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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
- 593 Who, young and simple, would not be so lovered? Ay me, I fell, and yet do question make What I should do again for such a sake. O, that infected moisture of his eye, O, that false fire which in his cheek so glowed, O, that forced thunder from his heart di
- 592 Who, young and simple, would not be so lovered? Ay me, I fell, and yet do question make What I should do again for such a sake. O, that infected moisture of his eye, O, that false fire which in his cheek so glowed, O, that forced thunder from his heart di
- 591 I might as yet have been a spreading flower, Fresh to myself, if I had self-applied Love to myself, and to no love beside.'But woe is me! too early I attended A youthful suit- it was to gain my grace- O, one by nature's outwards so commended Tha
- 590 [PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE standing like a statue]I like your silence; it the more shows off Your wonder; but yet speak. First, you, my liege.Comes it not something near?LEONTES. Her natural posture!Chide me, dear stone, that I may s
- 589 Enter a LORD LORD. Most n.o.ble sir, That which I shall report will bear no credit, Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir, Bohemia greets you from himself by me; Desires you to attach his son, who has- His dignity and duty both cast off- Fled
- 588 SHEPHERD. None, sir; I have no pheasant, c.o.c.k nor hen.AUTOLYCUS. How blessed are we that are not simple men!Yet nature might have made me as these are, Therefore I will not disdain.CLOWN. This cannot be but a great courtier.SHEPHERD. His garments are r
- 587 FLORIZEL. Very n.o.bly Have you deserv'd. It is my father's music To speak your deeds; not little of his care To have them recompens'd as thought on.CAMILLO. Well, my lord, If you may please to think I love the King, And through him what�
- 586 DORCAS. Whither?MOPSA. O, whither?DORCAS. Whither?MOPSA. It becomes thy oath full well Thou to me thy secrets tell.DORCAS. Me too! Let me go thither MOPSA. Or thou goest to th' grange or mill.DORCAS. If to either, thou dost ill.AUTOLYCUS. Neither.DOR
- 585 Enter SHEPHERD, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO, disguised; CLOWN, MOPSA, DORCAS, with OTHERS SHEPHERD. Fie, daughter! When my old wife liv'd, upon This day she was both pantler, butler, cook; Both dame and servant; welcom'd all; serv'd all; Wou
- 584 POLIXENES. I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate: 'tis a sickness denying thee anything; a death to grant this.CAMILLO. It is fifteen years since I saw my country; though I have for the most part been aired abroad, I desire to lay my bone
- 583 LEONTES. Take her hence.Her heart is but o'ercharg'd; she will recover.I have too much believ'd mine own suspicion.Beseech you tenderly apply to her Some remedies for life.Exeunt PAULINA and LADIES with HERMIONE Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'ga
- 582 LORDS. We can. My royal liege, He is not guilty of her coming hither.LEONTES. You're liars all.FIRST LORD. Beseech your Highness, give us better credit.We have always truly serv'd you; and beseech So to esteem of us; and on our knees we beg, As recompen
- 581 GAOLER. So please you, madam, To put apart these your attendants, Shall bring Emilia forth.PAULINA. I pray now, call her.Withdraw yourselves. Exeunt ATTENDANTS GAOLER. And, madam, I must be present at your conference.PAULINA. Well, be't so, prithee. Exit
- 580 ACT II. SCENE I.Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and LADIES HERMIONE. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me, 'Tis past enduring.FIRST LADY. Come, my gracious lord, Shall I be your playfellow?MAMILLIUS. No, I'll none of you.FIRS
- 579 Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and ATTENDANTS Gone already!Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a fork'd one!Go, play, boy, play; thy mother plays, and I Play too; but so disgrac'd a part, whose issue Will hiss me to my grave. Contempt and clamour Wi
- 578 CAMILLO. You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.ARCHIDAMUS. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.CAMILLO. Sicilia cannot show himself overkind to Bohemia. They were train'd together
- 577 And, that my love may appear plain and free, All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.JULIA. O me unhappy! [Swoons]PROTEUS. Look to the boy.VALENTINE. Why, boy! why, wag! how now!What's the matter? Look up; speak. JULIA. O good sir, my master charg'd me
- 576 THURIO. What says she to my valour?PROTEUS. O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.JULIA. [Aside] She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.THURIO. What says she to my birth?PROTEUS. That you are well deriv'd.JULIA. [Aside] True; from a gentleman to a fool.
- 575 Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed.Enter SILVIA, attended Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you be my mean To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia.SILVIA. What would you with her, if that I be she?JU
- 574 Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man, Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless, To be seduced by thy flattery That hast deceiv'd so many with thy vows?Return, return, and make thy love amends.For me, by this pale queen of night I swear, I am
- 573 FIRST OUTLAW. We'll have him. Sirs, a word.SPEED. Master, be one of them; it's an honourable kind of thievery.VALENTINE. Peace, villain!SECOND OUTLAW. Tell us this: have you anything to take to?VALENTINE. Nothing but my fortune.THIRD OUTLAW. Kno
- 572 LAUNCE. Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well, I'll have her; an if it be a match, as nothing is impossible- SPEED. What then?LAUNCE. Why, then will I tell thee- that thy master stays for thee at the Northgate.SPEED. For me?LAUNCE. For thee!
- 571 PROTEUS. What seest thou?LAUNCE. Him we go to find: there's not a hair on 's head but 'tis a Valentine.PROTEUS. Valentine?VALENTINE. No.PROTEUS. Who then? his spirit?VALENTINE. Neither.PROTEUS. What then?VALENTINE. Nothing.LAUNCE. Can nothi
- 570 JULIA. Now, as thou lov'st me, do him not that wrong To bear a hard opinion of his truth; Only deserve my love by loving him.And presently go with me to my chamber, To take a note of what I stand in need of To furnish me upon my longing journey.All t
- 569 LAUNCE. Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hang'd, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid, and the hostess say 'Welcome!'SPEED. Come on,
- 568 Enter DUKE SILVIA. No more, gentlemen, no more. Here comes my father.DUKE. Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.Sir Valentine, your father is in good health.What say you to a letter from your friends Of much good news?VALENTINE. My lord, I will be tha
- 567 VALENTINE. I have din'd.SPEED. Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourish'd by my victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like your mistress! Be moved, be moved.Exeunt SCENE II.Verona. JUL
- 566 SPEED. [Calling] Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!VALENTINE. How now, sirrah?SPEED. She is not within hearing, sir.VALENTINE. Why, sir, who bade you call her?SPEED. Your wors.h.i.+p, sir; or else I mistook.VALENTINE. Well, you'll still be too forward.SPEED
- 565 LUCETTA. Nay, now you are too flat And mar the concord with too harsh a descant; There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.JULIA. The mean is drown'd with your unruly ba.s.s.LUCETTA. Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.JULIA. This babble shall not he
- 564 SPEED. Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing but the word 'noddy' for my pains.PROTEUS. Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.SPEED. And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.PROTEUS. Come, come, open the matter; in brief, what sa
- 563 1595 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE DUKE OF MILAN, father to Silvia VALENTINE, one of the two gentlemen PROTEUS, " " " " " ANTONIO, father to Proteus THURIO, a foolish rival to Valentine EGLAM
- 562 SEBASTIAN. I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman; But, had it been the brother of my blood, I must have done no less with wit and safety.You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that I do perceive it hath offended you.Pardon me, sweet one, even fo
- 561 DUKE. Why, this is excellent.CLOWN. By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends.DUKE. Thou shalt not be the worse for me. There's gold.CLOWN. But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another.DUKE. O,
- 560 SIR TOBY. Well said, Master Parson.MALVOLIO. Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged. Good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad; they have laid me here in hideous darkness.CLOWN. Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms, for I am one of t
- 559 ANTONIO. Will you deny me now?Is't possible that my deserts to you Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery, Lest that it make me so unsound a man As to upbraid you with those kindnesses That I have done for you.VIOLA. I know of none, Nor know I y
- 558 FABIAN. More matter for a May morning.AGUECHEEK. Here's the challenge; read it. I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.FABIAN. Is't so saucy?AGUECHEEK. Ay, is't, I warrant him; do but read.SIR TOBY. Give me. [Reads] 'Youth
- 557 SEBASTIAN. Do not then walk too open.ANTONIO. It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse; In the south suburbs, at the Elephant, Is best to lodge. I will bespeak our diet, Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge With viewing of the to
- 556 VIOLA. Cesario is your servant's name, fair Princess.OLIVIA. My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment.Y'are servant to the Count Orsino, youth.VIOLA. And he is yours, and his must needs be you
- 555 FABIAN. And O shall end, I hope.SIR TOBY. Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry 'O!'MALVOLIO. And then I comes behind.FABIAN. Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.MALVOLI
- 554 DUKE. I cannot be so answer'd.VIOLA. Sooth, but you must.Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, Hath for your love as great a pang of heart As you have for Olivia. You cannot love her; You tell her so. Must she not then be answer'd?DUKE. There
- 553 MALVOLIO. This is much credit to you.SIR TOBY. [Sings] Shall I bid him go?CLOWN. [Sings] What an if you do?SIR TOBY. [Sings] Shall I bid him go, and spare not?CLOWN. [Sings] O, no, no, no, no, you dare not.SIR TOBY. [Rising] Out o' tune, sir! Ye lie.
- 552 SCENE II.A street Enter VIOLA and MALVOLIO at several doors MALVOLIO. Were you not ev'n now with the Countess Olivia?VIOLA. Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since arriv'd but hither.MALVOLIO. She returns this ring to you, sir; you might
- 551 Enter VIOLA VIOLA. The honourable lady of the house, which is she?OLIVIA. Speak to me; I shall answer for her. Your will?VIOLA. Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty- I pray you tell me if this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I wo
- 550 VIOLA. I'll do my best To woo your lady. [Aside] Yet, a barful strife!Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.SCENE V.OLIVIA'S house Enter MARIA and CLOWN MARIA. Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide a
- 549 Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA SIR TOBY. What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life.MARIA. By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights; your cousin, my lady, takes great ex
- 548 > 1602 TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE ORSINO, Duke of Illyria SEBASTIAN, brother of Viola ANTONIO, a sea captain, friend of Sebastian A SEA CAPTAIN, friend of Viola VALENTINE, gentleman attending on the Duke
- 547 Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS Enter MARGARELON MARGARELON. Turn, slave, and fight.THERSITES. What art thou?MARGARELON. A b.a.s.t.a.r.d son of Priam's.THERSITES. I am a b.a.s.t.a.r.d too; I love b.a.s.t.a.r.ds. I am a b.a.s.t.a.r.d begot, b.a.s.t.a.r.d in
- 546 ACT V. SCENE 5.Another part of the plain Enter DIOMEDES and A SERVANT DIOMEDES. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse; Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid.Fellow, commend my service to her beauty; Tell her I have chastis'd the amoro
- 545 Consort with me in loud and dear pet.i.tion, Pursue we him on knees; for I have dreamt Of b.l.o.o.d.y turbulence, and this whole night Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.Ca.s.sANDRA. O, 'tis true!HECTOR. Ho! bid my trumpet sound.Ca.s
- 544 ULYSSES. My lord!TROILUS. I will be patient; outwardly I will.CRESSIDA. You look upon that sleeve; behold it well.He lov'd me-O false wench!-Give't me again.DIOMEDES. Whose was't?CRESSIDA. It is no matter, now I ha't again.I will not m
- 543 AJAX. No, not a whit.Re-enter ACHILLES ULYSSES. Here comes himself to guide you.ACHILLES. Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, Princes all.AGAMEMNON. So now, fair Prince of Troy, I bid good night; Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.HECTOR. Thanks, and good
- 542 AENEAS. 'Tis the old Nestor.HECTOR. Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle, That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time.Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp thee.NESTOR. I would my arms could match thee in contention As they contend wit
- 541 Achilles bids you welcome.MENELAUS. I had good argument for kissing once.PATROCLUS. But that's no argument for kissing now; For thus popp'd Paris in his hardiment, And parted thus you and your argument.ULYSSES. O deadly gall, and theme of all ou
- 540 CRESSIDA. O Troilus! Troilus! [Embracing him]PANDARUS. What a pair of spectacles is here! Let me embrace too. 'O heart,' as the goodly saying is, O heart, heavy heart, Why sigh'st thou without breaking?where he answers again Because thou ca
- 539 CRESSIDA. Night hath been too brief.TROILUS. Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays As tediously as h.e.l.l, but flies the grasps of love With wings more momentary-swift than thought.You will catch cold, and curse me.CRESSIDA. Prithee tarry.You
- 538 ACHILLES. Shall Ajax fight with Hector?PATROCLUS. Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.ACHILLES. I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gor'd.PATROCLUS. O, then, beware: Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves; Omission
- 537 For this time will I take my leave, my lord.TROILUS. Your leave, sweet Cressid!PANDARUS. Leave! An you take leave till to-morrow morning- CRESSIDA. Pray you, content you.TROILUS. What offends you, lady?CRESSIDA. Sir, mine own company.TROILUS. You cannot s
- 536 PANDARUS. My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have, sweet queen.HELEN. She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my Lord Paris.PANDARUS. He! No, she'll none of him; they two are twain.HELEN. Falling in, after falling out, may make them three
- 535 AJAX. 'A should not bear it so, 'a should eat's words first.Shall pride carry it?NESTOR. [Aside] An 'twould, you'd carry half.ULYSSES. [Aside] 'A would have ten shares.AJAX. I will knead him, I'll make him supple. NESTOR
- 534 Enter PATROCLUS PATROCLUS. Who's there? Thersites! Good Thersites, come in and rail.THERSITES. If I could 'a rememb'red a gilt counterfeit, thou wouldst not have slipp'd out of my contemplation; but it is no matter; thyself upon thysel
- 533 THERSITES. Has not so much wit- ACHILLES. Nay, I must hold you.THERSITES. As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he comes to fight.ACHILLES. Peace, fool.THERSITES. I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will not- he there; that he;
- 532 AENEAS. Nor I from Troy come not to whisper with him; I bring a trumpet to awake his ear, To set his sense on the attentive bent, And then to speak.AGAMEMNON. Speak frankly as the wind; It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour.That thou shalt know, Troyan
- 531 Helenus is a priest.CRESSIDA. What sneaking fellow comes yonder?TROILUS pa.s.ses PANDARUS. Where? yonder? That's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus. There's a man, niece. Hem! Brave Troilus, the prince of chivalry!CRESSIDA. Peace, for shame, peace!PAN
- 530 CRESSIDA. Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him.PANDARUS. Well, I say Troilus is Troilus.CRESSIDA. Then you say as I say, for I am sure he is not Hector.PANDARUS. No, nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees.CRESSIDA. 'Tis just to each of them:
- 529 Troy. Before PRIAM'S palace Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS TROILUS. Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again.Why should I war without the walls of Troy That find such cruel battle here within?Each Troyan that is master of his heart, Let him to f
- 528 LUCIUS. Then, gracious auditory, be it known to you That Chiron and the d.a.m.n'd Demetrius Were they that murd'red our Emperor's brother; And they it were that ravished our sister.For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded, Our fathe
- 527 Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine.Enter PUBLIUS, CAIUS, and VALENTINE PUBLIUS. What is your will?t.i.tUS. Know you these two?PUBLIUS. The Empress' sons, I take them: Chiron, Demetrius.t.i.tUS. Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceiv'
- 526 AARON. Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is.LUCIUS. Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?AARON. Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day- and yet, I think, Few come within the compa.s.s of my curse- Wherein I did not some n
- 525 Enter CLOWN How now, good fellow! Wouldst thou speak with us?CLOWN. Yes, forsooth, an your mistris.h.i.+p be Emperial.TAMORA. Empress I am, but yonder sits the Emperor.CLOWN. 'Tis he.- G.o.d and Saint Stephen give you G.o.dden. I have brought you a l
- 524 Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, bearing off the dead NURSE AARON. Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms, And secretly to greet the Empress' friends.Come on, you thick-lipp'd slave, I'll bear y
- 523 AARON. Ay, just- a verse in Horace. Right, you have it.[Aside] Now, what a thing it is to be an a.s.s!Here's no sound jest! The old man hath found their guilt, And sends them weapons wrapp'd about with lines That wound, beyond their feeling, to
- 522 Ah, sirrah!Yet, I think, we are not brought so low But that between us we can kill a fly That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.MARCUS. Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him, He takes false shadows for true substances.t.i.tUS. Come, take away.
- 521 Re-enter LUCIUS and MARCUS t.i.tUS. Now stay your strife. What shall be is dispatch'd.Good Aaron, give his Majesty my hand; Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers; bid him bury it.More hath it merited- that let it have.As for my
- 520 Rome. A street Enter the JUDGES, TRIBUNES, and SENATORS, with t.i.tUS' two sons MARTIUS and QUINTUS bound, pa.s.sing on the stage to the place of execution, and t.i.tUS going before, pleading t.i.tUS. Hear me, grave fathers; n.o.ble Tribunes, stay!Fo
- 519 A very fatal place it seems to me.Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?MARTIUS. O brother, with the dismal'st object hurt That ever eye with sight made heart lament!AARON. [Aside] Now will I fetch the King to find them here, That he ther
- 518 AARON. He that had wit would think that I had none, To bury so much gold under a tree And never after to inherit it.Let him that thinks of me so abjectly Know that this gold must coin a stratagem, Which, cunningly effected, will beget A very excellent pie
- 517 Enter AARON AARON. Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top, Safe out of Fortune's shot, and sits aloft, Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, Advanc'd above pale envy's threat'ning reach.As when the golden sun salutes the mo
- 516 SATURNINUS. But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece To him that flourish'd for her with his sword.A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy; One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons, To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome.t.i.tUS. These words are razo
- 515 These are their brethren, whom your Goths beheld Alive and dead; and for their brethren slain Religiously they ask a sacrifice.To this your son is mark'd, and die he must T' appease their groaning shadows that are gone.LUCIUS. Away with him, and
- 514 > 1594 THE TRAGEDY OF t.i.tUS ANDRONICUS by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae SATURNINUS, son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor Ba.s.sIa.n.u.s, brother to Saturninus t.i.tUS ANDRONICUS, a n.o.ble Roman MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of t
- 513 SECOND SENATOR. And shakes his threat'ning sword Against the walls of Athens.FIRST SENATOR. Therefore, Timon- TIMON. Well, sir, I will. Therefore I will, sir, thus: If Alcibiades kill my countrymen, Let Alcibiades know this of Timon, That Timon cares
- 512 FLAVIUS. O, let me stay And comfort you, my master.TIMON. If thou hat'st curses, Stay not; fly whilst thou art blest and free.Ne'er see thou man, and let me ne'er see thee.Exeunt severally > ACT V. SCENE I.The woods. Before TIMON's
- 511 APEMANTUS. What things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers?TIMON. Women nearest; but men, men are the things themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world, Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?APEMANTUS. Give it the beasts, to be rid
- 510 ALCIBIADES. Why, fare thee well; Here is some gold for thee.TIMON. Keep it: I cannot eat it.ALCIBIADES. When I have laid proud Athens on a heap- TIMON. War'st thou 'gainst Athens?ALCIBIADES. Ay, Timon, and have cause.TIMON. The G.o.ds confound t
- 509 Do't in your parents' eyes. Bankrupts, hold fast; Rather than render back, out with your knives And cut your trusters' throats. Bound servants, steal: Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's
- 508 I'm worse than mad; I have kept back their foes, While they have told their money and let out Their coin upon large interest, I myself Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?Is this the balsam that the usuring Senate Pours into captains' w
- 507 FLAVIUS. What do ye ask of me, my friend?t.i.tUS. We wait for certain money here, sir.FLAVIUS. Ay, If money were as certain as your waiting, 'Twere sure enough.Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills When your false masters eat of my lord
- 506 Enter SERVILIUS SERVILIUS. See, by good hap, yonder's my lord; I have sweat to see his honour.- My honour'd lord!LUCIUS. Servilius? You are kindly met, sir. Fare thee well; commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord, my very exquisite friend.SER
- 505 APEMANTUS. Come with me, fool, come.FOOL. I do not always follow lover, elder brother, and woman; sometime the philosopher.Exeunt APEMANTUS and FOOL FLAVIUS. Pray you walk near; I'll speak with you anon.Exeunt SERVANTS TIMON. You make me marvel where
- 504 SCENE II.Before TIMON'S house Enter FLAVIUS, TIMON'S Steward, with many bills in his hand FLAVIUS. No care, no stop! So senseless of expense That he will neither know how to maintain it Nor cease his flow of riot; takes no account How things go
- 503 We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves, And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.Who lives that's not depraved or depraves?Who dies that bears not one spurn to their graves Of
- 502 FIRST LORD. What time o' day is't, Apemantus?APEMANTUS. Time to be honest.FIRST LORD. That time serves still.APEMANTUS. The more accursed thou that still omit'st it.SECOND LORD. Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast.APEMANTUS. Ay; to se
- 501 TIMON. Love you the maid?LUCILIUS. Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.OLD ATHENIAN. If in her marriage my consent be missing, I call the G.o.ds to witness I will choose Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world, And dispossess her all.TIMON. How
- 500 CUPID AMAZONS in the Masque Lords, Senators, Officers, Soldiers, Servants, Thieves, and Attendants > SCENE: Athens and the neighbouring woods ACT I. SCENE I. Athens. TIMON'S house Enter POET, PAINTER, JEWELLER, MERCHANT, and MERCER, at several doo
- 499 ALONSO. I am hers.But, O, how oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness!PROSPERO. There, sir, stop; Let us not burden our remembrances with A heaviness that's gone.GONZALO. I have inly wept, Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, yo
- 498 CALIBAN. The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean To dote thus on such luggage? Let 't alone, And do the murder first. If he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches; Make us strange stuff.STEPHANO. Be you quiet, monster. M
- 497 Enter ARIEL ARIEL. What would my potent master? Here I am.PROSPERO. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service Did worthily perform; and I must use you In such another trick. Go bring the rabble, O'er whom I give thee pow'r, here to this plac
- 496 ARIEL. This will I tell my master.CALIBAN. Thou mak'st me merry; I am full of pleasure.Let us be jocund; will you troll the catch You taught me but while-ere?STEPHANO. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us s
- 495 FERDINAND. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off; some kinds of baseness Are n.o.bly undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I s
- 494 ARIEL. Prospero my lord shall know what I have done; So, King, go safely on to seek thy son. Exeunt SCENE 2 Another part of the island Enter CALIBAN, with a burden of wood. A noise of thunder heard CALIBAN. All the infections that the sun sucks up From bo