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

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
937
    The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.
938
    By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.
939
    I know a trick worth two of that.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 1.
940
    If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I ’ll be hanged.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.
941
    It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.
942
    Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.
943
    Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.
944
    Brain him with his lady’s fan.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.
945
    A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
946
    A plague of all cowards, I say.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
947
    There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
948
    Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
949
    I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
950
    I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
951
    Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.