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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment<br />

Can lay on nature, is a paradise<br />

To what we fear <strong>of</strong> death.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114<br />

<strong>The</strong> hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [182]<br />

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [214]<br />

<strong>The</strong>re, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [279]<br />

Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it<br />

is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 3, sc. 2, l. [117]<br />

A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 3, sc. 2, l. [151]<br />

Take, O take those lips away,<br />

That so sweetly were forsworn;<br />

And those eyes, the break <strong>of</strong> day,<br />

Lights that do mislead the morn:<br />

But my kisses bring again, bring again;<br />

Seals <strong>of</strong> love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 1, l. 1<br />

Though music <strong>of</strong>t hath such a charm<br />

To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 1, l. 16<br />

He will discredit our mystery.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]<br />

Every true man’s apparel fits your thief.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]<br />

A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and<br />

fearless <strong>of</strong> what’s past, present, or to come; insensible <strong>of</strong> mortality, and desperately mortal.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [148]<br />

O! death’s a great disguiser.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [185]<br />

I am a kind <strong>of</strong> burr; I shall stick.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 4, sc. 3, l. [193]<br />

Let the devil<br />

Be sometime honoured for his burning throne.<br />

‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) act 5, sc. 1, l. [289]

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