLOFERNES retires] |
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Princess of France. Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited! (stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, for Hector] |
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Boyet. True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of
(stage directions). [Enter MERCADE] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
(stage directions). [Exeunt Worthies] |
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Biron. That's too long for a play. (stage directions). [Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO] |
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Don Adriano de Armado. The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of
(stage directions). [Exeunt] |
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