A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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Decrepitude: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,— K. L. ii. 4
As full of grief as age; wretched in both. I am old now, And these same crosses spoil me.— K. L. V. 3
Pray do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward; and to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.— K. L. iv. 7.
But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act.— A. W. i. 2.
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