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Shakespeare by the Flea
SBTF Lines are brief selection of dialogue or Shakespeare script.

The Tempest – ACT V, SCENE I

Before PROSPERO’S cell.

ARIEL (sings and helps to attire him)
Where the bee sucks. there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

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Romeo and Juliet – Act II, Scene II

Capulet’s orchard.

JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

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Hamlet – Act II, Scene II

A room in the castle.

HAMLET
Doubt thou the stars are fine,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.

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Julius Caesar – Act III, Scene I, line 273

Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.

ANTHONY
Cry ‘Havoc!,”
and let slip
the dogs of war.

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The Merchant of Venice – ACT V, SCENE I

Belmont. Avenue to Portia’s house.

PORTIA
The crow doth sing
as sweetly as the
lark when neither
is attended.

 

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Two Gentlemen of Verona – Act II, SCENE III

The same. A street.

LAUNCE
I am the dog.
No, the dog is himself,
and I am the dog…
O, the dog is me,
and I am myself.

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Macbeth – ACT IV, SCENE I

A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.

ALL
Double, double,
toil and trouble.

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