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Challenge: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Here's the challenge, read it; I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.— T. N. iii. 4.

Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold Yourself.— H. i. 1

God bless me from a challenge!— M. A. v. 1.

Read thou this challenge; mark but the penning of it.— K. L. iv. 6.

Draw, you rogue; for though it be night, the moon the moon shines.— K. L. ii. 2.

I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll deliver thy indignation by word of mouth.— T. N. ii. 4.

By gar, it is a shallenge: I vill cut his troat in de park.— M. W. i. 4.

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent, and full of invention; taunt him with the license of ink.— T. N. iii. 2

I protest Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence, Despite thy victor sword, and fire-new fortune, Thy valour, and thy heart, -thou art a traitor: False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father; Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince; And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust beneath thy feet, A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou, No, This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent, To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak, Thou liest.— K. L. v. 3.

I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms. IHe gave you all the duties of a man; Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue; Spoke your deservings like a chronicle; Making you ever better than his praise, By still dispraising praise, valued with you: And, which became him like a prince indeed, He made a blushing cital of himself; And chid his truant youth with such a grace, As if he master'd there a double spirit, Of teaching and of learning instantly.— H. IV PT. I. v. 2