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    The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

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Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.

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How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.

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I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A read more

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And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.

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