act 3, scene 3
King Lewis XI:
Yield not thy neck
To fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
CHAPTER 27. Ode—Love’s Labour’s Lost
act 4, scene 3
Dumain:
Once more I’ll read the ode that I have writ.
CHAPTER 28. Eyeball—The Tempest
act 1, scene 2
Prospero:
Go make thyself like a nymph of the sea: be subject
To no sight but thine and mine; invisible
To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape
And hither come in’t: go, hence with diligence!
CHAPTER 29. Excitements—Hamlet
act 4, scene 4:
Hamlet:
How stand I then,
That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep?
CHAPTER 30. Engagements—Julius Caesar
act 2, scene 1
Brutus:
Hark, hark! one knocks. Portia, go in awhile;
And by and by thy bosom shall partake
The secrets of my heart.
All my engagements I will construe to thee,
All the charactery of my sad brows.
Leave me with haste.
CHAPTER 31. Negotiate—Much Ado About Nothing
act 2, scene 1
Claudio:
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
CHAPTER 32. Stealthy—Macbeth
act 2, scene 1
Macbeth:
Now o’er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain’d sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate’s offerings, and wither’d murder,
Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
CHAPTER 33. Forward—King Henry VI, Part II
act 3, scene 2
Salisbury:
And mere instinct of love and loyalty,
Free from a stubborn opposite intent,
As being thought to contradict your liking,
Makes them thus forward in his banishment.
CHAPTER 34. Premeditated—King Henry VI, Part II
act 3, scene 1
Bishop of Winchester:
Com’st thou with deep premeditated lines,
With written pamphlets studiously devis’d.
CHAPTER 35. Remorseless—King Henry VI, Part II
act 3, scene 1
King Henry VI:
Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;
And as the butcher takes away the calf
And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,
Even so, remorseless, have they borne him hence.
CHAPTER 36. Misgiving—Julius Caesar
act 3, scene 1
Cassius:
I wish we may: but yet have I a mind
That fears him much; and my misgiving still
Falls shrewdly to the purpose.
CHAPTER 37. Sanctimonious—Measure for Measure
act 1, scene 2
Lucio:
Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that
went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped
one out of the table.
CHAPTER 38. Design—The Tempest
act 1, scene 2
Prospero:
Out of his charity,—who being then appointed
Master of this design,—did give us; with
Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries,
Which since have steaded much.
CHAPTER 39. Unreal—Macbeth
act 3, scene 4
Macbeth:
What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble: or be alive again,
And dare me to the desart with thy sword;
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
—— Colophon ——
THUS ENDS THIS BOOK:
A Tale of the Letterford Family
BY DERON R. HICKS.
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PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, AND FIRST OFFERED TO THE DISCERNING PUBLIC ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF OCTOBER, MMXIII.
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About the Author
As an attorney, DERON R. HICKS investigates mysteries for a living, so it’s only natural that he wrote about William Shakespeare, one of literature’s most puzzling people. With his own children’s natural curiosity as inspiration, Deron set out to reveal a bit of the mystery of the real world and show that many of its secrets (and stories) still wait to be told.
When he isn’t working or writing, Deron likes to paint, garden, and coach Little League. He lives in Warm Springs, Georgia, with his wife, Angela, and their two children, Meg and Parker.
About the Illustrator
MARK EDWARD GEYER is best known as the illustrator of two Steven King novels: Rose Madder and The Green Mile. Mark comes from a line of French Canadian artists. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.