John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 602 |
| And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. 1 |
| 603 |
| I ’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. 2 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 604 |
| My heart Is true as steel. 3 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. 4 |
| 605 |
| I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 606 |
| A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 607 |
| Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 608 |
| Lord, what fools these mortals be! |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 609 |
| So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 610 |
| Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 611 |
| I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 612 |
| I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 613 |
| The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, 5 man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight. [back] |
| Note 2. See Chapman, Quotation 12. [back] |
| Note 3. Trew as steele.—Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Cresseide, book v. line 831. [back] |
| Note 4. Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight. [back] |
| Note 5. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.—1 Corinthians, ii. 9. [back] |