MARGARET: “_I saw the Duchess of Milan’s gown that they praise so By my
troth’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth o’ gold,
and cuts, and laced with silver, set with pearls, down
sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts, round underbone with a
bluish tinsel._”
(Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Sc. 4.)
HOLOFERNES: “_Pearl enough for a swine._” (See FLINT.)
(Love’s Labours Lost, Act IV, Sc. 2.)
MARIA: “_This and these pearls to me sent Longaville._”
PRINCESS: “_What, will you have me or your pearl again?_”
(Love’s Labours Lost, Act V, Sc. 2.)
LYSANDER: “_Tomorrow night when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed glass
A time that lovers’ flights doth still conceal,
Through Athens’ gates have we devised to steal._”
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Sc. 1.)
FAIRY: “_I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear._”
(Act II, Sc. 1.)
OBERON: “_And that same dew which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
Stood now within the pretty flowerets’ eyes._”
(Act IV, Sc. 1.)
SEBASTIAN: “_This is the air: that is the glorious sun:
This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t
And though ’tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
Yet ’tis not madness._”
(Twelfth Night, Act IV, Sc. 3.)
FALSTAFF: “_Your brooches, pearls and ouches._”
(Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Sc. 4.)
KING HENRY: “_I am a king that find thee, and I know
’Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
The farced title running ’fore the King,
The throne he sits on nor the tide of pomp
That beats upon the high shore of the world._”
(Henry V, Act IV, Sc. 1.)
CLARENCE: “_Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks:
Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon:
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scattered in the bottom of the sea:
Some lay in dead men’s skulls: and, in those holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept
As ’twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems._”
(King Richard III, Act I, Sc. 4.)
KING RICHARD: “_The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl._”
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