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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
952
    Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
953
    Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
954
    I was now a coward on instinct.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
955
    No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
956
    What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
957
    A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
958
    In King Cambyses’ vein.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
959
    That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
960
    Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
961
    Play out the play.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
962
    O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
963
    Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
964
    I am not in the roll of common men.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
965
    Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
966
    While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! 1
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
967
    I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
968
    But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,
I ’ll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
969
    A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.
          King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
 
Note 1.
Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1. Jonathan Swift: Mary the Cookmaid’s Letter. [back]