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- The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 3
- What may this mean, that thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 4
- But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid are far more fair than she. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- The moon's an arrant theif, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Timon of Athens, Act IV, sc. 3
- 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
- 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
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