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Monologue #28"Ye tell me what ye wish for both,--my ruin: Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye! Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye, Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues; But cardinal…"
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Monologue #13"But I do think it is their husbands' faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties, And pour our treasures into foreign laps, Or else break out in peevish jealousies, Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us, Or scant our former having in despite; Why…"
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Monologue #27"I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune; I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen; The presentation of but what I was; The flattering index of a direful pageant; One heav'd a-high, to be hurl'd down below; A mother only mock'd with two fair babes; A dream of…"
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Monologue #23"Speaks not Æneas like a conqueror? O blessed tempests that did drive him in! O happy sand that made him run aground! Henceforth you shall be our Carthage gods. Ay, but it may be, he will leave my love, And seek a foreign land call'd Italy: O that I had…"
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Monologue #534"Set down, set down your honourable load, If honour may be shrouded in a hearse, Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster! Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood! Be it lawful…"
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Monologue #430"Glamis thou art and cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised Yet, do I fear thy nature It is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition, but withou the illness should attend it Thou wouldst…"
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Monologue #595"Juliet: "Come night, come loving, black-browed night, give me my Romeo. And when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of Heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to…"
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Monologue #17"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband. Back, foolish tears, back to your…"
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Monologue #72"Pray you, stand further from me. ... I know, by that same eye, there's some good news. What says the married woman? You may go: Would she had never given you leave to come! Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here: I have no power upon you…"
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Monologue #561"No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced To give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. I told you, I, he was a frantic fool, Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior…"
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