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01c. 1590 AD

O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.

William Shakespeare / quote

02c. 1590 AD

I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me.

William Shakespeare / quote

03c. 1590 AD

'T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

William Shakespeare / quote

04c. 1590 AD

And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

William Shakespeare / quote

05c. 1590 AD

And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave.

William Shakespeare / quote

06c. 1590 AD

Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

William Shakespeare / quote

07c. 1590 AD

Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph!

William Shakespeare / quote

08c. 1590 AD

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare / quote

09c. 1590 AD

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?

William Shakespeare / quote

10c. 1590 AD

A man can die but once.

William Shakespeare / quote

11c. 1590 AD

Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!

William Shakespeare / quote

12c. 1590 AD

Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! 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 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems.

William Shakespeare / quote

13c. 1590 AD

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

William Shakespeare / quote

14c. 1590 AD

After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.

William Shakespeare / quote

15c. 1590 AD

Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare / quote

16c. 1590 AD

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare / quote

17c. 1590 AD

Taking the measure of an unmade grave.

William Shakespeare / quote

18c. 1590 AD

Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

William Shakespeare / quote

19c. 1590 AD

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

William Shakespeare / quote

20c. 1590 AD

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare / quote

21c. 1590 AD

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 't were a careless trifle.

William Shakespeare / quote

22c. 1590 AD

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.

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23c. 1590 AD

Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well: Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.

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24c. 1590 AD

The time has been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.

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