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I've been gathering quotes from each of Shakespeare's plays that I have read over the years. You might hear some of them quite often. You also might agree that they are quite extraordinary verses that can easily capture your interest. If my favorites happen to be the same as yours, I can only say 'great minds think alike, and so do ours'....:-)
---Shakespeare's handwriting.

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Bullet DECLARATION OF LOVE
Bullet THE VALUE OF LOVE
Bullet MOURNFUL MOMENT
Bullet A PROPHECY
Bullet GOOD NIGHT

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DECLARATION OF LOVE

The Sonnets

Alas, why, fearing at time's tyranny,
Might I not thus say, Now I love you but,
When I was certain o'er incertainty.

This I do vow, and this shall ever be,
I will be true despite thy scythe and thee.



Romeo and Juliet

Give me my Romeo, and 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 garrish sun.--Juliet

Much Ado About Nothing

I do love nothing in the world so well as you;
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.


Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.

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THE VALUE OF LOVE

Venus and Adonis
"A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
What is ten hundred touches unto thee?
Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?
Say, for non-payment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?"--Venus


Sonnets

But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.

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MOURNFUL MOMENT

Venus and Adonis

And now she beats her heart, whereat it groans,
That all the neighbour-caves, as seeming troubled,
Make verbal repetition of her moans;
Passion on Passion deeply is redoubled:
"Ah me!" she cries, and twenty times, "woe, woe!"
And twenty echoes twenty times cry so.

Antony and Cleopatra

I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.

Cymbeline

                With fairest flowers
Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,
I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack
The flower that Æ like thy face, pale primrose, nor
The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor
The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
Out-sweeten'd not thy breath.

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A PROPHECY

Venus and Adonis

"Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy,
Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:
It shall be waited on with jealousy,
Find sweet beginning but unsavoury end;
Ne'er settled equally, but high or low,
That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe.
It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud;
Bud, and be blasted, in a breathing-while;
The bottom poison, and the top o'erstrawed
With sweets that shall the truest sight beguile:
The strongest body shall it make most weak,
Strike the wise dumb, and teach the fool to speak.
--Venus

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GOOD NIGHT

The Passoionate Pilgrim

Good night, good rest. Ah, neither be my share:
She bade good night that kept my rest away;
And daffed me to a cabin hanged with care,
To descant on the doubts of my decay.
'Farewell,' quoth she, 'and come again tomorrow:
Farewell I could not, for I supped with sorrow.'


Venus and Adonis

"Now let me say good night, and so say you;
If you will say so, you shall have a kiss."
--Adonis

Romeo & Juliet

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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