HAMLET [aside] They fool me to the top of my bent.
Hamlet 3.2.377-84, 386
1 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Hamlet 5.2.238, HAMLET TO LAERTES AND CLAUDIUS 2 I am not mad: I would to heaven I were!
For then 'tis like I should forget myself.
King John 3.3.48-9, CONSTANCE, who has lost her son, to PHILIP, KING OF FRANCE and CARDINAL PANDULPH
3 O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! I would not be mad.
King Lear 1.5.43-4, LEAR 4 My wits begin to turn.
King Lear 3.2.67, LEAR TO KENT 5 That way madness lies.
King Lear 3.4.21, LEAR TO KENT, thinking about Goneril and Regan 6 Trouble him not; his wits are gone.
King Lear 3.6.85, KENT TO GLOUCESTER, of Lear 7 Matter and impertinency mixed,
Reason in madness.
King Lear 4.6.170-1, EDGAR, of Lear in his madness 8 These deeds must not be thought
After these ways: so, it will make us mad.
Macbeth 2.2.32-3, LADY MACBETH TO MACBETH 9 Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Macbeth 5.3.40-5, MACBETH TO THE DOCTOR 10 As mad as a March hare.
Two Noble Kinsmen 3.5.74, ONE COUNTRYMAN TO ANOTHER; proverbial 11 You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
Will never do him good.
Winter's Tale 2.3.127-8, PAULINA TO LEONTES' ATTENDANTS
172 I MADNESS
See also DOCTORS AND MEDICINE; ILLNESS AND DISEASE; IMAGINATION MAGIC
1 This rough magic 1 here abjure.
Tempest 5.1.50-1, PROSPERO; more at RETIREMENT 2 The charm dissolves apace.
Tempest 5.1.64, PROSPERO
See also APPARITIONS; FAIRIES; SUPERNATURAL, the; WITCHES MANIPULATION
3 You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my c o m p a s s ; . . . 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?
Hamlet 3.2.366-9, 371-2, HAMLET TO GUILDENSTERN MANNER AND MANNERS
4 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Hamlet 1.3.61, POLONIUS' advice to LAERTES; more at ADVICE
5 Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
Hamlet 2.2.532-3, HAMLET TO POLONIUS, of the players; more at JUSTICE
6 It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of their company.
2 Henry IV 5.1.74-7, FALSTAFF
7 We are the makers of manners, Kate, and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all find-faults.
Henry V 5.2.268-70, HENRY TO KATHERINE, on the benefits of high position 8 Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Henry VIII 4.2.52-4, GRIFFITH, an usher, to KATHERINE OF ARAGON, of Cardinal Wolsey
9 Civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.276-7, BEATRICE TO DON PEDRO, of Claudio 10 We must be gentle, now we are gentlemen.
Winter's Tale 5.2.152-3, SHEPHERD TO HIS SON
MARRIAGE | 173 MARK ANTONY
1 Our courteous Antony,
Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak, Being barbered ten times o'er, goes to the feast.
Antony and Cleopatra 2.2.232-4, ENOBARBUS TO AGRIPPA 2 O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
Antony and Cleopatra 3.2.12, AGRIPPA TO ENOBARBUS 3 Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,
But Antony's hath triumphed on itself.
Antony and Cleopatra 4.15.15-16, ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA 4 He is given
To sports, to wildness, and much company.
Julius Caesar 2.1.188-9, BRUTUS, rejecting the idea of Mark Antony as a danger
MARRIAGE
5 Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
AIVs Well That Ends Well 1.1.214-15, PAROLLES TO HELENA
6 If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
AIVs Well That Ends Well 1.3.50-1, CLOWN TO COUNTESS OF ROSSILLION 7 Wars is no strife
To the dark house and the detested wife.
AIVs Well That Ends Well 2.3.290-1, BERTRAM TO PAROLLES; 'to' means 'in comparison with'
8 A young man married is a man that's marred.
AIVs Well That Ends Well 2.3.297, PAROLLES' contribution to the same debate 9 Hath homely age th'alluring beauty took
From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it.
Comedy of Errors 2.1.90-1, ADRIANA, the married sister, to the unmarried LUCIANA 10 Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings;
Unquiet meals make ill d i g e s t i o n s ; . . .
Thou say'st his sports were hindered by thy brawls;
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy?
Comedy of Errors 5.1.74-5, 77-9, ABBESS TO ADRIANA, her daughter-in-law 11 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
Hamlet 1.2.12, CLAUDIUS excusing his marriage to Gertrude
174 I MARRIAGE
1 The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
Hamlet 3.2.184-5, PLAYER QUEEN TO PLAYER KING
2 Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
1 Henry VI5-5-55-6, SUFFOLK TO OTHER LORDS 3 For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
1 Henry VI 5.5.62-5, SUFFOLK TO OTHER LORDS 4 Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
3 Henry VI 4.1.18, RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER TO KING EDWARD IV, his brother 5 I am o l d , . . .
And all the fellowship I hold now with him Is only my obedience.
Henry VIII 3.1.119-21, KATHERINE OF ARAGON TO CARDINAL WOLSEY AND CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
6 Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
Merchant of Venice 2.9.84, NERISSA TO PORTIA
7 In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5.226-7', FORD TO FENTON 8 In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
Much Ado About Nothing 1.1.245-6, DON PEDRO TO BENEDICK, proverbially and prophetically
9 Time goes on crutches till love hath all his rites.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.336-7, CLAUDIO TO DON PEDRO, saying he plans to marry Hero on the following day
10 Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!
Much Ado About Nothing 5.4.121, BENEDICK, the convert, to LEONATO 11 A fellow almost damned in a fair wife.
Othello 1.1.20, IAGO TO RODERIGO 12 O curse of marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
Othello 3.3.272-4, OTHELLO
MATURITY I 175 1 Thinkest t h o u , . . . though her father be very rich, any man is so very a
fool to be married to hell?
Taming of the Shrew 1.1.122-4, GREMIO TO HORTENSIO 2 To wive and thrive as best I may.
Taming of the Shrew 1.2.55, PETRUCHIO TO HORTENSIO AND GRUMIO 3 I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
Taming of the Shrew 1.2.74-5, PETRUCHIO TO HORTENSIO AND GRUMIO 4 Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure.
Taming of the Shrew 3.2.11, KATHERINA TO BAPTISTA, of Petruchio; proverbial 5 To me she's married, not unto my clothes.
Taming of the Shrew 3.2.116, PETRUCHIO TO BAPTISTA; for the state of the horse on which he rides to his wedding, see HORSES
6 This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
Taming of the Shrew 4.1.196, PETRUCHIO 7 Peace . . . , and love, and quiet life,
An awful rule, and right supremacy.
Taming of the Shrew 5.2.109-10, PETRUCHIO TO HORTENSIO AND LUCENTIO, describing his concept of a proper marriage; for Katherina's concurrence, see HUSBANDS AND WIVES
8 Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
Tempest 4.1.106-8, JUNO (goddess of marriage) to MIRANDA and FERDINAND
See also AMBITION; ANTICIPATION; HUSBANDS AND WIVES; INFIDELITY; MEN AND WOMEN; SINGLE LIFE, the; WOMEN
MATURITY
9 For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Hamlet 1.3.11-14, LAERTES TO OPHELIA 10 Consideration like an angel came
And whipped th'offending Adam out of him.
Henry V 1.1.28-9, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY TO THE BISHOP OF ELY, of Hal/Henry 11 Ripeness is all.
King Lear 5.2.11, EDGAR TO GLOUCESTER
176 I MEDICINE
MEDICINE see DOCTORS AND MEDICINE MELANCHOLY
1 CELIA Why cousin, why Rosalind! Cupid have mercy, not a word?
ROSALIND Not one to throw at a dog.
As You Like It 1.3.1-3
2 I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
As You Like It 2.5.11-12, JAQUES TO AMIENS
3 I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
As You Like It 4.1.10-19, JAQUES TO ROSALIND
4 There's something in his soul O'er which his melancholy sits on brood.
Hamlet 3.1.165-6, CLAUDIUS TO POLONIUS
5 As melancholy as a lodge in a warren.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.202-3, BENEDICK TO DON PEDRO, of Claudio
See also DEPRESSION; MUSIC
MEMORY AND REMEMBERING 6 Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.
All's Well That Ends Well 5.3.19-20, KING OF FRANCE TO HIS FRIENDS
7 Heaven and earth, Must I remember?
Hamlet 1.2.142-3, HAMLET
8 'Tis in my memory locked.
Hamlet 1.3.85, OPHELIA'S response to her brother's advice 9 GHOST Remember me . . .
HAMLET Remember thee?
Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,...
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