William Shakespeare - King Lear (1608)

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The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

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Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.

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Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

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And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.

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Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
And show the heavens more just.

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Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.

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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

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Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:
Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!

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The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

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Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
The gods themselves throw incense.

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Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.

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Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;
Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind
For which thou whipp'st her.

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Lear: We'll go to supper i'th'morning.
Fool: And I'll go to bed at noon.

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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

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Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all.

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My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. 'Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

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When we are born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.

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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you

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O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

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No, I'll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O fool! I shall go mad.

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It is the stars,
The stars above us, govern our conditions.

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The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.

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Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.

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Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

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Die: die for adultery! No:
The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive.

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He that has a little tiny wit,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day.

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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

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O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.

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