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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [328]<br />

<strong>The</strong>re were none principal; they were all like one another as half-pence are; every one fault<br />

seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [376] (referring to women’s <strong>of</strong>fences.)<br />

Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [16]<br />

I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [40]<br />

Down on your knees,<br />

And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 57<br />

I pray you, do not fall in love with me,<br />

For I am falser than vows made in wine.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]<br />

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw <strong>of</strong> might:<br />

‘Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?’<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [81].<br />

Jaques: Nay then, God be wi’ you, an you talk in blank verse. (Exit)<br />

Rosalind: Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the<br />

benefits <strong>of</strong> your own country, be out <strong>of</strong> love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making<br />

you the countenance you are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [33]<br />

Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour, and like enough to consent.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [70]<br />

You were better speak first, and when you were gravelled for lack <strong>of</strong> matter, you might take<br />

occasion to kiss.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [75]<br />

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids,<br />

but the sky changes when they are wives.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]<br />

O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love!<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [217]<br />

<strong>The</strong> horn, the horn, the lusty horn<br />

Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]<br />

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.<br />

‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]<br />

Phebe: Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.<br />

Silvius: It is to be all made <strong>of</strong> sighs and tears...<br />

It is to be all made <strong>of</strong> faith and service...

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