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Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Viola |
65 |
For saying so, there's gold:
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
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2 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Captain |
69 |
Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.
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3 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Captain |
77 |
And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then 'twas fresh in murmur,—as, you know,
What great ones do the less will prattle of,—
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Captain |
83 |
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight of men.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Viola |
96 |
There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:
Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:
It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing
And speak to him in many sorts of music
That will allow me very worth his service.
What else may hap to time I will commit;
Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
138 |
Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the
viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages
word for word without book, and hath all the good
gifts of nature.
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Maria |
142 |
He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that
he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that
he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he
hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent
he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
150 |
With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to
her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn
o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!
Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
206 |
Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 4] |
Orsino |
277 |
Dear lad, believe it;
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man: Diana's lip
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman's part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. Some four or five attend him;
All, if you will; for I myself am best
When least in company. Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Maria |
296 |
Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will
not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in
way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence.
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Maria |
309 |
Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or,
to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
311 |
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and,
for turning away, let summer bear it out.
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14 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
323 |
Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
[Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO]
God bless thee, lady!
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15 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
334 |
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if
he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
that's mended is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
354 |
I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse
of virtue, answer me.
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17 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
356 |
Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.
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18 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
358 |
Good fool, for my brother's death.
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19 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
361 |
The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's
soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
367 |
God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the
better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be
sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his
word for two pence that you are no fool.
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