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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Parolles |
153 |
Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it
likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't
while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.
Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just
like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not
now. Your date is better in your pie and your
porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,
your old virginity, is like one of our French
withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,
'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;
marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?
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2 |
Henry IV, Part II
[V, 1] |
Robert Shallow |
3140 |
By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.
What, Davy, I say!
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3 |
Henry VIII
[I, 1] |
Duke of Buckingham |
94 |
The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger. What had he
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
That such a keech can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun
And keep it from the earth.
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4 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1] |
Page |
282 |
By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.
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5 |
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.
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6 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3] |
Petruchio |
2045 |
Why, thou say'st true; it is a paltry cap,
A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie;
I love thee well in that thou lik'st it not.
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7 |
Titus Andronicus
[V, 3] |
Titus Andronicus |
2594 |
Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.
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8 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 2] |
Cressida |
405 |
Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date
in the pie, for then the man's date's out.
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