Can you name the Shakespeare Characters by First Lines?

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  • From the Norton books, volumes 1 and 2
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Thou are so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon...
What country, friends, is this?
I can but say their protestation over.
Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster, hast thou according to thy oath and bond brought hither Henry Hereford, they bold son, here to make good the boist'rous late appeal...
I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart there's no harm done.
Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host, and say there, Dromio, till I come to thee.
Always obedient to your grace's will, I come to know your pleasure.
I have, Antiochus, and with a soul emboldened with the glory of her praise think death no hazard in this enterprise.
Imprisoned is he, say you?
Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.
Attend my lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?
Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester, the special watchmen of our English weal, I would prevail, if prayers might prevail to join your hearts in love and amity.
Verona, for a while I take my leave to see my friend in Padua.
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Now say, Chatillon, what would France with us?
There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
Princes, what grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?
I am, my lord, as well derived as he, as well possessed.
Stay your thanks a while, and pay them when you part.
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, find we a time for frightend peace to pant and breathe short-winded accents of new broils to be commenced in strands afar remote.
Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?
Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!
Calpurnia.
'Tis better as it is.
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York; and all the clouds that loured upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Ay me, sad hours seem long.
A little more than kin and less than kind.
Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier?
Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the King?
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Shakespeare Character's First Lines Quiz

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  • Created Feb 13, 2011 in Literature
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