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Snug
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I am slow of study.
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Puck
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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Titania
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These are the forgeries of jealousy
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Hippolyta
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Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
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Oberon
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This is thy negligence. Still thou mistak'st, or else committ'st thy knaveries willfully.
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Theseus
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Egeus I shall overbear you... These couples shall eternally be knit
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Demetrius
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My love to hermia melted as the snow
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Bottom
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A lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing.
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O Wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world
That such in't!
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The Tempest, Miranda.
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Get thee to a nunnery!
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Hamlet, Hamlet to Ophelia.
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Helena
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
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Lysander
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Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Men should be what they seem;
Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
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Othello, Iago.
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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind...
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The Tempest, Prospero.
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Put out the light, and then put out the light...
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Othello, Othello.
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Whence is that knocking?--
How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarn
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Macbeth, Macbeth, having just murdered Duncan, Macbeth is startled by a knock at his door.
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Frailty, thy name is woman!
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Hamlet, Hamlet, Hamlet has agreed to remain in Denmark instead of continuing his studies at Wittenburg; angstridden, he contemplates his father's death and his mother's swift remarriage.
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O, I am fortune's fool!
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Romeo and Juliet, Romeo, Romeo has just killed Tybalt, hours after marrying Tybalt's cousin Juliet.
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Hermia
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How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes?
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit...
What, must I hold a candle to my shames?
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The Merchant of Venice, Jessica.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
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Hamlet, Marcellus, Marcellus and Horatio debate whether or not to follow Hamlet and the ghost into the dark night.
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Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-clapped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe its
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The Tempest, Prospero, Prospero has remembered the plot against his life.
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A little water clears us of this deed
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Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth responds to Macbeth's growing guilt.
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I am Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, sense, affections passions...If you prick us, do we not bleed?
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The Merchant of Venice, Shylock.
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The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
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The Merchant of Venice, Lorenzo to Jessica, Lorenzo and Jessica sit outside, looking at the stars.
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"The Murder of Gonzago" and "The Mousetrap"
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Hamlet, the play within a play that Hamlet puts on to see how Claudius responds.
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And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world
How these things came about.
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Hamlet, Horatio, Horatio to audience at the end of the play.
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Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.
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King Lear, Cordelia to King Lear, Lear has asked his daughters to tell him how much they love him before he divides his kingdom among them.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles...
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Hamlet, Hamlet, Tormented by his sense of his responsibility to avenge his father's death, Hamlet contemplates why people do not commit suicide.
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