19. My wife,
I would you had her spirit in such another;
The third o’ the world is yours; which with a snaffle
You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
_Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 2.
20. A silly woman.
_Henry VI._ Part III. Act i. Scene 1.
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QUESTION V.
WHAT STYLE OF BEAUTY DO YOU ADMIRE?
1. Her hair is auburn.
_Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act iv. Scene 4.
2. A sweet-faced man.
_Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act i. Scene 2.
3. She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.
_Merry Wives of Windsor._ Act i. Scene 1.
4. Her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.
_Merchant of Venice._ Act i. Scene 1.
5. Her hair, what color?
Brown, Madam: and her forehead is as low
As she would wish it.
_Antony and Cleopatra._ Act iii. Scene 3.
6. As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,
Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
_Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 3.
7. A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue
eye and sunken; which you have not: an
unquestionable spirit; which you have not.
_As You Like It._ Act iii. Scene 2.
8. Her eyes are gray as glass.
_Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act iv. Scene 4.
9. There is never a fair woman has a true face.
_Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 6.
10. Item, two lips indifferent red; item, two gray
eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one
chin, and so forth.
_Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 5.
11. She is fair, and fairer than that word,—
Of wondrous virtues.
_Merchant of Venice._ Act i. Scene 1.
12. Straight and slender; and as brown in hue as hazel-nuts.
_Taming of the Shrew._ Act ii. Scene 1.
13. The April’s in her eyes; It is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.
_Antony and Cleopatra._ Act iii. Scene 2.
14. Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty.
_Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 5.
15. Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,
Her words y-clad with wisdom’s majesty,
Makes me from wondering, fall to weeping joys,
Such is the fulness of my heart’s content.
_Henry VI._ Part II. Act i. Scene 1.
16. A fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face
is not worth sun-burning, that never looks
in his glass for love of anything he sees
there.
_Henry V._ Act v. Scene 2.
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