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1  Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
2  Take thy fortune, Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
3  I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
4  So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
5  Ay sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
6  Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be bles'd, I'll blessing beg of you.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
7  If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, Speak to me.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
8  Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
9  Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
10  For there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
11  But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror and who else would trace him his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
12  But such officers do the King best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
13  Now follows, that you know young Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother's death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, Colleagued with this dream of his advantage, He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, Importing the surrender of those lands Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, To our most valiant brother.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
Context  Highlight   In ACT I