Episode 14 October 28, 2004

The quote to guess in this episode was:
“….we are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body: I'll forbear”

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The quote to guess in the last episode was:
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and
ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our
faults whipped them not, and our crimes would
despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues”
(All’s Well that Ends Well)

Show Segments and Some Quotes in this Episode

Quotes used in episode (14)
“T’is now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on - Soft! now to my mother.
O heart, lose not thy nature; …..
Let me be cruel, not unnatural:
I will speak daggers to her, but use none
(Hamlet)

“Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
signal’d by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost.”
(Mavbeth)

“Upon the corner of the moon
There hangs a vaporous drop profound;
I'll catch it ere it come to ground”
(Macbeth)

“To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep”
(Macbeth)

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.”
(Merchant of Venice”

Doctor. You see, her eyes are open.
Gentlewoman. Ay, but their sense is shut.
(Macbeth)

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
(Hamlet)

“Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
Will not debate the question of this straw:
This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Why the man dies.”
(Hamlet)

MIRANDA Wherefore did they not
That hour destroy us?
PROSPERO Well demanded, wench:
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
- So dear the love my people bore me, - nor set
A mark so bloody on the business, but
With colours fairer painted their foul ends
(The Tempest)

“…… but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men”
(Antony and Cleopatra)

“….use every man
after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping?”
(Hamlet)

LEONTES. ..thou are worthy to be hang’d,
That wilt not stay her tongue.
And Antigonus replies
ANTIGONUS. Hang all the husbands
That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself 
Hardly one subject
(Winter’s Tale)

“.. so full of shapes is fancy, 
That it alone is high-fantastical.”
(Twelfth Night)

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
(Twelfth Night)

“I am a man 
More sinned against than sinning.”
(King Lear)

““The lunatic, the lover and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact. 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them into shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name.”
(Midsummer Night’s Dream)

-Shakespeare's Views on the News-

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