OF VERBAL Ut lips do m what hands do! 4* ItH Are you meditating on virginity? [Your] face [is] the book of praises, where is read nothing but curious pleasure. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound. y O YOU LONG TO BE SEDUCTIVE? Have a desire to be seduced? Then "let lips do what hands do" and put into practice the most enticing baubles of seduction ever written. Shakespeare and the Art of Verbal Seduction contains the Bards best seducing lines to cajole, charm, and even proposition the object of your desire. Shakespeare is the master of persuasion. He induces the hardest of hearts to give up mind, body, and soul with a brilliant flash of words. Here they're collected for you, his little miracles of language, arranged in ten strategies for every stage of a love affair, Irom first encounter to the full throes of passion. Never again let your desire flounder in bad come-ons. Learn the art of seduction from the greatest seducer of all time, and get what you want. Cour design h\ Maggie Hinders Co\ cr illustration by Miguel CutilLis HL'MOR ISBN D-un-acnL7-i SHAKESPEARE AND THE j \ xt OF VERBAL S eduction SHAKESPEARE AND THE j \ ït OF VERBAL S eduction WAYNE F. HILL CYNTHIA J. ÔTTCHEN T H R EE R I V E RS P R E SS N E V YORK Copyright © 2003 by Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Ôttchen All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published by Three Rivers Press, New York, New York. Member of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. www.randomhouse.com THREE RIVERS PRESS and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Printed in the United States of America Design by Maggie Hinders Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare and the art of verbal seduction / [compiled by] Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Ottchen.—1st ed. 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Quotations. 2. Seduction—Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Hill, Wayne F. II. Ôttchen, Cynthia J. III. Title. PR2771 .H55 2003 822.3*3—dc2i 2002026799 ISBN 0-609-80967-9 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 First Edition He, he, andyou, andyou, my liege, and I, Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS viii How TO HANDLE THIS BOOK ix Ice-hreaking 1 Angling 27 Enticements and Inducements 59 Self-Inflation 75 Ego-Stroking 93 Fast-talking 127 Goading and Prodding 153 Propositioning 193 Whining and Wheedling 233 Heart-throhhing 273 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MANY PEOPLE helped make this book possible. For making it happen, we would like to thank Lauren Shakely at Random House and Jonathan Lloyd and Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. And thanks to Random House's Lance Troxel for his sure but light touch. Thank you, Miguel Cutillas, for designing the cover illus- tration. Thanks also to Anne Berkeley, Andre Mangeot, and An- drea Porter for bemused assistance in sorting extracts. Thank you, Emily Dening, for preparing the manuscripts. Finally we thank all the readers and abusers of Shakespeare's Insults, Educating Your Wit, who wrote and insisted on an en- core. We just happened to have a little something for your twisted imaginations. Write to us about this.