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Being William Shakespeare
What’s gone and what’s past help
Should be past grief.
The winter’s tale, III ii
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Macbeth, IV i
Be bloody, bold, and resolute…
Be lion-mettled, proud.
Macbeth, IV i [the witches’ advice to Macbeth]
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
Macbeth, IV iii
To thine own self be true.
Hamlet, I iii
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet, II ii
The rest is silence.
Hamlet, V ii
There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
Hamlet, V ii [cf, ‘Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father’, Matthew 10:29]
Touch her soft lips and part.
Henry V, II iii [some texts have ‘mouth’]
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
King Lear, I v
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Cymbeline, IV iii
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
The tempest, I ii
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
The tempest, III ii
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The tempest, IV i
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun.
Cymbeline, IV ii
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Twelfth night, II iii
A lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing.
A midsummer night’s dream, III i
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A midsummer night’s dream, III ii
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see.
Sonnet 43 [wink = sleep, as in ‘forty winks’]
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action…
Sonnet 129
selection copyright © 2016 Jeremy Marchant . uploaded 30 april 2016
