Myself--a prince by fortune of...

Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
Near to the king in blood, and near in love
Till you did make him misinterpret me--
Have stooped my neck under your injuries
And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
From my own windows torn my household coat,
Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
Save men's opinions and my living blood,
To

Some kinds of baseness are nob...

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

A tardiness in nature,
Wh...

A tardiness in nature,
Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do.

There should be hours for nece...

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

The Thane of Cawdor lives,

The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor.

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Verily, I swear, it is better ...

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

And send him many years of sun...

And send him many years of sunshine days!

This is some fellow,
Who ...

This is some fellow,
Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
That stretch their duty nicely.

I know them, yea,
And wha...

I know them, yea,
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;
Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
And this is all.

They that have voice of lions ...

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

Bondage is hoarse, and may not...

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

My rage is gone,
And I am...

My rage is gone,
And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury,
Yet he shall have a noble memory.
Assist.

Set we forward; let
A Rom...

Set we forward; let
A Roman and a British ensign wave
Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
And in the temple of the great Jupiter
Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

Myself will straight aboard, a...

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

Well, while I live I'll fear n...

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

Lords, I protest my soul is fu...

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
And put sullen black incontinent.
I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
In weeping after this untimely bier.

Abate the edge of traitors, gr...

Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land's increase
That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
That she may long live here, God say amen!

A great while ago the world be...

A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.

Fight valiantly to-day; and ye...

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

There is no love-broker in the...

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.