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Exit an attendant A fever with the absence of her son; A madness, of which her life's in danger
Source: CYMBELINE

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base

into the sea, And there assume some other, horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? Think of it
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

Love? his affections do not that way tend; Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, Was not like madness
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass but my madness speaks
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

What I have done That might your nature, honour, and exception Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

If't be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

O Prince! I conjure thee, as thou believ'st There is another comfort than this world, That thou neglect me not with that opinion That I am touch'd with madness
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

By mine honesty, If she be mad, as I believe no other, Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, Such a dependency of thing on thing, As e'er I heard in madness
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

If he would despise me, I would forgive him; for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Which thing to do, If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace For his quick hunting, stand the putting on, I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip, Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb (For I fear Cassio with my nightcap too), Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me

For making him egregiously an ass And practicing upon his peace and quiet Even to madness
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE

But they'll nor pinch, Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' th' mire, Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but For every trifle are they set upon me; Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, And after bite me; then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness
Source: THE TEMPEST

Thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, Th' affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me
Source: THE TEMPEST

O you gods, what a number of men eats Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood; and all the madness is, he cheers them up too
Source: THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS

This is the air; that is the glorious sun; This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't; And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus, Yet 'tis not madness
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

O sweet Paulina, Make me to think so twenty years together! No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE


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