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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)

1651

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.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.

1652

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.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.

1653

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1654

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1655

To-morrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1656

Then up he rose, and donn’d his clothes.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1657

Come, my coach! Good night, sweet ladies; good night.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1658

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1659

There ’s such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1660

Nature is fine in love, and where ’t is fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1661

There ’s rosemary, that ’s for remembrance;… and there is pansies, that ’s for thoughts.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1662

You must wear your rue with a difference. There ’s a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1663

His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

1664

A very riband in the cap of youth.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

1665

That we would do,
We should do when we would.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.