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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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The better part of valour is discretion. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.

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A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.

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Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.

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For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. read more

For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

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That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.

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Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he read more

Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.