John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Christopher Marlowe. (1564–1593) (continued) |
| 363 |
| By shallow rivers, to whose falls 1 Melodious birds sing madrigals. |
| The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. |
| 364 |
| And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies. |
| The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. |
| 365 |
| Infinite riches in a little room. |
| The Jew of Malta. Act i. |
| 366 |
| Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. |
| The Jew of Malta. Act i. |
| 367 |
| Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; 2 that is, more knave than fool. |
| The Jew of Malta. Act ii. |
| 368 |
| Love me little, love me long. 3 |
| The Jew of Malta. Act iv. |
| 369 |
| When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. |
| Faustus. |
| 370 |
| Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: 4 see, where it flies! |
| Faustus. |
| 371 |
| O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. |
| Faustus. |
| 372 |
| Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo’s laurel bough, 5 That sometime grew within this learnèd man. |
| Faustus. |
| Note 1. To shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sings madrigals; There will we make our peds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. William Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. i. (Sung by Evans). [back] |
| Note 2. Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.—Matthew x. 16. [back] |
| Note 3. See Heywood, Quotation 89. [back] |
| Note 4. Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips. Alfred Tennyson: Fatima, stanza 3. [back] |
| Note 5. O, withered is the garland of the war! The soldier’s pole is fallen. William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, act iv. sc. 13. [back] |