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Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Orsino |
20 |
Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.
[Enter VALENTINE]
How now! what news from her?
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2 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 1] |
Valentine |
28 |
So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.
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3 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Viola |
50 |
And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 2] |
Captain |
77 |
And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then 'twas fresh in murmur,—as, you know,
What great ones do the less will prattle of,—
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
174 |
An you part so, mistress, I would I might never
draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have
fools in hand?
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
200 |
What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had
bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in
fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but
followed the arts!
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Sir Toby Belch |
241 |
What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 4] |
Viola |
270 |
Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 4] |
Viola |
289 |
I'll do my best
To woo your lady:
[Aside]
yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
323 |
Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
[Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO]
God bless thee, lady!
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
331 |
Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
351 |
Can you do it?
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Malvolio |
364 |
Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:
infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the
better fool.
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14 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
380 |
Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste
with a distempered appetite. To be generous,
guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those
things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do
nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet
man, though he do nothing but reprove.
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15 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
480 |
If I do not usurp myself, I am.
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Viola |
481 |
Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp
yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours
to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will
on with my speech in your praise, and then show you
the heart of my message.
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17 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
568 |
You might do much.
What is your parentage?
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18 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
583 |
'What is your parentage?'
'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,
Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:
soft, soft!
Unless the master were the man. How now!
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
With an invisible and subtle stealth
To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.
What ho, Malvolio!
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19 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
606 |
I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe;
What is decreed must be, and be this so.
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
651 |
The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there.
But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
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