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- He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 3
- The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
- The beast with many heads butts me away.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Coriolanus, Act IV, sc. 1
- If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 1
- Music, moody food of us that trade in love.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc. 5
- I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 2
- Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1
- 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
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