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I have done so, but he's not to be found.
I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service: This day my sister should the cloister enter And there receive her approbation: Acquaint her with the danger of my state: Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him: I have great hope in that; for in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect, Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade. |
Measure for Measure
1.3 Claudio CONTEXT: Claudio is asking Lucio to go fetch Isabella in order to help him, because her youth and innocence can help get him. |
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I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes. Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does affect it. |
Measure for Measure
1.1 Duke Context: The Duke is giving up his position. |
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My holy sir, none better knows than you
How I have ever loved the life removed And held in idle price to haunt assemblies Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps. |
Measure for Measure
1.3. Duke Context: The Duke is discussing the fact that he gave Angelo power and why. |
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I do fear, too dreadful:
Sith ‘twas my fault to give the people scope, ‘Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them For what I bid them do, for we bid this be done When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not the punishment. Therefore, indeed, my father, I have on Angelo imposed the office, Who may, in th’ ambush of my name, strike home, And yet my nature never in the fight To do it slander. |
Measure for Measure
1.3 Duke CONTEXT: The Duke is discussing the fact that he gave Angelo power and why. The audience must question whether this is brave or cowardly. |
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Our doubts are traitors
And makes us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo, And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel, All their petitions are as freely theirs As they themselves would owe them. |
Measure for Measure
1.4 Lucio CONTEXT: Here Lucio is relaying the message from Claudio and asking Isabella to speak to Angelo on behalf of her brother. |
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Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point, rebellious arm ‘gainst arm, Curbing his lavish spirit; and, to conclude, The victory fell on us. |
Macbeth
1.2 Ross Context: Ross is discussing Macbeth's winning actions in battle. |
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How far is’t called to Forres? What are these
So withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth, And yet are on’t? Live you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. |
Macbeth
1.3 Banquo CONTEXT: Banquo and Macbeth are talking to the witches. Banquo remarks how they have characteristics of both men and women. This relates to the theme of gender in Macbeth and more importantly, Lady Macbeth’s “unsex me” speech. |
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This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. |
Macbeth
1.3 Macbeth Context: CONTEXT: Macbeth has just heard the witches’ prophecy and is discussing whether or not it os a good or a bad thing. He acknowledges that he is Thane Of Cawdor, so they have predicted something corre |
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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal. |
Macbeth
1.5 Lady Macbeth CONTEXT: Lady Macbeth has just read the letter and she is discussing the fact that she thinks Macbeth is too weak or “too full o’ the milk of human kindness” in order to fulfill his destiny. |
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Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!' |
Macbeth
1.5 Lady Macbeth Context: Lady Macbeth is awaiting the arrival of King Duncan in her castle. While Macbeth is uncertain as to whether he should fulfill the prophecy, Lady Macbeth is clearly willing to do whatever it takes. |
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You should look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it
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Macbeth
1.5 Lady Macbeth Context: Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he needs to look innocent but be willing to kill. |
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. |
Macbeth
1.7 Macbeth Context: Macbeth's soliloquy in which he decides whether or not to kill Duncan. |
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I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, 535 Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. |
Macbeth
1.7 Lady Macbeth context: Lady Macbeth shows just how far she is willing to go. Once again, her gender comes up. |
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Know that we have divided
In three our kingdom; and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business form our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unbirthed crawl toward death. |
King Lear
1.1 Lear Context: Lear is discussing how he is dividing his kingdom in three. |
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And as a stranger to my heart and me
Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighbored, pitied, and relieved, As though my sometime daughter. |
King Lear
1.1 Lear Context: This occurs after Cordelia’s speech and Lear is banishing her. |
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Sure her offense
Must be of such unnatural degree That monsters it, or your fore-vouched affection Fall into taint; which to believe of her Must be a faith that reason without miracle Should never plant in me. |
King Lear
1.1 France Context: France doesn’t really believe that Cordelia would do something that horrible. |
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Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops, Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate! Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper: Now, gods, stand up for bastards! |
King Lear
1.2 Edmund Context: He considers himself strong and smart, but he is considered a pariah in society because he is a bastard. Motivates his actions throughout the play. |
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O villain, villain! His very opinion in the
letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain! Where is he? |
King Lear
1.2 Gloucester Context: This occurs after Edmund shows Gloucester a letter that he forged in which Edgar appears to plan his father’s death. |
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Strong and fasten'd villain
Would he deny his letter? I never got him. |
King Lear
2.1 Gloucester Context: Gloucester believes Edmund’s plot and believes that he bas been betrayed by his son. |
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Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,-- You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall--I will do such things,-- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep No, I'll not weep: |
King Lear
2.4 Lear Context: If human nature is not allowed more than is needed by animal nature then human life is worth the same as an animals life. This serves to highlight the distinction between human nature and animal nature, suggesting that they are not harmonious and united. |
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Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! |
King Lear
3.4 Lear Context: Lear is realizing he did not do enough to help the people of his kingdom. |
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True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester. Seek out where they father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension.
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King Lear
3.5 Cornwall Cornwall is telling edmund that they are going to arrest his father. |
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Thou art the thing itself:
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! come unbutton here. |
King Lear
3.4 Lear Context: This is when Lear is losing his sanity and begins taking his clothes off. |
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Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues
Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched Makes thee the happier: heavens, deal so still! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover? |
King Lear
4.1. Gloucester Context: Gloucester gies a disguised Edgar his money and hopes that he can find some fortune in his misery. |
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This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,
Shake patiently my great affliction off: If I could bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, My snuff and loathed part of nature should Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him! Now, fellow, fare thee well. |
King Lear
4.7 Gloucester Context: A disguised Edgar soon makes Gloucester think that he survived a fall and thus gives him the hope that he should stay alive. |
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Pray, do not mock me:
I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. |
King Lear
4.7 Lear Context: Lear cannot recall his daughter or Kent, showing his descent into madness. |
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Could great men thunder
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. |
Measure for Measure
2.2. Isabella In 2.2 Isabella tries to convince Angelo to set Claudio free and not condemn him of his crime. Angelo says no, claiming that Claudio must subscribe to and face the consequences of the law. Here we see Isabella use religion and piety to argue against Angelo, creating a friction between divine justice and human justice that we see throughout the play. She asks Angelo to be a god but reminds him how far he actually is from god. Here Isabella connects causal crime and punishment . |
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Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space, Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair And such a twain can do’t, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless. |
Antony and Cleopatra
1.1 Antony CONTEXT: Here he is arguing that he should stay in Egypt and that he has no business going back to Rome. Cleopatra thinks he should listen to the news, but he refuses, because he is so in love with her and wants to stay in Egypt. |
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Let us go. Come;
Our separation so abides, and flies, That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me, And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away! |
Antony and Cleopatra
1.3 Antony Context: Context: Antony is promising Cleopatra that even though he is leaving that the distance will not harm their love. |
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From Alexandria
This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or Vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall find there A man who is th’ abstract of all faults That all men follow. |
Antony and Cleopatra
1.4 Caesar CONTEXT: Caesar is talking to Lepidus about how Antony has abandoned Rome and his position for womanly pleasures, which all men follow. |
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I am paid for't now.
Lead me from hence: I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter. Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him Report the feature of Octavia, her years, Her inclination, let him not leave out The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly. Exit ALEXAS Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian, Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas To MARDIAN Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian, But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber. Exeunt |
Antony and Cleopatra
2.5 Cleopatra CONTEXT: Cleopatra Discusses Antony’s betrothal to Octavia. Cleopatra’s language here suggests her femininity but also something, other and quite monstrous |
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His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom
He purposed to his wife's sole son--a widow That late he married--hath referr'd herself Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded; Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: all Is outward sorrow; though I think the king Be touch'd at very heart. |
Cymbeline
1.1 First Gentleman CONTEXT: The two gentlemen discuss Imogen, who was betrothed to Cloten, but secretly married Posthumus. He is an italian-born orphan who was raised as a ward of the king. Cymbeline has banished him because of this. He also imprisoned Imogen (his only child). |
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All of her that is out of door most rich!
If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare, She is alone the Arabian bird, and I Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend! Arm me, audacity, from head to foot! Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight; Rather directly fly. |
Cymbeline
1.6 Iachimo CONTEXT: Iachimo has just arrived from Rome in order to carry out the bet with Posthumus. This is his aside after giving Imogen the letter from Posthumus. This is before he tells Imogen that Posthumus has forgotten all about her. |
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My lord, I fear,
Has forgot Britain. ... And himself. Not I, Inclined to this intelligence, pronounce The beggary of his change; but 'tis your graces That from pay mutest conscience to my tongue Charms this report out. |
Cymbeline
1.6 Imogen and Iachimo CONTEXT: This occurs after Iachimo gives Imogen the letter and attempts to convince her that Posthumus has moved on and is enjoying himself in Rome with other women. This is before he backtracks and admits that it is a lie. |
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Be revenged;
Or she that bore you was no queen, and you Recoil from your great stock. |
Cymbeline
1.6 Iachimo CONTEXT: He is telling her to avenge herself against Posthumus’ infidelity, which he has just informed her of (even though it is false). |
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You sin against
Obedience, which you owe your father. For The contract you pretend with that base wretch, One bred of alms and fostered with cold dishes, With scraps o’ th’ court--it is no contract, none. And though it be allowed in meaner parties-- Yet who than he more mean?--to knit their souls, On whom there is no more dependency But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot; Yet you are curbed from that englargement by The consequence o’ th’ crown, and must not foil The precious note of it with a base slave A hilding for a livery, a squire’s cloth, A pantler--not so eminent. |
Cymbeline
2.3 Cloten Context: Cloten has asked musicians to serenade Imogen from under her window so he can win her heart. The Queen has just told Cloten Imogen will forget all about Posthumus soon enough. Imogen is cruel to Cloten, and he says by not marrying him she is disobeying her father. |
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Had that was well worth watching--it was hang'd
With tapestry of silk and silver; the story Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman, And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for The press of boats or pride: a piece of work So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive In workmanship and value; which I wonder'd Could be so rarely and exactly wrought, Since the true life on't was-- |
Cymbeline
2.4 Iachimo CONTEXT: this occurs after Iachimo has returned to Rome from Britain. He is reporting the insides of Imogen’s bedroom to make Posthumus think that he slept with her. He didn’t, but was able to sneak into her room and gather these details. |
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Here, take this too;
It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't. Let there be no honour Where there is beauty; truth, where semblance; love, Where there's another man: the vows of women Of no more bondage be, to where they are made, Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing. O, above measure false! |
Cymbeline
2.4 Posthumus CONTEXT: After Iachimo tells Posthumus about the mole on Imogen’s breast, he turns over the ring and leaves. This is basically the straw that breaks the camel’s back, because this is such an intimate detail about her (that even he might not know because they have not had sex yet). |
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O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!
I will go there and do't, i' the court, before Her father. |
Cymbeline
2.4 Posthumus CONTEXT: After Iachimo tells Posthumus about the mole on Imogen’s breast, he turns over the ring and leaves. This is basically the straw that breaks the camel’s back, because this is such an intimate detail about her (that even he might not know because they have not had sex yet). He is outraged and obviously wants to harm her. |
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A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't
Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow. |
Cymbeline
2.4 Posthumus CONTEXT: After Iachimo tells Posthumus about the mole on Imogen’s breast, he turns over the ring and leaves. This is basically the straw that breaks the camel’s back, because this is such an intimate detail about her (that even he might not know because they have not had sex yet). He is outraged and obviously wants to harm her. |
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O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a cheque, Richer than doing nothing for a bauble, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine, Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours. |
Cymbeline
3.3 Belarius CONTEXT: Belarius is in the wilderness of wales and he is teaching his two sons Guiderius and Arviragus the wonders of nature. He is discussing the merits of this life and how the outside world (the cities) are nothing but bad things and treachery. |
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What should we speak of
When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away? |
Cymbeline
3.3 Arviragus CONTEXT: Arviragus is arguing that they have not experienced anything and thus they will not be able to speak knowledgeably about things when he has died. This is important because they are royal and Shakespeare kind of teases this in the way that they act. They are meant for more, which is why they thirst for it. |
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When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not. |
The Tempest
1.1 Boatswain Context: He is wound up because the sea is wound up. |
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Through all the signories it was the first
And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed In dignity, and for the liberal arts Without a parallel; those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-- Dost thou attend me? |
The Tempest
1.2 Prospero Context: Prospero is explaining to Miranda that he gradually grew less interested in politics, giving his brother Antonio the opportunity to act on his ambition. |
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I pray thee, mark me.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind With that which, but by being so retired, O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother Awaked an evil nature; and my trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him A falsehood in its contrary as great As my trust was; which had indeed no limit, A confidence sans bound |
The Tempest
1.2 Prospero Context: Prospero is discussing how he unwilling stirred up evil wishes in his disloyal brother. |
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Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis. |
The Tempest
2.1 Gonzalo Context: Context: He is discussing how their garments are as fresh as when they put them on when they attended Claribel’s wedding to the King of Tunis. |
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But rather lose her to an African;
Where she at least is banish'd from your eye, Who hath cause to wet the grief on't. |
The Tempest
2.1 Sebastian Context: Sebastian is telling Alonso that he pimped his daughter out to an African, so at least she isn’t there to begrudge him for it. |
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I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty;-- SEBASTIAN Yet he would be king on't. ANTONIO The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. GONZALO All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people. |
The Tempest
2.1 Gonzalo Context: Context: P. Platt said that Gonzalo is here presented as a bit naive, and he references one of Montaigne’s essays (dunno which) in these ideas of his perfect government. Gonzolo’s idea of a perfect government on the island is him ruling over and that everyone is idle and stuff.......but, as Sebastian and Antonio point out, he contradicts himself. He wants to “execute all things,” but also wants “no sovereignty.” |
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She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells
Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post-- The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins Be rough and razorable; she that--from whom? We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again, And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. |
The Tempest
2.1 Antonio Context: Seeing the vulnerability of his sleeping companions, Antonio tries to persuade Sebastian to kill his brother. He rationalizes this scheme by explaining that Claribel, who is now Queen of Tunis, is too far from Naples to inherit the kingdom should her father die, and as a result, Sebastian would be the heir to the throne. |
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That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse
Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo; I myself could make A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore The mind that I do! what a sleep were this For your advancement! Do you understand me? |
The Tempest
2.1 Antonio Context: Antonio and Sebastian are mocking Gonzalo's vision of a utopian island. |
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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. |
The Tempest
3.2. Caliban Context: Ariel plays a tune on his flute and tabor-drum. Stephano and Trinculo wonder at this noise, but Caliban tells them it is nothing to fear. Caliban is plotting to kill Prospero, so Ariel is attempting to stop. |
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Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow
And a clear life ensuing. |
The Tempest
3.2 Ariel Context: The only way to protect yourselves from the angry higher powers—which are ready to fall upon your head on this empty island—is for you to be sincerely sorry in your hearts for what you’ve done, and to live innocent lives from this time forward. Just as the men are about to eat, however, a noise of thunder erupts, and Ariel enters in the shape of a harpy. He claps his wings upon the table and the banquet vanishes. Ariel mocks the men for attempting to draw their swords, which magically have been made to feel heavy. Calling himself an instrument of Fate and Destiny, he goes on to accuse Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio of driving Prospero from Milan and leaving him and his child at the mercy of the sea. For this sin, he tells them, the powers of nature and the sea have exacted revenge on Alonso by taking Ferdinand. |
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You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd; Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled: Be not disturb'd with my infirmity: If you be pleased, retire into my cell And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk, To still my beating mind. |
The Tempest
4.1 Prospero Context: |
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O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy, and set it down With gold on lasting pillars. In one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Where he himself was lost; Prospero, his dukedom In a poor isle; and all of us, ourselves When no man was his own. |
The Tempest
5.1 Gonzalo Context: Ferdinand and Miranda will marry, and Gonzalo rejoices over the good in romance. He also brings back the talk of Claribel/Tunis which, in the beginning of the play, was only talked about in a negative light. Here he is grateful for the tempest and the journey to Tunis because both Ferdinand and Claribel are married. |
