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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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2 |
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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3 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
169 |
By my troth, I would not undertake her in this
company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
172 |
An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst
never draw sword again.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
174 |
An you part so, mistress, I would I might never
draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have
fools in hand?
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
200 |
What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had
bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in
fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but
followed the arts!
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
205 |
Why, would that have mended my hair?
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
230 |
Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to
take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost
thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in
a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not
so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What
dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?
I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy
leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 4] |
Viola |
289 |
I'll do my best
To woo your lady:
[Aside]
yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
317 |
Apt, in good faith; very apt. Well, go thy way; if
Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a
piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Malvolio |
448 |
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for
a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a
cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him
in standing water, between boy and man. He is very
well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one
would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
464 |
Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,—I
pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,
for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away
my speech, for besides that it is excellently well
penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good
beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very
comptible, even to the least sinister usage.
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
503 |
Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?
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14 |
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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15 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
554 |
If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suffering, such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense;
I would not understand it.
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
558 |
Why, what would you?
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17 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
597 |
Run after that same peevish messenger,
The county's man: he left this ring behind him,
Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.
Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him:
If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,
I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio.
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18 |
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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19 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
651 |
The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there.
But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Feste |
735 |
Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?
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