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

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1615
    Pluck out the heart of my mystery.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1616
    Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1617
    Ham. Do you see yonder cloud that ’s almost in shape of a camel?
Pol. By the mass, and ’t is like a camel, indeed.
Ham. Methinks it is like a weasel.
Pol. It is backed like a weasel.
Ham. Or like a whale?
Pol. Very like a whale.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1618
    They fool me to the top of my bent.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1619
    By and by is easily said.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1620
    ’T is now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1621
    I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1622
    O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t,
A brother’s murder.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
1623
    Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
1624
    ’T is not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
1625
    O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engag’d! Help, angels! Make assay!
Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
1626
    With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
1627
    About some act
That has no relish of salvation in ’t.
          Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.