Home › N › Nun

Nun: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood,

Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun; For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chaunting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlior happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.— M. N. i. 1.

I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted; By your renouncement, an immortal spirit; And to be talk'd with in sincerity, As with a saint.— M. M. i. 5.