FEAR I 93
94 I FIGHTING FIGHTING
1 As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art.
Macbeth 1.2.8-9, CAPTAIN describing a close-fought battle to DUNCAN and MALCOLM 2 So they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
Macbeth 1.2.38-42, CAPTAIN TO DUNCAN
3 Point against point, rebellious arm 'gainst arm, Curbing his lavish spirit.
Macbeth 1.2.57-8, ROSSE TO DUNCAN, describing Macbeth's struggle with the King of Norway
4 I have no words;
My voice is in my sword.
Macbeth 5.8.6-7, MACDUFF TO MACBETH 5 Lay on, Macduff;
And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' Macbeth 5.8.33-4, MACBETH TO MACDUFF
See also QUARRELS; SOLDIERS; WAR FLATTERY
6 Why should the poor be flattered?
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Hamlet 3.2.60-3, HAMLET TO HORATIO
7 This might be my Lord Such-a-one, that praised my Lord Such-a-one's horse when a meant to beg it.
Hamlet 5.1.83-6, HAMLET TO HORATIO, examining skulls in the graveyard 8 To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.
Henry VIII 5.2.30, HENRY TO DOCTOR BUTTS 9 When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Julius Caesar 2.1.207-8, DECIUS TO FELLOW CONSPIRATORS, of Julius Caesar
FLIRTATION AND SEDUCTION | 95 1 That which melteth fools - I mean sweet words,
Low-crooked curtsies, and base spaniel fawning.
Julius Caesar 3.1.42-3, JULIUS CAESAR TO THE SENATE 2 To deliver
Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.
King John 1.1.212-13, PHILIP THE BASTARD 3 Better thus, and known to be contemned
Than still contemned and flattered.
King Lear 4.1.1-2, EDGAR, disguised as Poor Tom 4 Flattery is the bellows blows up sin.
Pericles 1.2.40, HELICANUS TO PERICLES AND TWO LORDS 5 A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head.
Richard II 2.1.100-1, JOHN OF GAUNT TO RICHARD
6 He that loves to be flattered is worthy o'th' flatterer.
Timon of Athens 1.1.229-30, APEMANTUS TO A POET AND TIMON 7 O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery.
Timon of Athens 1.2.256-7, APEMANTUS TO TIMON 8 When the means are gone that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.
Timon of Athens 2.2.174-5, STEWARD TO TIMON See also COURTIERS
FLIRTATION AND SEDUCTION
9 She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.
AlVs Well That Ends Well 5.3.212-15, BERTRAM TO THE KING OF FRANCE 10 Tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have . . . He did love her,
sir as a gentleman loves a woman . . . He loved her, sir, and loved her not.
AWs Well That Ends Well 5.3.239-48 (extracts), PAROLLES TO THE KING OF FRANCE, of Bertram
96 I FLIRTATION AND SEDUCTION
1 CHARMIAN In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
CLEOPATRA Thou teachest like a fool, the way to lose him.
Antony and Cleopatra 1.3.10-11 2 O times!
I laughed him out of patience, and that night I laughed him into patience, and next morn, Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed.
Antony and Cleopatra 2.5.18-21, CLEOPATRA TO CHARMIAN
3 I spy entertainment in her: she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation.
Merry Wives of Windsor 1.3.42-3, FALSTAFF TO PISTOL, of Mistress Ford 4 There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip -
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Troilus and Cressida 4.5.55-7, ULYSSES TO THE GREEK PRINCES, of Cressida FLOWERS AND PLANTS
5 And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes.
Cymbeline 2.3.24, song
6 A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting.
Hamlet 1.3.7-8, LAERTES TO OPHELIA, warning her to treat Hamlet's love to her with caution
7 There's rosemary, that's for remembrance - pray you, love, remember.
And there is pansies, that's for thoughts . . . There's fennel for you, and columbines. There's rue for you. And here's some for me. We may call it herb of grace a Sundays. You must wear your rue with a difference.
There's a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died . . . For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Hamlet 4.5.173-5,178-84, OPHELIA distributing flowers in her madness 8 There is a willow grows askant the brook
That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream.
Therewith fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
Hamlet 4.7.166-71, GERTRUDE TO LAERTES, describing the mad Ophelia; for the rest of this speech see DEATH
FLOWERS AND PLANTS 97
1 Sweets to the sweet.
Hamlet 5.1.241, GERTRUDE scattering flowers on Ophelia's grave
2 As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud, Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.
King Lear 4.4.2-6, CORDELIA describing Lear, in his madness, to a GENTLEMAN
3 When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
Love's Labour's Lost 5.2.887-90, song; more at INFIDELITY; WINTER
4 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound:
And maidens call it 'love-in-idleness'.
Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.165-8, OBERON TO PUCK
5 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.249-52, OBERON TO PUCK; more at FAIRIES
6 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
Sonnet 18.3; more at SUMMER
7 The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
Sonnet 54.3-4
8 Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry springtime's harbinger,
With harebells dim.
Oxlips in their cradles growing, Marigolds on deathbeds blowing,
Lark's-heels trim.
Two Noble Kinsmen 1.1.7-12, BOY, singing
9 Fair flowers that are not gathered in their prime Rot, and consume themselves in little time.
Venus and Adonis 131-2; a commonplace
98 I FLOWERS AND PLANTS
1 For you, there's rosemary, and rue; these keep Seeming and savour all the winter long.
Winter's Tale 4.4.74-5, PERDITA TO CAMILLO AND POLIXENES in disguise 2 The fairest flowers o'th' season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors.
Winter's Tale 4.4.81-2, PERDITA TO CAMILLO AND POLIXENES in disguise 3 Here's flowers for you:
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram, The marigold, that goes to bed wi'th' sun And with him rises, weeping.
Winter's Tale 4.4.103-6, PERDITA TO CAMILLO AND POLIXENES in disguise 4 O Proserpina,
For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon!
Winter's Tale 4.4.116-18, PERDITA TO FLORIZEL 5 Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
Winter's Tale 4.4.118-20, PERDITA TO FLORIZEL 6 Violets, dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength . . .
bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.
Winter's Tale 4.4.120-7, PERDITA TO FLORIZEL See also FAIRIES; NAMES; SPRING FOOD
7 Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts, Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
Antony and Cleopatra 2.1.23-5, POMPEY TO MENAS
8 Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons there. Is this true?
Antony and Cleopatra 2.2.189-90, MAECENAS TO ENOBARBUS
FOOD I 99
1 This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.
Antony and Cleopatra 2.7.95, POMPEY TO COMPANIONS 2 Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
Comedy of Errors 5.1.74, ABBESS TO ADRIANA, her daughter-in-law 3 Sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.
1 Henry IV3.2.72-3, KING HENRY to his son PRINCE HAL
4 He hath eaten me out of house and home.
2 Henry IV 2.1.74, HOSTESS QUICKLY TO THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in her attempt to
have Falstaff arrested
5 Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!
Macbeth 3.4.37-8, MACBETH, just before the appearance of Banquo's ghost 6 I will make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.
Merry Wives of Windsor 1.2.11-12, EVANS TO SIMPLE
7 He is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.
Much Ado About Nothing 1.1.49-50, BEATRICE, of Benedick 8 The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
Richard II 1.3.68, BOLINGBROKE TO RICHARD
9 Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Richard II 1.3.236, JOHN OF GAUNT TO RICHARD
10 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
Romeo and Juliet 4.2.6-7, SERVANT TO CAPULET
11 I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wits.
Twelfth Night 1.3.84-5, SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK TO SIR TOBY BELCH AND MARIA
12 Though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals; and would fain have meat.
Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.1.167-9, SPEED TO VALENTINE
13 I must have saffron to colour the warden pies; mace; dates, none - that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of raisins o'th' sun.
Winter's Tale 4.3.45-9; the SHEPHERD'S SON goes over his shopping list See also DRINKING; HOSPITALITY AND PARTIES
100 I FOOLS AND FOOLISHNESS FOOLS AND FOOLISHNESS
1 I met a fool i'th' forest, A motley fool.
As You Like It 2.7.12-13, JAQUES TO DUKE SENIOR 2 LEAR Dost thou call me fool, boy?
FOOL All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.
King Lear 1.4.141-3
3 Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Twelfth Night 1.5.34-5, FESTE TO OLIVIA
4 There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
Twelfth Night 1.5.90-2, OLIVIA TO FESTE 5 This fellow is wise enough to play the fool
Twelfth Night 3.1.60, VIOLA, of Feste
FOREBODING
6 The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape In forms imaginary th'unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
2 Henry IV 4.4.58-61, HENRY to his son THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE
7 O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Romeo and Juliet 3.5.54, JULIET TO ROMEO
See also MISGIVINGS; OMENS AND PORTENTS FORGETFULNESS
8 Second childishness and mere oblivion.
As You Like It 2.7.165, the state of extreme old age; from JAQUES'S 'Seven Ages of Man' speech to DUKE SENIOR AND HIS COMPANIONS in the Forest of Arden
9 And then, sir, does a this - a does - what was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say something. Where did I leave?
Hamlet 2.1.50-3, POLONIUS TO REYNALDO 10 What we do determine, oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Hamlet 3.2.189-90, PLAYER KING TO PLAYER QUEEN
11 Old men forget.
Henry V 4.3.49, HENRY TO WESTMORLAND; more at WAR
FORTUNE I 101 See also MEMORY AND REMEMBERING
FORGIVENESS
1 Pray you now, forget and forgive; I am old and foolish.
King Lear 4.7.83-4, LEAR TO CORDELIA
2 Let's purge this choler without letting blood . . . Deep malice makes too deep incision.
Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed.
Richard II 1.1.153,155-6, RICHARD TO MOWBRAY AND BOLINGBROKE
FORTITUDE
3 Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Macbeth 5.5.51-2, MACBETH TO SEYTON AND A MESSENGER
FORTUNE
4 My fortunes have Corrupted honest men!
Antony and Cleopatra 4.5.16-17, ANTONY TO A SOLDIER 5 'Tis paltry to be Caesar.
Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave.
Antony and Cleopatra 5.2.2-3, CLEOPATRA TO HER COMPANIONS
6 In the secret parts of Fortune? O most true, she is a strumpet.
Hamlet 2.2.235-6, HAMLET TO ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN
7 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
Hamlet 3.1.58, HAMLET; more at SUICIDE 8 A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks.
Hamlet 3.2.68-9, HAMLET complimenting HORATIO 9 Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commeddled That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.
Hamlet 3.2.69-72, HAMLET TO HORATIO
10 The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
Hamlet 3.2.206-7, PLAYER KING TO PLAYER QUEEN
102 FORTUNE
1 111 blows the wind that profits nobody.
3 Henry VI 2.5.55, A SON who has killed a man but not yet realized that his victim is his father; proverbial
2 Yield not thy neck
To Fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
3 Henry VI 3.3.16-18, KING LEWIS OF FRANCE TO QUEEN MARGARET
3 He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry And in this mood will give us anything.
Julius Caesar 3.2.267-8, MARK ANTONY TO A SERVANT 4 The times conspire with you.
King John 3.3.146, CARDINAL PANDULPH TO LEWIS, DAUPHIN OF FRANCE
5 A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.
King Lear 2.2.158, KENT TO LEAR
6 Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel.
King Lear 2.2.175, KENT 7 Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne'er turns the key to the poor.
King Lear 2.2.245-6, FOOL
8 Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel's whore.
Macbeth 1.2.14-15, CAPTAIN TO DUNCAN AND MALCOLM, reporting a battle 9 Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Measure for Measure 2.1.38, ESCALUS TO ANGELO 10 Fortune thy foe.
Merry Wives of Windsor 3.3.61, FALSTAFF TO MISTRESS FORD 11 O, I am fortune's fool.
Romeo and Juliet 3.1.137, ROMEO TO BENVOLIO See also CHANCE; FATE; LUCK
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH
12 My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France.
Hamlet 1.2.55, LAERTES TO CLAUDIUS
13 This best garden of the world, Our fertile France.
Henry V 5.2.36-7, BURGUNDY TO THE KING AND QUEEN OF FRANCE
FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP | 103 1 Done like a Frenchman!
1 Henry VI3.3.85, PUCELLE (JOAN OF ARC), commenting unfavourably on Burgundy's behaviour in defeat; she continues 'Turn and turn again.'
2 Remember where we are:
In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation.
1 Henry VI 4.1.137-8, HENRY TO LORDS FREEDOM
3 I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.
As You Like It 2.7.47-9, JAQUES'S plea for freedom of speech 4 I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you.
Julius Caesar 1.2.94-6, CASSIUS TO BRUTUS 5 Every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.
Julius Caesar 1.3.101-2, CASCA TO CASSIUS; even a slave can take his own life 6 Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Julius Caesar 3.1.78, CINNA'S cry on the death of Julius Caesar 7 Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?
Julius Caesar 3.2.29-30, BRUTUS' speech on the death of Julius Caesar 8 'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
Has a new master: - get a new man.
Freedom, high-day! high-day, freedom! freedom, high-day, freedom!
Tempest 2.2.182-5, CALIBAN 9 To the elements
Be free, and fare thou well!
Tempest 5.1.320-1, PROSPERO'S farewell to ARIEL See also REBELLION AND REVOLUTION FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP
10 Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key.
All's Well That Ends Well 1.1.65-6, COUNTESS OF ROSSILLION TO BERTRAM; more at ADVICE
104 I FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP
1 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.
Hamlet 1.3.62-3, POLONIUS TO LAERTES; more at ADVICE 2 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
Hamlet 3.2.64-6, HAMLET TO HORATIO 3 I could have better spared a better man.
1 Henry IV 5.4.102-3, PRINCE HAL, mistakenly thinking Falstaff has been killed in battle
4 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
Julius Caesar 4.3.85, CASSIUS TO BRUTUS
5 I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
Much Ado About Nothing 1.1.74-5, MESSENGER'S response to BEATRICE 6 Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.166-7, CLAUDIO 7 I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
Richard II 2.3.46-7, BOLINGBROKE TO PERCY 8 I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you.
Tempest 3.1.54-5, MIRANDA TO FERDINAND FRIENDS, false
9 My two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged.
Hamlet 3.4.204-5, HAMLET TO GERTRUDE, of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern FUTURE, the
10 We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Hamlet 4.5.43-4, the mad OPHELIA
11 There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
Othello 1.3.369-70, IAGO TO RODERIGO 12 The prophetic soul
Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come.
Sonnet 107.1-2
GARDENS AND GARDENING | 105 1 You should have feared false times when you did feast.
Timon of Athens 4.3.516, STEWARD TO TIMON
See also PROPHECIES; TOMORROW; UNCERTAINTY
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GARDENS AND GARDENING
2 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Hamlet 1.2.135-7, HAMLET'S view of the world 3 Do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker.
Hamlet 3.4.153-4, HAMLET TO GERTRUDE 4 Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
2 Henry IV 4.4.54, HENRY to his son THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE, referring to his other son Prince Hal, who, 'the noble image of my youth, / Is overspread with them' 5 Covering discretion with a coat of folly,
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots That shall first spring and be most delicate.
Henry V 2.4.39-41, CONSTABLE OF FRANCE TO THE DAUPHIN 6 Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
2 Henry VI 3.1.31-3, QUEEN MARGARET TO HENRY 7 Adam was a gardener.
2 Henry VI 4.2.129, JACK CADE TO STAFFORD AND HIS BROTHER
8 Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
Othello 1.3.322-3, IAGO TO RODERIGO 9 Our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
106 J GARDENS AND GARDENING
Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herbs Swarming with caterpillars.
Richard II 3.4.43-7, GARDENER'S MAN TO THE GARDENER
1 Superfluous branches We lop away, that bearing boughs may live.
Richard 7/3.4.63-4, GARDENER TO HIS MAN
2 Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.
Richard III 2.4.13, the boy DUKE OF YORK reports his uncle Richard's ominous remark on his rapid growth to his MOTHER and GRANDMOTHER
See also ECOLOGY
GENDER
3 I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. But I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat.
As You Like It 2.4.4-7, ROSALIND TO TOUCHSTONE AND CELIA
4 Alas the day, what shall I do with my doublet and hose?
As You Like It 3.2.216-17, ROSALIND, in love with Orlando but dressed as a man
5 It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue.
As You Like It 5.4.199-200, ROSALIND
6 A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion.
Sonnets 20.1-2
See also MEN AND WOMEN
GENETICS
7 How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
Cymbeline 3.3.79, BELARIUS, of the royal brothers Guiderius and Arviragus, brought up as peasants
8 So, oft it chances in particular men
That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By their o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens The form of plausive manners - that these men,