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

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1489
    That it should come to this!
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1490
    Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1491
    Why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1492
    Frailty, thy name is woman!
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1493
    A little month.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1494
    Like Niobe, all tears.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1495
    A beast, that wants discourse of reason.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1496
    My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1497
    It is not nor it cannot come to good.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1498
    Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1499
    In my mind’s eye, Horatio.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1500
    He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1501
    Season your admiration for a while.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1502
    In the dead vast and middle of the night.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1503
    Arm’d at point exactly, cap-a-pe. 1
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
1504
    A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
          Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
 
Note 1.
”Armed at all points” in Singer and White. [back]