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Seduction: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Then if he says he loves you; It fits your wisdom so far to believe it, As he, in his particular act and place, May give his saying deed; which is no further, Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs; Or lose your heart; or your chaste treasure open To his unmaster'd importunity.— H. i. 3

Ay, so you serve us, Till we serve you: but when you have our roses, You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us with our bareness.— A. W. iv. 2.

This man hath witch'd the bosom of my child: Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, And interchang'd love tokens with my child: Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, With feigning voice, verses of feigning love; 1 And stol'n th' impression of her phantasy With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits, Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats; messengers Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth : With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart, Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness.— M. N. i. 1.

O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint, With saints doth bait thy hook!— M. M. ii. 2.

Many a maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that so terribly shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they are lim'd with the twigs that threaten them.— A. W. iii. 5.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.— L. L. iv. 3.

Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers; Or as the snake, roll'd in a flowering bank, With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child, That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent. H. VI. PT. II. iii.