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Did Shakespeare Create These Common Phrases — True Or False?

Quiz: Did Shakespeare Invent These Common Phrases?

Did Shakespeare Create These Common Phrases — True Or False?

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"But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy."

This phrase appears in Shakespeare's [_The Merchant of Venice_](http://shakespeare-online.com/plays/merchant_2_6.html), Act II, Scene vi

"Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. [Knocking within.] Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of Beelzebub?"

This phrase appears in Shakespeare's [_Macbeth_](http://shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth_2_3.html), Act II, Scene iii

This is not a phrase Shakespeare is credited with creating.

"He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?"

This phrase appears in Shakespeare's [_Macbeth_](http://shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth_4_3.html), Act IV, Scene iii

"Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known the first and happiest hearers of the town, be sad, as we would make ye."

This phrase appears in Shakespeare's [_King Henry VIII_](http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/henryviii_1_1.html), Prologue

"Your hand; a covenant: we will have these things set down by lawful counsel, and straight away for Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and starve."

This phrase appears in Shakespeare's [_Cymbeline_](http://shakespeare-online.com/plays/cymbel_1_4.html), Act I, Scene iv

"If it be so, sir, that you are the man must stead us all and me amongst the rest, and if you break the ice and do this feat, achieve the elder, set the younger free for our access, whose hap shall be to have her will not so graceless be to be ingrate."

This phrase appears in Shakespeare's [_The Taming of the Shrew_](http://shakespeare.mit.edu/taming_shrew/taming_shrew.1.2.html), Act I, Scene ii

You missed a lot of these. It's an easy enough mistake to make though, so don't worry about it!

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You did decently on this quiz! You've probably read a little bit of Shakespeare in your life (or have at least seen the movies). Good for you!

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Did Shakespeare Create These Common Phrases — True Or False?

Shakespeare is credited with inventing many words and phrases. Are the following ones he created?

Did Shakespeare Create These Common Phrases — True Or False?

Shakespeare is credited with inventing many words and phrases. Are the following ones he created?

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