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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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2 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Valentine |
28 |
So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.
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3 |
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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4 |
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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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
392 |
From the Count Orsino, is it?
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
396 |
Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but
madman: fie on him!
[Exit MARIA]
Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I
am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it.
[Exit MALVOLIO]
Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and
people dislike it.
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
481 |
Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp
yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours
to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will
on with my speech in your praise, and then show you
the heart of my message.
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
504 |
The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I
learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I
would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears,
divinity, to any other's, profanation.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
519 |
Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate
with my face? You are now out of your text: but
we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't
not well done?
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 1] |
Sebastian |
619 |
No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere
extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a
touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me
what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges
me in manners the rather to express myself. You
must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,
which I called Roderigo. My father was that
Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard
of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both
born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,
would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;
for some hour before you took me from the breach of
the sea was my sister drowned.
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
863 |
He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,
that they come from my niece, and that she's in
love with him.
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Malvolio |
1075 |
Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet
gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have left
Olivia sleeping,—
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Fabian |
1091 |
Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.
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14 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 5] |
Fabian |
1206 |
I will not give my part of this sport for a pension
of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.
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15 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 1] |
Olivia |
1342 |
O, by your leave, I pray you,
I bade you never speak again of him:
But, would you undertake another suit,
I had rather hear you to solicit that
Than music from the spheres.
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 1] |
Olivia |
1384 |
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon.
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,
But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
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17 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 2] |
Fabian |
1420 |
She did show favour to the youth in your sight only
to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to
put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver.
You should then have accosted her; and with some
excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should
have banged the youth into dumbness. This was
looked for at your hand, and this was balked: the
double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash
off, and you are now sailed into the north of my
lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle
on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by
some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.
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18 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 2] |
Fabian |
1458 |
We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll
not deliver't?
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19 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 3] |
Antonio |
1520 |
The offence is not of such a bloody nature;
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
Might well have given us bloody argument.
It might have since been answer'd in repaying
What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,
Most of our city did: only myself stood out;
For which, if I be lapsed in this place,
I shall pay dear.
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[III, 4] |
Fabian |
1696 |
A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law.
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