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Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English is a scholarly compilation that includes Shakespeare's classic comedies. The book offers a modern English translation alongside the original Shakespearean text, allowing readers to compare and contrast the two versions. It is intended for those who wish to explore Shakespeare's comedies in a more accessible format while still engaging with the original language.
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“Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?”
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“To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.”
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“Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?”
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“Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.”
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“The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.”
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“Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”
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“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”
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“Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.”
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“A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.”
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“To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.”
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“O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!”
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“There's place and means for every man alive.”
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“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”
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“I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”
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“By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.”
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“Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.”
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“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”
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“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”
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“There's a time for all things.”
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“It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.”
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“As love is full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance”
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“The soul of this man is his clothes.”
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“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.”
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“His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.”
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“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”
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“He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.”
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“Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”
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“Which means she to deceive, father or mother?”
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“It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!”
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“To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes”
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