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⊕    Henry VI, part 2
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⊕    Hyde Park
⊕    Hymen's Triumph
⊕    Jack Drum's Entertainment
⊕    Julius Caesar
⊕    King John
⊕    King Lear
⊕    Locrine
⊕    Love In its Ecstasy: Or, the large Prerogative
⊕    Love Tricks, or The School of Compliments
⊕    Love's Labour's Lost
⊕    Loves Metamorphosis
⊕    Macbeth
⊕    Measure for Measure
⊕    Merry Wives of Windsor
⊕    Much Ado About Nothing
⊕    Mustapha
⊕    not in source
⊕    Othello
⊕    Pericles
⊕    Philaster
⊕    Philotas
⊕    Poetaster
⊕    Richard II
⊕    Richard III
⊕    Romeo and Juliet
⊕    Satiro-mastix: or, The Untrussing of the humorous poet
⊕    Sejanus His Fall
⊕    Sir Giles Goosecap
⊕    Sophonisba
⊕    Taming of the Shrew
⊕    The Atheist's Tragedy
⊕    The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
⊕    The Bondman
⊕    The Case is Altered
⊕    The Changes, or Love in a Maze
⊕    The Comedy of Errors
⊕    The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron
⊕    The Custom of the Country
⊕    The Devil's Law Case
⊕    The Elder Brother
⊕    The Fancies, Chaste and Noble
⊕    The Fawn
⊕    The Goblins
⊕    The Golden Age
⊕    The Grateful Servant
⊕    The Great Duke of Florence
⊕    The Gypsies Metamorphosed
⊕    The Honest Whore, Part I
⊕    The Insatiate Countess
⊕    The Lady of May
⊕    The Little French Lawyer
⊕    The Mad Lover
⊕    The Maid of Honour
⊕    The Malcontent
⊕    The Martyred Souldier
⊕    The Merchant of Venice
⊕    The Miseries of Inforc't Marriage
⊕    The Nice Valour
⊕    The Phoenix
⊕    The Puritan Widow
⊕    The Raging Turk
⊕    The Rival Friends
⊕    The Royal Master
⊕    The Royal Slave
⊕    The Sophy
⊕    The Spanish Curate
⊕    The Staple of News
⊕    The Tempest
⊕    The Tragedy of Nero
⊕    The Traitor
⊕    The Valiant Scot
⊕    The Virgin Widow
⊕    The Wedding
⊕    The White Devil
⊕    The Widow
⊕    The Wonder of a Kingdom
⊕    Timon of Athens
⊕    Titus Andronicus
⊕    Troilus and Cressida
⊕    Twelfth Night
⊕    Two Gentlemen of Verona
⊕    Volpone
⊕    What You Will
⊕    Winter's Tale

Much Ado About Nothing - Results found: 85

A Victory is twice its. wn tis not bloody.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN12-13), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I promise to eat All, yt he kills in ye Battel.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN44), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
There is a kind of merry war between them & ȳ meet
not out a skirmish of Wit.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN58-60), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
-- hee’ll never run mad till a hot January—
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN88-89), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I’d rather bear my Dog bark at a Crow yn a man
swear he loves me.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN127-129), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
A rare parrot-teacher;
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN135), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I would my Horse had ye speed of yeher tongue
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN138), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I can see out spectacles, & yet I can see no
such matter.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN184-185), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
– exceeds her as much in Beautie
as ye first of May doth ye Last of December.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN186-187), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I can be as Secret as a dumb Man
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN203-204), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
’Tis an Opinion, yt fire can not molt out of me;
I’ll die in it at ye stake.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN224-226), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
He looks so tartly, yt I can nev see him, but I am heartburned an hour after
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN419-420), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
--Such a man would win any Woman in ye World,
--if he could get her good will.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN430-431), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
R.
You have a merry heart.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN711-713), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
--as coy, & wild as Haggards of ye Rock.
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1123-1124), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
--All mirth, frō ye crown of ye Head to ye sole of ye foot: hath a heart as sound as a Bell; & his tongue ye clapp.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1217-1221), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
No man so pfect but shee’ll s’pell him backward. If
fair, she swears the Gent. shd be her sister. If black;-
Nre in drawing an Antick made a foul blott; If
tall, a Lance illheaded; If low, an Agat very vildly
cut; If talkative a Vane blown wth all winds, If si= lent, why a Block moved wth none: So turns she evy
M. ye wrong side out.
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1149-1158), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
If I speak, shee’ll mock me into
air, Laugh me out of mys. press me to death wth witt —
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1164-1166), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
-- I doubt not, but success will fashion the Event in bett
shape than I can Lay it down.
By Friar Francis, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1898-1900), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Manhood is gon; they are turn’d into tongu: hee’s (now)
valiant as Hercules yt tells a lie, & yn swears to it.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1980-1983), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
-- he dares as well do’t as I dare take a serpent by
ye Tooth.
By Antonio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2175-2176), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Done to Death by slanderous tongues.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2524), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
I know him, & wt he weighs, even to ye utmost scruple
By Antonio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2179-2180), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
A fine wit. R. yes a fine little one. A great Wit. R. yes a gross one. A good wit. R. Just, for it hurts nobody.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2248-2251), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
R.
Is he in earnest?
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2279-2280), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
-- runs smoothly in ye even Rode of blank verse.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2453-2454), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
--a lame halting SoñetSonnet of his own composing
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2646), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
hudl ḡ
jest upon jest, yt I stood like a man at a mark wth
a whole army shoot at me. She speaks poniards, and
evy Word stabs me.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN647-650), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
She should have made Hercules
turn ye spit yea & cleft his club to make ye Fire.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN654-656), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
She is ye infernal Ate in good cloths.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN657), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Tis better to weep for ioy then ioye at weepinge /
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN30-31), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 156v (rev)
 
Of false Patience P The Impracticalle Philosophy of Patience--
--give me not counsel Nor let no comfort else delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2084-2086), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20 r
 
And bid him speak of patience; Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine And let it answer every strain for strain As thus for thus, and such a grief for such, In every lineament branch shape and form If such a one will smile and stroke his beard
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2089-2094), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20 r
 
Patch grief with Proverbs make misfortune drunk With Candle-Wasters: bring him yet to me And I of him will gather Patience But there is no such man: for Brother Men Can councel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feele, but tasting it, Their council turns to Passion wc before Would give men (strikethrough) praeceptial medicine to rage
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2096-2103), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20 r
 
Charm ache with air and Agony with words No no, till 'tis all men's office to speak Patience To those that wring under ye load of Sorrow But no mans virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral; when he shall endure The like himself
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2105-2110), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
I pray thee Peace I will be Flesh and Blood For there was never yet Philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently However they have writ ye Stile of Gods nd made a Push at Chance and Sufferance.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2113-2117), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
Challenge of an Old man to a Young One--

Ile prove on his body if he dare Despight his nice fence and his active Practixe His May of Youth and Bloom of Lustihood.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2160-2162), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
Of a shady Bower
Bid her steel into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by ye Sun Forbid ye Sun to enter like favourites Made proud by Princes, that advance their Pride Against ye power that bred of ___
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1094-1098), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
Of Love in a Soldier
103.
I look'd upon her with a souldiers eye That likd but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to ye name of Love: But now I am returned and that War-thought Have th left their places vacant: in their rooms Come thronging soft and delicate Desires All prompting me how faire young Hero is
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN289-295), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21
 
Of Love
105
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in ye Office and Affairs of Love Therefore All Hearts in Love use their own Tongue Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no Agent. for beauty is a Witch Against whose Charms, Faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof__
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN581-587), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21
 
105
a Very dull fool, only his gift is in devising impossible
Slanders none but Libertines delight in him and
the commendation is not in his wit but his
villany. for he both pleases men and angers them
and then they laugh at him and beat him.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN544-549), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21
 
Of a proud woman
p. 110—
Nature never framd a womans Heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice Disdain and Scorn ride sparkling in her eye Misprising wt they look on, and her Wit Values itself so highly that to her all All Matter else seems weak: she cannot love Nor take no shape nor project of Affection She is so self-endeared. –
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1138-1145), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21v
 
hee hath indeed better bettered expectac[ion] then yow must expect of me to tell yow how.
By Messenger, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN19-20), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
tears
There are no faces truer then thos that are so washt not joyfull tearres, for better
ys it to weep at joy then to joy at weeping.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN29-31), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
Intrtainmt
Are [you] come to meet your trouble ye fashion of this wo r ld ys to avoid cost & you
incounter yt.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN93-95), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
A talker
I wold my horse had ye speed of [your] toung & so good a continuer
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN138-139), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Shee’s too lowe for a hye praise too browne for a fair prayse & too little for a great ps
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN167-169), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I can see wth out spectacles I see no such matter.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN184-185), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
you cannot maintayne [your] argmt.
but in the forme of [your] will.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN229-230), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Yf I can crosse him my way I blesse my self evry waye
By DonJohn, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Shee putts ye world into her ꝑson, & soe,
gives mee out well &c
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN612-613), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Misusse me past ye indurance of a blocke my very visor &c
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN642-644), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I were but little hapy yf I cold say how much.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN405), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I give away my self fo r yow, & doat upon ye exchange
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (707-708), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
my hart keeps on ye windy syde of care
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN712-713), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
Tyme goes on crutches till
love &c.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (752-753), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
strang
yt is the witnesse still of excellencie to put a strang face on his own pfect
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN880-881), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I pray god his bad voice bode no mischeef, I had as live have hard the night ravē &
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN917-919), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
write a letter of a sheet of pap r prforme
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN965), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
Yt is no addnō to h r witt nor no great argumt of her follie
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1056-1057), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
how worthy soev r shee wold spell him backward &c
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1150-1151), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
plarines
A hart as sound as a Bell.& his toung ys ye Clapp for what his hart thinks his toung speakes
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1219-1221), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
 
how long have yow ꝑfest appr hension.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1564-1565), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
Discourse
ha r ty Love
maintaind ye change of words.
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1846), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I love [you] wth so much of my hart yt none
ys left to ꝑtest wth.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1949-1950), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Will yow not eat [your] word.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1941-1942), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Cease thy counsell wch falls into my eares as [ ꝑtest ] as wate r into a syve.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2082-2084), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I know them yea & what they weighe
even to ye utmost scruple, from being outfacing fashion monging boys
By Antonio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2179-2181), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
wee are high [ ꝑoffe ] malencholie & would faine have it beatē away wilt yow use they witt.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2213-2214), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I said yow hadd'st a fine wit true said shee a fine little one, no se I a
great witt, right says she a great grosse one nay se I a good witt
just said she yt hurts nobodie, nay se I ye gent ys wise, certain se she
a wise gent: nay se I hee hath ye toungs: [that[ I beleev se she for hee
swore a thing to me on monday night, wch he forswore on tuesday
morning, theers a double toung thers 2 toungs
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2248-2255), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
what a pretty thing man ys when he goes in his dublet & hose & of his wit
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2284-2285), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Deserve well at my hands (I pray thee) by helping me to &c
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2424-2425), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Suffer love a good epithet, for I love against my will.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2484-2485), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
marraige
To binde me or undoe me one of thē
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2574), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
A Colledg of witt crackers
cannot flout me out of my humor, yf a man wilbe beaten wth
braines hee shall weare nothing hansome about him.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2659-2663), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Thou wilt bee a double dealer, yf thy wife do not look exceeding narowly to thee
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2672-2673), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Get thee a wyffe. there no staffe more revrent thē one tipt wth horne.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2679-2680), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v