Speeches (Lines) for Simonides
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Are the knights ready to begin the triumph? |
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Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,
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It's fit it should be so; for princes are
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Who is the first that doth prefer himself? |
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He loves you well that holds his life of you.
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And what's the third? |
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What is the fourth? |
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Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,
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And what's
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A pretty moral;
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Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
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Knights,
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Call it by what you will, the day is yours;
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Your presence glads our days: honour we love;
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Sit, sir, sit. |
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He's but a country gentleman;
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What, are you merry, knights? |
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Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,—
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Yet pause awhile:
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O, attend, my daughter:
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How!
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And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,
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Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,
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O, that's as much as you would be denied
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Princes, it is too late to talk of love;
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Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,
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'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied
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So,
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To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you
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Sir, you are music's master. |
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Let me ask you one thing:
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And she is fair too, is she not? |
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Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;
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She thinks not so; peruse this writing else. |
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Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art
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Traitor, thou liest. |
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Ay, traitor. |
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[Aside] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage. |
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No?
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Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?
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What, are you both agreed? |
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It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;
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