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THE
SHAKSPEREAN ORACLE.
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and oraclk." Teoilus and Cbesstda, Act
i.,
Scenx m.
do refer you
to the Oracle."
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according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
BUNCE
&
BROTHER,
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York.
In the Clerk's Office of the U. S. District Court, for the Southern District of
DIRECTIONS
" Give
me
a key to this,
And
instantly uulock
my
fortunes here."
Merchant of Venice.
There are thirteen questions, and to each question there are fifty The person who is to act as " fortune teller " must take the book, and ask the questions in the order in which they are arranged, and as each question is asked, the inquirer choses a number (under fifty of course) the " fortune teller " then turns to the number chosen, reads aloud the oracle attached to it, and so proceeds through the thirteen
answers.
;
questions.
The entertainment
in
is
much enhanced by having
a circle of inquirers,
which case each individual must choose a number and receive an answer to the question asked before the fortune teller proceeds to the
next question.
THE QUESTIONS,
IN
THE ORDER
IN
WHICH THET ARE TO BE ASKED.
Page
No.
1,
What What What
does the world think of you
?
.
7
IT
2.
3.
What is
is is
the personal appearance of the lady you love ?
the personal appearance of
him you love

?
.
4.
5.
the character of the lady you love

the character of
will
What
What What
is
him you love ?

first
.27 .37 .47

57
?
6.
7.
When, or where,
will the
you
meet?
first
.
one you love be doing when you one you love say to you ?
to
meet
.
67
8.
will the
9.
What must you do
win the one you love?

?
...
.79
98
105
10.
11.
Will you ever be married
For what have you a partiality
12.
13.
What
will
is
you have occasion
What
your destiny?
....*..
to fear ?
....
117
127
187
QUESTION
I.
S&fiat hots tit Mollis tjjtok of
fou?
" Speak of
me
as I
am
nothing extenuate,
Nor
set
down aught
in malice."
Othello.
"give
me
leave
To speak my mind."
Aa You Like It.
WHAT
DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU1
That you live As if a man were author And knew no other kin.
of himself
Coriolanus.
That you are as tedious as a twice told
tale.
King
were a vice to know you.
John.
3.
It
Hamlet.
That he that depends
Upon your favors, swims with fins And hews down oaks with rushes.
of lead,
With every minute you do change a mind, And call that noble, that was now your hate, That vile that was your garland.
Coriolanus.
That the worst fault you have,

1*
is
to be in love.
As You Like
It.
10
WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OP YOU?

6.
Your name
is
great, Othello.
In mouths of wisest censure.
7.
Opinion crowns you
With an imperial grace.

Troilus
Sf
Cressida.
8.
A world of
vile, ill-favored faults,
Looks handsome
in three
hundred pounds a year.
Merry Wives of Windsor.

9.
As
of one
who speaks an
are as
infinite
deal of nothing.
Your reasons
two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff: one shall seek them all day ere he find them and when found, they are not worth the
;
search.
Merchant of Venice.
10-
You've won golden opinions from
all sorts of people.
Macbeth.
11.
As of one who dulls his palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Hamlet.
12.
That you are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
King
13.
Lear.
That thou
hast,
Neither heat, affection, limb nor beauty,
To make thy
riches pleasant.
Measure for Measure.
WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU?

14.
11
As one
of infinite jest and most excellent fancy.
Hamlet.
15.
As
a candle, the better part burnt out.
Henry
16.
IV.
None
are so poor to do
you reverence.
Julius Ccesar.
17-
That you have ventured. wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond your depth.
Like
little
Henry
That you are weary,
VIII.
18.
stale, flat
and unprofitable. Hamlet.
19.
Is
That smoke and luke-warm water your perfection.
Timon of Athens.
20.
As
of one on whose foolish honesty
Its practices ride easy.
King
That you are born to speak
all mirth,
Lear.
21.
And no
matter.
Much Ado
22.
I
about Nothing.
am
almost ashamed
report
it
To say what good
holds you
in.
King
John.
12

Your
integrity-
23.
Stands without blemish.

It thinks you the most pathetical break-promise, and the most hollow lover that may be chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful. As You Like It.
24.
25.
That you are of imagination
all
compact.
Midsummer Night's Dream.

26.
All tongues speak of you, and the bleared sights
Are spectacled
to see
you
the prattling nurse
Into a rapture lets her baby cry,
While she chats of you.

Coriolatius.
27.
As one who lacks
gall to
make oppression
bitter.
Hamlet.
28.
As fit for the mountains and the barbarous Where manners ne'er were preached.
caves,
Twelfth Night.
29.
As
a counterfeit which, being touched and tried,
Proves valueless.
King
John.
30.
Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.
Henry
VI.
WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU?
13
3L
Your
It
wonders
insolence can brook to be
commanded.
Coriolanus.
32.
You
are gracious in the people's eye.
Henry
blushing honors thick upon you.
VI.
33
You
bear
its
Henry
your own report
VIII.
34.
It
would not
trust
Against yourself.
Hamlet.
35.
Nobody marks you.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
36.
That you are one of those gentle ones
That will use the devil himself with

Courtesy.
Twelfth Night.
37.
Giddy people
flock to you.
Henry
VI.
38.
As
Sir Oracle,
And when you
ope your lips let no dog bark. Merchant of Venice.
39.
That there
is little
are never sad but
when you
you of the melancholy in you sleep, and not even sad

;
14
WHAT DOES THE WORLD THIXK OF YOU

then, for I have heard that
chief and
you often dream of miswake yourself laughing. Much Ado about Nothing.
40.
Only More
is
it
has left to say

all
thy due, than more than
can pay.
Macbeth.
41.
That
idle
weeds are
fast in
growth.
Richard
III.
42.
You nave sounded

honor.
all
the
depths and shoals of
Henry
VIII.
43.
It does applaud you Which does applaud
to the very echo,
again.
Macbeth.
44.
That you repent marry not but in new silk and old sack.
;
in sackcloth
and ashes
Henry IV.
45.
That you are to one thing constant never. Much Ado about Not hint
46.
As
of the most notorious geek and gull

e er
?
That
invention played on.
Twelfth Night.

That you are most
tolerable,
15
47.
and not
to be endured.
Much Ado
48.
about Nothing.
That you possess a most excellent devil of wit.
Twelfth JYight.
49.
you are not fair that you lack manners you proud, and that it could not love you, were you as rare as Phoenix.
It says,
;
it calls
Jls
You Like
It.
50.
That you never were forsworn

Scarcely have coveted what was your
own
At no time broke your

The devil
to his fellow
;
faith
would not betray
and delight
Macbeth.
No
less in truth,
than
life.
QUESTION
Sitfjat is tit ^jerjsonal
II,
Eppmranw
of
tit Stairs s ou BLotit?
'
I will give out divers schedules of her beauty ;

particle
it
shall be inventoried,
and every
and
utensil labelled to
my will:
lids to
as item, two lips, in;
different red ; item, two grey eyes, with one chin, and so forth."
them
item, one neck,
Twelfth Night.
"We will draw the curtain
and show the picture; look you,
sir."
Twelfth Night.
WHAT
IS
THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE LADY YOTJ LOVE?
1,
She looks as clear
As morning
roses
newly washed with dew.
Taming
Her beauty hangs upon
the Shrew.
2.
the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
Romeo and
She
too low for a high praise, too
;
Juliet.
3,
is
brown
;
for a
and too little for a great praise only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Much Ado about Nothing.
fair praise
4,
Long walked hand
in
hand with time.

Troilus
Sf
CressidcL.
5,
The
prettiest low-born lass, that ever
Ran on
the green sward, nothing she does or seems,

herself:
But smacks of something greater than Too noble for her place.
Winter's Tale.
20
WHAT
IS
THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE
6.
She has brown
hair,
and speaks small. Merry Wives of Windsor.
7.
'Tis
beauty truly blent, whose red and white,
Nature's
own sweet and cunning hand
laid on.
Twelfth JVight.
8.
inky brows, bugle eye-balls,
black-silk hair,
cheek of cream.
MVs
9.
Well that Ends Well.
She excels each mortal thing,
Upon
the dull earth dwelling.
Two Gentlemen of
10.
Verona.
Her cheek is ready with a blush, Modest as morning, when she coldly eyes
The youthful Phoebus.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
11.
The unmatched form and feature of blown youth. Hamlet.
12.
Of
nature's gifts, she
may
with
lilies boast,
And
with the half-blown rose.
King
13.
John.
Excellently done,
if
God
did
all.
Twelfth JVight.
14.
God has given

another.
her one face, and she makes herself
Hamlet.
OF THE LADY YOU LOVE
21
15.
Her
face, the book of praises, where Nothing but curious pleasures.
is
read
Pericles.
16.
goodly lady, trust me, of the hue

I
That
would choose, were
I to
choose anew. Titus Jlndronicus.
17.
her beauty claims,
No
worse a husband, than the best of men.
Antony and Cleopatra.

Her eyes are lode-stars and her tongue's sweet air, More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. Midsummer Night's Dream.
;
18.
19.
In her youth
There
is
a pure and speechless dialect,
Such as moves men.

20.
Most radiant,
exquisite,
and unmatchable beauty. Twelfth JVight.
21.
Her eye
That birds would
in
heaven and think

it
"Would through the airy region stream so bright,

sing,
were not night.

Juliet.
Romeo and
22.
A free-stone
She has a leathern hand, colored hand I verily did think

;
22
WHAT
IS
That her old gloves were on She has a huswife's hand.
but 'twas her hand
As You Like
She in beauty, education, blood, Holds rank with any princess of the world.
It.
23.
King
24.
John.
What peremptory,
That
is
eagle-sighted eye,
Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,

not blinded by her majesty.
Love's Labor Lost.
25.
As bright and clear, As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere. Midsummer Night's Dream.
Scratching could not make
26.
it
worse about JVothing.
An
'twere such a face as yours.
Much Ado
27.
She hath a pretty
foot,
A cherry lip, A bonny eye,

28.
a passing pleasing tongue.
Richard
She
is fair
III.
as a fair
day
in
summer, wondrous
fair.
Pericles.
29.
Heaven
bless her,
She has the sweetest face I ever looked on. Sir, as I live, she is an angel.
Henry VUJ.
OF THE LADY YOU LOVE?
23
30.
A withered
Might shake
hermit, five score winters worn,

off fifty,
looking in her eye.

Love's Labor Lost.
31.
Her beauty does astonish the survey Of richest eyes her words, all souls take captive. AlVs Well that Ends Well.
;
32.
An
excellent complexion, which does steal

old.
The eyes of young and
Pericles.
She hangs her head,
As
flowers with frost, or grass beat
down with
storm.
Titus Andronicus.
34.
The sweetest lady that
I ever
looked on.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
35.
The
all-seeing sun
first
Ne'er saw her match, since
the world begun.
Romeo and
Juliet,
36.
Full of
A February face,
frost, of
storm and cloudiness.
Much Ado
The hand that made her
about Nothing.
37.
fair,
made her also good. Measure for Measure.
24
WHAT
IS
38.
That she
is fair, is
most
infallible
that she is
beauteous, truth
itself.
Love's Labor Lost,
39.
You are as rich, in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water
nectar,
and the rocks pure gold. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
40.
She has a good eye, she can see a church by daylight.
Much Ado
41.
Fairer than tongue can
about Nothing.
name
her.
Richard
III.
42.
What
stone her heart
Her warped looks proclaim is made of.
King Lear.
43.
Green and pale

Macbeth.
44.
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her
lip,
Nay, her foot speaks.

Troilus
and
Cressida.
45.
Her looks do argue her replete with modesty Her words do show her wit incomparable
;
All her perfections challenge sovereignty.
Henry
VI.
OF THE LADY YOU LOVE
If
25
46.
Oh queen of queens, how far she doth excel. No thought can think, no mortal tongue can tell.
!
Love's Labor Lost.
47.
The most replenished sweet work of nature, That from the prime creation, e'er she framed. Richard HI.
48-
Her lovely
face rules like a
wandering planet.
Henry
Of
complexions the culled sovereignty,
as at a fair, in her fair cheek.
VI.
49.
all
Do meet
Love's Labor Lost.
50.
the most peerless piece of earth
That
? e er the
sun shone bright on,
Winter's Tale.
QUESTION
SHftat
is tfc*
III.
^personal &ppf.arante of
$,im sou HLok?
'
To be a well-favored man
is
the gift of fortune."
Much Ado
"
I
about Nothing.
What was he
like ?
have forgot him."
AIVs Well
maid, send forth thine eye
tliat
Ends
Well.
Fa-ir
this youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at
my
bestowing."
All's
Well that
Ends
Well.
WHAT
IS
THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF HIM

YOU LOVE?
i.
It
is
He'll
Is
a pretty youth make a proper

;
man
the best thing in

up.
him
his complexion
and
faster than his

it
tongue
Does make
offence, his eye does heal
He
is
not
tall,
His leg is There is a pretty redness in his lip: A little riper and more lusty red the Than that mixed with his cheek 'tis just
:
yet for his years he's tall but so so and yet 'tis well
differ-
ence
damask. Betwixt the constant red and mingled As You Like
It.
2,
He's fat and scant
o'
breath.
He
has but a wee face, with a
little
yellow beard.
Merry Wives of Windsor,

a deal of scorn looks beautiful
lip.
4.
Ah what
!
his In the contempt and anger of
Twelfth Night.
WHAT
IS
THE PL'RSOXAL APPEARANCE
5.
hungry, lean-faced man,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller.

Comedy of Errors.
t>,
A
in a
sweet-faced
man
;
a proper
man
as one shall *"P
summer's day
a most lovely, gentlemanlike
man.
7,
A sweeter
Framed
and a lovelier gentleman,
in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise, The spacious earth cannot
afford again.
Richard
III.
8.
The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers. Hamlet
9.
The
tartness of
his face sours ripe
grapes,
ai
when he walks, he moves
like
an engine.
Coriolanus.
10.
careful hours, with time's deformed hand
Have
written strange defeatures in his face.
Comedy of Errors
11,
He wears
the rose of youth
upon him.
OF HTM YOU LOVE.
31
12.
No
mortal
's
so magnificent.
Love's Labor Lost.
13.
that is well nigh worn to pieces with age, Yet shows himself a young gallant. Merry Wives of Windsor.
One
14.
Each particular hair does stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
Hamlet.
15.
Not old enough

a boy
5
he
is
for a man, nor young enough foi very well favored, and speaks very
shrew ishly.
Twelfth JVight.
16.
This
is
Why
this is
he
in courtesy
;
That kissed away

That,
*
his
hand
the ape of form, monsieur the nice, he plays at tables, chides the dice
;
when
*
In honorable terms
*
the ladies call
him sweet
his feet
The
This
stairs, as
is
he treads on them, kiss
the flower that smiles on every one,

his teeth as white as whales' bone.
To show
Love's Labor Lost.
17.
He
has a good leg, and a good

in his purse to
foot,
and money
enough
win any woman
in the world.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
32
WHAT
IS
18.
A brittle
glory shineth in his face.
Richard
II.
19.
very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upwards.
King
20.
Lear.
He has
a shape to win grace, though he had no wit. Love's Labor Lost.
21.
His looks are
full of
peaceful majesty,
His head by nature framed to wear a crown.
Henry
VI.
22.
Youth and comeliness pluck
all
gaze his way.

Coriolanus.
23.
The knave
requisites in
after.
is
handsome, young
folly
him that
and has all those and green maids look

;
Othello.
24.
Is
he not stupid
With age and altering rheums?

hear?
Can he speak?
Know man from man ?
dispose his
own
estate
Winter's Tale.
25.
he droops
like over-r pen!-d corn

;
Hanging
Hip bead at Ceres' plenteous load.
Henry VI
OP HTM YOU LOVE
33
26.
A school
And
boy with
his satchel,
shining morning face.
As You Like
It.
27.
He
is the mark and glass, copy and book, That fashions others. A wondrous him
A miracle
oi
men
Henry IV.
28.
He
111
is
deformed, crooked, old and sere
faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere.
Comedy of Errors.
29.
He
more
hath but a
if
little
beard, but time will send him
the
man
be thankful.
As You Like
It.
30.
He
hath a stern look, but a gentle heart.
King
John.
31,
So lean that
blasts of
January
Winter's Tale.
Will blow him through and through.
32.
Christian, pagan, nor
Neither the accent of Christian, nor the gait of man he so struts and bellows
;
some of nature's journeymen had made him, and not made him well, he imitates humanity so abominably.
that I have thought that
Hamlet.
2*
34
WHAT
IS
33.
Will you not observe The strangeness of his altered countenance? With what a majesty he bears himself.
Henry
Passed
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon
;
VI.
34.
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side The youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank and his big manly voice,
; ;
Turning again towards childish
treble, pipes
And
whistles in his sound.
As You Like
It.
35.
Does he not hold up
his head, as
?
it
were,
And
strut in his gait
36.
His hair's upreared,
his nostril stretched,

left
His well proportioned beard
rough and ragged.
Henry
37.
VI.
The
strain of
man
bred out
Into baboon and monkey.
Timon of Athens.
38.
Trimmed
like a
yonker prancing to
his love.
Henry
VI.
39.
The
front of Jove himself
An
eye like Mars, to threaten and
command
OF HIM YOU LOVE?
35
A station
like the herald
Mercury
New-lighted on a heaven kissing hill combination and a form indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Hamlet,
40.
Of ashy semblance, meagre,
pale and bloodless.
Henry
VI.
41.
There
is
either liquor in his pate, or
money
in his
purse, he looks so merry.
42.
lean cheek, a blue eye and sunken
a beard
neglected, hose ungartered, bonnet unhanded, sleeve
unbuttoned, shoe untied, and everything about him denoting a careless desolation.
Jls
You Like
It.
43.
He
the
does swell his face into more
lines,
than are in
new map with
the augmentation of the Indies.
Twelfth JYight.
44.
Let him
sell his face for five
pence and
'tis
dear.
45.
He capers, he dances, he has the eyes of youth He writes verses, he speaks holiday, He smells April and May. Merry Wives of Windsor
;
36
WHAT
IS
THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE ETC
46.
A robustious,
periwig-pated fellow.
Hamlet.
47.
his
brow, like to a title-page,
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
Henry IV.
48.
fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut.
As You Like
It.
49.
His very hair
is
of the dissembling color,
Something browner than Judas'.
As You Like
It.
50.
Has he not a moist eye? a dry hand ? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly ? Is not his voice broken ? his chin double ?
his wit
single
and every part about him blasted
with antiquity
Henry IF.
QUESTION
tjs
IV.
tf)t
QLfaxKttzi of
tfc*
3U&B sou 3Ufa?
'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
Midsummer
" You that choose not by the view. Chance as fair, and choose as true."
Night's
Dream.
Merchant of Venice,
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER OF THE LADY YOU LOVE 1
-to
praise her, were
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, to add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. King John.
2.
she
is
so intolerably curst,
all
And
shrewd, and froward, so beyond

far worser than for a
measure,
That were my estate I would not wed her
it is
mine of gold.
Taming
the Shrew.
3,
Nature never framed a woman's heart of prouder

stuff.
Much Ado
4.
!
about Nothing.
she
is
gentle, mild,
and virtuous.
Richard TIL
5.
She will keep no
fool, sir, until she
be married.
Twelfth Night.
40
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER OP
6.
To
The mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, steal her sweet and honeyed sentences.
Henry
V.
She will weep for nothing,

tain,
like
Diana
in the foun;
when thou
art disposed to be
merry
and
will
laugh like a hyena when thou art disposed to sleep.
As You Like
It.
8.
Sacred and sweet
is all
I see in her.
Taming
the Shrew.
A
Of
maiden never bold spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
;
Blushes at herself
Othello.
10.
She
is
peevish, sullen, froward,
Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty.
Two Gentlemen
of Verona.
U, An
Her voice
is
soft
excellent thing in
and low, woman.
King Lear.
12.
0, when she
is
angry, she
is
keen and shrewd
She was a vixen when she went to school And though she be but little, she is fierce. Midsummer Night's Dream.
THE LADY YOU LOVE?
41
13.
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
Much Ado
14.
like a sweet
about Nothing.
melodious bird she sings

Titus Andronicus.
Sweet varied
notes, enchanting every ear.
15.
She
is
a virtuous, and a reverend lady.
Comedy of Errors.
16.
Modest as justice, and she seems a palace For crowned truth to dwell in.
Pericles.
17.
She
is
effeminate, changeable, longing
and liking
proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles for every passion something,
;
and
for
no passion anything
will
now
like thee,
now
thee.
loathe thee, then entertain thee, then forswear
As You Like
It.
18.
A carbuncle
Were not
entire, as big as
thou
art,
so rich a jewel.
Coriolanus.
19.
A virtuous
gentlewoman, mild and beautiful.
Two Gentlemen
20.
of Verona.
She will come near your beauty with her
nails,
And
set her ten
commandments
in
your
face.
Henry
VI.
42
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER OP
21.
I tell
a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.
you, he that can lay hold on her
Shall have the chinks.
Romeo and
22.
She'll
Juliet.
comb your noddle with a three-legged
stool,
And
paint your face, and use you like a fool.
Taming
23.
the
Shrew.
So perfect and
so peerless, she's created
Of every
creature's best.
Tempest,
24.
a
She had "rather hear her dog bark at a crow, than
man swear
he loves her.
Much Ado
25
Chaste as the
icicle
about Nothing.
That's curded by the frost from purest snow,
And hangs on
Dian's temple.
Coriolanus.
26.
A belle in her parlor, a wild cat in her kitchen, A saint in her injuries, a devil being offended.
Othello.
27.
She taketh most delight

poetry.
in music, instruments,
and
Taming
28.
the Shrew.
very forward March chick.
Much Ado
about Nothing,
the lady you love?
43
29.
Of good
discourse, an excellent musician.
Much Ado
30. She bears a purse
;*
about Nothing.
she
is
a region in Guiana,
All gold and bounty.

31.
Trust not the cunning waters of her eyes.
King
32.
She's a most exquisite lady;
delicate creature.
John.
a most fresh and
Othello.
33.
She'll
hamper
thee,
and dandle thee
like a baby.
Henry
34.
VI.
She will be bright, and shine
in pearls.
Titus Andronicus.
35.
Her passions
are
made
of nothing but the finest
part of pure love.
36.
She speaks poniards, and every word
stabs.
Much Ado
37.
about Nothini
She
to
is
so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a dispo-
sition, that she
holds
is
it
a vice, in her goodness, not
do more than
requested.
Othello
44
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER OF
38.
A heart
unspotted,
is
The purest spring
not more free from mud.
Henry
VI.
39.
Green
in
She is in her salad days, judgment, cold in blood.
Antony and Cleopairu.
40.
She
is
Her mood
importunate indeed distract will needs be pitied.

;
Hamhi
Out of measure
sad.
41.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
42.
Full of repentance,
Continual meditations, tears and sorrows.
Henry
VIII.
43
Of
great estate, of fresh and stainless youth.
Twelfth Night.
44.
Full of
warm
blood, of mirth, of gossipping.
King
John.
45.
You
parel
her.
;
shall find her the infernal

all disquiet, horror,
Ate in good apand perturbation follow

about Nothing.
Much Ado
THE LADY YOU LOVE
45
46.
She
is
as wise as she
is
beautiful.
Midsummer Night's Dream47.
She does outstrip
all praise,
And makes
it
halt behind her.
Tempest.
48.
would
my
horse had the speed of her tongue.
Much Ado
49.
about Nothing.
She puts her tongue a
little in
her heart,
Othello
And
chides with thinking.
50.
She'll never tell her love
But
let
concealment, like a
;
worm
i'
the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek she'll pine in thought, And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She'll sit like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at Grief.
Twelfth Night.
QUESTION
is tf&z
V,
<f)arwttr of
Htm
jou
HLofcuc?
"Ipr'y
thee,
let
me
be better acquainted with thee."
As You Like
Shall
I
It.
produce the
man
"
King John.
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER OF HIM YOU LOVE ?
1,
He sits among men like a descended god He hath a kind of honor sets him off,
More than a mortal seeming.
Cymbeline.
2.
A feather for each
wind that blows.

Winter's Tale.
3,
In his brain,
Which is
as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places With observation, the which he vents
crammed
In mangled form.
As You Like
It.
4,
He
is
complete in feature and in mind,
"With all good grace, to grace a gentleman.
Two Gentlemen
He
talks like the vulgar sort of
of Veroni.
5,
market men,
That come to gather money

3
for their corn.
Henry VL
4)0
WHAT
18
THE CHARACTER
6,
Gentle, but unfortunate,

Dishonestly
afflicted,
but yet honest.
Cymbeline.
7.
His nature
is
too noble for the world
He would
not flatter Neptune for his trident,

to thunder
;
Or Jove, for his power mouth What his breast forges,

;
his heart's hia
that his tongue
must vent.
Coriolanus.
8.
He woos
both high and low, both rich and poor,
both young and old.

9,
Is
A man whose
very snow broth
;
blood
and one who never feels The wanton stings and 'motions of the sense, But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge With profits of the mind, study, and fact.

The noblest mind he carries That ever governed man.
10.
Timon of Athens.
11.
A discontented gentleman,
Whose humble means match not
his
haughty mind. Richard III
12.
a knight well spoken, neat, and
fine,
But were
I you,
he never should be mine.
Tuo Gentlemen of
Verona.
OF HIM YOU LOVE
51
13.
Given to taverns, and sack, and wine, and methegand to drinkings, and swearings, and starings, pribbles and prabbles.
lins,
Merry Wives of Windsor*
14.
An
adventurous
spirit
He would o'erwalk a current, On the unsteadfast footing of
roaring loud,
a spear.
Henry IV*
15.
He
has a lean and hungry look
He
thinks too
much
such
1
men
are dangerous.
Would he were
fatter
Julius Ccesar,
16.
Upon
For
his
brow shame
is
ashamed to
sit
'tis
a throne where honor
may
be crowned
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
Romeo and
Juliet.
17.
An
obstinate heretic in despite of beauty.
Much Ado
about JYothing,
18.
In faith he
is a worthy gentleman Exceedingly well read, and profited In strange concealments valiant as a
;
lion,
And wondrous
As mines
affable
and as bountiful
of India.
Henry IV,
52
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER
19.
There's something in his soul,
O'er which his melancholy
sits
on brood.
Hamlet.
20.
He
wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat
It ever
changes with the next block.
Much Ado
21.
about Nothing.
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate His tears pure messengers from his heart
His heart as far from fraud, as Heaven from Earth.
Two Gentlemen
He makes
of Verona.
22.
a July's day short as December.
Winter's Tale.
23.
a reverend father
Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touched Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutored Whose white investments figure innocence The dove, and very blessed spirit of peace.
;
Henry IV.
24.
He
writes brave verses, speaks brave words, Swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely. As You Like
It.
25.
He
is
as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear,

;
slow as the elephant
man
into
whom
is
nature has
bo crowded humors, that his valor
crushed into
OF HIM YOU LOVE?
53
folly
man
it
;
his folly is sauced with discretion ; there is no ; hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of nor any man an attaint, but he carries some
it.
siain of
Troilus
and Cressida.
28.
A very valiant man
he hath an excellent stomach.
Much Ado
27.
about Nothing.
A most
To an
incomparable
man
breathed, as
it
were,
untirable and continuate goodness.
Timon of Athens.
28.
He's a justice of peace.

29.
He
is full
of the milk of
human
kindness.
Macbeth.
30.
His life is gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, this is a man.
;
Julius Ccesar.
31.
fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Hamlet.
32.
he
From
is
the crown of his head to the sole of his foot
all
mirth
he has a heart as sound as a

is
bell,
and
his
tongue
the clapper
for
what
his heart
thinks his tongue speaks.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
54
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER
33.
The unruly waywardness, that

years bring with them.
infirm
and choleric
Lear.
King
As just a man, As e'er my conversation coped
34.
withal.
Hamlet.
35.
He
has a tear for pity and a hand,

;
as day for melting charity Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's As humorous as winter, and as sudden
Open
flint
As
flaws congealed in the spring day.
Henry IV.
36.
He
will give
good words to
thee,
and
will flatter
Beneath abhorring.
Coriolanus.
37.
He is too costly for every day You would want another for working days. Much Ado about Nothing. He He He
As
38.
reads
is
much
a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of

hears no music
men
he loves no plays,
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything.
Julius Ccesar.
OF HIM YOU LOVE
55
39.
never heard of such a drawling, affecting rogue.
40.
He
is
of noble strain, approved valour, and con-
firmed honesty.
Much Ado
about JVothmg.
41,
One that for his love dares yet do more, Than you have heard him brag to you he
will.
Twelfth Night.
42.
The gentleman is learned, and a most rare speaker, To nature none more bound his training such, That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,
;
And
never seek for aid out of himself.
Henry IV.
43.
Truly an honest gentleman.

44,
-a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. Macbeth.
45.
A soldier
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Even
Seeking the bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth.
As You Like
It,
46.
He
will maintain
you
like a
gentlewoman.
56
WHAT
IS
THE CHARACTER, ETC.
47.
A man
that fortune's buffets
and rewards
Hamlet.
Hast ta'en with equal thanks.
48.
A son who
Amongst a
is
the
theme of honor's tongue
grove, the very straightest plant
Who
is
sweet fortune's minion and her pride.
Henry IV.
49.
A
will
gentleman who loves
to
hear himself talk, and

tc
speak more in a minute, than he will stand
in a month.
Romeo and
50.
Thou'gh from an humble stock, undoubtedly
Juliet.
Was fashioned to much honor. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one
;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading Lofty and sour to them that love him not But to those that seek him, sweet as summer.
And though
("Which
is
he be unsatisfied in getting
a sin), yet in bestowing,
madam,
He
is
most princely.
%ry VIII.
QUESTION
VI.
EStfoTt, cr BSfrete, fotll fiou
Just iHwt?
'0, mistress mine, where are you roaming?
and hear your true love 's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
0, stay
;
Tourneys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know."
Twelfth Nignt.
"Trip away;
Make no
Meet me
all,
stay
by break of day."
Midsummer
Night's
Dream.
WHEN, OE WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET?
1.
In the pleached bower
Where
honey-suckles, ripened by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter.
Much Ado
2,
about Nothing.
Even when
the eastern gate, all fiery red,
Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, Turns into yellow gold, his salt-green streams. Midsummer Nighfs Dream.
3.
'Mid summer
fields
and
fruitful vines.
Richard III
4,
In an unweeded garden, That grows to seed.
Hamlet
To-morrow
night,
5.
when Phoebe doth behold

bladed grass.
Her
silvery visage in the watery glass,

wi'.h liquid pearl, the
Decking
1)0
WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET'

on the dreadful summit of a
6,
cliff.
Hamlet.
Beneath mossed trees, That have outlived the eagle.
Timon of Athena.
underneath the grove of sycamore, an hour before the worshipped sun
8.
Pours forth the golden window of the
east.
Romeo and
Juliet.
On an
evening so
stilled,
As hushed on purpose
to grace
Much Ado
10.
harmony. about Nothing.
Where the Brook makes sweet music with the enamelled

Giving a gentle
kiss to every sedge.
stones,
He
overtaketh in his pilgrimage.
Two Gentlemen
11.
of Verona.
Upon
a barren mountain, in
still
winter
In storm perpetual.
Winter's Tale.
12.
Merrily, merrily, you'll meet,
I trow,
Tempest.
Under the blossom
that hangs on the bough.
13,
When
the unfolding star calls up the shepherd.
WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET 2
61
14.
When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight When cuckoos sing on every tree,
Cuckoo
!
Love's Labor Lost.
15.
That time when screech-owls cry, and barn-dogs howl,
And
spirits
walk, and ghosts break up their graves.
Henry
VI.
16.
When
crickets sing,
itself
and man's o'erlabored sense

Cymbeline.
Repairs
by
rest.
17.
When day
begins to break, and night
is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle overveiled
the earth.
Henry
At
a sheep-shearing.
VI.
18.
Winter's Tale.
19.
When every thing doth make a gleeful boast When birds chant melody on every bush When snakes lie rolled in the cheerful sun; When green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, And make a chequered shadow on the ground.
;
Titus Andronicus.
20.
Midst wind, rain, aud thunder.

Pericles.
62
WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET?
21.
Under the shade of melancholy boughs.
As You Like
In some remote and desert place.
It.
22.
Winter's Tale.
23.
When dying clouds contend with growing light What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Can
neither call
it
perfect
day or
night.
Henry
VI.
24.
Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
Upon
the brook that brawls along the wood.
As You Like
It.
25.
In the chapel.
Hamlet.
},
When grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light And flecked darkness, like a drunkard, reels
From forth
the pathway,
made by Titan's wheels. Romeo and Juliet.
27.
By
the parlor
fire.
Taming
the Shrew.
28.
When the moon shines bright And the sweet wind does gently
kiss the trees.
Merchant of Venice.
63
When o'er the one-half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtained
sleep
;
when
;
witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings
and withered murder
Alarumed by
his sentinel the wolf,
towards his design
Moves
like a ghost.
Macbeth.
When
the sun sets, and air doth drizzle dew.
Romeo and
Where
Juliet.
31,
there's a willow
grows aslant the brook,
That shows
his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
Hamlet
32.
Beside a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where
ox-lips
and the nodding violet grows

eglantine.
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with

In the morn and liquid dew of youth.
33.
Hamlet.
34.
When the morn is bright and grey, When fields are fragrant, and the woods
are green.
Titus Andronicus.
35,
In a sheep-cote fenced about with olive
trees.
It.
As You Like
64
36.
When morning opes her golden gates, And takes her farewell of the glorious
sun.
Henry
37.
VI.
On
turfy mountain, where live nibbling sheep.
Tempest.
38.
Within
A barren, detested
vale
The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O'ercome with moss, and baleful misletoe Where never shines the sun, where nothing breeds,
:
Unless the nightly owl, or fatal raven.

Titus Andronicus.
39.
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. Much Ado about Nothing.
40.
In the happy hollow of a tree.
King Lear
41.
in
grove or green,
By
fountain clear, or sparkling starlight sheen.
Midsummer JYighVs Dream.

Upon a high and
42.
pleasant
bill.
Timon of Athens.
43.
When
Doth
tip
the blessed
all
moon
with silver
the fruit tree-tops.
Romeo and
Juliet.
65
44.
Even where merchants most do congregate. Merchant of Venice.
45.
When
The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the
Troilus
earth.
and
Cressida.
46.
in the wood, a league without the town.
Midsummer NishVs Bream.

47.
'Mong sweet beds of flowers Love thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers.
Twelfth Night.
48.
iii the wood Where bloom faint primrose
beds.
Midsummer Night's Bream.

49.
Stands
tip- toe
When
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day-
on the misty mountain-tops.
Romeo and
Juliet.
50.
When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail. When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, When nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who
To-whit, to-who, a merry note,
While greasv Joan doth keel the pot.

Love's Labor Lost.
QUESTION
VII
SEjjat bill r|* it* sou Hobz it J&omjj
fo&m gnu
first
mwt ?
" Give
me
a gracious message."
Act
II.
Scene V.
"
I'll
like
a rat without a
do,
I'll
tail,
do,
I'll
do."
Macbeth.
Act
I.
Scene III.
WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE BE

YOTJ FIKST
DOING
WHEN
MEET]
1,
Lady.
Keeping
beds.
house, washing, wringing, brew-
ing, baking, scouring, dressing
meat and drink, and
making

Gent. He-11 be drunk, but drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
1,

Going
to Church.
2.
Twelfth JYight.
3,
Tearing the cave where echo
lies,
With
repetition of the loved one's name.
Romeo and
Juliet.
4.
veiled, she'll be walking, Lady. Watering her chamber round With eye-offending brine.
Twelfth JVight.
70
WHAT WILL THE OOT
TOtJ LOVBJ
4.
Gent. Making an ale-house of my lady's house and squeaking out his cooler's snatches without any
mitigation or remorse of voice.
Twelfth Night*
5*
Blubbering and weeping
weeping and blubbering.
Romeo and
Juliet.
6.
Squeaking and gibbering in the city
streets.
Hamlet.
7.
Lady.
Preparing the dinner.

King
Lear.
like a puffed
7,
Gent.
and reckless
libertine,
He'll be the primrose hill of dalliance treading.
Recking not
his
own
read.
Hamlet.
8.
Tearing your letter into a thousand half-pence.
Much Ado
about JVbthing.
with baked meats Coldly furnishing forth the marriage tables.
Hamlet.
10.
Lady.
She'll
with chestnuts in her lap,
mounch and mounch and mounch.

Macbeth.
BE DOING
WHEN
YOtf FIRST
MEET?
11
10.
Gent.
Killing swine.
Macbeth.
fuel.
11,
Fetching in
Tempest.
12.
Mewling and puking
in the nurse's arms.
As You Like
It.
13.
Bellowing like
bulls, or rather lions.
Tempest.
14.
-Lady. Stealing into the covert of the wood.
Romeo and
Juliet,
14.
Gent.
Seeking the bubble reputation,

at the cannon's mouth.
Even
As You Like
It.
15.
Going to a feast to read and domineer, Be mad and merry.
Taming
Inquiring thy lodging out.
the
Shrew.
16.
Merchant of Venice.
17.
Creeping like a snail

Unwillingly to school.
As You Like
It,
72
WHAT WILL THE ON*: YOU LOVE

1
18.
Lady.
Spending her prodigal wits

Carousing with
in bootless
rhyme.
Love's Labor Lost.
18.
Gent.
Potations pottle deep.

Othello.
19,
Eating the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole.
King
Lear.
20.
Drowning
cats
and blind puppies.

Othello.
21.
Sleeping to engross the idle body,

Instead of praying to enrich the soul.
Richard
III.
22.
Lady.
Weeping.
sitting
on a bank
Tempest.
22.
Gent.
Capering nimbly in a lady's chamber.

Richard
III.
23.
Calling for dates and quinces.
Romeo and
24.
Juliet.
Eating a crocodile.
Hamlet.
BE DOING
WHEN YOU
FIRST MEET
73
25.
Lady.
Eating her dinner.

Tempest.
Enforcing
25.
Gent.
A thievish living on the common road.

As You Like
It.
26.
Lending out money.
Merchant of Venice.
Lady.
27.
Shell be with two right reverend
'fathers,
Divinely bent on meditation.
Richard
III.
27.
Gent.
Herding with swine and rogues
forlorn.
In short and musty straw.
King Lear.
28.
Catterwauling.
Twelfth JVight.
29.
Lady.
Sitting upon the church bench.

Much Ado
about Nothing.
29.
Gent.
Swearing horribly.
Twelfth JVight.
30.
Lady.
raisins.
Buying three pounds of sugar,
five
pounds
of
of currants, four pounds of prunes, and as
many
Tale.
Winter '
1
74
WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE
30.
Gent.
The fool
slides o'er the ice.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
31,
Running
after a gilded butterfly.
Coriolanus.
32.
Lady.
Ransacking
Winter's Tale.
A pedlar's pack.
32.
Gent.
Smoking.
Coriolanus.
flies.
33.
Killing
Coriolanus.
34.
Lady.
Madly playing with her forefathers' bones.

Romeo and
Juliet.
34.
Gent.
Walking in thievish ways.

Romeo and
Juliet.
35.
Sleeping within an orchard.
Hamlet.
36.
Living upon the vapor of a dungeon.

'
fheli
BE D0ES O WHEN YOU FIRST MEET

T
75
37.
Lady.
The poor soul will

all
sit
sighing by a sycamore
tree,
Singing
a green willow
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,

Singing willow, willow, willow.
Othello.
37.
Gent.
Lying in swinish sleep.

Macbeth.
\,
Sitting
by the
fire.
Coriolanus.
39.
Shaking down mellow
fruit.
Coriolanus.
40.
Lady.
Playing the idle huswife.

Coriolanus.
bled.
40.
Gent.
Washing his nose, which

to be married.
Coriolanus.
41.
Going
King
Lady.
John.
42.
Sighing
like a furnace.
As You Like
It.
42.
Gent.
Winding up the watch of his
wit.
Tempest.
76
WHAT WILL THE OXE YOU LOVE

Disturbed by The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy.
Pericles.
43.
44.
Riding your horse.
Twelfth JYight.
45.
Lady.
Licking her
his
fingers.
Romeo and
Juliet.
45.
Gent.
Mocking
charge with snores.
Macbeth.
46.
Growing
fat with feasting.
47.
Being entertained by a perfumer.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
48.
Going
to the play.
Hamlet.
49.
Doing such
things,
What they
The
are I
know
not, but yet they are
terrors of the earth.
King
Lear.
50,
Lady.
Playing the housewife for
this once.
Romeo and
Juliet.
BE DOING
WHEN YOU
FIRST
MEET
17
50.
Gent.
Beating the surges under him,

;
And
riding upon their backs
treading the water,
and breasting Whose enmity he his bold head The surge most swola that meets him oaring and keeping, waves contentious the
flings aside,
;
'Bove
Himself with his good arms
in lusty stroke
To
the shore.
Tempest
QUESTION
VIII.
&fiat hill
ifi*
tu
sou lobt sa^ to sou'
" Wliat said he ?"
" Speak,
am bound
list!"
to hear.
"List,
list,
Hamlet.
Act
I.
Scene V.
and Act II. Scene
I.
WHAT WILL THE ONE
YOTJ
LOVE SAY TO YOU 1
1.
Lady.Do&t thou
love
me ?
know thou
it
wilt say ay
And
I will take thee at
thy word.
faithfully.
If thou dost love
pronounce
Romeo and
Juliet
Gent,-If
profane with
my
unworthy hand
fine be this, This holy shrine, the gentle
My
two blushing pilgrims ready stand tender To smooth that rough touch with a
lips
kiss.
Romeo and
Juliet.
o
'
but by this light I take thee deny you but by this good not would from pity. persuasion, and partly to day, I yield upon great
I will
have thee
I
save your
life.
Much Ado
about JVothmg.
pursue love thee not, therefore
me not. Midsummer Night's Dream.
62
WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU
4.
let
me
kiss thy hand.
King Lear.
Lady.
5.
Lord
would not endure a husband with a
beard on his face.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
5.
Gent. Excellent wench Perdition catch my But I do love thee and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
! !
soul,
Othello.
6.
do beseech you
Tempest.
What
is
your name?
7,
Lady.
am your
wife
if
you
will
marry me.
Tempest.
7.
Gent.
I will kiss
your hand and so leave you.
Much Ado
8.
I
about Nothing.
must hear from you every day i- the hour, For in a moment there are many days.
Romeo and
Doubt that the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
Juliet.
9,
Hamlet.
WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU?
83
10.
Lady.Where
dwell you, pretty youth
As You Like
It.
10.
Gent. I pray you do

For
I
not
fall in
love with
in wine.
me ?
It.
am
falser than
vows made
As You Like
11.
From
all
such Devils good Lord deliver
me
the
Taming
Shrew.
12.
Lady.V\\ not wed,I cannot love, I am too young, I pray you pardon me.
Romeo and
Juliet.
12.
Gent. Unworthy
Only give me
leave.
as I am, to follow you.
13,
Lady. To-night we hold a solemn And I'll request your presence.
supper,
sir,
Macbeth.
13.
Gent.
am
drunk.
Othello.
14,
Hear my
soul speak
The very
instant that I
fly J to
saw you, did

Tempest.
My J
heart
your
service.
84
WHAT WILL THE 0XE YOU LOTE SAY TO YOU

Will you sup with
15.
me
to-night
Julius C&sar.
16.
Lady.
Pray you stand further from me.

I
16.
Gent.
am maimed, madam.
17.
Lady.
Sweet
youth, I
pray you chide
year
together
I'd rather hear
you
chide, than others woo.
As You Like
Gent.
It.
17.
Your
father has consented
That you shall be
my
wife
your dowry's 'greed on
And,
will you, nill you. I will
marry you.
Taming
Out of
the
Shrew.
18.
my
sight,
and never see me more
King
Lady.
John.
19,
Peace,
fool.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
19.
Gent.
Sweet, above thought

my
bird,
I love thee.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
20.
would you were

I
Yet
should
kill thee
with
much
cherishing.
Juliet.
Romeo and
85
21.
My
poverty, and not
my
will, consents.
Romeo and
Juliet.
22.
Lady.
If that thy bent of love be honorable,

;
Thy purpose marriage
send
me word to-morrow
rite
By one
I will
procure to send to thee,
Where, and what time thou wilt perform the
And And
all
my
fortunes at thy feet
I'll lay,
follow you,
my
lord,
throughout the world.
Romeo and
Juliet.
22.
Gent.
Reason becomes the master of my

me
to
will,
And
leads
your eyes
where
I o'erlook
Love's stories written in love's richest book.
23.
Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.
Twelfth JYight.
24.
I have loved you night and day, For many weary months.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
25.
Lady.
Come,
you promised me a tawdry
lace,
and
pair of sweet gloves.
Winters
Tale.
25
Gent.
Avaunt
thou witch.
Comedy of Errors.
J6
WHAT WILL THE 0XE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU

Give me some music.
26.

Lady.
27.
Hence
or
I'll
;
Horrible villain
spurn thine eyes

:
Like balls before
Thou
shalt be
me I'll unhair thy head whipped with wire, and served
in brine
Smarting
in lingering pickle.
27.
Gent.
I will be married to a wealthy widow,

pass.
Ere three days
Taming
the
Shrew.
28.
Why
you're a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
Taming
the
Shrew.
29.
We
must talk
in secret.
Romeo and
I do not flatter But honor thee, and
Juliet.
30.
thee,
will
do
till I die.
Titus Andronicus.
31.
Lady.
Sir,
you and
must
part.
31.
Gent.
first
was won
Troilux
"With thy
glance.
and
Cressida.

Thou
mine own
self's better part
87
32.
art thyself,
Mine eye's clear eye,
my
dear heart's dearer heart
My My
food,
sole
and my sweet hope's aim, earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.
my
fortune,
Comedy of Errors.
33.
Lady. I'll have no husband
if
you be not
he.
It.
As You Like
33.
Gent.I'll
ne'er
wed woman
if
you be not
she.
It.
As You Like
34.
I will
not bite you.
35.
Tel1
me
>
How
stands your disposition to be married.
Romeo and
Juliet.
36.
Lady.O
Break
too.
cut
my
lace, lest
my
heart cracking
it,
Winter's Tale.
36.
Gent. Let me embrace
thee.
Troihis
and
Cressida.
37
You
Than is the coal Or hailstones in
are no surer, no,
of
fire
upon the
ice,
the sun.
Comolanus.
88
38.
Lady.
Bless me from marrying a usurer.

Winters
Tale.
all
38.
Gent.
You have bereft me of

I
words, lady.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
39.
Think not
love you.
As You Like
It.
40.
I will confess to
you that
love you.
Romeo and
Lady.
Juliet.
41.
Though
good
loved you well.
wooed you not
And
yet,
faith, I
wish'd myself a
men'.s privilege
man
Or that we women had Of speaking first.
Tr oilUs and Cressida.
41.
Gent.
let
me
kiss
bliss.
This princess of pure white, this seal of

42.
Lady. For you, would be trebled twenty times myself, A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more
I
rich.
Merchant of Venice.
42.
Gent.
Give
me your hand and
say you will be
mine.
89
43,
Lady.
Fair youth,
would
could
make
thee believe
that I love thee.
As You Like
It.
43.
Gent.Mislike me not
The shadow'd
for
my
complexion,
livery of the burnished sun,
To whom
am
a neighbor, and near bred.
I tell thee,
mine Hath feared the valiant by my love, I swear, The best-regarded virgins of our clime
lady, this aspect of
;
Have
lov'd
it
too
would not change
this hue,
Except to steal your thoughts
my
gentle queen.
Merchant of Venice.
44.
Lady.
That Heaven had made
would
me such
a man.
Othello.
44,
Gent.
Poor
soul,
thy face
is
much abused with tears. Romeo and Juliet.
45.
never loved \ou much.
46.
Lady. No faith, no
There's no trust,
honesty in
men
all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught,
all dissemblers.
Romeo and
Juliet.
90
WHAT WILL THE OXE YOU LOVE SAY

Gent.
I
TO YOU?
46.
Full
many
;
a lady,
have eyed with best regard and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear for several virtues
;
never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, And put it to foil. But you, you, So perfect and so peerless, are created
I lik'd
Have
several
women
Of every
creature's best.
Tempest.
47.
Lady.
Hang
all the
husbands.
Winter's Tale.
47.
Gent. Look how this ring encompasseth thy Even so thy breast encloseth this poor heart Wear both of them, for both are thine.
finger,
Richard
III.
48.
Lady.
I will
deny thee nothing.

Othello.
49.
do desire we may be better strangers.
As You Like
50.
It.
Lady.
ay,
had as
;
lief
be wooed of a snail as you,

a better jointure I
of a snail
for
though he comes slowly, he

;
carries his house on his head
think than you can
make
woman.
As You Like
It.
WHAT WILL THE 0XE
YOl
LOVE SAY TO YOU?
91
50i
Gent.Hearing thy mildness praised in sounded, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauties Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
every town,
Taming
the Shrew.
QUESTION
IX.
jat
must gou to
to
Wiin
t&* Qbnt
gou
HLofa?
" What should we do P " Hamlet.

"
What
*
******
wilt thou
do
Zounds
show me, what thou
'It
do."
Hamlet.
" Too light winning
Makes
the prize light."
Tempest.
An honest
tale
speeds best, being plainly told."
Richard HI.
WHAT MUST
YOTJ
DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE?
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This, above all to thine own self be true. Hamlet.
:
; :
2.
Cease your flow of
riot.
Timon of Athens.
violent delights ha^e violent ends,
And
in their
triumph die
kiss,
like fire
:
and powder
Which, as they
consume
;
Therefore, love moderately
long love doth so
Too
swift, arrives as
tardy as too slow.
Romeo and
Lady.
Juliet.
4.
Wring him by the nose.

Henry
VI.
4,
Gent,
Attain a beard.
96
WHAT
XITST
TOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE
5.
be constant as the northern star,
Of whose
There
is
true-fixed, and resting quality, no fellow in the firmament.
Julius Ccesar.
6.
Tell truth, and
shame the
devil.
Henry IV.
7.
play one scene
Of
excellent dissembling
and
let it
look
Like perfect honor.
8.
If thou dost love,
pronounce
it
faithfully.
Romeo and
Walk
look sweetly, and say
Juliet.
9,
softly,
nothing.
about Nothing.
Much Ado
Follow
"With no less confidence
10.
y
butterflies.
Than boys pursuing summer
Coriolanus
11,
Lady.
persevere, counterfeit sad looks
Make mouths upon him, when he turns his back. .Midsummer Wight's Dream.
11,
Gent.
steal the impression of h;r fantasy
With
biacelytr- of
thy hair, rings,
,-.
:.:.nceits
WHAT MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE
97
Knacks,
trifles,
nosegays, sweetmeatin
messengers
Of strong prevailment
unhardened youth. Midsummer Night's Drenm
12.
Do
not drink.
Hamlet.
13.
A round,
unvarnished tale deliver

of love.
Othello.
Of your whole course
14.
Look you
lisp,
and wear strange
suits.
As You Like
It.
15.
Wash your
face,
and keep your teeth clean.

Coriolanus.
16.
Do penance
"With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
With nightly
tears,
and daily heart-sore sighs. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
17.
o'er
Lady. Take your sweetheart's hat and pluck your brow-.

Winter's Tale.
it
17.
Gent.
Sigh
like a furnace,
with a woful ballad
made
to
your mistress' eyes.
As You Li
5
98
WHAT
MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE?
18.
Deck your body
in
gay ornaments.
Henry
VI.
19.
Put money
in thy purse.
Othello.
20.
Ask not advice

But
faithfulness
of any other thought
and courage.
Pericles.
21.
Lady.
Be
all
made
of sighs
and
tears,
All adoration, duty, and observance.
As You Like
It.
21.
Gent.
You must amend your drunkenness.

Twelfth
JViglit.
22.
be as patient as a gentle stream,
And make And
a pastime of each weary step,
Till the last step
have brought you

rest, as, after
to
your love
then you'll
much
turmoil,
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

Two Gentlemen
23.
of Verona.
Put on the pale complexion of true Or the red glow of scorn and proud
love,
disdain.
It.
As You Like
Lady.
24.
Drop
tears, as fast as the
Arabian trees
Othello.
Their medicinal gum.
WHAT MUST YOU DO

Gent.
TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE?
24.
Teach yourself that honorable stop,

Othello.
Not
to outsport discretion.
25.
Lose
all
mirth, forego all custom of exercise.
Hamlet.
26.
Lest
it
Mend your speech a little, may mar your fortunes.
King
Lear.
27.
Lady.
Get
your apparel together
good strings
to your beads,
new
ribbons to your pumps.
27.
Gent.
In her bosom unclasp thy heart,

tale.
And And
take her hearing prisoner with the force
strong encounter of thy amorous
Much Ado
Wisely and slow
about Nothing.
28.
they stumble that run
fast.
Romeo and
Juliet.
29.
Use ceremonious vows of love,
And ample
interchange of sweet discourse.
Richard
III.
30.
Lady.
Mingle tears with smiles.

Coriolanus.
00
WHAT MUST FOU

Gent.
DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE?
30.
Forswear,
thin,
potations,
and
addict
yourself to sack.
Henry IV.
31.
Moist
sacrifice
Write
till
it
your tears, your sighs, your heart your ink be dry and with your tears again and frame some feeling line
;
;
That
may
discover your integrity.
Two Gentlemen
32.
of Verona.
Let your tongue unload your heart's great burden.
Henry
Be thou
familiar, but
VI.
33.
by no means vulgar.
Hamlet.
34.
And
Write loyal cantos of contemned love, sing them loud even in the dead of night
hills.
Holla your name to the reverberate
And make
Cry
it
the babbling gossip of the air
out.
Twelfth Night.
35.
Seem
despiteful
and ungentle.
As
Timon of Athens.
Speak low.
if
you speak love, .Much Ado about Nothing.
WHAT MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE?

Upon
the heat and flame of thy distemper.
161
38.
Sprinkle cool patience.
Hamlet.
be better at thy
leisure,
And
be patient.
King Lear.
40.
Lady.
Consume away in
sighs.
Much Ado
Gent.
about Nothing.
40.
Keep a farm and
carters.
Hamlet.
41.
Be
too wise to
woo peaceably.
Much Ado
:
about Nothing.
42.
with your
;
Jig off a tune at the tongue s end, canary to it feet, humor it with turning up your eye;
sometimes sigh a note, and sing a note lids through the throat, as if you swallowed love with sometimes through the nose, as if singing love
;
you snuffed up love by smelling
love.
Love's Labor Lost.
43.
Lady.
Look sweet, speak
fair.
Comedy of Errors.
43
Gent.
Play the fool nowhere but in your own house.

Hamlet.
102
-WHAT MUST VOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE"?
44,
Lady.
Hold a solemn supper,
And
request his presence.
Macbeth
44,
It
Gent.
Unfold the passion of thy love,

to act thy
Surprise her with discourse of thy dear faith.
becomes you well

it.
woes
She will attend
Twelfth Night.
45-
Lady.
Laugh him out
of patience
laugh him into patience.
45.
Gent.
Sleek o'er your rugged looks

jovial.
Be bright and
Macbeth.
46.
Do nothing but eat and make good cheer, And praise heaven for the merry year. Henry IV.
Lady.
47.
distresses
Sit alone
And
to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune your
and record your woes.

Twelfth JYight.
47.
Gent.
"Woo her with

;
spirit
Say that she rail why, then, tell her plainly, She siags as sweetly as a nightingale Say she be mute, and will not speak a word
;
:
"WTLAT
MUST YOU DO TO WTN* THE ONE YOU LOVE?
103
Why,
If she
then,
commend
her volubility
When
deny to wed, why crave the day you shall ask the banns, and when be married.
Taming
48.
the Shreiv.
Do
not, for one repulse, forego the purpose

effect.
That you have resolved to
Tempest.
49.
Lady.
gether.
Get your jewels and your wealth
to-
As You Like
It.
49.
Gent.
Settle
and bend up
Macbeth.
Each corporal agent
to this terrible feat.
50.
Lady.
Spend
liquid
tears,
or
heart-offending
groans,
Or blood-consuming
sighs
be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
Look
pale as primrose.
Henry IV.
50.
Gent.
Win her with
gifts, if
she respect not words
Dumb jewels
often in their silent kind,
More than quick words do move a woman's mind.
Two Gentlemen
of Verona.
QUESTION
QSttH
iou S6tc
5*
l&arrM?
'
Wedding
'Tis
is
great Juno's crown

of
A blessed bond
Hymen
board and bed

;
:
peoples every town
High wedlock, then, be honored Honor, high renown and honor, To Hymen, god of every town."
As You Like
It.
" Kneel and pray
For happy wedlock hours."
Merchant of Venice.
WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED?
1.
It were all one Lady. That you should love a bright particular And think to wed it, he is so above thee.
star,
AlVs Well that Ends Well.
1.
She
Gent. She is is a woman,
woman,
therefore,
may
be wooed
therefore,
may
be won.
Titus Andronicus.
2,
Your nuptial hour Draws on apace four happy days bring

;
in
Another moon.
3,
Lady.
By
if
my
troth,
you
will never get thee a
husband
thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
3,
Gent.
You shall live a bachelor.

Much Ado
about Nothing.
108
WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED
4.
The bud of
love,
by summer's ripening breath,
Will prove a beauteous flower.
Romeo and
Juliet
5.
But screw your courage
to the sticking place,
And
you'll not
fail.
Macbeth.
6.
Lady. I think would marry.
if
your husband were dead, you

Gent.
6.
The bride
You
is
ready to go to church.
Romeo and
Juliet.
7.
are betrothed
Nay, more
With
all
your marriage hour, the cunning manner of your

:
flight,
Determined
how you must climb from window, The ladder made of cords and all the means
of.
;
Plotted and 'greed on for your happiness.
Two Gentlmen
Thou, perhaps, mayst move
of Verona
8.
The heart
that
now
abhors, to like thy love.
Twelfth JVight.
9.
Lady.
knew
woman
hope there will come a time, for I never so dote upon a man.
WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED?
109
9.
Gent. None but you shall have her, Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave
her.

money were
10.
If
as certain as
your waiting,
'Twere sure enough.
Timon of Athens.
11.
This couple shall eternally he knit.
Midsummer Night's Bream.

You
12.
shall have your will Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth
well.
Henry
VI.
13.
Lady.
You
!
may
sit in
the corner and cry,
Heigh
ho
for a husband.
Much Ado
13.
about Nothing.
Gent.
Seeing you shall love her, and loving woo, and wooing, she shall grant.
As You Like
It.
14.
Ask my dog
you
will.
if
he say, ay, you will

tail
if
he say no,
will
if
he shake his
and say nothing, you
Two Gentlemen
I should
of Verona.
15.
condemn
it,
as
an improbable
fiction.
.
Twelfth.
110
16.
Lady.
Get thee to a nunnery.

Hamlet.
16.
Gent.
Marry her, with my best endeavors.

Winter''s Tale.
17.
Your
suit is desperate,. undertake
no more.
18.
Lady.
hope your virtues
Will bring him.
Hamlet.
18.
Gent.
She does receive your offered love, like love,

wrong
it.
And
will not
Hamlet.
19.
You
will
marry
at
your request, yet
if
there be no
it
great love at the beginning, heaven will decrease
upon better acquaintance, when you are married and have more occasion to know one another.
20.
Indeed you shall not.

Coriolantts.
21,
Ladyband.
T hope to see you one day

Much Ado
fitted
with a hus-
about Nothing.
WILL YOU EVER HE MARRIED
1 1
21.
Gent.
She
is
yours for ever.
Winters
Tale.
22.
God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one As man and wife being two, are one in love.
Henry
23.
There's some
V.
ill
planet reigns
till
You must
be patient
the heavens look
With an aspect more
favorable.
Winter's Tale.
24.
You'll join forthwith in holy wedlock bands.
Henry
VI.
25.
Lady.
hope
Till then,
he'll prove a widower shortly, wear the willow garland for his sake.
Henry
25.
Gent.
VI.
Jack
shall
shall
have
Jill
Naught
go
ill.

when you
26.
Sell
can,
you are not
for all markets.
As You Like
Yes
It.
27.
underneath the consecrated
roof,
faith.
You'll plight the full assurance of your
Twelfth
JYi.jht.
112
WILL YOO EVER BE MARRIED?
28.
Lady. Grow.
You will endure the livery of a nun,

live,
and die
in single blessedness.
Midsummer
JVightfs
Dream.
28.
Gent.
God
will
match you with a good dancer.
Much Ado
29.
about Nothing.
Hymen
will
your hands,
Unite commutual, in most sacred bands.
Hamlet.
30.
Like a
fair edifice built
you
will
lose
upon another man's ground, your house by mistaking the place
where to erect
it.
Merry Wives
of.
Windsor.
31.
you will wed With pomp, with triumph, and with
revelling.
Midsummer
JVight's
Dream.
32.
Lady.
Choose thy husband, and

All's
Sir, the
I'll
pay the dower.
Well that Ends Well.
S2.
Gent.
maid loves you, and
all shall
be well.

have
Winter's Tale.
33.
The heavens
will not
Your contract
celebrated.
WILL FOU EVER BK MARRIED?
\\$
34.
Prepare for marriage-
And may
your oaths, well kept and prosperous
be.
Henry
V.
35.
The story of your loves discovered, a day of marriage shall be yours One feast, one house, one mutual happiness,
;
Two Gentlemen
36.
of Verona.
A solemn combination shall be

Of your dear
souls.
made
Twelfth JVight.
37.
Lady.
There stays a husband to make you a wife.

Romeo and
Juliet.
37.
Gent.
Bring
you the maid, you
shall not lack
priest.

The
38.
stars I see, will kiss the valleys
first.
Winter's Tale.
39.
The catastrophe
will be a nuptial.
Love's Labor Lost.
40.
Lady.
Himself and
what
is his,
to
you and yours
shall be converted.
Merchant of Venice.
114:
40.
Gent.
To woo
so fair a
You unworthy are dame to be your
wife,
And have no
portion in her choice.
Henry
VI.
41.
Let your wedding be to-morrow.
As You Like
It.
42.
Not until seven half-penny loaves are sold for a penny, and the three-hooped pot shall have ten
hoops.
Henry
VI.
43.
Lady.
Bait the hook

on more
fire,
well, the fish will bite.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
43.
Gent.
Clap
sails
is
pursue, up with your

prize.
fights,
give
she
your

You may
44.
not, verily.
Winters
Tale.
45.
tope
all will
be well, we must be patient.
Hamlet.
46.
You
will be conjoined
In the estate of honorable marriage.
Much Ado
about Nothing.
WILL YOU EVER BE MAllKIED
H5
47 **<
say -J
we
will
have no more marriages.

Hamlet.
48
Name
the
give you joy. day of marriage and God Much Ado about Nothing.
49
"
The weak wanton Cupid, amorous your neck unloose his from Shall mane lion's a from And like a dew-drop
folds,
Be shook
to airy air.
Troilus and Cressida.
50.
will
your friends, Put on your best array, bid shall. be married to-morrow, you
for if
you
As You Like
It.
QUESTION
XI
for
MM
fcafo
iou
a faxttaltts?
Every man hath business and desire, Such as it is."

Hamlet.
Guide ray pleasures."
King Lear.
" To business that
we
love
we
rise betimes,
And
go to
it
with delight."
FOR,
WHAT HAVE YOU A
PARTIALITY?
^
As
it
Music-
comes
o'er the ear like the sweet south,

violets,
That breathes upon a bank of Stealing and giving odor.
Twelfth Night.
-to sleep
No
more.
Hamlet.
3,
You had
dinner
rather be at a breakfast of enemies, than a
of friends.
Titnon of Athens.
Apricots and dewberries.

purple grapes, green
figs,
and mulberries.
Midsummer NighVs Dream.
5,
Nature
is
thy goddess, to her law
Thv
services are bound.
King Lea
120
FOR WHAT HAVE
Voi
PARTIALITY
6,
wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy prayers.
Comedy of Errors.
Cats and blind puppies.
Othello
7.
8.
To you The purest treasure mortal times

Is,
afford,
spotless reputation.
Richard
II.
9,
Porridge after meat.

Troilus
and
Cressida.
10.
Grandsires, babies, and old
women.
Henry
V.
11.
plate of rare device, and jewels of rich and
and exquisite form.

Cymbeline.
12.
You would
not lose your dog for twenty pounds.
Taming
rhyme
the
Shrew.
13.
You'll
eight years together
dinners, suppers,
and sleeping hours excepted.
As You Like
It.
14.
Children's voices.
Coriolanus.
FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY
121
15.
joint of mutton, or
some pigeons, a couple of short legged hens, a any pretty little tiny kickshaws.
Henry IV.
16.
gossip's frast.
Comedy of Errors.
You
give to dust that
17.
is
little gilt,
More laud than
gilt o'er dusted.
Troilus
and
Cressida.
18.
A pot
of
good double
beer.
Henry
VI.
19
The death
Innocent sleep
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
of each day's
life,
sore labor's bath,
Balm
of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

life's feast.
Chief nourisher in
Macbeth.
20.
For
love, for wealth, for
pomp, you
pine.
Love's Labor Lost.
21.
Such
stuff
As dreams
are
made
of.
Tempest.
22.
Epicurean cooks, who
Sharpen with cloyless sauce the appetite.
122
F0R "WHAT HATE YOU A PARTIALITY
23.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy
Romeo and
Juliet.
24.
The shadowy
desert,
unfrequented woods,
You
better brook than flourishing psopled towns.
Two Gentlemen
of Verona.
25.
A fellowship
in a
cry of players.
Hamlet.
26.
prophecies and dreams,
And
such like toys as these.
Richard
III.
27.
Thy
spirit,
with divine ambition puffed,
Makes mouths at the invisible event Exposing what is mortal and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger Even for an egg-shell.
dare,
Hamlet.
28.
Traffic
*s
thy god.
Timon of Athens.
29.
the pert and nimble spirit of mirth You'd turn melancholy forth to funerals, The pale companion is not for your pomp.
Jlfidsummer Night' a Bream.
FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY?
123
30.
thou hadst rather,
Follow thine enemy
in
a fiery gulf,
Coriolanus.
Than
flatter
him
in a bower.
31,
for
haunting assemblies,
cost,
Where youth, and
and witless bravery keep.

Tempest.
32.
To
eat, drink,
and
sleep.
Jill's
Well that Ends Well
33
Dreams
>
Which
are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
Romeo and
Juliet.
34,
A calf's head
and a capon.
Much Ado
35,
about Nothing.
Music
yet
;
:
You
are never merry,
when you hear sweet music
The reason is, your spirits are attentive For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and nnhandled colts.
Fetching
mad
bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud,

;
Which
Or any
is
the hot condition of their blood
If they but hear

air of
perchance a trumpet sound,
You
music touch their ears, them make a mutual stand, Tbcir savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze.
shall perceive
124
F0R WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY?
power of musio naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature
the sweet
:
:
By
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils The motions of his spirit are as dull as night,
;
And
his affections
dark as Erebus
Let no such
man
be trusted.
Merchant of Venice.
36.
A cup
of sack.
Henry IV.
37.
Thy glory
is
to
subdue men.
Love's Labor Lost.
38.
Report of fashions in proud Italy
Whose manners still our tardy Limps after in base imitation.
apish nation
Richard
II.
39.
Your
dinner.
Othello.
40.
Porridge and fat beef.
Henry
V.
41.
Thou hadst rather brook the Than those proud titles thou
loss of brittle life,
hast won.
Henry IV.

a widow aunt, a dowager great revenue, and she hath no child.
125
42,
Of
Midsummer
JVight's
Dream.
43,
Rats, and mice, and such small deer.
King Lear.
44.
heels. Tickling the senseless rushes with your
Borneo and Juliet.
45.
Wine and
feeding, rather than priest-like fasts.
Coriolanus.
4(j t
you are not covetous But

if it
for gold
be a sin to covet honor,
You
are the most offending soul alive.
Henry V.
47.
A cup
allaying Tyber. of hot wine without a drop of
Coriolanus.
48.
of glorious war. Pride, pomp, and circumstance

Othello.
49.
Gold
gold. yellow, glittering, precious
Timon of Athens.
126
50.
Your
sings
horse,
you would not change him

;
for
;
any
earth
that treads
on four pasterns
it
;
he trots the air

the basest horn
when he touches
is
;
of his
:
hoof
more musical than the pipe of Hermes he is and the dull elements of earth pure air and fire and water never appear in him. but only in patient he is indeed a stillness while the rider mounts him
:
horse.
Henry V.
QUESTION
XII
Mfat
foill
lou
fabt Occasion to Jtar
^ ary
best safety lies in fear.
Hamlet.
for thy
good caution, thanks,
Thou hast harped
my
fears aright."
Macbeth.
WHAT WILL
YOTJ
HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR?
1.
Ingratitude
that marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, Than the sea monster.
King
Lear.
2..
The pangs of despised
love.
Hamlet.
3.
That monster, custom, who
all sense
doth eat.
Hamlet.
4,
That sly devil That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith That daily break-vow he that wins of all, That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity,
; ;
Commodity
the bias of the world.
King
John.
5.
The
subtle blood of the grape.
Timon of Athens.
6*
130
WHAT WILL You HAVE

Open-eyed conspiracy,
* *
*
OCCASION TO FEAR?
6.
you keep a care, Shake off slumber and beware, Awake awake
If of life
!
!
Tempest.
7.
a deed without a name.
Macbeth.
8.
Smiling pick-thanks, and base news-mongers.
Henry IV.
away ambition how can man maker, hope to win by
fling
9.
charge thee,
of his
By
that sin fell the angels,
then,
it ?
The image
Henry
VIII.
10.
The cannibals that each other
eat.
Othello.
11,
Self-love
tho'
'tis
not so vile a
sin,
As
self-neglecting.
Henry
V.
12.
A Bailiff.
Winter 's Tale.
13.
The
infinite flatteries that
follow youth and opulency.
Timon of Athens.
WHA1 WELL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR?

raven up
131
14.
Thriftless ambition, that will
Thine own
life's
means.
Macbeth.
15.
Scoffs
and scorns, and contumelious taunts,
In the open market place.
Henry
VI.
16.
Pride
he that
is
proud eats up himself pride

:
is
his
own
glass, his
own trumpet,
itself
his
own
chronicle, and
whatever praises deed in praise.
but in the deed, devours the
Troilus
and
Cressida.
17.
Lean faced envy.
Henry
VI.
18.
Plutus, the god of gold.
Timon of Athens.
19.
The being benetted round with
villainies.
Hamlet.
20.
Nightly revels and new
jollity.
21,
The
sin of covetousness.
Twelfth Night.
132
WHAT
WHJL,
YOU HATE OCCASION TO FEAR
22.
Idleness,
which doth hatch
ten thousand harms.

23.
Lady.
A foolish
suitor.
Cymbeline.
23.
Gent.
The venom clamors of a jealous woman

mad
dog's tooth.
Poison more deadly, than a
Comedy of Errors
24.
thieves
thieves
thieves
Look
to
!
your house,
thieves
your bags
Thieves
Othello.
25.
The being
assailed
by robbers.
Henry V
26.
The censures of the carping world.

Richard
III.
27.
Deceit, which dwells in gorgeous palaces.
Romeo and
Juliet.
28.
brain, shall
Quips and sentences, and these paper bullets of tin awe you from the career of your humor.
.Much Ado about JVbthitiz.
WHAT WILL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR?

Necessity's sharp pinch.
133
29.
King Lear.
3Q
Beware of jealousy
i
It is the
green-eyed monster, which doth

it
mock
Othello.
The meat
feeds on.
31.
Sorrows,
when they come, they come not
single spies,
But
in battalions.
Hamlet.
32.
Which
Supernatural soliciting, shall unfix your hair,

seated heart
And make your
knock
at
your
ribs,
Against the use of nature.
Macbeth.
33
moving
accidents,
by flood and
field.
Othello.
34.
The shrug, the hum, or ha these petty brands That calumny doth use, for calumny will sear
;
Virtue
itself.
Winter's Tale.
35,
Heart's discontent, and sour
afl&iction.
Henry
VI.
134
WHAT WILL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAH

Laud
and water
pirates.
36.
rats
rats,
water thieves and land
thieves, I
mean
Merchant of Venice.
37.
doubts, which are traitors,
And make By fearing
us lose the good

to attempt.
we
oft
might win,
38.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

the law's delay,
The insolence of
office,
and the spurns

takes.
That patient merit of the unworthy
Hamlet.
39.
Wooing, wedding, and repenting.
Much Ado
40.
Dissolutions of ancient amities
dictions, needless differences,
about Nothing.
menaces and male-
banishment of friends,
and
know
not what.
King Lear.
41,
The toothache.
Much Ado
42.
about Nothing.
back wounding calumny, which The whitest virtue strikes what king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderous tongue.
:
135
43
The smiles
of knaves.
Coriolanus.
44.
Slander
whose tongue is sharper than the sword Oat-venoms all the worms of Nile whose breath Rides on the fostering winds, and doth belie All corners of the world kings, queens, and states,
Whose edge
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave. This viperous slander enters.
Cymbeline.
45
Malice
a great and grievous

rugged Russian bear,
or the
sin.
Henry
VI.
46,
the
The armed rhinoceros,
Hyrcan
tiger.
Macbeth
47.
The envious slanders of
false accusers.
Richard
III.
48,
Wine and wassel
that do
make
memory
a fume
;
the warder of the brain,
and the receipt of reason

Macbeth,
A limbeck
only.
49.
Envious and calumniating time
For beauty,
wit,
High
birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,

all to
;
Love, friendship, charity, are subject

Troilu*
t.
add Cressidu.
136

This
those
50.
receive as certain
you make your friends And give your heart to, when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes, will fall away Like water from you, never found again But where they mean to sink you.
Henry
VIII.
QUESTION
XIII
Wifat
is
four Mtstin^
" Thither he
Will
come
to
know
his destiny."
Macbeth.
" Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
When
our deep plots do
fall
and that should teach us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how we
will."
Hamlet.
WHAT
IS
YOJR DESTINY I
1.
foison plenty Earth's increase, and empty Barns and garners never
;
bunches growing Vines with clustering bowing burden goodly Plants with
;
the farthest, Spring come to you at harvest every of In the end you and want shall shun
:
Scarcity
Ceres' blessing so
is
on you.
Tempest.
If
you are used
after
your desert, you
shall
not
'scape whipping.
^^
on you thick l> hlessings
the earth, You'll be set quick i' turnips. bowled to death with
And
dews * The 4
of
Heaven
fall
Henry VIIL
140
WHAT
IS
YOUR DESTINY
5,
the fair goddess fortune
Falls deep in love with you.
Coriolanus.
with eyes of heavy mind,

I see
thy glory, like a shooting star.
Fall to the base earth from the firmament
Thy sun
sets
weeping
in the
lowly west,
Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes
:
And
crossly to thy good all fortune goes.
Richard
II.
7.
Prosperity
the very bond
of love.
Winter's Tale.
8.
Lady.
To
waste the treasure of your time with
foolish knight.
Twelfth Night.
8.
Gent.
To build upon a
foolish
woman's promise.

Thou would 'st be great Art not without ambition, but without
The
illness
9,
should attend
it.
Macbeth.
10.
I'll
warrant thee from drowning, though thy ship

nut-shell.
were no stronger than a
Tempest.
WHAT
IS
YOUR DESTINY?
141
11.
Affliction is
enamoured of thy
parts,
And
thou art wedded to calamity.
Romeo and
Juliet.
12.
All present woes shall serve,
For sweet
discourses, in the time to come.
Romeo and
make a
Juliet.
13.
You'll
swan-like end, fading to music.
Merchant of Venice.
14.
You
shall not die for lack of a dinner.
As You Like
It.
15.
Your memory
will outlive
your life-time half a year.
Hamlet.
16.
Rich only
to be
wretched
thy great fortunes,
Will be thy chief
afflictions.
Timon of Athens.
by an old man withabout Nothing.
17.
To have your nose snapped

out teeth.
off
Much Ado
18.
Be not afraid of greatness some achieve greatness, and Thy fates thrust upon them. thy blood and spirits embrace
:
some are born great, some have greatness

open their hands,
them.
let
Twelfth
Night
142
WHAT
To be boiled
IS
TOUR DESTINY?
19.
to
death with melancholy.
Twelfth Might
20.
To pluck bright honor 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 honor by the locks.
Henry IV.
Fame, that
hunt after in their
21.
all
lives,
Shall be registered upon tby brazen tomb.
Love's Labor Lost.
22.
You
will be
Bereft and gelded of your patrimony.
Richard
II.
23.
There's pippins and cheese to come.

Great shall be your comfort
in this earthly vale,
24.
Although by your
sight,
your
sin be multiplied.
Henry VI
5,
When your May

Has
of
life
fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf
All that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops You must not look to have.
of friends
Macbeth*
WHAT
IS
YOUR DESTINY
143
26.
Out of
safety.
the
nettle danger, you'll pluck the flower

TT TTr IV. Henry
27.
You'll find the joys of Heaven, here on earth.
Merchant of Venice.
28.
Under
love's
heavy burden you
will sink.
Romeo and
Juliet.
29.
the ear with a love-song

cleft
You'll be stabbed with a black eye, shot through the very pin of your heart
;
with the blind boy's butt-shatt.
Romeo and
Juliet.
30.
With
boot,
You will have your rights, and such addition as your honors
merited.
Have more than
King
Lear.
31.
We'll wail the dimming of your shining
star.
III.
Richard
32.
You
will be cabin'd, cribbed, confined,

fears.
bound
in
To saucy doubts and
33.
Lady.
With
Shall
all the virtues that
still
All graces,
attend the good, be doubled on you.
Henry
VIII.
144
WHAT
IS
YOUR DESTIXY
33.
Gent. You shall have Large suras of gold, and doweries with your
wife.
Henry
You'll be set high in fame.
VI.
34.
AIVs Well that Ends Well
35.
To shape your
old course in a country new.
King Lear.
36.
stones,
your
tongues in
life
trees,
exempt from public haunt, will find books in running brooks, sermons in
in everything.
and good
As You Like
It.
37.
When you
Never
to
fall,
you'll fall like Lucifer,
hope again.
Henry
VIII.
38.
I will
not be sworn, but love will transform you
into an oyster.
Much Ado
Lady.
about Nothing.
39.
A house and servants shall be yours.

Merchant of Venice.
wife, a beard, fair health
39.
Gent.
and honesty,
all these three.
With
threefold love
you
shall
have
Love's Labor Lost.
WHAT
IS
YOUR DESTINY
145
40.
you
And
To
in devotion
will lead a private life, spend your latter
days
sin's
rebuke and thy Creator's praise.
Henry VI
41.
You
Were
wear an undeserved dignity offices. that estates, degrees, and wearer purchased by the merit of the
will
:
How many then should cover, that stand How many be commanded, that command ? gleaned How much low peasantry would then be honor much how and ? honor of From the true seed
of the times Picked from the chaff and ruin
bare,
To be new
varnished.
^^ ^ ^.^
sieve,
42.
Lady.-l know
hope
;
against you'll love in vain, strive
Yet
in this captious
;
and untenable
You ll
still
pour in your love. AIVs Well that Ends Well. your charge, you shall comprehend
42.
Gent.This
all
is
vagrom men.
Much Ado
Thou
shalt be
about Nothing.
43.
Advanced above pale envy's threatening morn, As when the golden sun salutes the
reach
And having
beams, gilt the ocean with his coach, Gallops the zodiac in his glistening And over-looks the highest peering hills.
Titus Andronicus.
7
14.6
WHAT
IS
YOLR DESTINY
44,
My
strong imagination sees a crown
Dropping upon thy head.

Tempest.
45.
Thou It be undone by goodness.
Timon of Athens.
46.
To be contemned and
flattered.
King
Lear.
47.
Be thou
as pure as snow, as chaste as ice, thou shalt
not escape calumny.
Hamlet.
48.
Your
life will
be a voyage rich with,
Merchandise.
Midsvmmer
JVtght's
Bream.
49.
You have touched

greatness
the highest point
of all your
And from the full meridian of your glory, You haste now to your setting you shall fall
:
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man
see
you more.
Henry
VIII.
50.
Honor, riches, marriage-blessings,
Long
continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you Juno sings her blessiugs on you.
!
Tempest.
AX EPILOGUE.
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we shadows have offended, Think but this (and all is mended), That you have but slumbered here,
If
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle No more yielding but a

If
tneme,
dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend
And
If
you pardon we will mend. as I'm an honest Puck, we have unearned luck,
Now to 'scape the serpents tongue, We will make amends ere long
:
Else the
Puck a
liar call,
you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.
So, good night unto
Midsummer JVighCs Dream.
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and oraclk." Teoilus and Cbesstda, Act

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according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

much enhanced by having

WHICH THET ARE TO BE ASKED.

What What What

does the world think of you

the personal appearance of the lady you love ?

the personal appearance of

him you love

the character of the lady you love

him you love ?

.27 .37 .47

What must you do

win the one you love?

Will you ever be married

For what have you a partiality

you have occasion

S&fiat hots tit Mollis tjjtok of

Aa You Like It.

DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU1

That you are as tedious as a twice told

That he that depends

That the worst fault you have,

WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OP YOU?

In mouths of wisest censure.

Opinion crowns you

With an imperial grace.

vile, ill-favored faults,

hundred pounds a year.

Merry Wives of Windsor.

You've won golden opinions from

all sorts of people.

Neither heat, affection, limb nor beauty,

Measure for Measure.

WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU?

of infinite jest and most excellent fancy.

a candle, the better part burnt out.

and unprofitable. Hamlet.

That smoke and luke-warm water your perfection.

of one on whose foolish honesty

Its practices ride easy.

To say what good

WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OP YOU?

Stands without blemish.

Measure for Measure.

That you are of imagination

Midsummer Night's Dream.

the prattling nurse

Into a rapture lets her baby cry,

While she chats of you.

As one who lacks

a counterfeit which, being touched and tried,

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU?

insolence can brook to be

are gracious in the people's eye.

Nobody marks you.

That you are one of those gentle ones

That will use the devil himself with

And when you

ope your lips let no dog bark. Merchant of Venice.