You’ll have your nephews neigh to you you’ll haveĬoursers for cousins and gennets for germans. Have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse Because we come toĭo you service and you think we are ruffians, you’ll Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not What tell’st thou me of robbing? this is Venice My spirit and my place have in them power My daughter is not for thee and now, in madness,īeing full of supper and distempering draughts, In honest plainness thou hast heard me say I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors: Most reverend signior, do you know my voice? Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you: Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul Įven now, now, very now, an old black ramĪwake the snorting citizens with the bell, Zounds, sir, you’re robb’d for shame, put on What is the reason of this terrible summons? Look to your house, your daughter and your bags! What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!Īwake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves! Here is her father’s house I’ll call aloud.ĭo, with like timorous accent and dire yellĪs when, by night and negligence, the fire Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy, Proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen,Īnd, though he in a fertile climate dwell, Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight, What a full fortune does the thicklips owe In compliment extern, ’tis not long after Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,įor when my outward action doth demonstrate Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,Īnd, throwing but shows of service on their lords,ĭo well thrive by them and when they have linedĭo themselves homage: these fellows have some soul Īnd such a one do I profess myself. Who, trimm’d in forms and visages of duty, Wears out his time, much like his master’s ass,įor nought but provender, and when he’s old, cashier’d: That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Why, there’s no remedy ’tis the curse of service,Īnd not by old gradation, where each second He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,Īnd I–God bless the mark!–his Moorship’s ancient.īy heaven, I rather would have been his hangman. But he, sir, had the election:Īnd I, of whom his eyes had seen the proofĪt Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other groundsĬhristian and heathen, must be be-lee’d and calm’dīy debitor and creditor: this counter-caster, More than a spinster unless the bookish theoric,Īs masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise, Nonsuits my mediators for, ‘Certes,’ says he, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:īut he as loving his own pride and purposes, Off-capp’d to him: and, by the faith of man, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Thou told’st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.ĭespise me, if I do not. If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me. Tush! never tell me I take it much unkindlyĪs if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
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