As he goes, we see that VIOLA is love-struck by him, a riot in the heart.

WILL tries to speak but the silver tongue won’t work. He is dumb with adoration.

Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before.William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.

William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.

William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?

William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.

I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.