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

William Shakespeare 1564-1616 The Winters Tale John Bartlett 1919 Familiar Quotations

 
1
    They say we are
Almost as like as eggs.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.
2
    What ’s gone and what ’s past help
Should be past grief.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2.
3
    A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 1
4
    A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.
5
    O Proserpina,
For the flowers now, that frighted thou let’st fall
From Dis’s waggon! daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes
Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. 2
6
    When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ the sea, 3 that you might ever do
Nothing but that.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.
7
    I love a ballad in print o’ life, for then we are sure they are true.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.
8
    To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
          The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.
 
Note 1.
Act iv. sc. 2 in Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and White. [back]
Note 2.
Act iv. Sc. 3 in Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and White. [back]
Note 3.
Like a wave of the sea.—James i. 6. [back]