Men's Monologues

The Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well

Parolles	Prose	Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up	I i 79
King	Verse	I would I had that corporal soundness now	I ii 34
King intercut	Verse	'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her	II iii 104

As You Like It

Orlando	Prose	As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion	I i 1
Oliver	Prose	Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me	I i 44
Adam	Verse	What, my young master? O, my gentle master!	II iii 4
Jaques	Verse	A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest	II vii 15
Jaques	Verse	All the world's a stage	II vii 147
Oliver intercut	Verse	When last the young Orlando parted from you	IV iii 74
Touchstone intercut	Prose	I press in here, Sir, amoung the rest of the country copulatives	V iv 47

The Comedy of Errors

Duke	Verse	Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more	I i 5
Aegeon intercut	Verse	A heavier task could not have been impos'd	I i 33
Balthazar	Verse	Have patience, sir, O, let it be not so!	III i 93
S Antipholus	Verse	Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,	III ii 31
Courtezan	Verse	Now out of doubt Antipholus is mad	IV iii 56
E. Antipholus	Verse	My liege, I am advised what I say	V i 224

Cymbeline

Jachimo	Verse	The crickets sing, and man's o'er labor'd sense	II ii 15
Jachimo	Verse	Is there no way for men to be, but women	II v 1
Pisanio	Verse	How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not	III ii 1
Belarius	Verse	Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill	III iii 14
Belarius intercut	Verse	How do you speak! Did you but know the city's usuries	III iii 50
Cloten	Prose	I am near to the place where they should meet	IV i 1
Posthumus	Verse	Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd	V i 1
Posthumus intercut	Verse	No blame be to you, sir; for all was lost,	V iii 7
Posthumus	Verse	Still going? - This is a lord! O noble misery!	V iii 72
Posthumus	Verse	Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,	V iv 5
Jupiter	Verse	No more you petty spirits of region low	V iv 98
Posthumus	Verse	Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire and begot	V iv 128
Lucius	Verse	Consider, sir, the chance of war, the day	V v 91
Iachimo	Verse	Upon a time - unhappy was the clock	V v 184
Posthumus	Verse	Ay, so thou dost Italian friend! Ay, most credulous fool,	V v 244
Iachimo	Verse	So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,	V v 402

Loves Labour's Lost

King	Verse	Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives	I i 1
Berowne	Verse	I can but say their protestation over	I i 35
Armado	Prose	I do affect the very ground, which is base,	I ii 96
King	Verse	Madam, your father here doth intimate	II i 133
Boyet	Verse	Why, all his behaviors did make their retire	II i 234-250
Berowne	Verse	O, and I, forsooth in love,	II i 117
Moth	Prose	No, my complete master, but to jig off	III i 8
Boyet	Prose	By Heaven that thou art fair	IV i 8 64
Berowne	Prose	The King he is hunting the deer	IV iii 1
King	Verse	So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not	IV iii 7
Dumaine	Verse	On a day - Alack the day!	IV iii 58
Berowne	Verse	Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy	IV iii 1 89
Berowne intercut	Verse	Sweet Lords, sweet lovers, O let us embrace	IV iii 160
Berowne	Verse	O, 'tis more than need	IV iii 236
Armado	Verse	Sir, the king is a noble gentleman,	V i 42
Boyet	Verse	Under the cool shade of sycamore	V ii 95
Berowne	Verse	This fellow peeks up wit as pigeons pease	V ii 341
Berowne	Verse	Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury	V ii 423
Berowne	Verse	Neither of either; I remit both twain	V ii 493
Berowne	Verse	Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief	V ii 737

Measure for Measure

Duke	Verse	Angelo,       There is a kind of character in thy life	I i 31
Claudio intercut	Verse	Thus it stands with me; upon a true contract	I ii 91
Duke intercut	Verse	No; Holy Father, throw away that thought	I iii 1
Lucio	Verse	This is the point	I iv 56
Angelo	Verse	Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus	II i 20
Angelo	Verse	What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?	II ii 196
Angelo	Verse	When I would pray and think, I think and pray	II iv 1
Angelo	Verse	Who will believe thee, Isabel?	II iv 154-170
Duke	Verse	Be absolute for death: either death or life	III i 7
Claudio	Verse	Aye, but to die and go we know not where	III i 131
Duke	Prose	This forenam'd maid hath yet in her	III i 194
Duke	Verse	He who the sword of heaven will bear	III ii 111
Pompey	Prose	I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of proffesion	IV iii 1
Angelo	Verse	This deed unshapes mequite, makes me unpregnant	IV iv 13
Duke	Verse	She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore	V i 539

Merry Wives of Windsor

Falstaff	Prose	O, she did so course o'er my exteriors	I iii 35
Falstaff	Prose	Reason, you rogue, reason	II ii 9
Ford	Prose	What a damn'd Epicurean rascal is this	II ii 93
Falstaff	Prose	Have I liv'd to be carried in a basket	III v 5
Falstaff	Prose	Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook	IV i 43
Fenton	Verse	From time to time I have acquainted you	IV vi 8

Merchant of Venice

Salerio	Verse	My wind cooling my broth Would blow me to an ague when I thought	I i 25
Gratiano	Verse	Let me play the fool with mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come	I i 85
Bassanio intercut	Verse	Tis not unknown to you Antonio	I i 124
Shylock	Verse	Signior Antonio, many a time and oft	I iii 88
Morocco intercut	Verse	Mislike me not for my complexion	II i 1
Launcelot	Verse	Certainly my conscience will serve me to run	II ii 1
Morocco	Verse	Some god direct my judgement. Let me see	II vii 15
Arragon Intercut	Verse	And so have I address'd me. Fortune Now	II ix 23
Shylock	Prose	To bait fish withal, if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.	III i 23
Shylock	Prose	Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford!	III i 83-96
Bassanio intercut	Verse	So may the outward shows be least themselves	III ii 67
Bassanio	Verse	What find I here? Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demigod	III ii 114-148
Bassanio	Verse	O sweet Portia Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words	III ii 242
Shylock intercut	Verse	I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose	IV i 39
Antonio	Verse	But little; I am arm'd and well prepar'd	IV i 264
Lorenzo intercut	Verse	How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank	V i 63
Bassanio intercut	Verse	Sweet Portia, if you did know to whom I gave the ring	V i 211

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Egeus	Verse	Full of vexation come I, with complaint	I i 26
Lysander	Verse	You have her father's love, Demetrius	I i 104
Oberon	Verse	That very time I saw (but thou couldst not)	II i 161
Oberon	Verse	I pray thee give it me. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows	II i 258
Puck	Verse	My mistress with a monster is in love	III ii 10
Oberon	Verse	Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight	III ii 376
Oberon	Verse	Welcome, good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight?	IV i 30
Demetrius	Verse	My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth	IV i 147
Bottom	Prose	When my cue comes, call me	IV i 190
Theseus Intercut	Verse	More strange than true. I never may believe	V i 4
Theseus Intercut	Verse	Say what abridgment have you for this evening?	V i 44
Theseus	Verse	The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing	IV i 96
Quince Intercut	Verse	If we offend, it is with our good will.	IV i 117
Bottom Intercut	Verse	Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams	V i 250
Flute (Thisbe)	Verse	Asleep, my love?	V i 294
Oberon	Verse	Now, until the break of day	V ii 33

Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick	Prose	O, she misused me past the endurance of a block	II i 111
Benedick	Prose	I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool	II iii 8
Benedick	Prose	This can be no trick, the conference was sadly borne.	II iii 90
Borachio intercut	Prose	Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief	III iii 58
Claudio intercut	Verse	There, Leonato, take her back again	IV i 25
Leonato	Verse	Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing	IV i 115
Friar Francis	Verse	Marry, this well carried on her behalf	IV i 215
Dogberry	Prose	Dost thou not suspect my place?	IV ii 41
Leonato	Verse	I pray thee cease thy counsel	V i 6
Borachio	Prose	Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine answer	V i 171

Pericles

Pericles	Verse	See where she comes, apparelled like the spring	I i 15
Pericles	Verse	Great King, few love to hear the sins	I i 86
Pericles	Verse	How courtesy would seem to cover sin	I i 116
Pericles	Verse	Why should this change of thoughts	I ii 1
Pericles	Verse	Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus	I ii 175
Cleon	Verse	But see what heaven can do by this our change	I iv 35
Gower	Verse	Thus time we waste and longest leagues make short	IV iv 1
Pericles	Verse	O Helicanus, strike me honored sir	V i 223
epilogue	Verse	In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard	V iii 100

The Taming of the Shrew

Lord	Verse	Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy	Induct. i 39
Lord	Verse	Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page	Induct. i 104
Lord	Verse	Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house	Induct. i 15
Lucentio	Verse	Tranio, since for the great desire I had	I i 1
Tranio	Verse	Mi perdonate, gentle master mine	I i 27
Tranio	Verse	Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own	II i 81
Petruchio intercut	Verse	Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench!	II i 156
Petruchio	Verse	No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle.	II i 243
Petruchio	Verse	Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself:	II i 304
Gremio	Verse	First, as you know, my house within the city	II i 349
Petruchio	Verse	They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command	III ii 203
Petruchio	Verse	Thus have I politicly begun my reign	IV i 126
Petruchio	Verse	Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's,	IV iii 163
Pedant	Verse	Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua	IV iv 28

The Tempest

Prospero intercut	Verse	My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,	I ii 82
Ariel intercut	Verse	I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,	I ii 230
Caliban intercut	Verse	This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,	I ii 396
Caliban	Verse	All the infections that the sun sucks up	II ii 1
Trinculo	Prose	Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather	II ii 23
Ferdinand	Verse	There be some sports are painful and their labor	III i 4
Caliban	Verse	Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him	III ii 57
Ariel	Verse	You are three men of sin, whom Destiny	III iii 69
Prospero	Verse	Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves	V i 40
Prospero	Verse	You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort	III iii 158
Ariel	Verse	I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking	IV i 186
Prospero	Verse	In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords	V i 168
Prospero	Verse	Now my charms are all o'erthrown,	Epilogue

Troilus and Cressida

Prologue	Verse	In Troy there lies the scene	Prologue
Troilus	Verse	O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus	I i 36
Troilus	Verse	Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!	I i 66
Agamemnon	Verse	Princes, What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?	I iii 1
Nestor	Verse	With due observance of thy god-like seat,	I iii 33
Ulysses	Verse	Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,	I iii 78
Aeneas	Verse	Trumpet, blow aloud, Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;	I iii 263
Nestor	Verse	Yes, 'tis most meet: whom may you else oppose,	I iii 341
Ulysses	Verse	What glory our Achilles shares from Hector	I iii 376
Hector	Verse	Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I,	II ii 10
Hector	Verse	You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest;	II ii 40
Troilus	Verse	I take today a wife, and my election	II ii 65
Paris	Verse	Sir, I propose not merely to myself	II ii 154
Hector	Verse	Paris and Troilus, you have both said well;	II ii 171
Thersites	Prose	How now, Thersites! what, lost in the labyrinth	II iii 1
Agamemnon	Verse	Hear you, Patroclus We are too well acquainted with these answers:	II iii 59
Ulysses	Verse	O Agamemnon! let it not be so.	II iii 122
Achilles	Verse	What! am I poor of late?	III iii 79
Ulysses intercut	Verse	I do not strain at the position	III iii 121
Ulysses	Verse	The providence that's in a watchful state	III iii 208
Thersites intercut	Verse	Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.	III iii 259
Troilus	Verse	And suddenly; where injury of chance	IV iv 30
Hector	Verse	Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,	IV v 140
Nestor	Verse	I have, thou gallant Trojan, see thee oft,	IV v 206
Thersites	Prose	With too much blood and too little brain	V i 36
Troilus	Verse	This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida	V ii 163
Troilus	Verse	You understand me not that tell me so.	V x 15

Twelfth Night

Duke	Verse	If music be the food of love, play on	I i 1
Malvolio	Verse	M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former	II v 74
Malvolio	Prose	O ho, do you come near me now?	III iv 49
Sebastian	Verse	This is the air, that is the glorius sun	IV iii 1
Antonio	Verse	Orsino, noble sir, Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me	V i 52
Duke	Verse	Why should I not (had I the heart to do it)	V i 100
Malvolio intercut	Verse	Madam, you have done me wrong, Notorious wrong.	V i 294

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Launce	Prose	Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping	II iii 1-32
Valentine	Verse	Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now	V i 123
Proteus	Verse	Even as one heat another heat expels	II iv 190
Proteus	Verse	To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;	II vi 1
Proteus	Verse	My gracious lord, that which I would discover	III i 6
Duke	Verse	Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care,	III i 24
Valentine	Verse	A woman sometime scorns what best contents her.	III i 96
Duke	Verse	What letter is this same? What's here? To Silvia!	III i 141
Valentine	Verse	And why not death rather than living torment?	III i 163
Proteus	Verse	Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom	III i 215
Proteus	Verse	Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,	III i 234
Launce	Prose	I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit	III i 254
Proteus	Verse	Say that upon the altar of her beauty	III ii 76
Launce	Prose	When a man's servant shall play the cur with him	IV iv 1

The Winter's Tale

Leontes	Verse	Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have	I ii 157
Leontes	Verse	To your own bents dispose you; you'll be found	I ii 215
Camillo	Verse	My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful	I ii 295
Leontes	Verse	Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!	III ii 160
Antigonus	Verse	Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o' the dead	III iii 21
Autolycus	Prose	Ho, ha, what a fool Honesty is!	IV iii 586

The Histories

Henry IV i

King Henry	Verse	So shaken as we are, so wan with care,	I i 1
King Henry	Verse	Yea, there thou mak'st me sad and mak'st me sin	I i 80
King Henry	Verse	I know you all, and will awhile uphold	I ii 64
Hotspur	Verse	My liege, I did deny no prisoners	I iii 28-68
Hotspur	Verse	Revolted Mortimer! He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,	I iii 96
Hotspur	Verse	Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king	I iii 164
Falstaff	Prose	I am accursed to rob in that thief's company	II ii 10
Hotspur	Prose	But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented	II iii 1
Prince Hal	Prose	With three or four loggerheads	II iv 5
Falstaff intercut	Prose	Peace, good pint-pot! peace, good tickle-brain!	II iv 162
King	Verse	God pardon thee! Yet let me wonder Harry	III ii 31
King Henry	Verse	For all the world, As thou art to this hour was Richard then	III ii 96
Prince Hal	Verse	Do not think so, you shall not find it so	III ii 132
Falstaff	Prose	No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it	III iii 9
Falstaff	Prose	If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet.	IV ii 9
Hotspur intercut	Verse	The king is kind; and well we know the king	IV iii 60
Worchester	Verse	It pleas'd your majesty to turn your looks	V i 34
Falstaff	Prose	'Tis not due yet: I would be loath to pay him before	V i 129
Worchester	Verse	Then are we all undone. It is not possible, it cannot be,	V ii 6
Prince Hal	Verse	For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!	V iv 94

Henry IV ii

Rumour	Verse	Open your ears; for which of you will stop	Induction
Morton	Verse	I am sorry I should force you to believe	I i 121
Northumberland	Verse	For this I shall have time enough to mourn.	I i 152
Morton	Verse	Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.	I i 179
Morton	Verse	'Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord,	I i 203
Falstaff	Prose	Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me:	I ii 5
Bardolph	Verse	Yes, if this present quality of war,	I iii 39
ArchBishop of York	Verse	Let us on, And publish the occasion of our arms.	I iii 90
Prince Hal intercut	Prose	Before God, I am exceeding weary.	II ii 1
King Henry IV	Verse	How many thousand of my poorest subjects	III i 6
King Henry IV	Verse	O God! that one might read the book of fate,	III i 48
Falstaff	Prose	As I return, I will fetch off these justices:	III ii 130
Archbishop of York	Verse	Wherefore do I this? so the question stands.	IV i 60
Lancaster	Verse	You are well encounter'd here, my cousin Mowbray:	IV ii 1
Falstaff	Prose	I would you had but the wit:	IV iii 48
King Henry	Verse	Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.	IV iv 23
Prince Hal	Verse	O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,	IV v 146
King Henry	Verse	O my son, God put it in thy mind to take it hence,	IV v 185
Prince Hal	Verse	Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,	IV v 25
King Henry	Verse	Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:	IV v 100
King Henry IV	Verse	You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;	V ii 108
King Henry V	Verse	I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;	V v 38
Epilogue	Prose	First my fear; then my courtesy; last my speech.	V v 92

Henry V

Chorus	Verse	O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend	Prologue I i
Canterbury	Verse	Hear him but reason in divinity,	I i 42
Henry	Verse	Sure, we thank you. My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,	I ii 13
Canterbury	Verse	Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,	I ii 38
Canterbury	Verse	Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,	I ii 186
King Henry	Verse	We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us	I ii 268
Chorus	Verse	Now all the youth of England are on fire	Prologue II i
King Henry	Verse	The mercy that was quick in us but late	II ii 83
King Henry	Verse	God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.	II ii 167
Exeter intercut	Verse	From him; and thus he greets your majesty	II iv 84
Chorus	Verse	Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies	Prologue III i
Henry	Verse	Once more into the breach dear friends, once more	III i 4
Boy	Prose	As young as I am, I have observed these three	III ii 16
Henry	Verse	Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;	III i 1
Henry	Verse	How yet resolves the governor of the town?	III iii 1
French King	Verse	Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence	III v 8
Montjoy	Verse	Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:	III vi 55
Henry	Verse	Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,	III vi 58
Chorus	Verse	Now entertain conjecture of a time	IV i
Henry	Prose	So, if a son that is by his father sent	IV i 95
Henry	Verse	Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls	IV i 116
Henry	Verse	O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts	IV i 178
Constable	Verse	To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!	IV ii 19
Henry	Verse	This day is called the feast of Crispian	IV iii 45
Henry	Verse	I pray thee, bear my former answer back	IV iii 98
Exeter	Verse	In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,	IV vi 9
Henry	Verse	This note doth tell me of ten thousand French	IV viii 47
Chorus	Verse	Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story	V i

Henry VI i

Third Messenger	Verse	O, no! wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown	I i 113
Talbot intercut	Verse	The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner	I iv 30
Talbot	Verse	What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?	I iv 76
Talbot	Verse	My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel	I iv 22
Mortimer	Verse	I will, if that my fading breath permit,	II v 64
Plantagenet	Verse	And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul	II v 118
Gloucester	Verse	Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience	III i 10
Talbot intercut	Verse	Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!	IV i 16
King Henry	Verse	Come hither, you that would be combatants	IV i 138
General	Verse	Thou ominous and fearful owl of death	IV ii 18
Talbot	Verse	When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire	IV vi 12
Talbot intercut	Verse	Where is my other life? Mine own is gone	IV vii 3
Suffolk	Verse	An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd	V iii 58
Suffolk	Verse	A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king	V v 50
King Henry	Verse	Whether it be through force of your report	V v 81

Henry VI ii

Gloucester	Verse	Brave peers of England, pillars of the state	I i 64
Cardinal	Verse	So, there goes our protector in a rage	I i 136
Salisbury	Verse	Pride went before, ambition follows him.	I i 169
York	Verse	Anjou and Maine are given to the French	I i 203
Hume	Verse	Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold	I ii 91
Gloucester	Verse	Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous	III i 146
King Henry	Verse	Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,	III i 202
York	Verse	Now, York, or never, steel they fearful thoughts	III i 336
King Henry	Verse	What! doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?	III ii 45
Salisbury	Verse	Sirs, stand apart, the King shall know your mind	III ii 253
Suffolk	Verse	A plague upon them! Wherefore should I curse them?	III ii 318
Captain	Verse	Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt	IV i 76
Old Clifford	Verse	Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth	IV viii 21
York	Verse	How now! is Somerset at liberty?	V i 91
Young Clifford	Verse	Shame and confusion! All is on the rout	V ii 36

Henry VI iii

York	Verse	The army of the queen hath got the field	I iv 1
York intercut	Verse	She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France	I iv 114
Richard intercut	Verse	I cannot joy until I be resolv'd	II i 11
Messenger	Verse	Environed he was with many foes	II i 53
Warwick	Verse	Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears,	II i 108
Warwick	Verse	Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out	II i 170
Clifford	Verse	My gracious liege, this too much lenity	II ii 11
Edward	Verse	A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns	II ii 148
Henry	Verse	This battle fares like to the morning's war	II v 1
Son	Verse	Ill blows the wind that profits nobody	II v 1
Clifford	Verse	Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,	II vi 1
King Henry	Verse	My queen and son are gone to France for aid	III i 31
Gloucester	Verse	Ay, Edward will use women honorably	III ii 128
Warwick	Verse	King Lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven	III iii 187
Warwick	Verse	Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick	IV ii 9
Warwick	Verse	Ah! who is nigh? come to me, friend or foe	V ii 7
Warwick	Verse	I, that have neither pity, love nor fear	V vi 11
King Henry	Verse	Hadst thou been kill'd, when first thou didst presume	V vi 37
Gloucester	Verse	What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster	V vi 63
King Edward	Verse	Once more we sit in England's royal throne	V vii 1

Henry VIII

Prologue	Verse	I come no more to make you laugh: things now	prologue
Norfolk	Verse	Then you lost The view of earthly glory: men might say	I i 20
Buckingham	Verse	Pray give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal	I i 201
Wolsey	Verse	And for me, I have no further gone in this than by	I ii 81
King Henry	Verse	It grieves many: The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker,	I ii 127
Surveyor intercut	Verse	Not long before your highness sped to France	I ii 175
Buckingham	Verse	All good people You that thus far have come to pity me	II i 74
Buckingham	Verse	When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable,	II i 123
Wolsey	Verse	I do profess You speak not like yourself; who ever yet	II iv 93
King Henry	Verse	My Lord Cardinal, I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,	II iv 167
Wolsey	Verse	What should this mean? What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?	III ii 255
Wolsey	Verse	So farewell; to the little good you bear me	III ii 418
Wolsey	Verse	Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear	III ii 507
3rd General intercut	Verse	As well as I am able. The rich stream	IV i 84
Griffith	Verse	This cardinal, Though from a humble stock, undoubtedly	IV ii 57
King Henry intercut	Verse	Know you not How your state stands i' the world,	IV ii 156
Porter's Man	Prose	The spoons will be the bigger, sir.	IV iv 28
Cranmer intercut	Verse	Let me speak, sir, For heaven now bids me; and the words I utter	V v 20

King John

Richard II

Bolingbroke	Verse	First, heaven be the record to my speech!	I i 33
Mowbray	Verse	Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal	I i 50
Bolingbroke	Verse	Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true	I i 90
Mowbray	Verse	Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart	I i 127
Gaunt	Verse	All places that the eye of heaven visits	I iii 279
Gaunt	Verse	Methinks I am a prophet new inspir'd	II i 33
Gaunt intercut	Verse	Now, he that made me knows I see thee ill	II i 96
York intercut	Verse	How long shall I be patient? Ah! how long	II i 169
York	Verse	Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle	II iii 95
Bolingbroke	Verse	As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford;	II iii 121
Bolingbroke	Verse	Bring forth these men	III i 1
King Richard	Verse	Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy	III ii 6
King Richard	Verse	Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not	III ii 38
Richard	Verse	No matter where. Of comfort no man speak	III ii 148
Bolingbroke	Verse	Noble Lord, Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle	III iii 36
King Richard	Verse	We are amaz'd; and thus long have we stood	III iii 78
King Richard	Verse	What must the king do now? Must he submit?	III iii 149
B. of Carlisle	Verse	Marry, God forbid! Worst in this royal presence may I speak	IV i 119
King Richard	Verse	Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be	IV i 208
Richard	Verse	I have been studying how I may compare	V v 1

Richard III

Gloucester	Verse	Now is the winter of our discontent	I i 1
Gloucester	Verse	Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears	I ii 164
Gloucester	Verse	Was ever woman in this humor woo'd?	I ii 241
Clarence intercut	Verse	O, I have pass'd a miserable night	I iv 1
Gloucester	Verse	A blessed labour, my most sovereign lord.	II i 55
King Edward	Verse	Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death,	II i 107
Gloucester	Verse	I cannot tell, if to depart in silence	III vii 146
Buckingham	Verse	My lord, this argues conscience in your Grace	III vii 179
King Richard	Verse	Look, what is done cannot be now amended	IV vi 302
King Richard	Verse	As I intend to prosper, and repent,	IV vi 414
King Richard	Verse	Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!	V iii 196
King Richard	Verse	More than I have said, loving countrymen,	V iii 260
King Richard	Verse	Go, gentlemen, every man unto his charge	V iii 335

The Tragedies

Antony & Cleopatra

Enobarbus intercut	Verse	The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,	II ii 223
Ventidius	Verse	I have done enough; a lower place, note well	III i 16
Antony intercut	Verse	Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon 't	III ix 3
Antony	Verse	If that thy father live, let him repent	III xi 171
Antony	Verse	All is lost! This foul Egytian hath betrayed me.	IV x 29
Antony intercut	Verse	Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done	IV xii 46
Antony intercut	Verse	Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour, that the gods	IV xii 69

Coriolanus

Menenius intercut	Verse	I tell you, friends, most charitable care	I i 32
Marcius	Verse	He that will give good words to thee will flatter	I i 134
Aufidius intercut	Verse	I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,	I x 6
Menenius intercut	Prose	I am known to be a humorous patrician	II i 27
Brutus	Verse	All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights	II i 116
Cominius	Verse	I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus	II ii 69
Coriolanus	Verse	Most sweet voices!	II iii 61
Coriolanus	Verse	O good but most unwise patricians! why	III i 116
Coriolanus intercut	Verse	I'll give my reasons, More worthier than their voices.	III i 153
Coriolanus	Verse	You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate	III iii 152
Coriolanus intercut	Verse	Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell	IV i 1
Coriolanus	Verse	O world! thy slippery turns. Friends now fast sworn	IV iv 19
Coriolanus	Verse	My name is Caius, Martius, who hath done	IV v 61
Aufidius intercut	Verse	Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart	IV v 99
Aufidius	Verse	All places yield to him ere he sits down	IV vii 32
Menenius	Prose	Now, you companion, I.ll say an errand for you	V ii 45
Coriolanus	Verse	This last old man, Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome,	V iii 12

Hamlet

Horatio intercut	Verse	At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king	I i 97
Claudius	Verse	Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death	I ii 1
Claudius	Verse	'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet,	I ii 91
Hamlet	Verse	O, that this too too solid flesh would melt	I ii 133
Horatio	Verse	Two nights together had these gentlemen	I ii 205
Laertes	Verse	Think it no more For nature, crescent, does not grow alone	I iii 15
Polonius	Verse	Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,	I iii 62
Polonius	Verse	Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know	I iii 123
Hamlet intercut	Verse	But to my mind, though I am native here	I iv 18
Ghost intercut	Verse	I am thy father's spirit;	I v 15
Hamlet	Verse	O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?	I v 100
Hamlet	Prose	I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery	II ii 250
1st Player	Verse	Anon, he finds him Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,	II ii 321
Hamlet	Verse	O, what a rogue and peasant slave am i	II ii 382
Hamlet	Verse	To be, or not to be, that is the question	III i 64
Hamlet intercut	Prose	Get thee to a nunnery	III i 125
Hamlet intercut	Prose	Speak the speech, I pray you	III ii 1
Hamlet	Verse	Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice	III ii 27
Player King	Verse	I do believe you think what now you speak	III ii 134
Claudius	Verse	O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven	III iii 142
Hamlet	Verse	Now might I do it pat, now he is praying	III iii 80
Hamlet	Verse	Look here, upon this picture, and on this	III iv 63
Hamlet	Verse	How all occasions do inform against me	IV iv 35
Claudius	Verse	O! this is the poison of deep grief; it springs	IV v 45
Hamlet	Prose	Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio	V i 80

Julius Cæsar

Marullus	Verse	Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?	I i 24
Cassius	Verse	I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus	I ii 98
Cassius	Verse	Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world	I ii 143
Casca	Prose	I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it	I ii 240
Cassius	Verse	Well Brutus thou art noble yet I see	I ii 271
Casca	Verse	Are not you mov'd, when all the sway of earth	I iii 5
Cassius	Verse	You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life	I iii 63
Brutus	Verse	It must be by his death; and for my part	II i 13
Brutus	Verse	No, not an oath: if not the face of men,	II i 127
Brutus	Verse	Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,	II i 177
Antony	Verse	O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low?	III i 167
Antony	Verse	My credit now stands on such slippery ground,	III i 211
Antony	Verse	O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth	III i 279
Brutus intercut	Prose	Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause	III ii 16
Antony	Verse	Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears	III ii 52
Antony	Verse	But yesterday the word of Cæsar might	III ii 98
Antony	Verse	If you have tears, prepare to shed them now	III ii 148
Antony	Verse	Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up	III ii 188
Brutus	Verse	You have done that you should be sorry for.	IV iii 74
Cassius intercut	Verse	This is my birth-day: as this very day	V i 84

King Lear

Edmund	Verse	Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law	I ii 1
Edmund	Prose	This is the excellent foppery of the world	I ii 58
Edgar	Verse	I heard myself proclaim'd	II iii 1
Fool	Verse	We'll set thee to school to an ant	II iv 68
Lear	Verse	O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars	II iv 274
Lear	Verse	Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!	III ii 1
Edgar	Verse	A servingman, proud in heart and mind	III iv 73
Edgar	Verse	How have [I] known the miseries of [my] father? By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale	V iii 210

Macbeth

Sergeant intercut	Verse	Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together	I ii 11
Macbeth	Verse	If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well	I vii 1
Macbeth	Verse	Is this a dagger which I see before me	II i 44
Porter	Prose Here's a knocking, indeed!	II iii 1
Macbeth	Verse	To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo	III i 54
Lennox	Verse	My former speeches have but hit your thoughts	III vi 1
Malcolm	Verse	Macduff, this noble passion, Child of integrity, hath from my soul	IV iii 131

Othello

Iago	Verse	Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,	I i 10
Iago	Verse	I follow him to serve my turn upon him;	I i 45
Roderigo	Verse	Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you	I i 125
Brabantio	Verse	O thou foul thief! where hast thou stow'd my daughter?	I ii 79
Othello	Verse	Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors	I iii 88
Othello	Verse	Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;	I iii 146
Iago intercut	Prose	Virtue? A fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus	I iii 331
Iago	Prose	Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;	I iii 344
Iago intercut	Prose	If thou be'st valiant	II i 217
Iago	Verse	That Cassio loves her, I do well believe't	II i 229
Iago	Verse	I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth	II i 181
Iago	Verse	And what's he then that says I play the villian?	II iii 244
Othello	Verse	Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,	III iii 204
Othello	Verse	This fellow's of exceeding honesty	III iii 292
Othello intercut	Verse	Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction	IV ii 59
Othello	Verse	It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul	V ii 1
Othello	Verse	Behold! I have a weapon A better never did itself sustain	V ii 307
Othello	Verse	Soft you; a word or two before you go.	V ii 394

Romeo and Juliet

Prince	Verse	Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace	I i 67
Mercutio	Verse	O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you	I iv 59
Friar	Verse	The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night	II iii 1
Friar	Verse	Holy Saint Francis! what a change is here	II iii 69
Mercutio intercut	Prose	Why, what is Tybalt? More than prince of cats, I can tell you	II iv 15
Romeo	Verse	But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?	II ii 1-24
Benvolio	Verse	Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay	III i 123
Romeo	Verse	'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here	III iii 33
Friar	Verse	Hold thy desperate hand	III iii 116
Capulet	Verse	God's bread, it makes me mad!	III v 190
Friar	Verse	Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent	IV i 91
Friar	Verse	Peace, ho! for shame! confusion's cure lives not	IV v 73
Romeo	Verse	In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face	V iii 77
Friar	Verse	I will be brief, for my short date of breath	V iii 250

Timon of Athens

Apemantus	Verse	I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me	I ii 39
Timon	Prose	O! no doubt, my good friends,	I ii 69
Lucius	Prose	What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself	III ii 23
1st Stranger intercut	Verse	Why this is the world's soul	III ii 30
Sempronius	Verse	How! have they denied him?	III iii 11
Alcibiades	Verse	My lords, then, under favour, pardon me	III v 44
Timon intercut	Prose then Verse	You great benefactors sprinkle our society	III vi 44
Timon	Verse	Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall	IV i 1
Flavius	Verse	O! the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us	IV ii 36
Timon	Verse	O blessed breeding sun! draw from the earth	IV iii 1
Timon intercut	Verse	Put up thy gold: go on, here's gold, go on;	IV iii 116
Timon	Verse	That nature, being sick of man's unkindness,	IV iii 187
Apemantus intercut	Verse	This is in thee a nature but infected;	IV iii 187
Timon	Verse	Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm	IV iii 268
Timon	Prose	A beastly ambition, which the gods grant	IV iii 335
Timon	Verse	I am sick of this false world,	IV iii 359
Timon	Verse	Nor on the beasts themselves	IV iii 409
Timon	Verse	Had I a steward So true, so just, and now so comfortable?	IV iii 476
Timon	Verse	If Alcibiades kill my countrymen	V i 165
Alcibiades	Verse	Here lies a wretched corse	V iv 84

Titus Andronicus

Marcus	Verse	Princes, that strive by factions and by friends	I i 21
Titus	Verse	Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!	I i 75
Aaron	Verse	Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,	II i 1
Aaron	Verse	For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar	II i 113
Aaron	Verse	Madam, though Venus govern your desires	II iii 33
Marcus	Verse	Who is this? My niece, that flies away so fast?	II iv 14
Titus	Verse	Hear me, grave fathers! Noble tribunes, stay!	III i 1
Titus intercut	Verse	he that wounded her Hath hurt me more than had he kill'd me dead	III i 96
Titus	Verse	If there were reason for these miseries,	III i 227
Titus	Verse	Why, I have not another tear to shed	III i 275
Titus	Verse	Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs	III ii 14
Aaron	Verse	Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours	IV ii 155
Titus	Verse	Be you remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.	IV iii 7
Saturninus	Verse	Why, lords, what wrongs are these!	IV iv 1
2nd Goth	Verse	Renowned Lucius, from our troops I stray'd,	V i 23
Aaron intercut	Verse	Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them	V i 102
Titus	Verse	Come, come, Lavinia, look, thy foes are bound	V ii 174
Marcus	Verse	You sad-fac'd men, people and sons of Rome	V iii 71
Lucius	Verse	Then, noble auditory, be it known to you	V iii 100

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