FAVORITE SELECTIONS
FROM THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – selected and edited
BY CHRIS BOYCE
Contents
EXCERPT FROM SONNET 8
“Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.”
EXCERPT FROM AS YOU LIKE IT
“O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to meet; but mountains
may be removed with earthquakes, and so encounter.”
EXCERPT FROM CYMBELINE
“Jupiter descends in thunder and lighting, sitting upon an eagle. He
throws a thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees.”
EXCERPT FROM ROMEO AND JULIET
“I do remember an apothecary,
And hereabouts he dwells,—which late I noted
In tatter’d weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples, meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff’d, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes.”
EXCERPT FROM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
“Come, my lord, and in our flight,
Tell me how it came this night
That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.”
EXCERPT FROM HENRY VI, PART II
“The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,
Knowing that thou wouldst have me drowned on shore
With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness.”
EXCERPT FROM THE WINTER’S TALE
“O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never
dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you.
He sings several tunes faster than you’ll tell money. He utters them as
he had eaten ballads, and all men’s ears grew to his tunes.”
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