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Something given that way.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: The Lovers' Progress (act I, sc. 1)
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What mare's nest hast thou found?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Bonduca (IV, 2)
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Hit the nail on the head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1)
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Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 2)
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I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Mad Lover (III, 5)
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After supper walk a mile.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Philaster (II, 4)
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I'll have a fling.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (III, 5)
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He comes not in my books.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Widow
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Whistle, and she'll come to you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Wit without Money (act IV, sc. 4)
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But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
Topic: Providence
Source: The Maid's Tragedy (act V, sc. 4)
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It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
Topic: Prudence
Source: The Faithful Friends (act I, sc. 2)
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Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.
Topic: Singing
Source: Bloody Brother (act III, sc. 2, song)
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Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
Topic: Singing
Source: Wild Goose Chase (act II, 2)
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Sing a song of sixpence.
Topic: Songs
Source: Bonduca (act V, sc. 2)
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A soul as white as Heaven.
Topic: Soul
Source: The Maid's Tragedy (act IV, sc. 1)
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Though I say't that should not say't.
Topic: Speech
Source: Wit at Several Weapons (act II, sc. 2)
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Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
Topic: Speech
Source: Wit Without Money (act IV, sc. 4)
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Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under
Fortune's false lottery, desperately run
To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout,
That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
Topic: Suicide
Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1)
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'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
Topic: Tailors
Source: Elder Brother (act V)
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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Topic: Tailors
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act V, sc. 3, l. 170)
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It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
Topic: Talk
Source: The Scornful Lady (act IV, sc. 1)
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And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
Topic: Temperance
Source: Bloody Brother--Song (act II, sc. 2)
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I'll put that in my considering cap.
Topic: Thought
Source: Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 1)
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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.
Topic: Traveling
Source: The Woman's Prize (act IV, sc. 5, l. 199)
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To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
Topic: Truth
Source: Wit at Several Weapons (act II)
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Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Topic: Vice
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1)
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O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.
Topic: War
Source: The Two Noble Kinsmen (act V, sc. 1)
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There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
Topic: Wickedness
Source: A King and No King (act V, sc. 4)
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Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
What an inviting hell invented.
Topic: Women
Source: Comedy of Monsieur Thomas (act III, sc. 1)
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Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You credit anything the light gives life to
Before a man.
Topic: Women
Source: Maid's Tragedy (act II, sc. 2)
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He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art the messenger, shalt ride before him
On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.
That shall be made to go with golden wheels,
I know not how yet.
Topic: Wonders
Source: A King and No King (act V)
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'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
Topic: Words
Source: The Spanish Curate (act II, sc. 5, Song)
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Let the world slide.
Topic: World
Source: Wit Without Money (act V, sc. 2)
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I care not twopence.
Topic: Worth
Source: Coxcomb (act V, sc. I)
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