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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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To build at all?<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. [41]<br />

A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear; and I have borne, and borne, and<br />

borne; and have been fubbed <strong>of</strong>f, and fubbed <strong>of</strong>f, and fubbed <strong>of</strong>f, from this day to that day, that it<br />

is a shame to be thought on.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 1, l. [36]<br />

Away, you scullion! you rampallion! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 1, l. [67]<br />

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my<br />

Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in<br />

Wheeson week.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 1, l. [97]<br />

Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [7]<br />

I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [12]<br />

Let the end try the man.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [52]<br />

He was indeed the glass<br />

Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. 21<br />

Shall pack-horses,<br />

And hollow pampered jades <strong>of</strong> Asia,<br />

Which cannot go but thirty miles a day,<br />

Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals,<br />

And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with<br />

King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [176].<br />

By my troth, captain, these are very bitter words.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [183]<br />

Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o’ days, and<br />

foining o’ nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]<br />

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [283]<br />

O sleep! O gentle sleep!<br />

Nature’s s<strong>of</strong>t nurse, how have I frighted thee,<br />

That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down<br />

And steep my senses in forgetfulness?<br />

Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,

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