“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”

“We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2”

“I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.”

“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass,That I may see my shadow as I pass.”

“Return of love, more blest may be the view;As call it winter, which being full of care,Makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.Sonet56”

“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’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, 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.”

“Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!”