Bartlette's Quotations: The Winter's Tale.
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| 1 |
They say we are Almost as like as eggs. | Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 2 |
What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief. | Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 3 |
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. | Act iv. Sc. 3. |
| 4 |
A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. | Ibid. |
| 5 |
O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoe Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. | Sc. 4. |
| 6 |
When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. | Ibid. |
| 7 |
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. | Ibid. |
| 8 |
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. | Ibid. |
