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FIRST PART OF

King Benry the Sirth.

A

As plays the sun upon the glassy streams, twinkling another counterfeited beam, so seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.-SUF. Act V., Scene 3.

B

Beauty's princely majesty is such, confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough.-SUF. V., 3.

C

Civil dissention is a viperous worm, that gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.-K. HEN. III., 1.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, for things that are not to be remedied.—Puc. III., 3.

D

Defer no time, Delays have dangerous end.-Alen. III., 2.

F

Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears, to

give their censure of these rare reports.-COUNT. II., 3.

G

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.-Puc. I., 2.

I

I will not answer thee with words, but blows.-GLO. I., 3.

I see, report is fabulous and false.—COUNT. II., 3.

I find thou art no less than fame have bruited, and more than may be gather'd by the shape.-COUNT. II., 3.

I have been a truant in the law; and never yet could frame my will to it; and, therefore, frame the law unto my will.-SUF. II., 4.

In these nice sharp quillets of the law, good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.-WAR. II., 4.

K

Kings, and mightiest potentates must die; for that's the end of human misery.-TAL. III., 2.

M

Marriage is a matter of more worth, than to be dealt in by attorneyship.-SUF. V., 5.

0

One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.-CHAR. III., 3.

One drop of blood, drawn from thy country's bosom, should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore. -Puc. III., 3.

O, too much folly is it, well I wot, to hazard all our lives in one small boat.-TAL. IV., 6.

Of all base passions, fear is most accurs'd.-Puc. V., 2.

S

See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.MAY. I., 3.

T

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.—Tal. I., 4.

Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, that one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the next.-CHAR. I., 6.

The truth appears so naked on my side, that any purblind eye may find it out.-PLAN. II., 4.

These eyes,-like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, —wax dim, as drawing to an exigent.-MOR. II., 5.

Thou dost then wrong me; as the slaughterer doth, which giveth many wounds, when one will kill.-MOR.

II., 5.

'Tis much, when scepters are in children's hands: but more, when envy breeds unkind division; there comes the ruin, there begins the confusion.—EXE. IV., 1.

That which we have fled during the life, let us not wrong it dead.-CHAR. IV., , 7.

To be a queen in bondage, is more vile, than is a slave in base servility.-MAR. V., 3.

U

Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.-BED. II., 2.

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W

When a world of men could not prevail with all their oratory, yet hath a woman's kindness over-rul'd.—TAL. II., 2.

Who should study to prefer a peace, if holy churchmen take delight in broils ?-K. HEN. III., 1.

What madness rules in brain-sick men; when, for so slight and frivolous a cause, such factious emulations shall arise!-K. HEN. IV., 1.

What is wedlock forced, but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss, and is a pattern of celestial peace.-SUF. V., 5.

SECOND PART OF

King Benry the Sixth.

A

A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.-GLO. Act III., Scene 1.

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.-GLO. III., 1.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible!-K. HEN. III., 3.

A suble traitor needs no sophister.-Q. MAR. V., 1.

B

Being a woman, I will not be slack to play my part in fortune's pageant.-DUCH. I., 2.

D

Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob bee-hives.SUF. IV., 1.

F

Faster than spring-time showers, comes thought on thought; and not a thought, but thinks on dignity.YORK, III., 1.

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