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-Shall speech be spoke for our excuse ? Or shall we on without apology ?

-The date is out of such prolixity : We'll have no without-book prologue faintly

spoke For our entrance : But let them measure us by what they will.

Romeo and Juliet, i. 4.

The vacant leaves thy minus imprint will bear,
And what thy memory can not contain
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.

Sonnets, lxxvii.

JANUARY

Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you ! Juno sings her blessings on you.

Since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 1.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 3.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

Midsummer-Night's Drean, i. 1.

January 2d.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win

my
love.

Taming of the Shrew, iv. 1.

A well-accomplished youth,
Of all that virtue love for virtue loved.

Love's Labour Lost, ii. 1.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part ;
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,
My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim,
My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim.

Comedy of Errors, iii. 2.