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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 83 |
| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 926 |
| I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 927 |
| Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 928 |
| And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 929 |
| ’T is my vocation, Hal; ’t is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 930 |
| He will give the devil his due. 1 |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 931 |
| There ’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 932 |
| If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 933 |
| Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap’d Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And ’twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took ’t away again. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 934 |
| And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 935 |
| God save the mark. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 936 |
| And telling me, the sovereign’st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg’d Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy’d So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| Note 1. Thomas Nash: Have with you to Saffron Walden. John Dryden: Epilogue to the Duke of Guise. [back] |
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