#ShakespeareSunday peeps,

Today has been #themefree and it's important at such times to think of what others have thought about the poets, playwrights and writers we hold close.

For me, the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations has provided some of the feelings we ourselves feel.

Photo of Rose, Dorothy, and Blanche at the bars of a jail cell. Sophia is on the other side of the bars.

Good mother, fetch my bail.

All’s Well That Ends Well 
Act V Scene 3
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GIF of the Fellowship of the Ring Alt: GIF of the Fellowship of the Ring

And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood

Henry V 
Act I Scene 2
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GIF of the 10th Doctor waving his fingers and saying, “Hello!” Alt: GIF of the 10th Doctor waving his fingers and saying, “Hello!”

He weighs time
Even to the utmost grain.

Henry V 
Act II Scene 4
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Screenshot of GIF of Aragorn leading an army of ghosts into battle

So many horrid ghosts.

Henry V 
Act IV Prologue 
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Screenshot of Wikipedia article about the killing of Alex Pretti Text in screenshot: Part of Operation Metro Surge and shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration Official portrait of Pretti in 2024 (as a registered nurse for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs)

Murder most foul.

HAMLET
Act I Scene 5
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GIF of Trump smiling Alt: GIF of Trump smiling

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables, — meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain

Hamlet
Act I Scene 5
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I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
That, for a fantasy and trick of
fame,
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain.

Hamlet
Act IV Scene 4
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GIF of the 8th Doctor in the process of regeneration into the War Doctor Alt: GIF of the 8th Doctor in the process of regeneration into the War Doctor

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Hamlet
Act IV Scene 5
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Screenshot of a GIF of Trump standing on a tank, which is emerging from water, with a huge American flag behind him. The tank has the word “TRUMP” printed on its front and side. There are explosions in the background and the tank is firing its gun. There are fires on the ground.

The times are wild; contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him.

Henry IV, Part 2 
Act I Scene 1 
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GIF of Trump standing at a podium in front of American flags and giving a thumbs up CAPTION: OK I LIED Alt: GIF of Trump standing at a podium in front of American flags and giving a thumbs up CAPTION: OK I LIED

Give me leave to tell you you lie in your throat. 

Henry IV, Part 2 
Act I Scene 2
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GIF of a kitten falling asleep Alt: GIF of a kitten falling asleep

O sleep, O gentle
sleep,
Nature's soft nurse

Henry IV, Part 2 
Act III Scene 1
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GIF of Barack Obama in a white shirt at a political campaign rally CAPTION: Yes, we can! Alt: GIF of Barack Obama in a white shirt at a political campaign rally CAPTION: Yes, we can!

a tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant leader. 

Henry IV, Part 2 
Act III Scene 2
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GIF of a cat stealing a piece of fish off of a piece of sushi Alt: GIF of a cat stealing a piece of fish off of a piece of sushi

Welcome, my little tiny thief.

Henry IV, Part 2 
Act V Scene 3
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Photo of the cover of a 1911 The Saturday Evening Post showing an old man wrapped in orange clothing with a sickle resting over his shoulder. He is stooped over looking at a very young child. The child is looking up at the old man and appears to be unclothed except for a big newspaper bag hung over his shoulder and covering much of the front of the child’s body. The words “The Saturday Evening Post” are written on the bag. There is an hourglass on the ground between them. There appears to be an artist’s signature to the left of the old man’s feet. The old man & child & hourglass are standing on a long thin horizontally oriented rectangle with “1911” printed on it. Below the rectangle are the words “MORE THAN A MILLION AND A HALF CIRCULATION WEEKLY” in small orange characters.

I could match this beginning with an old tale.

As You Like It 
Act I Scene 2
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a man is standing in a doorway with his hand outstretched and says come with me . Alt: GIF of the 10th Doctor in the open door of the Tardis with his hand stretched out towards the viewer CAPTION: Come with me.

you shall go with me

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act I Scene 1
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a man wearing glasses and a red hat looks up at the sky Alt: GIF of the 10th & 11th Doctors looking upwards towards the left and then at each other. The 11th Doctor is wearing a fez. Both are wearing glasses. They turn towards each other and point at each other’s glasses and smile.

Ten and eleven

The Merry Wives of Windsor 
Act II Scene 2
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a man with long hair is standing in front of a crowd . Alt: GIF of Tom Hiddleston as Loki. At first he’s looking somber but then breaks into a smile.

A trusty villain, sir, that very oft, When I am dull with care and melancholy,
Lightens my humour with his merry jests.

The Comedy of Errors
Act I Scene 2
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Portrait of William Shakespeare

Devise, wit; write pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.

Love's Labours Lost 
Act I Scene 2
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

King Lear 
Act I Scene 1
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest.

King Lear 
Act I Scene 4
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a black and white photo of a boy with the words i want some more above him Alt: B&W GIF of Oliver Twist holding up an empty bowl CAPTION: Please, sir, I want some more.

Fill our bowls once more.

Antony and Cleopatra
Act III Scene 13
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a cat is sleeping next to a kitten on a bed . Alt: GUF of a yawning wee little kitten with eyes closed and curled in a ball

Rest you happy!

Antony and Cleopatra
Act I Scene 1
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a purple and blue comet flies through the night sky Alt: GIF of the USS Enterprise warping into space

A space for further travel 

Antony and Cleopatra
Act II Scene 2
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a man with a beard is wearing a crown and looking at a woman . Alt: GIF of a crowned and smiling Aragorn speaking to someone in the right foreground

Every inch a king

King Lear 
Act IV Scene 6
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Photo of Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock and Jane Wyatt as Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson. Spock is wearing a deep blue formal uniform with gold trim. Amanda Grayson is wearing a yellow dress overlaid by a sheer pastel orange red/yellowish green/green sheath.

his mother was fair

King Lear 
Act I Scene 1
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Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.

The Tempest 
Act I Scene 2
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a painting of three dogs looking at the camera Alt: GIF of Fluffy, Hagrid’s huge three-headed dog, staring at three robed Hogwarts students, one of whom is obviously Hermione because of her hair.

The watch-dogs bark!

The Tempest
Act I Scene 2
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Photo of River Song holding and looking at her open diary

I'll to my book

The Tempest 
Act III Scene 1
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“O, never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify.
As easy might I from myself depart
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie.”
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