A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakspeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions ...Alden and Beardsley, 1855 - 178 pages |
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... Frances . A Citizen . DAFFODIL , servants to Sir Launcelot Spurcock . ARTICHOKE , Š } DICK and RALPH , two cheating gamesters . RUFFIAN , a pander . DELIA , } FRANCES , daughters to Sir Launcelot Spurcock . LUCE , Citizen's wife ...
... Frances . A Citizen . DAFFODIL , servants to Sir Launcelot Spurcock . ARTICHOKE , Š } DICK and RALPH , two cheating gamesters . RUFFIAN , a pander . DELIA , } FRANCES , daughters to Sir Launcelot Spurcock . LUCE , Citizen's wife ...
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... FRANCES . Launce . Sirrah , Artichoke , get you home before ; And , as you proved yourself a calf in buying , Drive home your fellow calves that you have bought . Art . Yes , forsooth ; shall not my fellow Daffodil go along with me ...
... FRANCES . Launce . Sirrah , Artichoke , get you home before ; And , as you proved yourself a calf in buying , Drive home your fellow calves that you have bought . Art . Yes , forsooth ; shall not my fellow Daffodil go along with me ...
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... Frances ; his name's Master Civet . 3 Quere : your fellows ? 4 This line in two of the copies before me , is ascribed to Sir Launcelot , but it evidently belongs to one of the damsels , Luce or Frances . I think it due to the former ...
... Frances ; his name's Master Civet . 3 Quere : your fellows ? 4 This line in two of the copies before me , is ascribed to Sir Launcelot , but it evidently belongs to one of the damsels , Luce or Frances . I think it due to the former ...
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... FRANCES . Launce . Sir Arthur , welcome to Lewsham , wel- come , by my troth . What's the matter , man , [ tc Oli- ver ] why are you vexed ? Oli . Why , man , he would press me . Launce . O , fie , Sir Arthur , press him ? He is a man ...
... FRANCES . Launce . Sir Arthur , welcome to Lewsham , wel- come , by my troth . What's the matter , man , [ tc Oli- ver ] why are you vexed ? Oli . Why , man , he would press me . Launce . O , fie , Sir Arthur , press him ? He is a man ...
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... Frances and for Luce . Oli . Why chil speak with him , chil speak with him . Launce . Nay , [ good ] son Oliver , I'll surely see What [ ' tis ] young Flowerdale hath sent to you . Pray God it be no quarrel . Oli . Why , man , if he ...
... Frances and for Luce . Oli . Why chil speak with him , chil speak with him . Launce . Nay , [ good ] son Oliver , I'll surely see What [ ' tis ] young Flowerdale hath sent to you . Pray God it be no quarrel . Oli . Why , man , if he ...
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Albanact Arcite ASSARACUS Bish brother Capt captain chil Civet conjurer Corineius Coun cousin Crom Cromwell Daugh daughter death Delia devil dost doth Enter Estrild Exeunt Exit fair Falstaff farewell Fath father Flow Flowerdale follow fortune Frances friends Gaoler gentleman give Guendeline hand Harpool hast hath hear heart Heaven HIPPOLYTA Hodge honor Humber husband i'faith is't king knave Knight lady Launce live Locrine Locrine's look Lord Cobham Luce maid marry Master Mistress ne'er never noble Noble Kinsmen Norf Palamon pity play pray prison PYEBOARD SCENE Scythians Servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sir God Sir John Oldcastle Sir Launcelot Sirrah sister Skir soldiers soul speak Strum Strumbo sweet sword tell thee there's Theseus thou art thou shalt Thrasymachus Titus Andronicus troth Uncle unto Weath wench wife Wooer word Wrotham Yorkshire Tragedy
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Page 178 - There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream: Sabrina is her name: a virgin pure; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame, Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course.
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Page 19 - Tied, weav'd, entangled, with so true, so long, And with a finger of so deep a cunning. May be out-worn, never undone. I think Theseus cannot be umpire to himself, Cleaving his conscience into twain, and doing Each side like justice, which he loves best.
Page 22 - 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.
Page 22 - That woo the wills of men to vanity, I see through now, and am sufficient To tell the world, 'tis but a gaudy shadow, That old Time, as he passes by, takes with him. What had we been old in the court of Creon, Where sin is justice — lust and ignorance The virtues of the great ones : cousin Arcite, Had not the loving gods found this place for us, We had died as they do, ill old men, unwept, And had their epitaphs, the people's curses.
Page 16 - The scythe-tusk'd boar ; that, with thy arm as strong As it is white, wast near to make the male To thy sex captive ; but that this thy lord (Born to uphold creation in that honour First nature styl'd it in) shrunk thee into The bound thou wast o'erflowing, at once subduing Thy force, and thy affection...
Page 19 - The one of th' other may be said to water Their intertangled roots of love ; but I And she (I sigh and spoke of) were things innocent, Loved for we did, and like the elements, That know not what, nor why, yet do effect Rare issues by their operance, our souls Did so to one another . what she...
Page 16 - gainst a capital grief indeed ; — Such heart-pierc'd demonstration ! — but, alas, Being a natural sister of our sex, Your sorrow beats so ardently upon me, That it shall make a counter-reflect 'gainst My brother's heart, and warm it to some pity. Though it were made of stone : pray, have good comfort. Thes. Forward to the temple ! leave not out a jot O' the sacred ceremony. First Queen. O, this celebration Will longer last, and be more costly, than Your suppliants...
Page 17 - But one night with her, every hour in 't will Take hostage of thee for a hundred, and Thou shalt remember nothing more, than what That banquet bids thee to. Hip. Though much unliking You should be so transported, as much sorry I should be such a suitor, yet I think Did I not by th...