17. There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple;
If the ill spirit have so fair an house,
Good things will strive to dwell with ’t.
_Tempest._ Act i. Scene 2.
18. He’s as tall a man as any’s in Illyria.
_Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 3.
19. Fam’d for mildness, peace, and prayer.
_Henry VI._ Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.
20. A gray eye or so.
_Romeo and Juliet._ Act ii. Scene 4.
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QUESTION VI.
DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAL?
1. Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
_King Lear._ Act v. Scene 3.
2. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart;
His heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth.
_Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act ii. Scene 7.
3. She is not yet so old
But she may learn; and happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
_Merchant of Venice._ Act iii. Scene 2.
4. She’s not froward, but modest as the dove;
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
For patience she will prove a second Grissel.
_Taming of the Shrew._ Act ii. Scene 1.
5. She is not so divine,
So full replete with choice of all delights,
But, with as humble lowliness of mind,
She is content to be at your command.
_Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 5.
6. A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity.
_Antony and Cleopatra._ Act v. Scene 1.
7. He plays o’ the viol-de gambo, and speaks
three or four languages word for word
without book, and hath all the good gifts
of nature.
_Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 3.
8. One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun.
_Romeo and Juliet._ Act i. Scene 2.
9. O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school;
And, though she be but little, she is fierce.
_Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act iii. Scene 2.
10. Whose beauty claims
No worse a husband than the best of men;
Whose virtue, and whose general graces, speak
That which none else can utter.
_Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 2.
11. He is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath
an excellent stomach.
_Much Ado About Nothing._ Act i. Scene 1.
12. Gentle and fair.
_Measure for Measure._ Act i. Scene 5.
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