| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Defiance |
| | | | Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, |
| Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest. |
Shakespeare. | 1 |
| | Come one, come allthis rock shall fly |
| From its firm base as soon as I. |
Scott. | 2 |
| | Why, I will fight with him upon this theme |
| Until my eyelids will no longer wag. |
Shakespeare. | 3 |
| | If them denyst it, twenty times thou liest; |
| And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, |
| Where it was forged, with my rapiers point. |
Shakespeare. | 4 |
| | I do defy him, and I spit at him; |
| Call hima slanderous coward, and a villain: |
| Which to maintain, I would allow him odds; |
| And meet him, were I tyd to run a-foot, |
| Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps. |
Shakespeare. | 5 |
| | If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot, |
| Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame, |
| Ill strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime, |
| Or Ill so maul you and your toasting-iron, |
| That you shall think the devil has come from hell. |
Shakespeare. | 6 |
| | Who sets me else? by heaven Ill throw at all; |
| I have a thousand spirits in one breast, |
| To answer twenty thousand such as you. |
Shakespeare. | 7 |
| | I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, |
| And with the other fling it at thy face, |
| Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee. |
Shakespeare. | 8 |
| | Though all around is dark and cheerless, |
| And on high my star looks pale, |
| My heart is steadfast still and fearless, |
| Still my lips disdain to wail. |
| My spirit still stands up undaunted, |
| Still I on myself rely; |
| No craven thought my brain eer haunted, |
| Fate and Fortune I defy! |
Frazers Magazine. | 9 | | |
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