Shakespeare - Shakespeare on Love

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Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-122-5 Printed in China Contents Smote By Love Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight. For I nere saw true beauty till this night. Romeo and Juliet The rarest dream that eer dulled sleep.

Pericles O excellent young man! As You Like It O brave new world, That hath such people in t! The Tempest O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious wooing. Pericles My heart itself plays My heart is full. Romeo and Juliet I burn, I pine, I perish, If I achieve not this young modest girl. The Taming of the Shrew I do adore thy sweet graces slipper. Loves Labours Lost O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Romeo and Juliet [I] dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take What I shall die to want.

The Tempest A woman is a dish for the gods if the devil dress her not. Antony and Cleopatra Too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts. The Two Gentlemen of Verona O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here? The Tempest Thy beauty hath made me effeminate. Romeo and Juliet If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! Twelfth Night I have nights cloak to hide me from their eyes, And but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. Romeo and Juliet My affections Are then most humble; I have no ambition To see a goodlier man.

The Tempest I love thee: I have spoke it. Cymbeline O wonderful, wonderful! And most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful! And after that out of all whooping. As You Like It His qualities were beauteous as his form, For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free; Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm As oft twixt May and April is to see, When winds breathe sweet, untidy though they be. His rudeness so with his authorized youth Did livery falseness in a pride of truth. A Lovers Complaint Be but sworn my love And Ill no longer be a Capulet. Romeo and Juliet Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

The Tempest Is it possible That love should of a sudden take such hold? The Taming of the Shrew Celestial as thou art, O! pardon love this wrong, That sings heavens praise with such an earthly tongue. Loves Labours Lost A pack of blessings light upon thy back. Romeo and Juliet How prettily the young swain seems to wash The hand was fair before. The Winters Tale Show pity or I die. The Taming of the Shrew But soft, what light thru yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun! Romeo and Juliet When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed. Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, How would thy shadows form form happy show To the clear day with thy much clearer light, When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so! How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made By looking on thee in the living day, When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay! All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.