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Chapter 5: QUESTION IV. WHAT IS YOUR PET AVERSION?
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 IV.
 
WHAT IS YOUR PET AVERSION?

1.  A woman’s tongue.
Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Scene 2.
2.  Marriage.
Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 5.
3.  The lover,
Sighing like furnace.
As You Like It. Act ii. Scene 7.
4.  Women and fools.
King John. Act ii. Scene 1.
5.  The first bringer of unwelcome news.
Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.
6.  Sleek-headed men.
Julius Cæsar. Act i. Scene 2.
7.  The livery of a nun.
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Scene 1.
8.  A lady’s tears.
King John. Act v. Scene 2.
9.  Unbidden guests.
Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 2.
10.  A good rebuke.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 7.
11.  Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Troilus and Cressida. Act v. Scene 3.
12.  A younker, prancing to his love.
Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.
13.  To climb steep hills.
Henry VIII. Act i. Scene 1.
14.  A fawning greyhound.
Coriolanus. Act i. Scene 6.
15.  A twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
King John. Act iii. Scene 4.
16.  Coy looks,
With heart-sore sighs.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.
17.  To be suspected of more tenderness
Than doth become a man!
Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 2.
18.  To fight with you.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
19.  My wife,
I would you had her spirit in such another;
The third o’ the world is yours; which with a snaffle
You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 2.
20.  A silly woman.
Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 1.