A combination and a form indeed,

Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

HAMLET.

Act 3, Sc. 4, l. 55.

Mother, for love of grace,

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

HAMLET.

Act 3, Sc. 4, l. 145.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Oft habits' evil, is angel yet in this,

That to the use of actions fair and good

He likewise gives a frock or livery,

That aptly is put on.

Act 3, Sc. 4, l. 162.

HAMLET.

I must be cruel only to be kind.

Act 3, Sc. 4, l. 179.

HAMLET.

For 't is the sport, to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar.

HAMLET.

Act 3, Sc. 4, 1. 206.

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

Act 4, Sc. 2, 1. 22.

KING.

Diseases desperate grown

By desperate appliance are reliev'd.

HAMLET.

Rightly to be great

Act 4, Sc. 3, l. 9.

Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honour 's at the stake.

Act 4, Sc. 4, l. 54.

KING.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,

That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.

Act 4, Sc. 5, l. 122.

LAERTES.

Nature is fine in love; and, where 't is fine,

It sends some precious instance of itself

After the thing it loves.

OPHELIA.

Act 4, Sc. 5, l. 160.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember; and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

Act 4, Sc. 5, l. 173.

A

KING.

very riband in the cap of youth, Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. Act 4, Sc. 7, l. 76.

KING.

There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it.

'Tis e'en so the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

HAMLET.

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 64.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

HAMLET.

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 125.

The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier,

he galls his kibe.

HAMLET.

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 128.

To what base uses we may return, Horatio.

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 186.

LAERTES.

Lay her i' the earth;

And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!—I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my sister be,

When thou liest howling.

HAMLET.

What is he, whose grief

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 220.

Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them

stand,

Like wonder-wounded hearers?

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 237.

HAMLET.

Why, I will fight with him upon this theme,
Until my eyelids will no longer wag.

HAMLET.

Act 5, Sc. 1, 7. 248.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

HAMLET.

Act 5, Sc. 1, l. 273.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will.

HAMLET.

Act 5, Sc. 2, l. 10.

'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell-incensed points

HAMLET.

There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come, if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come the readiness is all.

Act 5, Sc. 2, l. 201.

OSRICK.

A hit, a very palpable hit.

Act 5, Sc. 2, l. 266.

HORATIO.

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet

prince;

--

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

KING LEAR.

EDMUND.

Act 5, Sc. 2, 1. 340.

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law

My services are bound.

GLOSTER.

Act 1, Sc. 2, l. 1.

This policy, and reverence of age, makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us, till our oldness cannot relish them. Act 1, Sc. 2, 1. 46.

EDMUND.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,

often the

surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the