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Most respectfully,
David Frohman, President
Peachstate Historical Consulting, Inc.
Jeffrey Watkins, Board President and Artistic Director
The Atlanta Shakespeare Company
1) I must be cruell, onely to be kinde:
2) Let shame say what it will; When these are gone, the woman will be out.
1) Shall I speake ill of him that is my husband?
2) These violent delights have violent endes,
3) How doth my Lady Juliet? that I ask againe, For nothing can be ill, if she be well.
4) Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boysterous, and it pricks like thorne.
1) Cowards dye many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once:
2) Let’s carve him as a Dish fit for the Gods
3) Remember March, the Ides of March remember: Did not great Julius bleede for Justice' sake?
4) That part of Tyrannie that I doe beare, I can shake off at pleasure.
1) You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still I am King of those.
2) I had forgot myself. Am I not King?
3) For Heaven’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of Kings:
1) A Horse, a Horse, my Kingdome for a Horse!
2) Thou art a Traytor - Off with his head;
3) And thus I cloath my naked Villainie With odde old ends, stol'n forth of holy Writ
1) It is too full o' th' Milk of humane kindnesse
2) It will have blood, they say: Blood will have Blood.
3) Fit to govern? No, not to live.
4) Things without all remedie Should be without regard.
5) All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
1) For women are as Roses, whose fair flowre Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.
1) Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellowes
2) He that dies payes all debts.
3) Full fathom five thy Father lies, Of his bones are Corrall made:
1) Cassio: She's a most exquisite lady. Iago: And, I'll warrant her, full of Game.
2) Killing my selfe, to dye upon a kisse.
3) It is the greene-ey’d Monster which doth mocke the meate it feeds on
4) But I will weare my heart upon my sleeve
1) At first I did adore a twinkling Starre, But now I worship a celestiall Sunne.
2) They doe not love, that doe not show their love.
1) Why then the world's mine Oyster, Which I, with sword will open.
2) Wives may be merry, and yet honest too
3) I cannot tell what (the dickens) his name is
4) Heaven so speed me in my time to come
5) That cannot choose but amaze him
6) Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drinke downe all unkindnesse.
1) Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull eare of a drowsie man;
2) This England never did, nor never shall Lye at the proud foote of a Conqueror
1) Honest in nothing but in his Clothes
2) Some rise by sinne, and some by vertue fall:
3) To sue to live, I find I seeke to die, And, seeking death, finde life
1) Age, thou hast lost thy labour
2) Either thou art most ignorant by age, Or thou wer’t borne a foole:
3) You pay a great deale too deare, for what's given freely.
1) Sigh no more, Ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever
2) Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it.
3) Speake low if you speake Love.
4) Done to death by a slanderous tongues
5) Beatrice: Kill Claudio. Benedick: Ha, not for the wide world
1) Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye
2) But Love, first learned in a Ladies eyes, Lives not alone emured in the braine;