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I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.

      — As You Like It, Act II Scene 7

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1

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1]

King of France

779

Upon thy certainty and confidence
What darest thou venture?

2

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Menas

1454

Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:
Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,
Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.

3

Antony and Cleopatra
[V, 1]

Octavius

3284

Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest
Appear thus to us?

4

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

Antipholus of Syracuse

223

I am not in a sportive humour now:
Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?
We being strangers here, how darest thou trust
So great a charge from thine own custody?

5

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1]

Antipholus of Ephesus

1027

Consent to pay thee that I never had!
Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest.

6

Comedy of Errors
[V, 1]

Antipholus of Syracuse

1453

Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:
I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
Against thee presently, if thou darest stand.

7

Coriolanus
[IV, 5]

Coriolanus

2830

My name is Caius CORIOLANUS, who hath done
To thee particularly and to all the Volsces
Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may
My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,
The extreme dangers and the drops of blood
Shed for my thankless country are requited
But with that surname; a good memory,
And witness of the malice and displeasure
Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains;
The cruelty and envy of the people,
Permitted by our dastard nobles, who
Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest;
And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be
Whoop'd out of Rome. Now this extremity
Hath brought me to thy hearth; not out of hope—
Mistake me not—to save my life, for if
I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world
I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite,
To be full quit of those my banishers,
Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast
A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
Of shame seen through thy country, speed
thee straight,
And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it
That my revengeful services may prove
As benefits to thee, for I will fight
Against my canker'd country with the spleen
Of all the under fiends. But if so be
Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes
Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am
Longer to live most weary, and present
My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice;
Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,
Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,
Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,
And cannot live but to thy shame, unless
It be to do thee service.

8

Henry IV, Part I
[I, 2]

Falstaff

244

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood
royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.

9

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Henry V

1031

Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking
of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant
as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it
a fair pair of heels and run from it?

10

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 3]

Henry V

2153

I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?

11

Henry V
[IV, 1]

Henry V

2055

Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my
bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I
will make it my quarrel.

12

Henry V
[IV, 1]

Williams

2064

Thou darest as well be hanged.

13

Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2]

Joan la Pucelle

269

Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
My wit untrain'd in any kind of art.
Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
To shine on my contemptible estate:
Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,
God's mother deigned to appear to me
And in a vision full of majesty
Will'd me to leave my base vocation
And free my country from calamity:
Her aid she promised and assured success:
In complete glory she reveal'd herself;
And, whereas I was black and swart before,
With those clear rays which she infused on me
That beauty am I bless'd with which you see.
Ask me what question thou canst possible,
And I will answer unpremeditated:
My courage try by combat, if thou darest,
And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
Resolve on this, thou shalt be fortunate,
If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.

14

Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3]

Winchester

399

Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.

15

Henry VI, Part I
[III, 4]

Vernon

1736

Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,
Disgracing of these colours that I wear
In honour of my noble Lord of York:
Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?

16

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Winchester

767

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Marry, when thou darest.

17

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Winchester

771

[Aside to GLOUCESTER] Ay, where thou darest
not peep: an if thou darest,
This evening, on the east side of the grove.

18

Henry VI, Part II
[III, 2]

Earl of Suffolk

1882

I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men;
But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,
That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
That slanders me with murder's crimson badge.
Say, if thou darest, proud Lord of Warwick-shire,
That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death.

19

Henry VI, Part II
[III, 2]

Earl of Suffolk

1913

Thou shall be waking well I shed thy blood,
If from this presence thou darest go with me.

20

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 1]

Earl of Suffolk

2223

Thou darest not, for thy own.

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