Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare; on the Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Gesta Romanorum |
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... John Bennett , Edward Piers or Peirce , and Thomas Ravenscroft , composers in the time of Shakspeare , and entitled Hunting , hawking , dauncing , drinking , enamoring , 4to , no date , there are , the fairies dance , the elves dance ...
... John Bennett , Edward Piers or Peirce , and Thomas Ravenscroft , composers in the time of Shakspeare , and entitled Hunting , hawking , dauncing , drinking , enamoring , 4to , no date , there are , the fairies dance , the elves dance ...
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... John Port - Latin . Sc . 2. p . 246 . PRO . Especially against his very friend . Mr. Steevens explains very to be immediate . Is it not rather true , verus ? Thus Massinger calls one of his plays A very woman . See likewise the ...
... John Port - Latin . Sc . 2. p . 246 . PRO . Especially against his very friend . Mr. Steevens explains very to be immediate . Is it not rather true , verus ? Thus Massinger calls one of his plays A very woman . See likewise the ...
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... John Oldcastle , who is continually prefacing his speeches with " fye paltry , paltry , in and out , to and fro upon occasion . " This practice has been revived in our modern comedies . Sc . 4. p . 347 . CAIUS . You 58 MERRY WIVES OF ...
... John Oldcastle , who is continually prefacing his speeches with " fye paltry , paltry , in and out , to and fro upon occasion . " This practice has been revived in our modern comedies . Sc . 4. p . 347 . CAIUS . You 58 MERRY WIVES OF ...
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... John Rugby , and you are Jack Rugby : Come take - a your rapier , and come after my heel to de court . It was the custom , in Shakspeare's time , for physicians to be attended by their servants when visiting their patients . This ...
... John Rugby , and you are Jack Rugby : Come take - a your rapier , and come after my heel to de court . It was the custom , in Shakspeare's time , for physicians to be attended by their servants when visiting their patients . This ...
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... John Wolf , under the title of New and singular patternes and workes of linnen , serving for paternes to make all sortes of lace , edginges and cut - workes . Newly invented for the profite and contentment of ladies , gentil women , and ...
... John Wolf , under the title of New and singular patternes and workes of linnen , serving for paternes to make all sortes of lace , edginges and cut - workes . Newly invented for the profite and contentment of ladies , gentil women , and ...
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Page 14 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 300 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 396 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 429 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 3 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 410 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 198 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team...
Page 478 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 356 - But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...
Page 409 - And prithee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.