1. Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
King Lear.
Act v. Scene 3.
2. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart;
His heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Act ii. Scene 7.
3. She is not yet so old
But she may learn; and happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
Merchant of Venice.
Act iii. Scene 2.
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4. She’s not froward, but modest as the dove;
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
For patience she will prove a second Grissel.
Taming of the Shrew.
Act ii. Scene 1.
5. She is not so divine,
So full replete with choice of all delights,
But, with as humble lowliness of mind,
She is content to be at your command.
Henry VI.
Part I. Act v. Scene 5.
6. A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Act v. Scene 1.
7. He plays o’ the viol-de gambo, and speaks
three or four languages word for word
without book, and hath all the good gifts
of nature.
Twelfth Night.
Act i. Scene 3.
8. One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun.
Romeo and Juliet.
Act i. Scene 2.
9. O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school;
And, though she be but little, she is fierce.
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Act iii. Scene 2.
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10. Whose beauty claims
No worse a husband than the best of men;
Whose virtue, and whose general graces, speak
That which none else can utter.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Act ii. Scene 2.
11. He is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath
an excellent stomach.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Act i. Scene 1.
12. Gentle and fair.
Measure for Measure.
Act i. Scene 5.
13. I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;
In voices well divulg’d, free, learn’d, and valiant,
And, in dimension, and the shape of nature,
A gracious person.
Twelfth Night.
Act i. Scene 5.
14. He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity:
Yet notwithstanding, being incens’d, he’s flint.
Henry IV.
Part II. Act iv. Scene 4.
15. A pure unspotted heart,
Never yet taint with love.
Henry VI.
Part I. Act v. Scene 3.
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16. The kindest man,
The best condition’d and unwearied spirit
In doing courtesies; and one in whom
The ancient Roman honor more appears,
Than any that draws breath.
Merchant of Venice.
Act iii. Scene 2.
17. Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or anger,
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood.
Henry V.
Act ii. Scene 2.
18. The poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.
Merchant of Venice.
Act iii. Scene 5.
19. Of a holy, cold, and still conversation.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Act ii. Scene 6.
20. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young
enough for a boy; as a squash is before
’t is a peascod, or a codling when ’t is almost
an apple:——He is very well
favored, and he speaks very shrewishly.
Twelfth Night.
Act i. Scene 5.
