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1  When I am absent, then lie with my wife.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
2  For never shall you lie by Portia's side With an unquiet soul.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
3  There, take it, prince, and if my form lie there, Then I am yours.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
4  It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
5  And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell, That men shall swear I have discontinued school About a twelvemonth.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
6  If I could add a lie unto a fault, I would deny it, but you see my finger Hath not the ring upon it, it is gone.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
7  And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano, For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk, In lieu of this, last night did lie with me.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
8  I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  They have in England A coin that bears the figure of an angel Stamped in gold; but that's insculp'd upon; But here an angel in a golden bed Lies all within.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
10  Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wrack'd on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think they call the place, a very dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III