Friday, 4 April 2014

Shakespeare text

Here are quotes from when Hero is mentioned in Act IV


  1. Rich and precious gift
  2. give not this rotten orange to your friend
  3. she knows the heat of a luxurious bed; Her blush is guiltiness not modesty.
  4. not to knit my soul to an approved wanton
  5. you seem to me as Dian in her orb, As chaste as in the bud ere it be blown; But you are more intemperate in your blood that Venus, or those pamper'd animals that rage in savage sensuality.
  6. to link my friend to a common stale
  7. most like a liberal villain
  8. but fare thee well, most foul, most fair!
  9. thou pure impiety and impious purity!
  10. Dead, I think. Help, uncle! Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! signor Benedict! Friar!
  11. Death is the fairest cover for her shame
  12. Do not live, Hero, do not ope thin eyes; For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
  13. why, she, o, she is fallen into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again and salt too little which may season give to her foul tainted flesh!
  14. To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, in angel whiteness beat away those blushes; and in her eyes there hath appear'd a fire,
  15. If this sweet lady lie not guiltiness here under some biting error
  16. thou seest that all the grace that she hath left is that she will not add to her damnation a sin of perjury, she not denies it.
  17. Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!
  18. if they speak but truth of her, these hands shall tear her, if they wrong her honour, the proudest of them shall hear of it.
  19. your daughter here the princes left for dead, let her awhile be secretly kept in, and publish it that she is dead indeed
  20. she be lamented, pitied and excused of every hearer
  21. and every lovely organ of her life shall come appall'd in more precious habit, more moving-delicate and full of life,
  22. surely I do believe your fair cousin in wronged
  23. sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone
  24. Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.

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