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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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<strong>The</strong>ir fears <strong>of</strong> hostile strokes, their aches, losses,<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir pangs <strong>of</strong> love, with other incident throes<br />

That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain<br />

In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.<br />

‘Timon Of Athens’ act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]<br />

Timon hath made his everlasting mansion<br />

Upon the beachéd verge <strong>of</strong> the salt flood;<br />

Who once a day with his embosséd froth<br />

<strong>The</strong> turbulent surge shall cover.<br />

‘Timon Of Athens’ act 5, sc. 1, l. [220]<br />

7.66.33 Titus Andronicus<br />

She is a woman, therefore may be wooed;<br />

She is a woman, therefore may be won;<br />

She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.<br />

What, man! more water glideth by the mill<br />

Than wots the miller <strong>of</strong>; and easy it is<br />

Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know.<br />

‘Titus Andronicus’ (1590) act 2, sc. 1, l. 82.<br />

Come, and take choice <strong>of</strong> all my library,<br />

And so beguile thy sorrow.<br />

‘Titus Andronicus’ (1590) act 4, sc. 1, l. 34<br />

Tamora: Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?<br />

Titus: Not I, ’twas Chiron and Demetrius:<br />

<strong>The</strong>y ravished her and cut away her tongue,<br />

And they, ’twas they, that did her all this wrong.<br />

Saturninus: Go fetch them hither to us presently.<br />

Titus: Why, there they are, both bakéd in this pie<br />

Where<strong>of</strong> their mother daintily hath fed,<br />

Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.<br />

‘Titus Andronicus’ (1590) act 5, sc. 3, l. 54]<br />

If one good deed in all my life I did,<br />

I do repent it from my very soul.<br />

‘Titus Andronicus’ (1590) act 5, sc. 3, l. [189]<br />

7.66.34 Troilus And Cressida<br />

I have had my labour for my travail.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 1, sc. 1, l. [73]<br />

Women are angels, wooing:<br />

Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing;

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