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Pursuit: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Let us score their backs, And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:— A. C. iv. 7

'Tis sport to maul a runner. Mount you, my lord, tow'rd Berwick post amain; Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds, Having the fearful flying hare in sight, With fiery eyes, sparkling for very wrath, And bloody steel, grasp'd in their ireful hands, Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain.— H. VI. PT. III. ii. 5.

And Possession

All things that are Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker, or a prodigal, The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs, and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! M. V. ii. 6 Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing: That she belov'd knows nought, that knows not this,- Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.— T.C. i. 2