Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety

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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I; or so can any man:
But will they come when you do call for them?
Henry IV part 1, Act 3 Scene 1
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were In It, Frederic Leighton, 1891-92.

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“He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;”

—Hamlet (A4S5)

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“The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime...” Sonnet 97

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... the fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
Yea, his dread trident shake

The Tempest (1, 2)


William Bradford

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Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come
Can yet the lease of my true love control
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured.

S107✨

↓ James Hamilton

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Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love..

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Up and down, up and down,
I will lead them up and down:
I am fear’d in field and town.
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act III Scene 2.
Art Christian Birmingham.

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Since today is and here's Blake's portrayal of and the of his father.

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"These violent delights have violent ends". Sonnet, acrylic on canvas, 60x80cm

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"Something wicked this way comes"
Second Witch
William Shakespeare's Macbeth



Witches Round the Cauldron
Daniel Gardner, 1775
National Portrait Gallery, London

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Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th' rooky wood.
Macbeth
Sarah Yeoman

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“On the bat’s back do I fly..” Ariel, The Tempest, Act 5:Sc 1
Louis Rhead, early C20th, Edmund Dulac, 1908, Paul Woodroffe, 1908,
HC Selous, c.1890

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'Procession of Characters from Shakespeare's Plays' by an unknown 19th-century artist

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🌷"O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away."

🌷The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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