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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 105 |
| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1200 |
| Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 1201 |
| True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 1202 |
| For you and I are past our dancing days. 1 |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5. |
| 1203 |
| It seems she hangs 2 upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5. |
| 1204 |
| Shall have the chinks. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5. |
| 1205 |
| Too early seen unknown, and known too late! |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5. |
| 1206 |
| Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid! |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 1207 |
| He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 3 |
| 1208 |
| See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek! |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 4 |
| 1209 |
| O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 5 |
| 1210 |
| What ’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 6 |
| 1211 |
| For stony limits cannot hold love out. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 7 |
| 1212 |
| Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 8 |
| Note 1. My dancing days are done.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act v. sc. 3. [back] |
| Note 2. Dyce, Knight, and White read, “Her beauty hangs.” [back] |
| Note 3. Act ii. sc. 1 in White. [back] |
| Note 4. Act ii. sc. 1 in White. [back] |
| Note 5. Act ii. sc. 1 in White. [back] |
| Note 6. Act ii. sc. 1 in White. [back] |
| Note 7. Act ii. sc. 1 in White. [back] |
| Note 8. Act ii. sc. 1 in White. [back] |
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