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Shakespeare Play by First Line

Name the Play by Shakespeare by its first spoken line or sentence according to the Folger Library. Prologues included.
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"Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
Romeo and Juliet
"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live registered upon our brazen tombs,
And then grace us in the disgrace of death,
When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
Th’ endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity."
Love's Labor's Lost
"I come no more to make you laugh."
Henry VIII
"In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband."
All's Well That Ends Well
"O, for a muse of fire that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!"
Henry V
"Who keeps the gate here, ho?"
Henry IV, Part 2
"As I remember, Adam, it was upon this
fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand
crowns, and, as thou sayst, charged my brother on
his blessing to breed me well."
As You like It
"If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia
on the like occasion whereon my services
are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great
difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia."
The Winter's Tale
"If music be the food of love, play on."
Twelfth Night
"I wonder how the King escaped our hands."
Henry VI, Part 3
"Before we proceed any further, hear me speak."
Coriolanus
"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
"When shall we three meet again?"
Macbeth
"Who's there?"
Hamlet
"Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure."
Antony and Cleopatra
"Boatswain!"
The Tempest
"Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home!"
Julius Caesar
"In sooth I know not why I am so sad."
The Merchant of Venice
"I thought the King had more affected the Duke
of Albany than Cornwall."
King Lear
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"You do not meet a man but frowns."
Cymbeline
"Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!"
Henry VI, Part 1
"Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
Defend the justice of my cause with arms."
Titus Andronicus
"To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come,
Assuming man’s infirmities
To glad your ear and please your eyes."
Pericles
"Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,
And by the doom of death end woes and all."
The Comedy of Errors
"I'll freeze you, in faith."
The Taming of the Shrew
"Sir Hugh, persuade me not."
The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."
Richard III
"I learn in this letter that Don
Pedro of Aragon comes this night to Messina."
Much Ado About Nothing
"So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in strands afar remote."
Henry IV, Part 1
"Now say, Chatillion, what would France with us?"
King John
"In Troy there lies the scene."
Troilus and Cressida
"Escalus."
Measure for Measure
"Tush, never tell me!"
Othello
"Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster,
Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,
Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son,
Here to make good the boist’rous late appeal,
Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?"
Richard II
"Good day, sir."
Timon of Athens
"Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus."
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
"As by your high imperial Majesty
I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator to your Excellence,
To marry Princess Margaret for your Grace,
So, in the famous ancient city Tours,
In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
The Dukes of Orleance, Calaber, Britaigne, and
Alanson,
Seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend
bishops,
I have performed my task and was espoused;
And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In sight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the Queen
To your most gracious hands, that are the substance
Of that great shadow I did represent:
The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,
The fairest queen that ever king received."
Henry VI, Part 2
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