That needs must light on this ingratitude. Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood? Be gone! That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome: The livelong day, with patient expectation, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements, O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels? Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? To see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph. Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself Why dost thou lead these men about the streets? Neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork. To old shoes when they are in great danger, I Meddle with no tradesman’s matters, nor women’s Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow! Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade? Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,īut what trade art thou? answer me directly.Ī trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safeĬonscience which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou? Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
A street.Įnter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.