Speeches (Lines) for Ferdinand
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
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Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these. |
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Why, that to know, which else we should not know. |
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Ay, that is study's godlike recompense. |
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These be the stops that hinder study quite
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How well he's read, to reason against reading! |
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Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,
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Well, sit you out: go home, Biron: adieu. |
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How well this yielding rescues thee from shame! |
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What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot. |
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We must of force dispense with this decree;
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Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted
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A letter from the magnificent Armado. |
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Will you hear this letter with attention? |
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[Reads] 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and
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[Reads] 'So it is,'— |
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Peace! |
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No words! |
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[Reads] 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured
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[Reads] 'that unlettered small-knowing soul,'— |
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[Reads] 'that shallow vassal,'— |
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[Reads] 'which, as I remember, hight Costard,'— |
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[Reads] 'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy
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[Reads] 'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a
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[Reads] 'For Jaquenetta,—so is the weaker vessel
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Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say
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Did you hear the proclamation? |
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It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be taken
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Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.' |
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It is so varied, too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin.' |
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This maid will not serve your turn, sir. |
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Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast
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And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
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Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre. |
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You shall be welcome, madam, to my court. |
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Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath. |
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Not for the world, fair madam, by my will. |
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Your ladyship is ignorant what it is. |
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Madam, I will, if suddenly I may. |
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Madam, your father here doth intimate
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I do protest I never heard of it;
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Satisfy me so. |
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It shall suffice me: at which interview
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Thy own wish wish I thee in every place! |
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Ay me! |
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[Reads]
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In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame! |
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And I mine too, good Lord! |
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[Advancing] Come, sir, you blush; as his your case is such;
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Too bitter is thy jest.
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Soft! whither away so fast?
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What present hast thou there? |
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What makes treason here? |
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If it mar nothing neither,
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Biron, read it over.
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Where hadst thou it? |
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How now! what is in you? why dost thou tear it? |
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What? |
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Hence, sirs; away! |
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What, did these rent lines show some love of thine? |
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What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?
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By heaven, thy love is black as ebony. |
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O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
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And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack. |
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'Twere good, yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,
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No devil will fright thee then so much as she. |
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But what of this? are we not all in love? |
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Then leave this chat; and, good Biron, now prove
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Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field! |
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And win them too: therefore let us devise
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Away, away! no time shall be omitted
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Say to her, we have measured many miles
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Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!
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Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.
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Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged? |
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Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.
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But your legs should do it. |
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Why take we hands, then? |
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More measure of this measure; be not nice. |
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Prize you yourselves: what buys your company? |
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That can never be. |
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If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat. |
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I am best pleased with that. |
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Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits. |
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Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess? |
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That she vouchsafe me audience for one word. |
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A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,
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All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! |
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Construe my speeches better, if you may. |
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We came to visit you, and purpose now
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Rebuke me not for that which you provoke:
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O, you have lived in desolation here,
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How, madam! Russians! |
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We are descried; they'll mock us now downright. |
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Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression
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Madam, I was. |
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I was, fair madam. |
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That more than all the world I did respect her. |
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Upon mine honour, no. |
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Despise me, when I break this oath of mine. |
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What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,
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My faith and this the princess I did give:
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Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach. |
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I say they shall not come. |
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Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He
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You are deceived; 'tis not so. |
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The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain. |
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Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this. |
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I think Hector was not so clean-timbered. |
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How fares your majesty? |
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Madam, not so; I do beseech you, stay. |
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The extreme parts of time extremely forms
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Now, at the latest minute of the hour,
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If this, or more than this, I would deny,
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No, madam; we will bring you on your way. |
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Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
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Call them forth quickly; we will do so. |