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• Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes;
  Nothing of him that doth fade,
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Brave, Soul

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 5

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• To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Grandmother, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Deafness, Cures

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• O, I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer!

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Suffering, Saws

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Tombstone, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

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• Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Giving

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

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• How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Green, Grass

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”

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• ...lest too light winning make the prize light.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Light, Tempest

  William Shakespeare (2016). “WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.892, e-artnow

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• You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

  William Shakespeare

  Taught, Language, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

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• A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Pox, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.147, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Depression, Husband

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

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• I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Command

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Like one
  Who having into truth, by telling of it,
  Made such a sinner of his memory,
  To credit his own lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Lying, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Tempest”, p.27, Palgrave Macmillan

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• When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Night, Light

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Four Late Plays”, p.357, Wordsworth Editions

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• My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Speech, Language

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36

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• The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tempest, Curtains

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 405

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• I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
  To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Neglect

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.32

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• What seest thou else
  In the dark backward and abysm of time?

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Dark, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 49

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• And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Moon, Night

  William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

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• This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Passion, Air

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 389

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• There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

  William Shakespeare

  House, Temples, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.67

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• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

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