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... live and dwell , where should we seek it then ? Gorb . Madam , alas ! what means your woful tale ? Marc . O silly woman I , why to this hour eyes Have kind and fortune thus deferr'd my breath , That I should live to see this doleful day ...
... live and dwell , where should we seek it then ? Gorb . Madam , alas ! what means your woful tale ? Marc . O silly woman I , why to this hour eyes Have kind and fortune thus deferr'd my breath , That I should live to see this doleful day ...
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... live with me and be my love . " The same romantic invitations " in folly ripe , in reason rotten , " are given by the queen in the play , and the lover in the ditty . He talks of " beds of roses , buckles of gold : " Thy silver dishes ...
... live with me and be my love . " The same romantic invitations " in folly ripe , in reason rotten , " are given by the queen in the play , and the lover in the ditty . He talks of " beds of roses , buckles of gold : " Thy silver dishes ...
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... live with it , then live and draw My chariot swifter than the racking clouds : If not , then die like beasts , and fit for naught But perches for the black and fatal ravens . Thus am I right the scourge of highest Jove . & c . ] EDWARD ...
... live with it , then live and draw My chariot swifter than the racking clouds : If not , then die like beasts , and fit for naught But perches for the black and fatal ravens . Thus am I right the scourge of highest Jove . & c . ] EDWARD ...
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... Live uncontrol'd within the English pale . Unto the walls of York the Scots make road , And unresisted draw away rich spoils . Mort . jun . The haughty Dane commands the narrow seas , While in the harbour ride thy ships unrigg'd . Lan ...
... Live uncontrol'd within the English pale . Unto the walls of York the Scots make road , And unresisted draw away rich spoils . Mort . jun . The haughty Dane commands the narrow seas , While in the harbour ride thy ships unrigg'd . Lan ...
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... live , be king . Traitors be gone , and join with Mortimer . Elect , conspire , install , do what you will ; Their blood and yours shall seal these treacheries ! Bish . This answer we ' ll return , and so farewell . Leic . Call them ...
... live , be king . Traitors be gone , and join with Mortimer . Elect , conspire , install , do what you will ; Their blood and yours shall seal these treacheries ! Bish . This answer we ' ll return , and so farewell . Leic . Call them ...
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Alaham beauty behold BEN JONSON blessing blood Bonduca breath brother Cæsar Calica Camena Capt Clor COMEDY Corb court crown curse dare daughter dead dear death dost doth Duch earth ev'n eyes fair father Faustus fear fortune GEORGE CHAPMAN give grave grief hand happy hath hear heart heaven hell honour hope Jacin JAMES SHIRLEY JOHN FLETCHER JOHN MARSTON king kiss lady live look lord madam maid methinks Moth mother murder ne'er Nennius never night noble Ovid passion PHILIP MASSINGER pity pleasure poor pray prince Queen revenge Shakspeare shame sister sleep sorrow soul speak spirit sweet sword Tamburlaine tears tell thee there's thine things THOMAS HEYWOOD THOMAS MIDDLETON thou art thou hast thoughts thyself tongue TRAGEDY true twas unto VIOLANTA virtue weep what's whilst wife WILLIAM ROWLEY witch woman
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Page 202 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 84 - There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Page 26 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Page 316 - Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them...
Page 34 - Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ, Yet will I call on him: O spare me, Lucifer!
Page 25 - O, if thou harbour'st murder in thy heart, Let this gift change thy mind, and save thy soul ! Know that I am a king : O, at that name I feel a hell of grief ! where is my crown ? Gone, gone ! and do I [still] remain alive ? Light.
Page 35 - It strikes, it strikes ; now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to Hell. [Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean : ne'er be found.
Page 29 - Such is the subject of the Institute, And universal body of the law. This study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash; Too servile and illiberal for me. When all is done, divinity is best: Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. (Reads.) "Stipendium peccati mors est." Ha! "Stipendium," etc. The reward of sin is death: that's hard.
Page 27 - Rather had I a Jew be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty: For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession. Haply some hapless man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary.
Page 253 - Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit ; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit, Which way soever men refer it, Much like thy riddle, Samson, in one day Or seven, though one should musing sit.