"... my strength, my valour ..." ~ HenryVI Pt1 (A1,S5).

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“Where be your powers?” ~ King John (A5,S7).

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"If music be the food of love, play on..."

Twelfth Night

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Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough
Cleopatra's health to drink.
- Antony and Cleopatra 1.2

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"Do you not know I am a woman? When I think I must speak."
As You Like It, Act III, Sc II 🐈‍⬛📘🤎

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‘A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.’

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"Come not between the dragon and his wrath ...."

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O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention..

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"Come we burn daylight" ~ Romeo and Juliet (A1,A4).

0 13

"Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel." ~ Sonnet 1.

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“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

4 12

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. – As You Like It A2,S1

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"..a pale clear-shining sky.."
Henry V1 Pt3

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What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
MND Act III Scene 1.
🎨Walter Stanley Paget.

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“You are but newly planted in your throne” ~ Titus Andronicus (A1,S1).

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“For thou has lost thy princely privilege with vile participation." ~ Henry IV Pt I  3.2
“Beauty’s princely majesty is such, confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough." ~ Henry V1 Pt 1  5.3

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“She had all the royal makings of a Queen” ~ Henry VIII (A4,S1).

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O, that estates, degrees and offices
Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer.
(The Merchant of Venice))

0 2

“Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp?”
As You Like It, Act II, Sc 1

Image: John Leigh Pemberton

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