| Speeches (Lines) for Simonides | ||
| # | Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) | Speech text | 
| 1 | Are the knights ready to begin the triumph? | |
| 2 | Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,
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| 3 | It's fit it should be so; for princes are
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| 4 | Who is the first that doth prefer himself? | |
| 5 | He loves you well that holds his life of you.
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| 6 | And what's the third? | |
| 7 | What is the fourth? | |
| 8 | Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,
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| 9 | And what's
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| 10 | A pretty moral;
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| 11 | Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
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| 12 | Knights,
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| 13 | Call it by what you will, the day is yours;
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| 14 | Your presence glads our days: honour we love;
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| 15 | Sit, sir, sit. | |
| 16 | He's but a country gentleman;
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| 17 | What, are you merry, knights? | |
| 18 | Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,—
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| 19 | Yet pause awhile:
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| 20 | O, attend, my daughter:
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| 21 | How!
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| 22 | And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,
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| 23 | Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,
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| 24 | O, that's as much as you would be denied
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| 25 | Princes, it is too late to talk of love;
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| 26 | Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,
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| 27 | 'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied
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| 28 | So,
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| 29 | To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you
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| 30 | Sir, you are music's master. | |
| 31 | Let me ask you one thing:
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| 32 | And she is fair too, is she not? | |
| 33 | Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;
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| 34 | She thinks not so; peruse this writing else. | |
| 35 | Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art
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| 36 | Traitor, thou liest. | |
| 37 | Ay, traitor. | |
| 38 | [Aside] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage. | |
| 39 | No?
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| 40 | Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?
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| 41 | What, are you both agreed? | |
| 42 | It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;
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