His very madness, like some ore, among a mineral of metals base, shows itself pure.. Queen a. 4 s. 1

He is loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgmeut, but their eyes, and where 'tis so, the offenders' scourge is weighed, but never the offence..King a. 4 s. 3

How all occasions do inform against me, and spurn dull revenge.. Ham. a. 4

my

s. 4

He is the broach indeed, and gem of all the nation.. Laer. a. 4 s. 7

I know not seems, 'tis not alone my inky cloak good mother, &c., these are but the trappings and the suits of woe..Ham. a. 1 8. 2

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, and for my soul what can it do to that, being a thing immortal as itself.. Ham. a. 1 s. 4

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul.. Ghost a. 1 s. 5

It seems it is as proper to our age, to cast beyond ourselves in our opinions, as it is common to the younger,

to lack discretion.. Pol. a. 2 s. 1

If circumstances lead me, I will find where truth is hid, tho' it were hid indeed within the centre. . Pol. a.. 2

s. 2

It warms the sickness very in my heart, that I shall live to tell him to his teeth, thus didst thou.. Laer. a. 4 s. 7

If words be made of breath and breath of life, I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me.. Queen a. 3 s. 4

It out-Herod's Herod.. Ham. a. 3 s. 2

I set you up a glass, where you may see the inmost part of you.. Ham. a. 3 s. 4

In the morn, and liquid dew of youth, contagious blastments are most imminent.. Laer. a. 1 S. 3

I shall the effect of this

good lesson keep as watchman to my heart.. Oph. a. 1 s. 3

I might not this believe, without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.. Hor. a. 1 s. 1

In the gross and scope of mine opinion.. Hor. a. 1 s.

1

If thou hast uphoarded in

thy life, extorted treasure in the womb of earth, for which they say you spirits oft walk in death.. Hor. a. 1 s. 1

It us befitted to bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one blow of woe; yet so far hath discretion fought with nature.. King a. 1 s. 2

It is a custom more honoured in the breach, than in the observance.. Ham. a. 1 S. 4

I am sorry that with better heed and judgment I had not quoted him.. Pol. a. 2 s. 1

I hold my duty as I hold my soul, both to my God and to my gracious King.. Pol. a. 2 s. 2

I am but mad north north west, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw.. Ham. a. 2 s. 2

I'll observe his looks, I'll tent him to the quick.. Ham. a. 2 s. 2

I do wish that your good beauties were the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness.. Queen a. 3 s. 1

It shall as level to your judgment 'pear as day does to your eye..King a. 4 s. 5

Is she to be buried in

Christian burial, who wilfully seeks her own salvation.. 1st Clown a 5 s. 1

Imperious Ceasar dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away ..Ham. a. 5 s. 1

Let your haste commend your duty.. King a. 1 s. 2

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.. Ham. a. 3 s. 4

Love is begun by time, and that I see, in passages

of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it..King a. 4 s. 7

Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew and dog will have his day.. Ham. a. 3 s. 1

Let us once again assail your ears, that are so fortified against our story.. Ber. a. 1 s. 1

Let it be tenable in your silence still.. Ham. a. 1 s. 2

Let the canded tongue lick absurd pomp.. Ham. a. 3 s. 2

Let me be cruel, not unnatural..Ham. a. 3 s. 5

Like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let it feed even, on the pith of life.. King a. 4

s. 1

Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the King's mess.. Ham. a. 5 s, 2

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.. King a. 3 s. 1

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, words without thought, never to Heaven go.. King a. 5 s. 3

Mad, call I it, for to define true madness, what is't? but to be nothing else than mad .. Pol. a. 2 s. 2

Marry well bethought... Pol. a. 1 S. 3

My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body as hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.. Ham. a. 1 s. 4

Man, delights not me nor woman either, tho' by your smiling you seem to say so.. Ham. a. 2 s. 2

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, and like a man to double business bound I stand in pause where I shall first begin, and both neglect! ..King a. 3 s. 3

May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?

&c...

My arrow too slightly

timber'd for so loud a wind,

would have reverted to my bow again, and not where I had aim'd them..King a. 4 8. 7

More pity that great folks shall have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even Christian.. 1 Clown a. 5 s. 1

Making so bold, my fears forgetting manners, to unseal their grand commission.. Ham. a. 5 s. 2

Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, it sends some precious instance of itself after the thing it loves.. Laer. a. 4 s. 4

Nor shall you do mine ear that violence, to make it truster of your own report against yourself. . Ham. a. 1

8. 2

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry..Pol. a. 1 8. 3

Not to crack the wind of the poor phrase by wronging it thus..Pol. a. 1 s. 3

Now I might do it pat, now he is praying, and now I will do it, &c. . Ham. a. 3 s.

3

Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, and you

must put me in your heart for friend.. King a. 4 s. 7 No place indeed should murder sanctuarize.. King a. 4 s. 7

Nay, and thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.. Ham. a. 5 s. 1

Now cracks a noble heart, good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.. Hor. a. 5 s. 2

O'erstep not the modesty of nature.. Ham. a. 3 s. 2 O heart lose not thy nature, let not the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.. Ham. a. 3 s. 2

Our indiscretion sometimes serve as well, when our

resolve itself into a dew, or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon 'gainst selfslaughter.. Ham. a. 3 s. 1

Oh! my offence is rank, it smells to Heaven! it hath the primal eldest curse upon it, a brother's murder. King a. 3 s. 3

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow..Ham. a. 4 s. 7

Occasion smiles upon a second leave.. Laer. a. 1 s. 3

Oh! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown, the courtiers, soldiers, scholars, eye, tongue, sword, the expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, the observed of all observers. . Oph. a. 3

s. 1

5 s. 2

Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth but poor validity. . P. King a. 3

8. 2

Pray can I not, though inclination be as sharp as will ..King a. 3 s. 3

Peace, sit down, and let me wring your heart, for so I shall, if it be made of pene

trable stuff.. Ham. a. 3 s. 4

Remember thee; ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat, in this distracted world.. Ham. a. 4 s. 4

Rightly to be great, is not to stir without great argument, but greatly to find quarrel, in a straw, when honour's at the stake.. Ham. a. 4 s. 4

Season your admiration for

a while with an attent ear.. Hor. a. 1 s. 2

Since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.. Pol. a. 2 s. 2

So, haply, slander,---whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to his blank, transport's his poison'd shot,---may miss onr name, and hit the woundless air.. King a. 4 8. 1

Sweets to the sweet, farewell.. Queen a. 5 s. 1

Set it down, that one may smile and smile, and be a villain.. Ham. a. 1 s. 5

So loving to my mother, that he might not beteem the winds of Heaven visit her face too roughly.. Ham. a. 1 s. 2

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).. Ham. a. 1 s. 4

Suit the action to the word and the word to the action.. Ham. a. 3 8. 2

Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice and could of men distinguish her election, she hath sealed thee for herself.. Ham. a. 3 s. 2

Sure He that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason, to fust in us unused ..Ham. a. 4 s. 4

Spurns enviously at straws .. Hor. a. 4 s. 5

She may strew dangerous conjectures, in ill-breeding minds.. Queen a. 4. s. 5

She is so conjunctive to my life and soul, that as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her.. King a. 4 s. 7

So far he topp'd my thought that I in forgery of shapes and trials, come short of what he did.. King a. 4 s. 7

Sir his definement, suffers no perdition in you.. Ham. a. 5 s. 2

The funeral bak'd meats, did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.. Ham. a. 1

8. 2

'Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it.. Oph. a. 1 s. 3

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.. Pol. a. 1 s. 3

Thou comest in such a questionable shape, that I will