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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day!?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee!.

It would be unique to do a sonnet rather than a play, and this is one of his best known and most romantic poems!. When performing make sure to put emphasis on the last word of each line, and to ask the question "Shall I compare!.!.!." as a real question!.
Break a leg!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Julius Caesar - Act II, Scene II

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once!.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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“ our revels now are ended!. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp't towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind!. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep!. Sir I am vex'd; bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled: be not disturb'd with my infirmity: if you be pleased, retire into my cell and there repose: a turn or two i'll walk to still my beating mind!.”

the tempest act 4 scene 1Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Forget romantic!. This speech will stir your heart! The St!. Crispen's Day speech from Henry V!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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