His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
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LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II
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Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.
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And too soon Marred are those so early Made.
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I'll have no husband, if you be not he.
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Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
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A young man married is a man that's marred.
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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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