When daisies pied and violets ...

When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!

I had rather be a dog and bay ...

I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.

Something is rotten in the sta...

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Go, go, good countrymen, and f...

Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to the Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

Celerity is never more admired...

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

Nay, but make haste, the bette...

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

Stand not upon the order of yo...

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.

I go, I go, look how I go,

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

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It is too rash, too unadvised,...

It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'

Wisely and slow. They stumble ...

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

(Goneril:) I have been worth ...

(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
(Albany:) O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.

I would that I were low laid i...

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Now, good my lord,
Let ...

Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamped upon it.

O, how thy worth with manners ...

O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,
And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?

The capon burns, the pig falls...

The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,
The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;
My mistress made it one upon my cheek:
She is so hot because the meat is cold;
The meat is cold because you come not home;
You come not home because you have no stomach;
You have no stomach, having broke your fast;
But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,
Are penitent for your default to-day.

He that will have a cake out o...

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the
grinding.
Have I not tarried?
Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.
Have I not tarried?
Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.
Still have I tarried.
Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the
kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and
the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you

Let's carve him as a dish fit ...

Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

Would the cook were o' my mind...

Would the cook were o' my mind!

She would have made Hercules h...

She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have
cleft his club to make the fire too.

How use doth breed a habit in ...

How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.