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| Never before has a force under arms desembarked so openly-not bothering to ask if the sentries allowed them safe passage or the clan had consented. nor have i seen a mightier man at arms on this earth than the one standing here; unless i am mistaken, He is truly noble. This is no mere hanger on in a hero's armor |
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Speaker: Watchman
Spoken To: Beowulf and his men |
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| The news of Grendel, hard to ignore, reached me at home: sailors brought stories of the plight you suffer in this legendary hall, how it lies deserted, empty and useless once the evening light hides itself under heavens dome.. I mean to be a match for Grendel, settle the outcome in single combat |
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Speaker: Beowulf
Spoken to: King Hrothgar |
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| the ocean swayed, winter went wild in the waves, but you vied for seven nights and then he outswam you, came ashore the stronger contender.. So Breca made good his boast upon you and was proved right. |
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Speaker: Unferth
Spoken To: Beowulf |
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| But now a man with the Lord's assistance, has accomplished something none of us could manage before now for all our efforts whoever she was brought forth this flower of manhood, if she is still alive, that woman can say that in her labor the Lord of Ages bestowed a grace on her. So now, ___________ I adopt you in my heart as a dear son. |
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Speaker: King Hrothgar
Spoken To: Beowulf |
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| What is the name of the sword that is given to Beowulf? |
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| So this bad blood between us and the Swedes, this vicious feud, I am convinced is bound to revive; they will cross our borders and attack in force when they find out that beowulf is dead. In days gone by when our warriours fell and we were undefended, he kept our coffers and our kingdom safe. |
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Speaker: Wiglaf
Spoken To: The Geats/Warriors |
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| __________ Remain here on the barrow, safe in your armor, to see which one of us is better in the end at bearing wounds in a deadly fray. This fight is not yours, nor is it up to any man except me to measure his strength against the monster or to prove his worth. I shall win the gold by my courage, or else mortal combat, doom of battle, will bear your lord away. |
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Speaker: Beowulf
Spoken To: Warriors |
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| What you have done is to draw two peoples, The Geat nation and us neighboring Dantes, into shared peace and a pact of friendship in spite of hatreds we have harbored in the past. For as long as I rule this far-flung land Treasures will change hands and each side will treat the others with gifts..I know your ppl are beyond reproach in every respect, steadfast in the only way with friend or foe. |
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Speaker: King Hrothgar
Spoken To: Beowulf |
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| Start out and get into the house right off for each of us a tub or kneading trough, above all making sure that they are large, in which we'll float away as in a barge. and put in food enough to last a day. Beyond won't matter, the flood will fall away. |
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Speaker: Nicholas, the student
Spoken To: John, the carpenter |
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| Everyone listen! But first I will propound that I am drunk, I know it by the sound. If i can't get my words out, put the blame on Southwark ale, I ask you, in God's name! For I'll tell a golden legend and a life both of a carpentor and of his wife, how a student put horns on the fellow's head. |
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Speaker: The Miller
Spoken To: The Pilgrims |
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| Sweetheart, unless I have my will with you I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true, ..I vow I'll die unless you love me here and now, Sure as my soul...is God's to save. |
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Speaker: Nicholas, the student
Spoken To: Alison, the wife |
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And when I saw that he would never stop reading all night from his accursed book, suddenly, in the midst of it, I took three leaves and tore them out in a great pique, and with my fist I caught him on the cheek so hard he tumbled backward in the fire.
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Speaker: The Wife of Bath
Spoken About: Jenkins-fifth husband |
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| By God and St. John, Upon this topic you preach nobly, Dame! I was about to wed, but now, for shame, Why should my body pay a price so dear? I'd rather not be married all this year! |
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Speaker: Pardoner
Spoken To: The Wife of Bath |
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| So help me God, I can't help laughing yet thinking of how at night I made them sweat, and I thought nothing of it, on my word! Their land and wealth they had by then conferred on me, and so I safely could neglect tending their love or showing them respect. |
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Speaker: The Wife of Bath
Spoken To: The Pilgrims |
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| What color is the dress that the wife of bath says she wears all the time? |
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| In your wise government I put my life. Choose for yourself which course will best agree with pleasure and honor both for your and me. I do not care, choose either of the two; I am content, whatever pleases you. |
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Speaker: The knight
Spoken To: Old lady |
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| I grant your life, if you can answer me this question: what is the one thing that most of all women desire? Think, or your neck will fall under the ax! If you cannot let me know immediately, I give you leave to go a twelvemonth and a day, no more, in quest of such an answer as will meet the test. |
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Speaker: Queen Guinevere
Spoken To: The knight |
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| But since you speak of that nobility that comes from ancient wealth and pedigree, as if that constitued gentlemen, I hold such arrogance not worth a hen! that man whose virtue is pre-eminent, in public and alone, always intent on doing every generous act he can, Take him-he is the greatest gentlemen. |
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Speaker: Old Lady
Spoken To: the knight |
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| What is the ;ame of the guy who has "asses ears" and briefly gets mentioned in the Wife of Bath's tale? |
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| I admonish, order, and beg you not to reveal this secret to anyone! I shall tell you the long and the short of it; you would lose forever if this love were to become none. |
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Speaker: Fairy lady/lover
Spoken To: Lanval |
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| And i will tell you one thing: you can be sure that one of her servants even the very poorest girl, is worth more than you, my lady the Queen, in body, face, and beauty, wisdom, and goodness. |
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Speaker: Lanval
Spoken To: Queen Guinevere |
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| I have loved one of your vassals, ________ whom you see there. Because of what he siad, he was accused in your court, and I do not wish him to come to any harm. You should know that the queen was wrong, as he never sought her love. As regards the boast he made, if he can be acquitted by me, let your barons release him! |
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Speaker: Fairy lady/ lover
Spoken to: King Arthur |
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| Anyone who does not hear the song of the nightingale knows none of the joys of this world. This is why I come and stand here. So sweet is the song I hear by night that it brings me great pleasure. I take such delight in it and desire it so much that I can get no sleep at all. |
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Speaker: The wife
Spoken To: Her husband |
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| Let us set aside rank and station. Let us look upon ourselves as a man and a woman, as the two most wronged people in the world, as two people who have been betrayed and mocked by those whom we loved with all our hearts. |
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Speaker: Gentleman (Husband)
Spoken To: Queen |
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| Oh God! Must it take the desire for revenge to drive me to do what love would have never driven me to do? |
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Speaker: Queen
Spoken To: Gentleman / husband |
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| There we can sit and rest and each of us will tell a story which he has either witnessed himself, or which he has heard from somebody worthy of belief...In spite of all this, if any of you is able to think of something more agreeable, I shall gladly bow to his or her opinion. |
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Speaker: Parlamente
Spoken To: Group |
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| If love is based on a woman's beauty, charm and favors and if our aim is merely pleasure, ambition, or profit then such love can never last. For if the whole foundation on which our love is based should collapse, then love will fly from us and there will be no love left in us. But I am utterly convinced that if a man loves with no other aim, no other desire, than to love truly, he will abandon his soul in death rather than allow his love to abandon his heart. |
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Speaker: Dagoucin
Spoken To: Grou[ |
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| You enjoyed it so much because you were seething with some depraved pent-up lust- in short, the sin of concupiscence was raging within you, and your senses were dulled as a result. |
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Speaker: Wife
Spoken To: Husband |
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| But as the praise of you, prince, is puffed up so high, and your court and your company are counted the best, Stoutest under steel-gear on steeds to ride, Worthiest of their works the wide world... If you be so bold as all men believe, you will graciously grant the game that i ask, by right. |
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Speaker: Green Knight
Spoken To: King Author/ Court |
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| For I find it not fit, as in faith it is known, when such a boon is begged before all these knights, though you be tempted thereto, to take it on yourself while so bold men about upon benches sit... for that this folly befits not a king. |
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Speaker: Gawain
Spoken To: King Author |
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But _________ would not eat til all were served; So light was his lordly heart, and a little boyish... And also a point of pride pricked him in heart, For he nobly had willed, he would never eat on so high a holiday till he had heard first of some fair feat or fray, some far-borne tale, of some marvel of might that he might trust.
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Speaker:Narrator
Spoken About: King Author |
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| What color are the green knights eyes? |
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| But if the virtue that invests it were verily known, it would be held, I hope, in higher esteem. For the man that possesses this piece of silf, if he bore it on his body, belted about, there is no hand under heaven that could hew him down, for he could not be killed by any craft on earth. |
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Speaker: Castle Lady (Green Knights wife)
Spoken To: Gawain |
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| Whatever I win in the woods I will give you at eve, and all you have earned you must offer to me; swear now, sweet friend, to swap as I say. |
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Speaker: Castle Lord (Green Knight)
Spoken To: Gawain |
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| For I am summoned by myself to seek for a place- I would I know whither, or where it might be! Far rather would I find it before the New Year than own the land of Logres, so help me our Lord! Wherefore, sir, in friendship this favor I ask, that you say in sober earnest, if something you know of the Green Chapel. |
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Speaker: Gawain
Spoken To: Castle Lord |
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| But a sign of excess it shall seem oftentimes when I ride in renown, and remember with shame the faults and the frailty of the flesh perverse, How its tenderness entices the foul taint of sin; and so when praise and high prowess have pleased my heart, a look at this love-lace will lower my pride. |
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Speaker: Gawain
Spoken To: Green Knight |
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| Go off by some other road, in God's own name! Leave by some other land, for the love of Christ, and I shall get me home again, and give you my word that I shall swear God's self and the saints above, by heaven and by the halidom and other oaths more, to cnceal this days deed, nor say to a soul that ever you fled for fear from any that i knew. |
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Speaker: Guide
Spoken To: Gawain |
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| Such harm as I have had, I hold it quite healed. you are so fully confessed, your failings made known, and bear the plain penance of the point of my blade, I hold you polished as a pearl, as pure and as birght as you had lived free of fault since first you were born. |
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Speaker: Green Knight
Spoken To: Gawain |
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| O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, a borther's murder. Pray can I not, though inlcination be as sharp as will: My stroner guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shallfirst begin, and both neglect. |
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Speaker: Claudius
Spoken To: Himself |
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| O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! the courtiers, soldiers, scholars, eye, tongue, sword; the expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, the observed of all observers, quite, quite down! and I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows O woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see! |
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Speaker: Ophelia
Spoken To: Herself |
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| What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman either. |
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Speaker: Hamlet
Spoken To: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
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| Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice and could of men distinguish, her election hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been as one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, a man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, that they are not a pipe for fortune's finger to sound what stop she please, Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. |
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Speaker: Hamlet
Spoken To: Horatio |
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This is a willow grows aslant a brook, that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; there with fantastic garlands did she come of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples but our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; when down her weedy trophies and herslef fell in the weeping brook.
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Speaker: Gertrude
Spoken To: Laertes / Claudius
Spoken About: Ophelia |
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| We defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? |
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Speaker: Hamlet
Spoken To: Horatio |
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| Swounds, show me what thou'lt do: Woo't week? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself? Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile? I'll do't Dost thou come here to whine? to outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I: And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw millions of acres on us, til our ground, singing his pate against the burning zone, Make ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. |
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Speaker: Hamlet
Spoken To: Laertes |
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| And let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about: so shall you hear of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, and in this upshot purposes mistook fall'n on the inventors reads: all this can I truly deliver. |
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Speaker: Horatio
Spoken To: Fortinbras |
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| Words in a row beginning with the same sound or starting with the same letter |
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| A metaphor for naming a common object such as "whaleroad" which implies that the ocean is a road for whales is an example of what term? |
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| What is the term for a character on stage during a play who is speaking alone to the audience? |
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