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1  This is the woman, but not this the man.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
2  It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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3  I would my father look'd but with my eyes.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
4  You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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5  She was a vixen when she went to school, And though she be but little, she is fierce.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
6  Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
7  Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse, For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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8  My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd; And now to Helen is it home return'd, There to remain.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  Not so, neither; but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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10  Ay, marry, must you, For you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
11  Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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13  The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I: I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly, That fallen am I in dark uneven way, And here will rest me.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
14  You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
15  Then I must be thy lady; but I know When thou hast stol'n away from fairyland, And in the shape of Corin sat all day Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love To amorous Phillida.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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16  To you your father should be as a god; One that compos'd your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure, or disfigure it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
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17  Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance, tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus but Bottom the weaver.
A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
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