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Shakespeare: King Henry IV

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King Henry IV. Part I, Act II, Sc. IV
What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?

King Henry IV. Part I, Act IV, Sc. II
The cankers of a calm world and a long peace.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act V, Sc. IV
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act V, Sc. IV
I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act III, Sc. I
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

King Henry IV. Part I, Act III, Sc. III
Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act I, Sc. III
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

King Henry IV. Part I, Act I, Sc. II
Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act I, Sc. II
There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act II, Sc. IV
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act III, Sc. I
Diseased nature often times breaks forth
In strange eruptions.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act IV, Sc. I
This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act I, Sc. II
Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act II, Sc. II
Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act IV, Sc. II
Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act II, Sc. IV
That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act III, Sc. I
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. III
An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act III, Sc. I
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act II, Sc. IV
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act III, Sc. II
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act IV, Sc. II
To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act II, Sc. IV
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 III, Sc. I
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 I, Sc. I
In those holy fields
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.

King Henry IV. Part I, Act V, Sc. IV
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.

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