William Shakespeare Quotes About Mermaids

• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

• I sat upon a promontory,
  And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
  Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
  That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
  And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
  To hear the sea-maid's music.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Stars, Sea

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149

• O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Mermaid, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.595

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