John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1187 |
| She is a woman, therefore may be woo’d; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. What, man! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; 1 and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. |
| Titus Andronicus. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 1188 |
| The eagle suffers little birds to sing. |
| Titus Andronicus. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
| 1189 |
| The weakest goes to the wall. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1190 |
| Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1191 |
| An hour before the worshipp’d sun Peered forth the golden window of the east. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1192 |
| As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1193 |
| Saint-seducing gold. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1194 |
| He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 1195 |
| One fire burns out another’s burning, One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish. 2 |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1196 |
| That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1197 |
| For I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 1198 |
| O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 1199 |
| Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers. |
| Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| Note 1. See Heywood, Quotation 113. [back] |
| Note 2. See Chapman, Quotation 10. [back] |