Shakspeare's Mental Photographs

Name: Shakspeare's Mental Photographs
Author: Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William

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

11.  A mender of bad soles.
                       _Julius Cæsar._ Act i. Scene 1.

 12.  No women’s matters.
                  _Henry VI._ Part II. Act i. Scene 3.

 13.  Eating and drinking.
                     _Twelfth Night._ Act ii. Scene 3.

 14.  Why, sir, a carpenter.
                       _Julius Cæsar._ Act i. Scene 1.

 15.  To be in love.
            _Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act i. Scene 1.

 16.  To number _Ave-Maries_.
                   _Henry VI._ Part I. Act i. Scene 3.

 17.  Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
            _Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act i. Scene 1.

 18.  Give me mine angle,—We’ll to the river; there,
    My music playing far off, I will betray
    Tawny-finn’d fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
    Their slimy jaws.
              _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 5.

 19.  A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
                      _Julius Cæsar._ Act ii. Scene 1.

 20.  To carve out dials quaintly, point by point.
                _Henry VI._ Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.

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                              QUESTION IV.

                       WHAT IS YOUR PET AVERSION?

 1.  A woman’s tongue.
                   _Taming of the Shrew._ Act i. Scene 2.

 2.  Marriage.
                      _Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 5.

 3.                 The lover,
    Sighing like furnace.
                       _As You Like It._ Act ii. Scene 7.

 4.  Women and fools.
                            _King John._ Act ii. Scene 1.

 5.  The first bringer of unwelcome news.
                     _Henry IV._ Part II. Act i. Scene 1.

 6.  Sleek-headed men.
                          _Julius Cæsar._ Act i. Scene 2.

 7.  The livery of a nun.
               _Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act i. Scene 1.

 8.  A lady’s tears.
                             _King John._ Act v. Scene 2.

 9.  Unbidden guests.
                     _Henry VI._ Part I. Act ii. Scene 2.

 10.  A good rebuke.
                _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act iii. Scene 7.

 11.  Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
                  _Troilus and Cressida._ Act v. Scene 3.

 12.  A younker, prancing to his love.
                   _Henry VI._ Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.

 13.  To climb steep hills.
                            _Henry VIII._ Act i. Scene 1.

 14.  A fawning greyhound.
                            _Coriolanus._ Act i. Scene 6.

 15.            A twice-told tale,
    Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
                           _King John._ Act iii. Scene 4.

 16.                     Coy looks,
    With heart-sore sighs.
               _Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act i. Scene 1.

 17.  To be suspected of more tenderness
    Than doth become a man!
                             _Cymbeline._ Act i. Scene 2.

 18.  To fight with you.
                 _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 6.

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