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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1842
    I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.
          Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.
1843
    There ’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 1.
1844
    On the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 2.
1845
    This grief is crowned with consolation.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 2.
1846
    Give me to drink mandragora.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 5.
1847
    Where ’s my serpent of old Nile?
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 5.
1848
    A morsel for a monarch.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 5.
1849
    My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 5.
1850
    Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1851
    Small to greater matters must give way.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1852
    The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne,
Burn’d on the water; the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar’d all description.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1853
    Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1854
    I have not kept my square; but that to come
Shall all be done by the rule.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 3.