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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Fie, fie! how wayward is this foolish love<br />

That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse<br />

And presently all humbled kiss the rod!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 55<br />

O! how this spring <strong>of</strong> love resembleth<br />

<strong>The</strong> uncertain glory <strong>of</strong> an April day,<br />

Which now shows all the beauty <strong>of</strong> the sun,<br />

And by and by a cloud takes all away!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84<br />

Or as one nail by strength drives out another,<br />

So the remembrance <strong>of</strong> my former love<br />

Is by a newer object quite forgotten.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 2, sc. 4, l. 194<br />

Except I be by Silvia in the night,<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no music in the nightingale;<br />

Unless I look on Silvia in the day,<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no day for me to look upon.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 3, sc. 1, l. 178<br />

Much is the force <strong>of</strong> heaven-bred poesy.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 3, sc. 2, l. 71<br />

Who is Sylvia? what is she,<br />

That all our swains commend her?<br />

Holy, fair, and wise is she;<br />

<strong>The</strong> heaven such grace did lend her,<br />

That she might admiréd be.<br />

Is she kind as she is fair?<br />

For beauty lives with kindness:<br />

Love doth to her eyes repair,<br />

To help him <strong>of</strong> his blindness;<br />

And, being helped, inhabits there.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n to Silvia let us sing,<br />

That Silvia is excelling;<br />

She excels each mortal thing<br />

Upon the dull earth dwelling;<br />

To her let us garlands bring.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40<br />

How use doth breed a habit in man!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 1<br />

O heaven! were man<br />

But constant, he were perfect.

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