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130. Antony and Cleopatra continued - Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun

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129. Antony and Cleopatra continued - You shall have time to wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.

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128. Anthony and Cleopatra begins - Eternity was in our lips and eyes

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127. Christmas Bonus - The Journey of the Magi

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126. Life of Anthony - Selections from Plutarch

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125. Plutarch on Julius Caesar's Death

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124. Julius Caesar concludes - This was the noblest Roman of them all

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123. Julius Caesar continued - O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet

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122. Julius Caesar - continued - There is a tide in the affairs of men

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121. Julius Caesar continued - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

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120. Julius Caesar continued - The Ides of March are come. Et tu, Brute?

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119. Julius Caesar continued - The valiant never taste of death but once

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118. Julius Caesar continued - I know he would not be a wolf But that he sees the Romans are but sheep

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117. Julius Caesar begins. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves

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116. Coriolanus - Plutarch concludes. He who least likes courting favor, ought also least to think of resenting neglect.

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115. Coriolanus - Plutarch continues. to satisfy a revengeful humor, you brought misery on your friends

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114. Coriolanus - Plutarch Continued. divine aid and cooperation can act.

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113. Coriolanus - Plutarch Continues. The town he entered of his mortal foes.

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112. Coriolanus - Plutarch Continued. virtue which made him despise advantage.

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111. Coriolanus - Livy concludes and Plutarch begins

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110. Coriolanus - The History (Livy)

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109. Coriolanus Concludes - at his nurse’s tears He whined and roared away your victory

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108. Coriolanus - Down, ladies! Let us shame him with our knees

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107. Coriolanus - the people Deserve such pity of him as the wolf Does of the shepherds

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106. Coriolanus - I shall be loved when I am lacked

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105. Coriolanus - I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word

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104. Coriolanus - To bring the roof to the foundation

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103. Coriolanus - He hath deserved worthily of his country

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102. Coriolanus - Martius Caius Coriolanus! Bear Th’ addition nobly ever!

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101. Coriolanus - Make you a sword of me?

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100. Coriolanus begins - even to the altitude of his virtue

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99. Measure For Measure concludes - Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure

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98. Measure For Measure - Till you have heard me in my true complaint And given me justice, justice, justice, justice.

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97. Measure For Measure - Craft against vice I must apply

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96. Measure for Measure - thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm

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95. Measure For Measure - Lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption.

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94. Measure for Measure - We must not make a scarecrow of the law

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93. Measure For Measure begins - Mortality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue and heart.

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92. Much Ado About Nothing concludes - Get thee a wife, get thee a wife.

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91. Much Ado About Nothing - You have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady.

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90. Much Ado About Nothing - I do love nothing in the world so well as you.

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89. Much Ado About Nothing - Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?

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88. Much Ado About Nothing - Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny.

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87. Much Ado About Nothing - I would not marry her though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed

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86. Much Ado About Nothing Begins - What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?

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85. Macbeth concludes - Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries “Hold! Enough!”

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84. Macbeth - Out, out, brief candle!

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83. Macbeth - Double, double toil and trouble;

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82. Macbeth - It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

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81. Macbeth - A little water clears us of this deed

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80. Macbeth - screw your courage to the sticking place And we’ll not fail.

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79. Macbeth Begins - Fair is foul, and foul is fair;

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78. Richard III Concludes - A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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77. Richard III - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues

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76. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 120-150

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75. Richard III - Windy attorneys to their clients’ woes

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74. Richard III - hie thee from this slaughterhouse

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73. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 103 - 119

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72. Richard III - Bad is the world, and all will come to naught

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71. Richard III - For we tomorrow hold divided councils

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70. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 79 - 102

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69. Richard III - When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks

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68. Richard III - Fool, fool, thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself.

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67. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 52-78

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66. Richard III - On me, that halts and am misshapen thus?

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65. Richard III begins - Now is the winter of our discontent

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64. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 33-51

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63. Henry V Concludes - I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it

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62. Henry V - Where ne’er from France arrived more happy men

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61. Lenten Bonus - Coverdale Psalter Psalms 18-32

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60. Henry V - Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!

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59. Henry V - warriors for the working day

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58. Bonus - Introduction to Coverdale Psalter; Psalms 1-17

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57. Henry V - O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts

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56. Henry V - A little touch of Harry in the night

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55. Henry V - Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur.

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54. Henry V - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

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53. Henry V - No king of England if not king of France

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52. Henry V - Let us condole the knight, for, lambkins, we will live.

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51. Henry V - France being ours, we’ll bend it to our awe Or break it all to pieces

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50. Henry V begins - O, for a muse of fire

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49. Henry IV Part 2 concludes - I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers

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48. Henry IV Part 2 - God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal

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47. Henry IV Part 2 - You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me.

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46. Henry IV Part 2 - ’Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion.

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45. Henry IV Part 2 - He cannot so precisely weed this land

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44. Henry IV Part 2 - We have heard the chimes at midnight

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43. Henry IV Part 2 - but an honester and truer-hearted man—well, fare thee well.

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42. Henry IV Part 2 - Let the end try the man

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41. Henry IV Part 2 - What trust is in these times?

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40. Henry IV Part 2 begins - Why is rumour here?

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39. Henry IV Part 1 concludes - The better part of valor is discretion

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38. Who hath it [honour]? He that died o’ Wednesday.

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37. A Christmas Carol concludes - I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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36. Henry IV Part 1 - I have misused the King’s press damnably

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35. Henry IV Part 1 - like a comet I was wondered at

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34. A Christmas Carol - I am not the man I was.

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33. Henry IV Part 1 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked.

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32. Henry IV Part 1 - I have sounded the very bass string of humility

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31. Christmas Carol - I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.

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30. Henry IV Part 1 - Were't not for laughing, I should pity him

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29. Henry IV Part 1 - will I imitate the sun

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28. Christmas Carol - God bless us every one!

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27. Henry IV Part 1 begins - See riot and dishonor stain the brow Of my young Harry

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26. Richard II concludes - Mount, mount my soul. Thy seat is on high

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25. Christmas Carol 4 - Come in and know me better, man!

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24. Christmas Carol 3 - I should like to have given him something

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23. Richard II - Once more, Adieu! The rest let sorrow say.

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22. Richard II - Bolingbroke hath seized the wasteful king

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21. Bonus Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost

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20. Christmas Bonus! - A Christmas Carol begins

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19. Richard II - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court

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18. Richard II - I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall

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17. Richard II - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England

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16. Richard II - our kingdom's earth should not be soiled

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15. Richard II begins - We were not born to sue, but to command

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14. Hamlet concludes - The rest is silence.

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13. Hamlet - There's a divinity that shapes our ends

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12. Hamlet - Alas, poor Yorick!

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11. Hamlet - let the great axe fall

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10. Hamlet - cruel to be kind

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9. Hamlet - Dead for a ducket

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8. Hamlet - The Mousetrap

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7. Hamlet - lose the name of action

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6. Hamlet - Who shall scape whipping?

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5. Hamlet - Words, words, words

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4. Hamlet - Something is rotten

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3. Hamlet - To thine own self be true?

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2. Hamlet continued. I must hold my tongue

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Episode 1 - Hamlet Begins