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Driving back shadows over louring hills;
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw
Love,

And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid
wings.

A

Romeo and Juliet. Act II, Sc. 5.

LOVER may bestride the gossamer That idles in the wanton summer air, And yet not fall; so light is vanity.

Romeo and Juliet. Act II, Sc. 6.

LOVE'S BITTER-SWEET

HOW this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I, Sc. 3.

TH

HE current that with gentle murmur
glides,

Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently
doth rage;

But when his fair course is not hindered,

The
Lover

Uncer

tainty

Love
Dam-
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Cupid

Love's

Tyranny

He makes sweet music with the enamell'd

stones,

Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage;

And so by many winding nooks he strays
With willing sport to the wild ocean.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II, Sc. 7.

HINGS base and vile, holding no quan

Ttity,

Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the
mind;

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjur'd everywhere.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I, Sc. 1.

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LAS, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! Romeo and Juliet. Act I, Sc. I.

L

OVE is a smoke made with the fume of

sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers'

tears.

What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
Romeo and Juliet. Act I, Sc. I.

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S love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks
like thorn.

If love be rough with you, be rough with
love;

Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.

Romeo and Juliet. Act I, Sc. 4.

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Y me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth;
But, either it was different in blood,
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,

Antitheses

Rebellion

Consolation

War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and
earth,

And ere a man hath

power

to say,

"Behold!"

The jaws of darkness do devour it up;
So quick bright things come to confusion.
If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an edict in destiny.

Then let us teach our trial patience,

Because it is a customary cross,

As due to love as thoughts and dreams and
sighs,

Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I, Sc. 1.

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The

Effects of

Grief

GRIEF

FT have I heard that grief softens the mind,

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And makes it fearful and degenerate.

Henry VI. Part II, Act IV, Sc. 4.

ORROW breaks seasons and reposing

S hours,

Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide
Richard III. Act I, Sc. 4.

night.

TH

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HERE'S nothing in this world can make
me joy.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale

Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;

And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet
world's taste,

That it yields nought but shame and bitter-
King John. Act III, Sc. 4.

ness.

COM

OMFORT'S in heaven; and we are on
the earth,

Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and
King Richard II. Act II, Sc. 2.

I

grief.

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WILL despair, and be at enmity
With cozening hope. He is a flatterer,
A parasite, a keeper back of death,

Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
Which false hope lingers in extremity.

King Richard II. Act II, Sc. 2.

Shame the Sorrow of Life

Sweet

ness

Made
Bitter

Earth and Heaven

Hope

a

Deceit

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