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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Complete Works of William Shakespeare novel. A total of 593 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.by William Shakespeare.1609 THE SONNETS by Wil
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.by William Shakespeare.1609 THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir
- 1 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.by William Shakespeare.1609 THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir
- 2 40 Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all, What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call, All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more: Then if for my love, thou my love receivest, I cannot blam
- 3 59 If there be nothing new, but that which is, Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled, Which labouring for invention bear amis The second burthen of a former child!O that record could with a backward look, Even of five hundred courses of the sun, S
- 4 77 Thy gla.s.s will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste, These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.The wrinkles which thy gla.s.s will truly show, Of mouthe
- 5 95 How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!O in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!That tongue that tells the story of thy days, (Making lascivious comments on t
- 6 In so profound abysm I throw all care Of others' voices, that my adder's sense, To critic and to flatterer stopped are: Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.You are so strongly in my purpose bred, That all the world besides methinks are dead.1
- 7 132 Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
- 8 But love hate on for now I know thy mind, Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind.150 O from what power hast thou this powerful might, With insufficiency my heart to sway, To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness dot
- 9 I have forgot him; my imagination Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.I am undone; there is no living, none, If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it, he is so above me.In his brigh
- 10 CLOWN. No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are d.a.m.n'd; but if I may have your ladys.h.i.+p's good will to go to the world, Isbel the woman and I will do as we may.COUNTESS. Wilt thou needs be a beggar?CLOW
- 11 > ACT II. SCENE 1.Paris. The KING'S palace Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING with divers young LORDS taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM and PAROLLES; ATTENDANTS KING. Farewell, young lords; these war-like principles Do not throw from y
- 12 Exempted be from me the arrogance To choose from forth the royal blood of France, My low and humble name to propagate With any branch or image of thy state; But such a one, thy va.s.sal, whom I know Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.KING. Here is my h
- 13 HELENA. Be not afraid that I your hand should take; I'll never do you wrong for your own sake.Blessing upon your vows; and in your bed Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!LAFEU. These boys are boys of ice; they'll none have her.Sure, they are b
- 14 Enter PAROLLES PAROLLES. Bless you, my fortunate lady!HELENA. I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes.PAROLLES. You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?CLOWN. So
- 15 DUKE. So that, from point to point, now have you hear The fundamental reasons of this war; Whose great decision hath much blood let forth And more thirsts after.FIRST LORD. Holy seems the quarrel Upon your Grace's part; black and fearful On the oppos
- 16 Enter COUNTESS and STEWARD COUNTESS. Alas! and would you take the letter of her?Might you not know she would do as she has done By sending me a letter? Read it again.STEWARD. [Reads] 'I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone.Ambitious love hath
- 17 SECOND LORD. On my life, my lord, a bubble.BERTRAM. Do you think I am so far deceived in him?SECOND LORD. Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge, without any malice, but to speak of him as my kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinit
- 18 PAROLLES. Thirty fathom.SECOND LORD. Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.PAROLLES. I would I had any drum of the enemy's; I would swear I recover'd it.SECOND LORD. You shall hear one anon. [Alarum within]PAROLLES. A drum now of
- 19 FIRST LORD. I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.SECOND LORD. How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!FIRST LORD. And how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath here acq
- 20 PAROLLES. Sir, for a cardecue he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut th' entail from all remainders and a perpetual succession for it perpetually.FIRST SOLDIER. What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?F
- 21 > ACT V. SCENE 1.Ma.r.s.eilles. A street Enter HELENA, WIDOW, and DIANA, with two ATTENDANTS HELENA. But this exceeding posting day and night Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it. But since you have made the days and nights as one, To wear you
- 22 Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!LAFEU. Come on, my son, in whom my house's name Must be digested; give a favour from you, To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter, That she may quickly come.[BERTRAM gives a ring]By my old beard, And ev'
- 23 DIANA. Ay, my good lord.KING. Where did you buy it? Or who gave it you?DIANA. It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.KING. Who lent it you?DIANA. It was not lent me neither. KING. Where did you find it then?DIANA. I found it not.KING. If it were yours
- 24 > SCENE: The Roman Empire ACT I. SCENE I.Alexandria. CLEOPATRA'S palace Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO PHILO. Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war
- 25 IRAS. Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?CHARMIAN. Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I, where would you choose it?IRAS. Not in my husband's nose.CHARMIAN. Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas- come, his fortune, his fo
- 26 ANTONY. What's the matter?CLEOPATRA. I know by that same eye there's some good news.What says the married woman? You may go.Would she had never given you leave to come!Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here- I have no power upon you; her
- 27 ALEXAS. Sovereign of Egypt, hail!CLEOPATRA. How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!Yet, coming from him, that great med'cine hath With his tinct gilded thee.How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?ALEXAS. Last thing he did, dear Queen, He kiss'd- th
- 28 CAESAR. You may be pleas'd to catch at mine intent By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother Made wars upon me, and their contestation Was theme for you; you were the word of war.ANTONY. You do mistake your business; my brother never Did urge
- 29 SOOTHSAYER. Would I had never come from thence, nor you thither!ANTONY. If you can- your reason.SOOTHSAYER. I see it in my motion, have it not in my tongue; but yet hie you to Egypt again.ANTONY. Say to me, Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's
- 30 CHARMIAN. He is afear'd to come.CLEOPATRA. I will not hurt him.These hands do lack n.o.bility, that they strike A meaner than myself; since I myself Have given myself the cause.Enter the MESSENGER again Come hither, sir.Though it be honest, it is nev
- 31 En.o.bARBUS. 'Tis true.MENAS. Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.En.o.bARBUS. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so.MENAS. I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties.
- 32 Cup us till the world go round, Cup us till the world go round!CAESAR. What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother, Let me request you off; our graver business Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part; You see we have burnt our cheek
- 33 CLEOPATRA. Is she as tall as me?MESSENGER. She is not, madam.CLEOPATRA. Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongu'd or low?MESSENGER. Madam, I heard her speak: she is low-voic'd.CLEOPATRA. That's not so good. He cannot like her long.CHARMIA
- 34 Where is he now?OCTAVIA. My lord, in Athens.CAESAR. No, my most wronged sister: Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire Up to a wh.o.r.e, who now are levying The kings o' th' earth for war. He hath a.s.sembled Bocchus, the kin
- 35 SCARUS. G.o.ds and G.o.ddesses, All the whole synod of them!En.o.bARBUS. What's thy pa.s.sion?SCARUS. The greater cantle of the world is lost With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away Kingdoms and provinces.En.o.bARBUS. How appears the fight?SCAR
- 36 The itch of his affection should not then Have nick'd his captains.h.i.+p, at such a point, When half to half the world oppos'd, he being The mered question. 'Twas a shame no less Than was his loss, to course your flying flags And leave his
- 37 ACT_4|SC_1 ACT IV. SCENE I.CAESAR'S camp before Alexandria Enter CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MAECENAS, with his army; CAESAR reading a letter CAESAR. He calls me boy, and chides as he had power To beat me out of Egypt. My messenger He hath whipt with rods;
- 38 EROS. Briefly, sir.CLEOPATRA. Is not this buckled well?ANTONY. Rarely, rarely!He that unbuckles this, till we do please To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.Thou fumblest, Eros, and my queen's a squire More tight at this than thou. Dispa
- 39 ANTONY. We have beat him to his camp. Run one before And let the Queen know of our gests. To-morrow, Before the sun shall see's, we'll spill the blood That has to-day escap'd. I thank you all; For doughty-handed are you, and have fought Not
- 40 ANTONY. Eros, thou yet behold'st me?EROS. Ay, n.o.ble lord.ANTONY. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon
- 41 DIOMEDES. His death's upon him, but not dead.Look out o' th' other side your monument; His guard have brought him thither.Enter, below, ANTONY, borne by the guard CLEOPATRA. O sun, Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in! Darkling stand T
- 42 GALLUS. You see how easily she may be surpris'd.Here PROCULEIUS and two of the guard ascend the monument by a ladder placed against a window, and come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of the guard unbar and open the gates Guard her till Caesar come. Exit IRAS.
- 43 CLEOPATRA. Why, that's the way To fool their preparation and to conquer Their most absurd intents.Enter CHARMIAN Now, Charmian!Show me, my women, like a queen. Go fetch My best attires. I am again for Cydnus, To meet Mark Antony. Sirrah, Iras, go.Now
- 44 THE END > 1601 AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DUKE, living in exile FREDERICK, his brother, and usurper of his dominions AMIENS, lord attending on the banished Duke JAQUES, " " " " " "LE BEAU, a c
- 45 > SCENE II.A lawn before the DUKE'S palace Enter ROSALIND and CELIA CELIA. I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry. ROSALIND. Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to
- 46 ORLANDO. Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.FREDERICK. You shall try but one fall.CHARLES. No, I warrant your Grace, you shall not entreat him to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him from a first.ORLANDO. You mean to mock m
- 47 Firm and irrevocable is my doom Which I have pa.s.s'd upon her; she is banish'd.CELIA. p.r.o.nounce that sentence, then, on me, my liege; I cannot live out of her company.FREDERICK. You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself.If you outstay the
- 48 Your brother- no, no brother; yet the son- Yet not the son; I will not call him son Of him I was about to call his father- Hath heard your praises; and this night he means To burn the lodging where you use to lie, And you within it. If he fail of that, He
- 49 AMIENS. And I'll sing it.JAQUES. Thus it goes: If it do come to pa.s.s That any man turn a.s.s, Leaving his wealth and ease A stubborn will to please, Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame; Here shall he see Gross fools as he, An if he will come to me.AMIENS. Wh
- 50 Heigh-ho! sing, &c.DUKE SENIOR. If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son, As you have whisper'd faithfully you were, And as mine eye doth his effigies witness Most truly limn'd and living in your face, Be truly welcome hither. I am the D
- 51 CELIA. Trow you who hath done this?ROSALIND. Is it a man?CELIA. And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.Change you colour?ROSALIND. I prithee, who?CELIA. O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to meet; but mountains may be remov'd with
- 52 ORLANDO. I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.ROSALIND. But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?ORLANDO. Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.ROSALIND. Love is merely a madness; and, I
- 53 SCENE V.Another part of the forest Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE SILVIUS. Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe.Say that you love me not; but say not so In bitterness. The common executioner, Whose heart th' accustom'd sight of death makes hard,
- 54 ORLANDO. Of a snail!ROSALIND. Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head- a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman; besides, he brings his destiny with him.ORLANDO. What's that?ROSALIND. Why, horns; which su
- 55 And here much Orlando!CELIA. I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he hath ta'en his bow and arrows, and is gone forth- to sleep. Look, who comes here.Enter SILVIUS SILVIUS. My errand is to you, fair youth; My gentle Phebe did bid me give
- 56 AUDREY. Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old gentleman's saying.TOUCHSTONE. A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext.But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to you.AUDREY. Ay, I know who 'tis; he ha
- 57 SCENE III.The forest Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY TOUCHSTONE. To-morrow is the joyful day, Audre'y; to-morrow will we be married.AUDREY. I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world. Here
- 58 Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing, Feed yourselves with questioning, That reason wonder may diminish, How thus we met, and these things finish.SONG Wedding is great Juno's crown; O blessed bond of board and bed!'Tis Hymen peoples every town; High we
- 59 And this it was, for other means was none: The sailors sought for safety by our boat, And left the s.h.i.+p, then sinking-ripe, to us; My wife, more careful for the latter-born, Had fast'ned him unto a small spare mast, Such as sea-faring men provide
- 60 Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.LUCIANA. Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner; Good sister, let us dine, and never fret.A man is master of his liberty; Time is their master, and when they see t
- 61 [Beating him]DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. Hold, sir, for G.o.d's sake! Now your jest is earnest.Upon what bargain do you give it me?ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Because that I familiarly sometimes Do use you for my fool and chat with you, Your sauciness will jest
- 62 LUCIANA. If thou art chang'd to aught, 'tis to an a.s.s.DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. 'Tis true; she rides me, and I long for gra.s.s.'Tis so, I am an a.s.s; else it could never be But I should know her as well as she knows me.ADRIANA. Come, com
- 63 DROMIO OF EPHESUS. A man may break a word with you, sir; and words are but wind; Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. [Within] It seems thou want'st breaking; out upon thee, hind!DROMIO OF EPHESUS. Here's
- 64 And, I think, if my breast had not been made of faith, and my heart of steel, She had transform'd me to a curtal dog, and made me turn i' th' wheel.ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Go hie thee presently post to the road; An if the wind blow any way
- 65 DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. YOU sent me for a rope's end as soon- You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS. I Will debate this matter at more leisure, And teach your ears to list me with more heed.To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight;
- 66 I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now.Is that the chain you promis'd me to-day?ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not.DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. Master, is this Mistress Satan?ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. It is the devil.DROMIO
- 67 DROMIO OF EPHESUS. G.o.d and the rope-maker bear me witness That I was sent for nothing but a rope!PINCH. Mistress, both man and master is possess'd; I know it by their pale and deadly looks.They must be bound, and laid in some dark room.ANTIPHOLUS O
- 68 ABBESS. Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?ADRIANA. To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.Let us come in, that we may bind him fast, And bear him home for his recovery.ANGELO. I knew he was not in his perfect wits.SECOND MERCHANT. I am sorr
- 69 SECOND MERCHANT. Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine Heard you confess you had the chain of him, After you first forswore it on the mart; And thereupon I drew my sword on you, And then you fled into this abbey here, From whence, I think, you are c
- 70 > 1608 THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLa.n.u.s by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae CAIUS MARCIUS, afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLa.n.u.s Generals against the Volscians t.i.tUS LARTIUS COMINIUS MENENIUS AGRIPPA, friend to Coriola.n.u.s Tribunes of the People
- 71 But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs.Rome and her rats are at the point of battle; The one side must have bale.Enter CAIUS MARCIUS Hail, n.o.ble Marcius!MARCIUS. Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues That, rubbing the poor itch of
- 72 Enter a GENTLEWOMAN GENTLEWOMAN. Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you.VIRGILIA. Beseech you give me leave to retire myself.VOLUMNIA. Indeed you shall not.Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum; See him pluck Aufidius down by th' hair
- 73 ALL. To th' pot, I warrant him. [Alarum continues]Re-enter t.i.tUS LARTIUS LARTIUS. What is become of Marcius?ALL. Slain, sir, doubtless.FIRST SOLDIER. Following the fliers at the very heels, With them he enters; who, upon the sudden, Clapp'd to
- 74 LARTIUS. Hence, and shut your gates upon's.Our guider, come; to th' Roman camp conduct us. Exeunt SCENE VIII.A field of battle between the Roman and the Volscian camps Alarum, as in battle. Enter MARCIUS and AUFIDIUS at several doors MARCIUS. I
- 75 BRUTUS. Good or bad?MENENIUS. Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Marcius.SICINIUS. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.MENENIUS. Pray you, who does the wolf love?SICINIUS. The lamb.MENENIUS. Ay, to devour him, as the hung
- 76 BRUTUS. All tongues speak of him and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him. Your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him; the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clamb'ring the walls
- 77 Enter seven or eight citizens FIRST CITIZEN. Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.SECOND CITIZEN. We may, sir, if we will.THIRD CITIZEN. We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a power that we have no power to do; for if he s
- 78 SECOND CITIZEN. Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says He us'd us scornfully. He should have show'd us His marks of merit, wounds receiv'd for's country.SICINIUS. Why, so he did, I am sure.ALL. No, no; no man saw 'em.THIRD CI
- 79 COMINIUS. Well, on to th' market-place.CORIOLa.n.u.s. Whoever gave that counsel to give forth The corn o' th' storehouse gratis, as 'twas us'd Sometime in Greece- MENENIUS. Well, well, no more of that.CORIOLa.n.u.s. Though there t
- 80 FIRST CITIZEN. He shall well know The n.o.ble tribunes are the people's mouths, And we their hands.PLEBEIANS. He shall, sure on't.MENENIUS. Sir, sir- SICINIUS. Peace!MENENIUS. Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant.SICIN
- 81 CORIOLa.n.u.s. Pray be content.Mother, I am going to the market-place; Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going.Commend me to my wife. I'll
- 82 > ACT IV. SCENE I.Rome. Before a gate of the city Enter CORIOLa.n.u.s, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, with the young n.o.bILITY of Rome CORIOLa.n.u.s. Come, leave your tears; a brief farewell. The beast With many heads b.u.t.ts me away. Nay, m
- 83 VOLSCE. He cannot choose. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you; you have ended my business, and I will merrily accompany you home.ROMAN. I shall between this and supper tell you most strange things from Rome, all tending to the good of t
- 84 CORIOLa.n.u.s. My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done To thee particularly, and to all the Volsces, Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may My surname, Coriola.n.u.s. The painful service, The extreme dangers, and the drops of blood Shed for my thank
- 85 SICINIUS. Tell not me.I know this cannot be.BRUTUS. Not Possible.Enter A MESSENGER MESSENGER. The n.o.bles in great earnestness are going All to the Senate House; some news is come That turns their countenances. SICINIUS. 'Tis this slave- Go whip him
- 86 MENENIUS. Do you hear?COMINIUS. Yet one time he did call me by my name.I urg'd our old acquaintance, and the drops That we have bled together. 'Coriola.n.u.s'He would not answer to; forbid all names; He was a kind of nothing, t.i.tleless, T
- 87 CORIOLa.n.u.s. Like a dull actor now I have forgot my part and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh, Forgive my tyranny; but do not say, For that, 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!Now, by the j
- 88 FIRST SENATOR. Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!Call all your tribes together, praise the G.o.ds, And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them.Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius, Repeal him with the welcome of his mother; ALL. Welc
- 89 1609 CYMBELINE by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae CYMBELINE, King of Britain CLOTEN, son to the Queen by a former husband POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, a gentleman, husband to Imogen BELARIUS, a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan GUIDERIUS and
- 90 CYMBELINE. Thou foolish thing![To the QUEEN] They were again together. You have done Not after our command. Away with her, And pen her up.QUEEN. Beseech your patience.- Peace, Dear lady daughter, peace!- Sweet sovereign, Leave us to ourselves, and make yo
- 91 Here comes the Briton. Let him be so entertained amongst you as suits with gentlemen of your knowing to a stranger of his quality. I beseech you all be better known to this gentleman, whom I commend to you as a n.o.ble friend of mine. How worthy he is I w
- 92 Enter PISANIO and IACHIMO PISANIO. Madam, a n.o.ble gentleman of Rome Comes from my lord with letters.IACHIMO. Change you, madam?The worthy Leonatus is in safety, And greets your Highness dearly. [Presents a letter]IMOGEN. Thanks, good sir. You're ki
- 93 CLOTEN. Sayest thou?SECOND LORD. It is not fit your lords.h.i.+p should undertake every companion that you give offence to.CLOTEN. No, I know that; but it is fit I should commit offence to my inferiors.SECOND LORD. Ay, it is fit for your lords.h.i.+p only
- 94 CLOTEN. Your lady's person; is she ready?LADY. Ay, To keep her chamber.CLOTEN. There is gold for you; sell me your good report.LADY. How? My good name? or to report of you What I shall think is good? The Princess!Enter IMOGEN CLOTEN. Good morrow, fai
- 95 It may be probable she lost it, or Who knows if one her women, being corrupted Hath stol'n it from her?POSTHUMUS. Very true; And so I hope he came by't. Back my ring.Render to me some corporal sign about her, More evident than this; for this was
- 96 PISANIO. One score 'twixt sun and sun, Madam, 's enough for you, and too much too.IMOGEN. Why, one that rode to's execution, man, Could never go so slow. I have heard of riding wagers Where horses have been nimbler than the sands That run i
- 97 IMOGEN. Amen. I thank thee. Exeunt severally SCENE V.Britain. CYMBELINE'S palace Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS, and LORDS CYMBELINE. Thus far; and so farewell.LUCIUS. Thanks, royal sir.My emperor hath wrote; I must from hence, And am right s
- 98 I were best not call; I dare not call. Yet famine, Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant.Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who's here?If anything that's civil, speak; if savage, Take or len
- 99 Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.I'm not their father; yet who this should be Doth miracle itself, lov'd before me.- 'Tis the ninth hour o' th' morn.ARVIRAGUS. Brother, farewell.IMOGEN. I wish ye sport.ARVIRAGUS. Your
- 100 ARVIRAGUS. The bird is dead That we have made so much on. I had rather Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty, To have turn'd my leaping time into a crutch, Than have seen this.GUIDERIUS. O sweetest, fairest lily!My brother wears thee n