"Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service." Ferdinand - The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1. The word ‘love’ appears over 2,000 times in Shakespeare’s plays and poetry. Packed full of timeless reflections on the subject - from the star-crossed devotions of Romeo and Juliet to the witty rhetoric in Much Ado About Nothing - and complemented by fascinating facts about Shakespeare and his works, this Little Book contains some of the most romantic and profound lines ever written in the English language.