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- To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, sc. 1
- In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 1
- Nature does require her times of preservation.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
- Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LVI
- Beware the ides of March.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LVI
- In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act V, sc. 1
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XVIII
- Why, this is very midsummer madness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 4
- That time of year thou may'st in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXXIII
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