For aught that I could ever read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.

Well, everyone con master a grief but he that has it.

Because of this it has been possible for the play to be read, as it so often has been since the Romantic period, as a credo, an apologia pro vita sua (a justification of his own life), on the part of Shakespeare the dramatist.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

He that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day.

BRABANTIO Humbly I thank your grace. Here is the man, this Moor; whom now, it seems, Your special mandate for the state affairs Hath hither brought. DUKE and SENATORS We.