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Chapter 10: QUESTION IX. WHAT DO YOU MOST WISH FOR?
By William Shakespeare
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A parlor-game anthology that collects short lines from Shakespeare's plays and arranges them as answers to ten conversational prompts. Each prompt—covering identity, admired qualities, occupations, aversions, styles of beauty, ideals, first meetings and greetings, wishes, and futures—offers twenty numbered quotations cited by play and scene. Readers are invited to select responses to compose quick character portraits or to prompt social play, using dramatic utterances to suggest temperament, desire, and fate. The arrangement functions as both a compact quotation compendium and a playful instrument for improvisation, showcasing the variety of moods and voices across the dramatic works.

QUESTION IX.
 
WHAT DO YOU MOST WISH FOR?

1.  Large sums of gold.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.
2.  A slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands.
Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Scene 1.
3.  Awhile to work, and, after, holiday.
Richard II. Act iii. Scene 1.
4.  A noble memory.
Coriolanus. Act v. Scene 5.
5.  Such wind as scatters young men through the world,
To seek their fortunes.
Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Scene 2.
6.  Sleep, gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse.
Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Scene 1.
7.  A lover, that kills himself most gallantly for love.
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 2.
8.  The heart of woman.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Scene 4.
9.  A gentle answer.
Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Scene 1.
10.  A bachelor, sir.
Measure for Measure. Act iv. Scene 2.
11.  A hundred and fifty pounds.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Scene 4.
12.  Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss’d with pearl,
Valance of Venice, gold in needle-work,
Pewter and brass, and all things that belong
To house or housekeeping.
Taming of the Shrew. Act ii. Scene 1.
13.  If I might but see you at my death.
Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Scene 2.
14.  A dower, my lords!
Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 5.
15.  By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I, who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not, if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desire:
But, if it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive.
Henry V. Act iv. Scene 3.
16.  A heart,
Dearer than Plutus’ mine, richer than gold.
Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Scene 3.
17.  Would I were dead! if God’s good will were so;
For what is in this world, but grief and woe?
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.
18.  Love, and quiet life.
Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Scene 2.
19.  I would, I were at home.
As You Like It. Act iv. Scene 8.
20.  Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.