"Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!"

To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12.

"Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born."

To Delia. Sonnet 51.

"The coast was clear."

Nymphidia.

"When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover."

Ideas. An Allusion to the Eaglets. lxi.

"I 'm armed with more than complete steel,-- The justice of my quarrel."

Lust's Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

Hero and Leander.

"Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields."

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

"By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals."

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

"And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies."

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

"Infinite riches in a little room."

The Jew of Malta. Act i.

"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."

The Jew of Malta. Act i.

"Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool."

The Jew of Malta. Act ii.

"Love me little, love me long."

The Jew of Malta. Act iv.

"When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven."

Faustus.

"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!"

Faustus.

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

Faustus.

"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man."

Faustus.

"I would fain die a dry death."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.

"What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?"

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"My library Was dukedom large enough."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"From the still-vexed Bermoothes."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Fill all thy bones with aches."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't."

The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life. Ant. True; save means to live."

The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"A very ancient and fish-like smell."

The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Fer. Here 's my hand. Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't."

The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"He that dies pays all debts."

The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"A kind Of excellent dumb discourse."

The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Deeper than e'er plummet sounded."

The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."

The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"With foreheads villanous low."

The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book."

The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie."

The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.

"I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.

"O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!"

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.

"And if it please you, so; if not, why, so."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.