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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600)
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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.
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Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task fordone.
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What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
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I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
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Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.
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I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
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O! when she's angry she is keen and shrewd.
She was a vixen when she went to school:
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
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We do not come, as minding to content you,
Our true intent is. All for your delight,
We are not here …
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…Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards.
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Weaving spiders come not here;
Hence you long-legged spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
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The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
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Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
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The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact.
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To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
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I have a reasonable good ear in music: let us have the tongs and the bones.
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I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear…
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
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To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
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A surfeit of the sweetest things
the deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
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The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
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Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
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The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
And crows are fatted with the murrain flock;
The nine men's morris is filled up with mud.
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.
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Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day.
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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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