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The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.
Venus and Adonis

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
The Rape of Lucrece

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
The Rape of Lucrece

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
The Rape of Lucrece

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
The Rape of Lucrece

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
The Rape of Lucrece

And now this pale swam in her watery nest
Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending.
The Rape of Lucrece

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die.
Sonnet 1

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field.
Sonnet 2

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
Sonnet 3

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William Shakespeare - English Dramatist and Poet. Born 1564. Died 1616.