Shakspeare's Mental Photographs

QUESTION I.


WHAT ARE YOU?

1. I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 1.

2. A woman: and for secrecy, No lady closer.

Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 3.

3. I am so full of business, I cannot answer thee acutely.

All’s Well That Ends Well. Act i. Scene 1.

4. A braver soldier never couched lance, A gentler heart did never sway in court.

Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Scene 2.

5. Above my fortunes, yet my state is well: I am a gentleman.

Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 5.

6. Infirm of purpose!

Macbeth. Act ii. Scene 2.

7. Being a woman, I will not be slack To play my part in fortune’s pageant.

Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 2.

8. But man, proud man!

Drest in a little brief authority.

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Scene 2.

9. To answer every man directly, and briefly, Wisely, and truly. Wisely I say, I am a bachelor.

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 3.

10. Perfect.

Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.

11. A man, who is the abstract of all faults That all men follow.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Scene 4.

12. A woman of an invincible spirit.

Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 4.

13. A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.

14. A promise-breaker.

Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 8.

15. A man, worth any woman.

Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.

16. A railing wife.

Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.

17. I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and besides myself.

Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Scene 2.

18. I am the very pink of courtesy.

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Scene 4.

19. An angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon!

Cymbeline. Act iii. Scene 6.

20. As opposite to every good, As the antipodes.

Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 4.