O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day:
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
(Two Gentlemen from Verona)
The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.
(Julius Caesar)
"…men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May
when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
(As You Like It)
"look to behold this night
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh female buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house"
"If this were played upon a stage now,
"Plate sin with gold
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks,
Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it"
(King Lear)
K. LEAR Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
GLOUCESTER Ay, sir.
K. LEAR And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great
image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
(King Lear)
"…..O, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words"
(Hamlet)
"All this the world knows yet none knows well
How to shun the Heaven that leads man to this Hell"
(Sonnets)
"Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest!"
(King Richard II)
"Fear no more the frown o' the great;)
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust."
(Cymbeline