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

Page 158

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.

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