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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by E. Nesbit

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Macbeth — V. 5

We are such stuff

As dreams are made of, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

The Tempest — IV. 1

Love

A murd’rous, guilt shows not itself more soon,

Than love that would seem bid: love’s night is noon.

Twelfth Night — III. 2

Sweet love, changing his property,

Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.

King Richard II. — III. 2

When love begins to sicken and decay,

It useth an enforced ceremony.

Julius Caesar — II. 2

The course of true-love never did run smooth.

Midsummer Night’s Dream — I. 1

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

Idem

She never told her love,—

But let concealment, like a worm i’ th’ bud,

Feed on her damask check: she pined in thought

And, with a green and yellow melancholy,

She sat like Patience on a monument,

Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?

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