Shakespeare quotes on dance

He that so generally is at all times good must of necessity hold his virtue to you, whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it where there is such abundance
Source: ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

I shall stay

Why, hark you! [Trumpets, hautboys, drums beat, all together] The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes, Tabors and cymbals, and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

I heard him tell it to one of his company last night at supper- a kind of auditor; one that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

And wherefore should these good news make me sick? Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach and no food- Such are the poor, in health- or else a feast, And takes away the stomach- such are the rich That have abundance and enjoy it not
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

Sir, For holy offices I have a time; a time To think upon the part of business which I bear i' th' state; and nature does require Her times of preservation, which perforce I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal, Must give my tendance to
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

I'll make one in a dance, or so, or I will play On the tabor to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Through the house give glimmering light, By the dead and drowsy fire; Every elf and fairy sprite Hop as light as bird from brier; And this ditty, after me, Sing and dance it trippingly
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

If the Prince be too important, tell him there is measure in everything, and so dance out the answer
Source: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

After them enter] Don John [and Borachio (without masks), who stand aside and look on during the dance]

Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart; Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity; For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

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