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Chapter 4: QUESTION III. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE OCCUPATION OR PURSUIT?
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 III.
 
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE OCCUPATION OR PURSUIT?

1.  To discover islands far away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 3.
2.  I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat
and drink, make the beds, and do all myself.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Scene 4.
3.  My brain, more busy than the laboring spider,
Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 1.
4.  The disposing of new dignities.
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 1.
5.  Billiards.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.
6.  Methinks, it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.
7.  Steal hearts.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
8.  To outlook conquest, and to win renown,
Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
King John. Act v. Scene 2.
9.  Quaint lies,
How honorable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died.
Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Scene 4.
10.  A ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver.
Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Scene 3.
11.  A mender of bad soles.
Julius Cæsar. Act i. Scene 1.
12.  No women’s matters.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 3.
13.  Eating and drinking.
Twelfth Night. Act ii. Scene 3.
14.  Why, sir, a carpenter.
Julius Cæsar. Act i. Scene 1.
15.  To be in love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.
16.  To number Ave-Maries.
Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Scene 3.
17.  Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 1.
18.  Give me mine angle,—We’ll to the river; there,
My music playing far off, I will betray
Tawny-finn’d fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
Their slimy jaws.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.
19.  A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Scene 1.
20.  To carve out dials quaintly, point by point.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 5.