Cupid's Birthday Book: One Thousand Love-darts from Shakespeare, Gathered and Arranged for Every Day in the YearW.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 448 pages |
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... never : Then sigh not so , But let them go , And be you blithe and bonny , Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny , nonny . Sing no more ditties , sing no moe Of dumps so dull and heavy ; The fraud of men was ever so , Since ...
... never : Then sigh not so , But let them go , And be you blithe and bonny , Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny , nonny . Sing no more ditties , sing no moe Of dumps so dull and heavy ; The fraud of men was ever so , Since ...
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... never did run smooth . Midsummer - Night's Dream , i . 1 . Hebquary 4th . I am that he , that unfortunate he . As You Like It , iii . 2 . Such as we are made of , such we be . Twelfth Night , ii . 2 . I saw her coral lips to move And ...
... never did run smooth . Midsummer - Night's Dream , i . 1 . Hebquary 4th . I am that he , that unfortunate he . As You Like It , iii . 2 . Such as we are made of , such we be . Twelfth Night , ii . 2 . I saw her coral lips to move And ...
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... never yet did hear That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear . Othello , i . 3 . Show me a mistress that is passing fair , What doth her beauty serve , but as a note Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair ? Farewell ...
... never yet did hear That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear . Othello , i . 3 . Show me a mistress that is passing fair , What doth her beauty serve , but as a note Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair ? Farewell ...
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... spent , Three themes in one , which wondrous scope affords . ' Fair , kind , and true , ' have often lived alone , Which three till now never kept seat in one . Sonnets , cv . I'll have no husband , if you be not he February 27th .
... spent , Three themes in one , which wondrous scope affords . ' Fair , kind , and true , ' have often lived alone , Which three till now never kept seat in one . Sonnets , cv . I'll have no husband , if you be not he February 27th .
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... never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark , Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . Love's not Time's fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his ...
... never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark , Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . Love's not Time's fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his ...
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All's Antony and Cleopatra April beauty beloved blessed cheek Comedy of Errors Cupid Cymbeline daughter dear December dote e'er Ends eyes fair gentle Gentlemen of Verona grace Hamlet hand hath heart heaven Hebquary Henry VIII honour January Julius Cæsar July King John King Lear kiss live look lord love thee Love's Labour Lost Lover's Complaint lovers Macbeth maid married Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream Midsummer-Night's Dream mistress ne'er never noble November October Othello Passionate Pilgrim Pericles praise Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet September Shrew sigh sing Sonnets soul speak swear sweet love Taming tell Tempest thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou lovest thou wilt thoughts thy love Titus Andronicus to-morrow tongue Troilus and Cressida true love truth Twelfth Night Venus and Adonis Winter's Tale Wives of Windsor woman words worth youth
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Page 5 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs; She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
Page 17 - Troilus had his brains dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he could to die before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth...
Page 5 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 29 - What maids lack from head to heel : • Come, buy of me, come ; come buy, come buy ; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come, buy, Sac.