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BRUTUS	How! I inform them!
LEONTES	Why, what need we Commune with you of this, but rather follow Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves We need no more of your advice: the matter, The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all Properly ours.
First Soldier	See, they have shut him in.
DUKE OF AUMERLE	Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay For nothing but his majesty's approach.
Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me	Antonio, my father, is deceased; And I have thrust myself into this maze,
GRUMIO	Welcome, you;--how now, you;-- what, you;--fellow, you;--and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?
KING LEWIS XI	Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience, Is Edward your true king? for I were loath To link with him that were not lawful chosen.
JULIET	Madam, I am here. What is your will?
LORD STANLEY	Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.
Messenger	And then he sends you word
POMPEY	He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle.
Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all	I have a thousand spirits in one breast, To answer twenty thousand such as you.
BAPTISTA	I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.
That hath authority over him that swears	Henry had none, but did usurp the place; Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose, Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest Until the white rose that I wear be dyed Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart.
KING HENRY VI	And long live thou and these thy forward sons!
LUCIO	Judge.
GONZALO	Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--
QUEEN MARGARET	Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.
But if you have a stomach, to't i' God's name	You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo this wild-cat?
Clown	What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?
First Servingman	He had so; looking as it were--would I were hanged, but I thought there was more in him than I could think.
Yes, brother, you may live	There is a devilish mercy in the judge, If you'll implore it, that will free your life, But fetter you till death.
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets	Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!
CORIOLANUS	I' the city of kites and crows.
ANGELO	'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. I not deny, The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice, That justice seizes: what know the laws That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant, The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't Because we see it; but what we do not see We tread upon, and never think of it. You may not so extenuate his offence For I have had such faults; but rather tell me, When I, that censure him, do so offend, Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.
Thanks, brave Montgomery; and thanks unto you all	If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness. Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York; And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon, We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates; For well I wot that Henry is no soldier. Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother! Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick. Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day, And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay. 3 KING HENRY VI
LEONTES	Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this. My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence And see it instantly consumed with fire;
COMINIUS	Who's yonder, That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods He has the stamp of Marcius; and I have Before-time seen him thus.
ESCALUS	I guess not.
THOMAS MOWBRAY	O, let my sovereign turn away his face And bid his ears a little while be deaf, Till I have told this slander of his blood, How God and good men hate so foul a liar.
CAPULET	Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,
ROMEO	How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
WARWICK	What good is this to England and himself!
Apothecary	Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off; and, if you had the strength Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
First Lady	Why, my sweet lord?
To this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife	Dine with my father, drink a health to me; For I must hence; and farewell to you all.
PETRUCHIO	Katharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
HASTINGS	Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow. How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?
KATHARINA	And I am mean indeed, respecting you.
KING RICHARD III	Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--
LADY GREY	Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.
Page	My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,
Second Servant	We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.
ROMEO	And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?
Second Servant	Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.
Servant	Find them out whose names are written here! It is written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.
To look into the bottom of my place	A power I have, but of what strength and nature I am not yet instructed.
DUCHESS OF YORK	Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.
PAULINA	Good queen, my lord, Good queen; I say good queen; And would by combat make her good, so were I A man, the worst about you.
DUKE OF YORK	Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe, That any harm should stain so fair a show!
But I can give thee more	For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.
KING RICHARD II	He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. Discharge my followers: let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.
LARTIUS	At Antium.
NORTHUMBERLAND	The noble duke hath been too much abused.
QUEEN MARGARET	A little joy enjoys the queen thereof; For I am she, and altogether joyless. I can no longer hold me patient. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out In sharing that which you have pill'd from me! Which of you trembles not that looks on me? If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects, Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels? O gentle villain, do not turn away!
QUEEN ELIZABETH	What good is cover'd with the face of heaven, To be discover'd, that can do me good?
Provost	I know them both.
Is my dear son with such sour company	I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar	Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!
MENENIUS	On both sides more respect.
ELBOW	First, an it like you, the house is a respected house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his mistress is a respected woman.
NORTHUMBERLAND	The commons will not then be satisfied.
BISHOP OF CARLISLE	That honourable day shall ne'er be seen. Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field, Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
ANTONIO	Temperance was a delicate wench.
CORIOLANUS	No, I serve not thy master.
LEONTES	A callat Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;
GLOUCESTER	Your beauty was the cause of that effect; Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep To undertake the death of all the world, So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
ROMEO	Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
MISTRESS OVERDONE	Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk. How now! what's the news with you?
GLOUCESTER	We are the queen's abjects, and must obey. Brother, farewell: I will unto the king; And whatsoever you will employ me in, Were it to call King Edward's widow sister, I will perform it to enfranchise you. Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood Touches me deeper than you can imagine.
LADY MONTAGUE	Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.
JULIET	The tears have got small victory by that; For it was bad enough before their spite.
CLAUDIO	One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.
Clown	Nay, but hear me.
KING EDWARD IV	Belike she minds to play the Amazon. But what said Warwick to these injuries?
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse	Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this small flower
MARCIUS	All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen and one infect another Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell! All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home, Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe And make my wars on you: look to't: come on; If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives, As they us to our trenches followed.
PETRUCHIO	Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?
BIONDELLO	Nay, faith, I'll see the church o' your back; and then come back to my master's as soon as I can.
RUTLAND	Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands? Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!
LUCIO	A French crown more.
Clown	He could never come better; he shall come in. I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
LEONTES	How could that be? Either thou art most ignorant by age, Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight, Added to their familiarity, Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture, That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation But only seeing, all other circumstances
DUKE VINCENTIO	Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne! Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak.
JOHN OF GAUNT	Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.
MARIANA	O my most gracious lord, I hope you will not mock me with a husband.
BRUTUS	Cominius, no.
MENENIUS	We are all undone, unless The noble man have mercy.
Pardon, madam	The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,-- The other, when she has obtain'd your eye, Will have your tongue too. This is a creature, Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal Of all professors else, make proselytes Of who she but bid follow.
TRANIO	Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance. I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,
MERCUTIO	Any man that can write may answer a letter.
First Senator	Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.
GONZALO	My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster.
JULIET	Indeed, I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him--dead-- Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd. Madam, if you could find out but a man To bear a poison, I would temper it; That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors To hear him named, and cannot come to him. To wreak the love I bore my cousin Upon his body that slaughter'd him!
QUEEN ELIZABETH	God's wrong is most of all. If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him, The unity the king thy brother made
FLORIZEL	He shall not.
Nurse	Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?
GLOUCESTER	Then never man was true.
ANGELO	Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?
That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die	I will take order for her keeping close. Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,

BRUTUS

How! I inform them!

LEONTES

Why, what need we Commune with you of this, but rather follow Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves We need no more of your advice: the matter, The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all Properly ours.

First Soldier

See, they have shut him in.

DUKE OF AUMERLE

Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay For nothing but his majesty's approach.

Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me

Antonio, my father, is deceased; And I have thrust myself into this maze,

GRUMIO

Welcome, you;--how now, you;-- what, you;--fellow, you;--and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?

KING LEWIS XI

Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience, Is Edward your true king? for I were loath To link with him that were not lawful chosen.

JULIET

Madam, I am here. What is your will?

LORD STANLEY

Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.

Messenger

And then he sends you word

POMPEY

He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle.

Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all

I have a thousand spirits in one breast, To answer twenty thousand such as you.

BAPTISTA

I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.

That hath authority over him that swears

Henry had none, but did usurp the place; Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose, Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest Until the white rose that I wear be dyed Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart.

KING HENRY VI

And long live thou and these thy forward sons!

LUCIO

Judge.

GONZALO

Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--

QUEEN MARGARET

Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.

But if you have a stomach, to't i' God's name

You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo this wild-cat?

Clown

What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?

First Servingman

He had so; looking as it were--would I were hanged, but I thought there was more in him than I could think.

Yes, brother, you may live

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, If you'll implore it, that will free your life, But fetter you till death.

Forbidden bandying in Verona streets

Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!

CORIOLANUS

I' the city of kites and crows.

ANGELO

'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. I not deny, The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice, That justice seizes: what know the laws That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant, The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't Because we see it; but what we do not see We tread upon, and never think of it. You may not so extenuate his offence For I have had such faults; but rather tell me, When I, that censure him, do so offend, Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.

Thanks, brave Montgomery; and thanks unto you all

If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness. Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York; And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon, We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates; For well I wot that Henry is no soldier. Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother! Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick. Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day, And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay. 3 KING HENRY VI

LEONTES

Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this. My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence And see it instantly consumed with fire;

COMINIUS

Who's yonder, That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods He has the stamp of Marcius; and I have Before-time seen him thus.

ESCALUS

I guess not.

THOMAS MOWBRAY

O, let my sovereign turn away his face And bid his ears a little while be deaf, Till I have told this slander of his blood, How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

CAPULET

Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,

ROMEO

How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?

WARWICK

What good is this to England and himself!

Apothecary

Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off; and, if you had the strength Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.

First Lady

Why, my sweet lord?

To this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife

Dine with my father, drink a health to me; For I must hence; and farewell to you all.

PETRUCHIO

Katharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.

HASTINGS

Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow. How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?

KATHARINA

And I am mean indeed, respecting you.

KING RICHARD III

Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--

LADY GREY

Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.

Page

My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,

Second Servant

We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.

ROMEO

And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?

Second Servant

Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.

Servant

Find them out whose names are written here! It is written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.

To look into the bottom of my place

A power I have, but of what strength and nature I am not yet instructed.

DUCHESS OF YORK

Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.

PAULINA

Good queen, my lord, Good queen; I say good queen; And would by combat make her good, so were I A man, the worst about you.

DUKE OF YORK

Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe, That any harm should stain so fair a show!

But I can give thee more

For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.

KING RICHARD II

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. Discharge my followers: let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.

LARTIUS

At Antium.

NORTHUMBERLAND

The noble duke hath been too much abused.

QUEEN MARGARET

A little joy enjoys the queen thereof; For I am she, and altogether joyless. I can no longer hold me patient. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out In sharing that which you have pill'd from me! Which of you trembles not that looks on me? If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects, Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels? O gentle villain, do not turn away!

QUEEN ELIZABETH

What good is cover'd with the face of heaven, To be discover'd, that can do me good?

Provost

I know them both.

Is my dear son with such sour company

I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.

If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar

Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!

MENENIUS

On both sides more respect.

ELBOW

First, an it like you, the house is a respected house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his mistress is a respected woman.

NORTHUMBERLAND

The commons will not then be satisfied.

BISHOP OF CARLISLE

That honourable day shall ne'er be seen. Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field, Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross

ANTONIO

Temperance was a delicate wench.

CORIOLANUS

No, I serve not thy master.

LEONTES

A callat Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;

GLOUCESTER

Your beauty was the cause of that effect; Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep To undertake the death of all the world, So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.

ROMEO

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.

MISTRESS OVERDONE

Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk. How now! what's the news with you?

GLOUCESTER

We are the queen's abjects, and must obey. Brother, farewell: I will unto the king; And whatsoever you will employ me in, Were it to call King Edward's widow sister, I will perform it to enfranchise you. Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood Touches me deeper than you can imagine.

LADY MONTAGUE

Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.

JULIET

The tears have got small victory by that; For it was bad enough before their spite.

CLAUDIO

One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.

Clown

Nay, but hear me.

KING EDWARD IV

Belike she minds to play the Amazon. But what said Warwick to these injuries?

Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this small flower

MARCIUS

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen and one infect another Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell! All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home, Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe And make my wars on you: look to't: come on; If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives, As they us to our trenches followed.

PETRUCHIO

Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?

BIONDELLO

Nay, faith, I'll see the church o' your back; and then come back to my master's as soon as I can.

RUTLAND

Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands? Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!

LUCIO

A French crown more.

Clown

He could never come better; he shall come in. I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

LEONTES

How could that be? Either thou art most ignorant by age, Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight, Added to their familiarity, Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture, That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation But only seeing, all other circumstances

DUKE VINCENTIO

Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne! Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak.

JOHN OF GAUNT

Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.

MARIANA

O my most gracious lord, I hope you will not mock me with a husband.

BRUTUS

Cominius, no.

MENENIUS

We are all undone, unless The noble man have mercy.

Pardon, madam

The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,-- The other, when she has obtain'd your eye, Will have your tongue too. This is a creature, Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal Of all professors else, make proselytes Of who she but bid follow.

TRANIO

Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance. I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,

MERCUTIO

Any man that can write may answer a letter.

First Senator

Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.

GONZALO

My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster.

JULIET

Indeed, I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him--dead-- Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd. Madam, if you could find out but a man To bear a poison, I would temper it; That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors To hear him named, and cannot come to him. To wreak the love I bore my cousin Upon his body that slaughter'd him!

QUEEN ELIZABETH

God's wrong is most of all. If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him, The unity the king thy brother made

FLORIZEL

He shall not.

Nurse

Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?

GLOUCESTER

Then never man was true.

ANGELO

Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?

That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die

I will take order for her keeping close. Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,