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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 priest | you came to cadmus' city and unbond the tax we had to pay to the harsh singer, did it without a helpful word from us |
| oedipus | whoever murdered him may also wish to punish me- and with the selsame hand. in helping him i also serve myslef |
| oedipus | our luck will prosper if the god is with us or we have already fallen |
| chours | if night lets something get away at last, if come by day |
| tiresias | you do not see the evil |
| tiresias | i am not creon's man. he's nothing to me. hear this, since you have thrown my blindess at me; you eyes can't see the evil to which you've come, nor where you live, nor wo is in you house |
| tiresias | blind, who once could see, a better who was rich, through fereigh see, he'll go and point before him which a stick. to his beloved children, a brother; to the one who bore him, son and husband; to his father, his see-fellow and killer. |
| creon | how could the kingship bring me more delight than this untroubled power and influence? i'm not misguided you to such a point that profitable honors aren't enough. |
| jocasta | that when his fate arrived he would be killed by a son who would be born to him and me. and yet, so it s told, foreigh robbers murdered him, at the place where three roads meet, |
| jocasta | doomed man! never find out hwo you are! man of misery! no other name shill address you by, ever again |
| hamlet | Seems madam? nay it is, i know not "seems". Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother. |
| hamlet | o that this too too sullied flesh would melt, thaw and reslove itself into a dew |
| hamlet | from that particular fault: the dram of evil doth all the noble substance often doubt, to his own scandal |
| hamlet | i do not set my life at a pin's fee and for my sould, what can it do to that being a thing immortal as itself;it waves me forth again, i'll follow it |
| ghost | tis given out that sleeping in my orchard a serpent sung me, so the whole ear of denmark |
| ghost | upon my secure hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hebona in a vial and it the porches of my ears did purt the leperous distilment |
| hamlet | that i, the osn of a dear father murdered prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell mush like awhore unpack my heart with words and fall a cursing like a very drab and scullion, fie upon't foh |
| hamlet | i say we will have no moe marriage. those that are married already, all but one shall live, the rest shal keep as they are: to a nunnery go. |
| rosencrantz | good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do surley bar the door upon your own libergy, it you deny your girelf to your friend |
| king | on my offence is rank it smells to heaven, it hath the primal eldest curse upon't a brother's murder. pray can i not though inclination be as sharp as will |
| hamlet | i his sole son do this same villain send to heavn. why this is hire and salary, not revenge |
| queen | thou turn'st my eyes into my very sour and there is such black and grained spots as will not leave their rinct |
| ophelia | there's fennel for you, and columbines. there rue for you and here's some for me, we may call it herb of grace o' sundays: o, you mush wear your rue with a difference there's daisy. i would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they say a made a good end. |
| laertes | and so have i a noble father lost, a sister dirven into desperate terms, whose worth, if praises may go back again, stood challenger on mount of all the age forher perfection. |
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