Rumor doth double, like the vo...

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared.

Rumor is a pipe
Blown b...

Rumor is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.

The mightier man, the mightier...

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

I prithee take the cork out of...

I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy
tidings.

What cracker is this same that...

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?

If I chance to talk a little w...

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.

The red wine first must rise

The red wine first must rise
In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em
Talk us to silence.

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No, pray thee, let it serve fo...

No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
I shall digest it.

Talk with a man out at a windo...

Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!

Marry, you are the wiser man; ...

Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.

Tongues I'll hang on every tre...

Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .

I cannot, nor I will not hold ...

I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

You play the spaniel,
A...

You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.

So on the tip of his subduing ...

So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .

The language I have learnt the...

The language I have learnt these forty years,
My native English, now I must forgo;
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cased up
Or, being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

All swol'n with chafing, down ...

All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
And now the happy season once more fits
That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;
For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.

And therefore 'tis called a se...

And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but
to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.

And he goes through life, his ...

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

Now to the Goths, as swift as ...

Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies,
There to dispose this treasure in mine arms
And secretly to greet the empress's friends.

I heard a bird so sing,
...

I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.