The Two Noble Kinsmen
8 quotes
Biography
"Maiden pinks, of odour faint, Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true. Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry springtime's harbinger, With harebells dim."
"Come all sad, and solemn shows, That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes; We convent nought else but woes. We convent nought else but woes."
"Emilia: Of all flowers, Methinks a rose is best. Woman: Why, gentle madam? Emilia: It is the very emblem of a maid. For when the west wind courts her gently How modestly she blows, and paints the sun With her chaste blushes! When the north comes near her, Rude and impatient, then, like chastity, She locks her beauties in her bud again, And leaves him to base briars."
"To marry him is hopeless; To be his whore is witless. Out upon't! What pushes are we wenches driven to When fifteen once has found us?"
"Once, he kissed me. I loved my lips the better ten days after: Would he would do so every day!"
"By him, like a shadow I'l ever dwell."
"Tis pitty Love should be so tyrannous."
"O Great Corrector of enormous times, Of dustie, and old tytles, that healst with blood The earth when it is sicke, and curst the world O'th pluresie of people;"