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But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer, And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger 29 When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon

my self and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least, Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate, For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings
Source: THE SONNETS

112 Your love and pity doth th' impression fill, Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow, For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow? You are my all the world, and I must strive, To know my shames and praises from your tongue, None else to me, nor I to none alive, That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong
Source: THE SONNETS

The condemn'd Pompey, Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace Into the hearts of such as have not thrived Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten; And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge By any desperate change
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel, That he his high authority abus'd, And did deserve his change
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Write to him- I will subscribe- gentle adieus and greetings; Say that I wish he never find more cause To change a master
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

O my poor Rosalind! Whither wilt thou go? Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

Ere in our own house I do shade my head, The good patricians must be visited; From whom I have receiv'd not only greetings, But with them change of honours
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

I had my father's signet in my purse,

which was the model of that Danish seal; Folded the writ up in the form of th' other, Subscrib'd it, gave't th' impression, plac'd it safely, The changeling never known
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

Have at you now! [Laertes wounds Hamlet; then] in scuffling, they change rapiers, [and Hamlet wounds Laertes]
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

So happy be the issue, brother England, Of this good day and of this gracious meeting As we are now glad to behold your eyes- Your eyes, which hitherto have home in them, Against the French that met them in their bent, The fatal balls of murdering basilisks; The venom of such looks, we fairly hope, Have lost their quality; and that this day Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love
Source: THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH

But a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon- for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly
Source: THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH

I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne; His crown shall be the ransom of my friend; Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

Suffolk concluded on the articles; The peers agreed; and Henry was well pleas'd To changes two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter
Source: THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

That gold must round engirt these brows of mine, Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure
Source: THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

you were crown'd before, And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off, The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; Fresh expectation troubled not the land With any long'd-for change or better state
Source: KING JOHN

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts, And that which would appear offense in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes; For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold, Or whether since he is advis'd by aught To change the course
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive, These four will change habits and present the other five
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

I have a wife who I protest I love; I would she were in heaven, so she could Entreat some power to change this currish Jew
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE

My wretchedness unto a row of pins, They will talk of state, for every one doth so Against a change
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

[Reads] '"Gamut" I am, the ground of all accord- "A re" to plead Hortensio's passion- "B mi" Bianca, take him for thy lord- "C fa ut" that loves with all affection- "D sol re" one clef, two notes have I- "E la mi" show pity or I die.' Call you this gamut? Tut, I like it not! Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house And revel it as bravely as the best, With silken coats and caps, and golden rings, With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things, With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun; But sun it is not, when you say it is not; And the moon changes even as your mind
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

This is in thee a nature but infected, A poor unmanly melancholy sprung From change of fortune
Source: THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS

What, billing again? Here's 'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably.' Come in, come in; I'll go get a fire
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Oft have you-often have you thanks therefore- Desir'd my Cressid in right great exchange, Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs That their negotiations all must slack Wanting his manage; and they will almost Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam, In change of him
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Now the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; And he wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit t' exchange the bad for better
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind, Because we know, on Valentine's report, You are already Love's firm votary And cannot soon revolt and change your mind
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

It is the lesser blot, modesty finds, Women to change their shapes than men their minds
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

The King hath on him such a countenance As he had lost some province, and a region Lov'd as he loves himself; even now I met him With customary compliment, when he, Wafting his eyes to th' contrary and falling A lip of much contempt, speeds from me; So leaves me to consider what is breeding That changes thus his manners
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

It was thought she was a woman, and was turn'd into a cold fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that lov'd her
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

Yet for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly- thou must think there's a necessity in't- and change garments with this gentleman
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

Though Fortune, visible an enemy, Should chase us with my father, pow'r no jot Hath she to change our loves
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE


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