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Author: Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William

Fortune-telling; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Miscellanea; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Quotations

20.                 Music, moody food
    Of us that trade in love.
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 5.

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                              QUESTION X.

                       WHAT WILL BE YOUR FUTURE?

 1.  A worky-day fortune.
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act i. Scene 2.

 2.  All days of glory, joy, and happiness.
                          _King John._ Act iii. Scene 4.

 3.  To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow,
    An age of poverty.
                  _Merchant of Venice._ Act iv. Scene 1.

 4.  God’s vassals drop and die;
    And sword and shield,
    In bloody field,
    Doth win immortal fame.
                            _Henry V._ Act iii. Scene 2.

 5.  I will live a bachelor.
               _Much Ado About Nothing._ Act i. Scene 1.

 6.  I’ll see thee hang’d on Sunday.
                 _Taming of the Shrew._ Act ii. Scene 1.

 7.  You shall paint when you are old.
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act i. Scene 2.

 8.  Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire.
                    _Henry VI._ Part I. Act iv. Scene 2.

 9.  Groaning for love.
                    _Romeo and Juliet._ Act ii. Scene 4.

 10.           Would you not suppose
    Your bondage happy to be made a queen?
                     _Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 3.

 11.  Hated by one he loves; brav’d by his brother;
    Check’d like a bondman, all his faults observ’d,
    Set in a note-book, learn’d and conn’d by rote
    To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep
    My spirit from mine eyes!
                        _Julius Cæsar._ Act iv. Scene 3.

 12.  For aye to be in shady cloister mew’d.
              _Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act i. Scene 1.

 13.  Made a toast for Neptune.
                 _Troilus and Cressida._ Act i. Scene 3.

 14.  You shall be more beloving, than belov’d.
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act i. Scene 2.

 15.               Upon your sword
    Sit laurel’d victory, and smooth success
    Be strew’d before your feet!
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act i. Scene 3.

 16.  To live in prayer and contemplation.
                 _Merchant of Venice._ Act iii. Scene 4.

 17.  Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine.
                    _Henry VI._ Part I. Act ii. Scene 5.

 18.  You shall be yet far fairer than you are.
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act i. Scene 2.

 19.  All heart’s content.
                 _Merchant of Venice._ Act iii. Scene 4.

 20.           When thou art old and rich,
    Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
    To make thy riches pleasant.
                _Measure for Measure._ Act iii. Scene 1.

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