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Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!

      — Romeo and Juliet, Act III Scene 2

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1

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

331

Speak you this in my praise, master?

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

369

Hercules, master.

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

373

Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great
carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back
like a porter: and he was in love.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

380

A woman, master.

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

392

Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under
such colours.

6

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

398

If she be made of white and red,
Her faults will ne'er be known,
For blushing cheeks by faults are bred
And fears by pale white shown:
Then if she fear, or be to blame,
By this you shall not know,
For still her cheeks possess the same
Which native she doth owe.
A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of
white and red.

7

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

417

[Aside] To be whipped; and yet a better love than
my master.

8

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Costard

457

Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.
It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
words; and therefore I will say nothing: I thank
God I have as little patience as another man; and
therefore I can be quiet.

9

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

771

Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?

10

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

773

No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at
the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour
it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and
sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you
swallowed love with singing love, sometime through
the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling
love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of
your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly
doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in
your pocket like a man after the old painting; and
keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.
These are complements, these are humours; these
betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without
these; and make them men of note—do you note
me?—that most are affected to these.

11

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

793

No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your
love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?

12

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

798

And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.

13

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

819

Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no.

14

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

833

A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin.

15

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1]

Costard

1082

From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,
To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline.

16

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Sir Nathaniel

1149

Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly
varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I
assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.

17

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Sir Nathaniel

1197

Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall
please you to abrogate scurrility.

18

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Jaquenetta

1230

God give you good morrow, master Parson.

19

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Holofernes

1231

Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be
pierced, which is the one?

20

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Costard

1233

Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.

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