Cupid's Birthday Book: One Thousand Love-darts from Shakespeare, Gathered and Arranged for Every Day in the Year |
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It was a lover and his lass , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino , That o'er the green corn - field did pass In the spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the ...
It was a lover and his lass , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino , That o'er the green corn - field did pass In the spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the ...
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All's Antony and Cleopatra beauty better blessed Cupid Cymbeline daughter dear December dost doth Ends eyes face fair fall fear fortune gentle Gentlemen of Verona give grace Hamlet hand happy hath heart heaven Henry VIII hold honour January Julius Cæsar July June kind King John King Lear kiss lady leave live look lord love thee Love's Labour Lost lovers Macbeth maid married Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Midsummer-Night's Dream mind never Night noble November October Othello Passionate Pericles praise reason rich Richard Romeo and Juliet Second September Shrew sigh sing Sonnets soul speak stars strange sweet Taming tell thine thing thou art thou hast thoughts thy love tongue Troilus and Cressida true truth Twelfth Night wife Winter's Tale wish Wives of Windsor woman worth young 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 29 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together : Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care ; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
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.