Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.
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William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Readers' Edition
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Great Sonnets
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Henry IV: Part 1
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VIII
King Henry IV, Part 1
King Henry VI, Part 2
King Henry VI, Part 3
King Lear
Love Poems and Sonnets
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Othello
Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam
Part 2
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Collection)
Romeo and Juliet: Plain Text: The Graphic Novel
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Sonnets
The Comedy of Errors
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
The Complete Works
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Rape of Lucrece
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
The Tragedy of Macbeth. by William Shakespear. to Which Are Added All the Original Songs.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Venus and Adonis
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Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope__ ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I__l watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasure age is full of care Youth like summer morn age like winter weather Youth like summer brave age like winter bare. Youth is full sport age's breath is short Youth is nimble age is lame Youth is hot and bold age is weak and cold Youth is wild age is tame. Age I do abhor thee youth I do adore thee.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players.
My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.
She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.
Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.
Fraily thy name is woman!
Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
Thy wish was father to that thought.
Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.