WITCHES: Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

— Macbeth, IV, i

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ARIEL: Full fathom five thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made;

Those are pearls that were his eyes:

Nothing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell

Hark! now I hear them, — Ding-dong, bell.

— The Tempest, I, ii

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MACBETH: There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled

Hath nature that in time will venom breed,

No teeth for the present.

— Macbeth, III, iv

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ARIEL: If you could hurt,

Your swords are now too massy for your strengths

And will not be uplifted.

— The Tempest, III, iii

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HAMLET: Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.

— Hamlet, IV, iii

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FLORIZEL: Old sir, I know

She prizes not such trifles as these are:

The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd

Up in my heart; which I have given already,

But not deliver'd.

— The Winter's Tale, IV, iv

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LEAR: Know that we have divided

In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent

To shake all cares and business from our age;

Conferring them on younger strengths while we

Unburthen'd crawl toward death.

— King Lear, I, i

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LEONATO: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.

BEATRICE: What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman?

— Much Ado about Nothing, II, i

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POLONIUS: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.

— Hamlet, II, ii

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EDGAR: World, world, O world!

But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,

Life would not yield to age.

— King Lear, IV, i

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