HIP-HOP or

SHAKESPEARE?
Name __________________________________
For each quote, write an H if you think it is from a hip-hop song/rap, or write an
S if you believe it is from a Shakespearean play.
1. Then I hope this take away from my sins.

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2. I didnt cry, because my anger wouldnt let me feel for a stranger.

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3. When you do dance, I wish you a wave of the sea. _____
4. Everything you stand for turns on you to spite you. _____
5. I set it down that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. _____
6. Count myself a king of infinite space. _____
7. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. _____
8. I wonder why we take from our women? _____
9. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. _____
10.

What is the city but the people? _____

11.
Bless the globe with the pestilence, the hard-headed never
learn. _____
12.

This worlds a city full of straying streets. _____

13.

But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? _____

14.

Do I live dead, that live to tell it now? _____

15.

Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. _____

16.

Try and fight my vices all day. _____

17.

All I ask, open your ears and please savor it. _____

18.
And since birth Ive been cursed with this curse to just curse.
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19.
Underneath this fragile frame, lives a battle between pride
and shame. ____
20.

So wise, so young, they say do never live long. _____