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TAND not amaz'd; here is no remedy.

STAND not amaz's themselves do guide

the state;

Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V, Sc. 5.

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TOOING, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace; the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance, and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II, Sc. 1.

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So sways she level in her husband's heart.
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.

The
Ironic
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Before Marriage

Estrangement

Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
Alas, that they are so!

To die, even when they to perfection grow!
Twelfth Night. Act II, Sc. 4.

A YOUNG man married is a man that's

All's Well That Ends Well. Act II, Sc. 3.

You

YOU know the lady; she is part my wife, Save that we do the denunciation lack Of outward order. . . .

But it chances

The stealth of our most mutual entertain

ment

With character too gross is writ on Juliet.—
With child perhaps?-

Unhappily, even so.

Measure for Measure. Act I, Sc. 2.

thou dost break her virgin knot before

If thou dost brious ceremonies may

With full and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew
The union of your beds with weeds so loathly
That you shall hate it both.

Tempest. Act IV, Sc. 1.

of of

WOMEN

HE tongues of mocking wenches are as

keen

As is the razor's edge invisible,

Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,
Above the sense of sense; so sensible
Seemeth their conference; their conceits have
wings

Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought,
swifter things.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act V, Sc. 2.

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Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III, Sc. 1.

Mocking

Whimsical

E that perforce robs lions of their hearts

Subject to

Strength

H May easily win a woman's.

Jewel-
Loving

Intolerable

Vows

King John. Act I, Sc. 1.

HERE is no love-broker in the world can

THERE is evil, in man's commendation

more prevail,

with woman, than the report of valor.

D

Twelfth Night. Act III, Sc. 2.

UMB jewels often in their silent kind More than quick words do move a woman's mind.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III, Sc. 1.

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WOMAN mov'd is like a fountain
troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
The Taming of the Shrew. Act V, Sc. 2.

THE ESCAPE

WS are but breath, and breath a vapour is.

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Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV, Sc. 3.

WH

HAT fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV, Sc. 3.

UNHEEDFUL

NHEEDFUL vows may heedfully be
broken;

And he wants wit that wants resolved will
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II, Sc. 6.

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YOUTH AND POETRY

'ROM women's eyes this doctrine I de

FRrive:

They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world,
Else none at all in aught proves excellent.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV, Sc. 3.

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OR when would you, my liege, or you, or
you,

In leaden contemplation have found out
Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV, Sc. 3.

The

World's
Wisdom

Selfjustification

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Eyes

Inspiration

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