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

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1855
    ’T was merry when
You wager’d on your angling; when your diver
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he
With fervency drew up.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 5.
1856
    Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 7.
1857
    Who does i’ the wars more than his captain can
Becomes his captain’s captain; and ambition,
The soldier’s virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Than gain which darkens him.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1858
    He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 13.
1859
    Men’s judgments are
A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
Do draw the inward quality after them,
To suffer all alike.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 13.
1860
    To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to ’t with delight.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 4.
1861
    This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 4.
1862
    The shirt of Nessus is upon me.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 12.
1863
    Sometime we see a cloud that ’s dragonish;
A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
A tower’d citadel, a pendent rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon ’t.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 14.
1864
    That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
As water is in water.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 14.
1865
    Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv’d in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 14.
1866
    I am dying, Egypt, dying.
          Antony and Cleopatra. Act iv. Sc. 15.