William Shakespeare on Books
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“I had rather than forty shillings, I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.”
“That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.”
“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnished me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”
“And in such indexes (although small pricks To their subsequent volumes) there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.”
“O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast; Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.”