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By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

      — King Richard III, Act V Scene 3

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1

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Abraham

57

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

2

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Sampson

58

I do bite my thumb, sir.

3

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Abraham

59

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

4

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Sampson

63

No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.

5

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Gregory

65

Do you quarrel, sir?

6

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Abraham

66

Quarrel sir! no, sir.

7

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Sampson

67

If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.

8

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Sampson

69

Well, sir.

9

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Sampson

71

Yes, better, sir.

10

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Servant

332

God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?

11

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 4]

Mercutio

541

I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.

12

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5]

Second Capulet

658

'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;
His son is thirty.

13

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 5]

Servant

665

I know not, sir.

14

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Mercutio

1209

The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

15

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Nurse

1280

if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with
you.

16

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Mercutio

1285

No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,
that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.
[Sings]
An old hare hoar,
And an old hare hoar,
Is very good meat in lent
But a hare that is hoar
Is too much for a score,
When it hoars ere it be spent.
Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll
to dinner, thither.

17

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Nurse

1301

Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy
merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?

18

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Nurse

1316

Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about
me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:
and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you
out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:
but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into
a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman
is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double
with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered
to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.

19

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Nurse

1331

I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as
I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.

20

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Nurse

1337

No truly sir; not a penny.

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