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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Benedick: And do it with all thy heart.<br />

Beatrice: I love you with so much <strong>of</strong> my heart that none is left to protest.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 4, sc. 2, l. [283]<br />

O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [311]<br />

Flat burglary as ever was committed.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 4, sc. 2, l. [54]<br />

O that he were here to write me down an ass! but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though<br />

it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 4, sc. 2, l. [80]<br />

Patch grief with proverbs.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17<br />

<strong>The</strong>re was never yet philosopher<br />

That could endure the toothache patiently.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 35<br />

In a false quarrel there is no true valour.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. [121]<br />

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. [135]<br />

No, I was not born under a riming planet.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 5, sc. 2, l. [40]<br />

Good morrow, masters: put your torches out,<br />

<strong>The</strong> wolves have preyed; and look, the gentle day,<br />

Before the wheels <strong>of</strong> Phoebus, round about<br />

Dapples the drowsy east with spots <strong>of</strong> grey.<br />

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1598-9) act 5, sc. 3, l. 24<br />

7.66.25 Othello<br />

’Tis the curse <strong>of</strong> the service,<br />

Preferment goes by letter and affection,<br />

Not by the old gradation, where each second<br />

Stood heir to the first.<br />

‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 35<br />

You shall mark<br />

Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,<br />

That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,<br />

Wears out his time, much like his master’s ass,<br />

For nought but provender.<br />

‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 44<br />

In following him, I follow but myself.

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