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For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Grandsire
Phrase
Phrases

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Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.
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Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.
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I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
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Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
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This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
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