The two noble kinsmen [by J. Fletcher]. Repr. of the quarto, 1634, ed. by H. Littledale. Ed. from the quarto of 1634, by H. Littledale1876 |
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... lives ; If we let fall the Noblenesse of this , And the first found this child heare , be a hiffe , How will it shake the bones of that good man , And make him cry from under ground , O fan From me the witles chaffe of fuch a wrighter ...
... lives ; If we let fall the Noblenesse of this , And the first found this child heare , be a hiffe , How will it shake the bones of that good man , And make him cry from under ground , O fan From me the witles chaffe of fuch a wrighter ...
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... lives concerne us , 36 ( Sound and at liberty ) I would ' em dead , But forty thousand fold , we had rather have ' em Prisoners to us , then death ; Beare ' em speedily From our kinde aire , to them unkinde , and minister What man to ...
... lives concerne us , 36 ( Sound and at liberty ) I would ' em dead , But forty thousand fold , we had rather have ' em Prisoners to us , then death ; Beare ' em speedily From our kinde aire , to them unkinde , and minister What man to ...
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... live , some thing I May caft to you , not much : Alas the Prison I Keepe , though it be for great ones , yet they feldome 4 Come ; Before one Salmon , you fhall take a number Of Minnowes : I am given out to be better lyn'd Then it can ...
... live , some thing I May caft to you , not much : Alas the Prison I Keepe , though it be for great ones , yet they feldome 4 Come ; Before one Salmon , you fhall take a number Of Minnowes : I am given out to be better lyn'd Then it can ...
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... live long , and loving : No furfeits feeke us : The hand of war hurts none here , nor the Seas Swallow their youth were we at liberty , 95 A wife might part us lawfully , or bufines , Quarrels confume us , Envy of ill men Crave our ...
... live long , and loving : No furfeits feeke us : The hand of war hurts none here , nor the Seas Swallow their youth were we at liberty , 95 A wife might part us lawfully , or bufines , Quarrels confume us , Envy of ill men Crave our ...
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... live abroade ? and every where : [ II . 2 ] 104 Tis like a Beaft me thinkes : I finde the Court here , I am fure a more content , and all those pleasures That wooe the wils of men to vanity , I fee through now , and am fufficient To ...
... live abroade ? and every where : [ II . 2 ] 104 Tis like a Beaft me thinkes : I finde the Court here , I am fure a more content , and all those pleasures That wooe the wils of men to vanity , I fee through now , and am fufficient To ...
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Page 31 - You common cry of curs ! whose breath I hate > As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you...
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Page 42 - From musical coinage, why, it was a note Whereon her spirits would sojourn, — rather dwell on, And sing it in her slumbers : this rehearsal — Which, every innocent wots well, comes in Like old importment's bastard — has this end, That the true love 'tween maid and maid may be More than in sex dividual.
Page 15 - The Two Noble Kinsmen : Presented at the Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties servants, with great applause : Written by the memorable Worthies of their time ; !Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakespeare. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, for lohn Waterson : and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls Church-yard. 1634.
Page 142 - Hecate there, the moon, Doth give consent to that is done in darkness. And all those stars that gaze upon her face, Are aglets on her sleeve, pins on her train : And those that should be powerful and divine, Do sleep in darkness when they most should shine.
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Page 47 - Yet, cousin, Even from the bottom of these miseries, From all that Fortune can inflict upon us, I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings, If the gods please to hold here, — a brave patience, And the enjoying of our griefs together.