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Chapter 9: QUESTION VIII. WHAT WAS, OR WILL BE, YOUR FIRST GREETING?
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 VIII.
 
WHAT WAS, OR WILL BE, YOUR FIRST GREETING?

1.  Wilt thou be gone?
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Scene 1.
2.  I love thee well;
And by my troth, I think, thou lov’st me well.
King John. Act iii. Scene 3.
3.  Away,
Away, you trifler!—Love?—I love thee not.
Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Scene 3.
4.  Pray, get you out.
Coriolanus. Act iv. Scene 5.
5.  Love me, and leave me not.
Merchant of Venice. Act v. Scene 1.
6.  I can express no kinder sign of love,
Than this kind kiss.
Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.
7.  Doubt thou, the stars are fire;
Doubt, that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love.
Hamlet. Act ii. Scene 2.
8.  The door is open, sir, there lies your way.
Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Scene 2.
9.  Learn now, for all,
That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,
By the very truth of it, I care not for you;
And am so near the lack of charity,
(To accuse myself) I hate you.
Cymbeline. Act ii. Scene 3.
10.  Bless you, fair shrew.
Twelfth Night. Act i. Scene 3.
11.  Go, base intruder!
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iii. Scene 1.
12.  Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 2.
13.  I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow,
than a man swear he loves me.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act i. Scene 1.
14.  Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,
Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Scene 2.
15.  By the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honor, truth, and everything,
I love thee so, that, maugre all my pride,
Nor wit, nor reason, can my passion hide.
Twelfth Night. Act iii. Scene 1.
16.  Down on your knees,
And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
As You Like It. Act iii. Scene 5.
17.  I am very loth to be your idol, sir.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Scene 2.
18.  Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens
rain odors on you!
Twelfth Night. Act iii. Scene 1.
19.  I know no ways to mince it in love, but
directly to say––I love you.
Henry V. Act v. Scene 2.
20.  Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,
As seal to this indenture of my love.
King John. Act ii. Scene 1.