William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's good that's gone.
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
Wish chastely, and love dearly.
Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.
Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.
Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.