John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued)
1294 With an angry wafture of your hand, Gave sign for me to leave you.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1295 You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 1 That visit my sad heart.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1296 Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fatherd and so husbanded?
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1297 Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1298 These things are beyond all use, And I do fear them.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1299 When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1300 Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1301 Cæs. The ides of March are come.Sooth. Ay, Cæsar; but not gone.
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1302 But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1303 Et tu, Brute!
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1304 How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1305 The choice and master spirits of this age.
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.