Give me to drink mandragora, That I might sleep out this great gap of time My Antony is away. Shakespeare.Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Scene 5. (Cleopatra to her maid, Charmian.)
I give thee allI can no more, Though poor the offering be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. Tom Moore.My Heart and Lute, in Longmans edition, 1853, Vol. V. Page 195, said to have been corrected by himself. Others say the lines are not Moores, but are a part of the first Pages song in Lodoiska, Act III. Scene 1, and that the author is John Kemble.
Give me that man That is not passions slave, and I will wear him In my hearts core, ay, in my heart of hearts, As I do thee. Shakespeare.Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To Horatio before the play begins.)