- Martha Jones: So, magic and stuff? It's a surprise, it's all a bit Harry Potter.
- The Doctor: Wait till you read book seven. Oh, I cried.
- The Doctor: Come on! We can have a good flirt later!
- William Shakespeare: Is that a promise, Doctor?
- The Doctor: Oh, fifty-seven academics just punched the air. Come on.
- William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful dire decay / Decomposition of your witches' plot! / You thieve my brains, consider me your toy / My doting doctor tells me I am not!'
- Lilith: No! Words of power!
- William Shakespeare: 'Foul Carrionite specters, cease your show / Between the points... '
- [he looks to The Doctor for help]
- The Doctor: 761390!
- William Shakespeare: '761390! / Banished like a tinker's cuss / I say to thee... '
- [he again looks to The Doctor]
- The Doctor: Uh...
- [he looks to Martha]
- Martha Jones: Expelliarmus!
- The Doctor: Expelliarmus!
- William Shakespeare: 'Expelliarmus!'
- The Doctor: Good old JK!
- The Doctor: Rage, rage, against the dying of the light...
- William Shakespeare: I might use that.
- The Doctor: You can't, it's someone else's.
- [after landing with the TARDIS]
- Martha Jones: But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?
- The Doctor: Of course we can. Why not?
- Martha Jones: It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race.
- The Doctor: Then, don't step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?
- Lilith: But your heart grows cold / The north wind blows / And carries down the distant... Rose?
- The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!
- Martha Jones: [referring to the Globe theatre] It's like your police box; small wooden box, with all that power inside!
- The Doctor: Oh, Martha Jones, I like you.
- The Doctor: Queen Elizabeth I!
- Queen Elizabeth: Doctor!
- The Doctor: [surprised] What?
- Queen Elizabeth: My sworn enemy!
- The Doctor: What?
- Queen Elizabeth: Off with his head!
- The Doctor: WHAT?
- [about the female roles on stage]
- Martha Jones: Those are men dressed as women, yeah?
- The Doctor: Nothing ever changes in London.
- The Doctor: Not so different from your time. Look...
- [points to a man who is shovelling dung into a bucket]
- The Doctor: ... they have recycling.
- [They pass men standing around a barrel of water]
- The Doctor: Water cooler moments...
- Preacher: And the Earth will be consumed by flames!
- The Doctor: And global warming.
- [after trying to explain psychic paper to Martha, and she doesn't understand]
- The Doctor: I hate starting from scratch...
- [casts a power-of-a-name spell on Martha as a demonstration]
- Lilith: I gaze upon this bag of bones / And now I name thee, *Martha* Jones!
- Martha Jones: Am I alright? I'm not going to get carted off as a slave or anything?
- The Doctor: Why ever would you think that?
- Martha Jones: Well, not exactly white, in case you hadn't noticed.
- The Doctor: Well, I'm not exactly human. Just walk round like you own the place, always works for me.
- The Doctor: [after a witch stopped one of his hearts' beating] Only one heart working... how do you cope like this?
- Shakespeare: So, tell me of Freedonia, where women can be doctors, writers, actors...?
- Martha Jones: This country is ruled by a woman.
- Shakespeare: Ah, she's royal, that's God's business, though you are a royal beauty.
- Martha Jones: Whoa, Nelly. I know for a fact you've got a wife in the country.
- Shakespeare: But Martha, this is town.
- Martha Jones: Hold on, mister! Two hearts?
- The Doctor: Don't make a habit of it.
- [Martha laughs as The Doctor gets up, seemingly fine, but then he yells out in pain]
- The Doctor: Aaah! I've only got one heart working! How do you people *cope*? I've gotta get the other one started. Hit me. Hit me on the chest.
- [He gestures with his right arm, so Martha hits him on the right of his chest]
- The Doctor: Gaaah! Other *side*!
- [Martha hits him on the left of his chest]
- The Doctor: Urrgh! On the back! On the back!
- [He bends over and she hits him with both hands clasped together on the back]
- Martha Jones: Uh! Eh! Left a bit!
- [She hits him the same way to the left of his spine]
- The Doctor: Aaah!
- [cracks his neck and back and stands up]
- The Doctor: Lovely! There we go! Bada-*boom*-ba!
- The Doctor: [sniffs] Well, what are you standing there for?
- The Doctor: [runs out] Come on! The Dome!
- Martha Jones: Thing is, though, am I missing something here? The world didn't end in 1599. It just didn't. Look at me, I'm living proof.
- The Doctor: Oh, how to explain the mechanics of the infinite temporal flux. I know: Back to the Future. It's like Back to the Future.
- Martha Jones: The film?
- The Doctor: No, the novelisation! Yes, the film! Marty McFly goes back and changes history.
- Martha Jones: And he starts fading away- Oh my God, am I gonna fade?
- The Doctor: You and the entire future of the human race. It ends right now in 1599 if we don't stop it.
- Martha Jones: [to Shakespeare] I don't know how to tell you this, oh great genius, but... your breath doesn't half stink.
- [regarding the loss of his only son to the Black Death in his absence]
- Shakespeare: Made me question everything, the futility of this fleeting existence, to be or not to be.
- [pauses]
- Shakespeare: Oooh, that's quite good.
- The Doctor: You should write that down.
- Shakespeare: Mmm, maybe not. Bit pretentious?
- The Doctor: Ehm.
- The Doctor: [shouting] The play's the thing.
- [turning to Shakespeare]
- The Doctor: And yes, you can use that.
- The Doctor: Just think. When you get back, you could tell everyone that you've seen Shakespeare.
- Martha Jones: Yeah! And then I could get sectioned!
- The Doctor: Mr. Shakespeare, isn't it?
- William Shakespeare: Oh, no. No no no. Who let you in? No autographs, no you can't have yourself sketched with me, and please don't ask where I get my ideas from. Thanks for your interest, now be a good boy and shove...
- [he then notices Martha]
- William Shakespeare: Hey, nonny nonny!
- Martha Jones: Where's Shakespeare? I wanna see Shakespeare! Author! Author...
- [looks at The Doctor cautiously]
- Martha Jones: Do they say that? Do they say "Author?"
- Audience: Author! Author!
- [the whole audience begins to chant "Author!]
- The Doctor: Well... They do now.
- Martha Jones: Where are we? No, sorry. Got to get used to this whole new language, *when* are we?
- The Doctor: [looks up and sees a man about to dump waste out on their heads] Mind that.
- [He pulls Martha back just before they get pummeled by excrement]
- The Doctor: Somewhere before they invented the toilet.
- Lynley: [walks in on Shakespeare, while Shakespeare is in conversation with the Doctor and Martha] This is abominable behavior. A new play with no warning? I demand to see a script, Mr. Shakespeare. As Master of the Revels, every new script must be registered at my office and examined by me before it can be performed.
- William Shakespeare: Tomorrow morning. First thing, I'll send it around.
- Lynley: I don't work to your schedule, you work to mine. The script, *now*!
- William Shakespeare: I can't!
- Lynley: Then tomorrow's performance is cancelled.
- [starts walking out]
- Lynley: I'm returning to my office for a banning order. If it's the last thing I do, ''Love's Labour's Won'' will never be played.
- [Martha has collapsed after being named]
- Lilith: Only sleeping, alas. It's curious. Name has less impact. She's somehow out of her time. As for you, sir Doctor...
- [she pauses, at a loss]
- Lilith: Fascinating. There is no name. Why would a man hide his title in such despair- oh, but look: there's still one word with the power of the days.
- The Doctor: The Carrionites vanished. Where did you go?
- Lilith: The Eternals found the right word to banish us into deep darkness.
- The Doctor: Then how did you escape?
- Lilith: New words, new and glittering, from a mind like no other.
- The Doctor: Shakespeare.
- Lilith: [explaining the Carrionites plan] And from this world we will lead the universe back into the old ways of blood and magic.
- The Doctor: [walks up to her] Hmm, busy schedule. But first you've gotta get past me.
- Lilith: Oh, that should be a pleasure.
- [leans in seductively]
- Lilith: Considering my enemy has such a handsome shape.
- The Doctor: Now that's one form of magic that's definitely not gonna work on me.
- Lilith: Oh, we'll see.
- [cuts a piece of hair off of him]
- The Doctor: What's that for? What did you do?
- Lilith: Souvenir.
- The Doctor: [finds Lilith floating outside the window] Well that's just cheating.
- Lilith: Behold, Doctor. Men to Carrionites are nothing but
- [whips out a doll]
- Lilith: puppets.
- The Doctor: Now you might call that magic, but I call that a DNA replication module.
- Lilith: What use is your science now?
- [stabs the doll]
- The Doctor: Aah!
- [collapses while Lilith flies off laughing]
- Doomfinger: [having been named by the Doctor] He knows us! He spoke our name.
- Lilith: Then he will know death. He will perish at my hand.
- [the bells ring]
- Lilith: My mothers, the time approaches. You must away to the Globe. Go, I will join you.
- [Doomfinger and Bloodtide leave]
- Lilith: As soon as this Doctor screams his last.