I use The Complete Works of Shakespeare Fifth Edition as Edited by David Bevington. This is why the numbers of the lines don't always match the ones online. They should still be useful in finding the lines if you want to look them up.

Coriolanus, Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 182-189

Coriolanus:                   Oh, mother, mother!

What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,

The gods look down, and this unnatural scene

They laugh at. Oh my mother, mother! Oh!

You have won a happy victory to Rome;

But for your son — believe it, oh, believe it! —

Most dangerously you have with him prevailed,

If not most mortal to him. But let it come.

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Sonnet 154

The little love god lying once asleep

Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,

Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep

Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand

The fairest votary took up that fire

Which many legions of true hearts had warmed,

And so the general of hot desire

Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarmed.

This brand she quenchèd in a cool well by,

Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual,

Growing a bath and healthful remedy

For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall,

     Came there for cure, and this by that I prove:

     Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.

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Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7, Lines 167-184

Queen: There is a willow grows askant the brook,

That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;

Therewith fantastic garlands did she make

Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,

That liberal shepherds did give a grosser name,

But our cold mads do dead men’s fingers call them.

There on their pendent boughs her crownet weeds

Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,

When down her weedy trophies and herself

Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,

And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up,

Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and endues

Unto that element. But long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death.

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Coriolanus, Act 4, Scene 7, Lines 1-12

Aufidius: Do they still fly to th’ Roman?

Lieutenant: I do not know what witchcraft’s in him, but

Your soldiers use him as the grace ‘fore meat,

They talk at table, and their thanks at end;

And you are darkened in this action, sir,

Even by your own.

Aufidius:             I cannot help it now,

Unless by using means I lame the foot

Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,

Even than my person, than I thought he would

When first I did embrace him. Yet his nature

In that’s no changeling, and I must excuse

What cannot be amended.

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shakespearean-insults-deactivat asked: Thou art a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way! Hence horrible villain or I'll spurn thine eyes like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head! Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine, smarting in lingering pickle!

You are not worth another word, else I’d call you knave.

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Sonnet 140

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain,

Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express

The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

If I might teach thee wit, better it were,

Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so,

As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,

No news but health from their physicians know.

For if I should despair, I should grow mad,

And in my madness might speak ill of thee.

Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,

Mad slanderers by mad ears believèd be.

     That I may not be so, nor thou belied,

     Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.

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Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-3

Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it, that surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken and so die.

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Sonnet 123

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

Thy pyramids built up with newer might

To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;

They are but dressings of a former sight,

Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire

What thou dost foist upon us that is old,

And rather make them born to our desire

Than think that we before have heard them told.

Thy registers and thee I both defy,

Not wond’ring at the present nor the past,

For thy records and what we see doth lie,

Made more or less by thy continual haste.

     This I do vow and this shall ever be:

     I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.

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Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, Act 2, Scene 4, Lines 51-66

Feste [sings]:

          Come away, come away, death,

              And in sad cypress let me be laid.

          Fly away, fly away, breath;

              I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

          My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,

              Oh prepare it!

          My part of death, no one so true

              Did share it.



          Not a flower, not a flower sweet

              On my black coffin let there be strown;

          Not a friend, not a friend greet

              My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.

          A thousand thousand sighs to save,

              Lay me, oh, where

          Sad true lover never find my grave,

              To weep there!

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Sonnet 96

Some say thy fault is in youth, some wantonness;

Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;

Both grace and faults are loved of more and less;

Thou mask’st faults graces that to thee resort.

As on the finger of a thronèd queen

The basest jewel will be well esteemed,

So are those errors that in thee are seen

To truths translated and for true things deemed.

How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,

If like a lamb he could his looks translate!

How many gazes mightest thou lead away,

If thous wouldst use the strength of all thy state!

     But do not so; I love thee in such sort

     As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

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