Bartlette's Quotations: Cymbeline.

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1	Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.	Act i. Sc. 4.
2	Hath his bellyful of fighting.	Act ii. Sc. 1.
3	How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily.	Sc. 2.
4	The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace.	Sc. 3.
5	Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With everything that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.	Ibid.
6	As chaste as unsunn'd snow.	Sc. 5.
7	Some griefs are medicinable.	Act iii. Sc. 2.
8	Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.	Sc. 3.
9	So slippery that The fear 's as bad as falling.	Ibid.
10	The game is up.	Ibid.
11	No, 't is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.	Sc. 4.
12	Some jay of Italy, Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him: Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion.	Ibid.
13	It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness.	Ibid.
14	I have not slept one wink.	Ibid.
15	Thou art all the comfort The gods will diet me with.	Ibid.
16	Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.	Sc. 6.
17	An angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon!	Ibid.
18	Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.	Act iv. Sc. 2.
19	And put My clouted brogues from off my feet.	Ibid.
20	Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.	Ibid.
21	O, never say hereafter But I am truest speaker. You call'd me brother When I was but your sister.	Act v. Sc. 5.