The Vale Shakespeare, Volume 28Hacon & Ricketts, 1902 |
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Page x
... head to be chopped off . LUCIO . But , after all this fooling , I would not have it so . Art thou sure of this ? MISTRESS OVERDONE . I am too sure of it : and it is for getting Madam Julietta with child . LUCIO . Believe me , this may ...
... head to be chopped off . LUCIO . But , after all this fooling , I would not have it so . Art thou sure of this ? MISTRESS OVERDONE . I am too sure of it : and it is for getting Madam Julietta with child . LUCIO . Believe me , this may ...
Page xiii
... head stands so tickle on thy shoulders , that a milkmaid , if she be in love , may sigh it off . Send after the Duke , and appeal to him . CLAUDIO . I have done so , but he ' s not to be found . I prithee , Lucio , do me this kind ...
... head stands so tickle on thy shoulders , that a milkmaid , if she be in love , may sigh it off . Send after the Duke , and appeal to him . CLAUDIO . I have done so , but he ' s not to be found . I prithee , Lucio , do me this kind ...
Page xxvii
... head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year together , you'll be glad to give out a commission for more heads : if this law hold in Vienna ten year , I'll rent the fairest house in it after three - pence a bay : if you live ...
... head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year together , you'll be glad to give out a commission for more heads : if this law hold in Vienna ten year , I'll rent the fairest house in it after three - pence a bay : if you live ...
Page xliii
... heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks , he ' ld yield them up , Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution . Then , Isabel , live chaste , and , brother , die : More than our brother is our chastity . I'll ...
... heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks , he ' ld yield them up , Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution . Then , Isabel , live chaste , and , brother , die : More than our brother is our chastity . I'll ...
Page xlv
... best appointment make with speed ; To - morrow you set on . CLAUDIO . Is there no remedy ? ISABELLA . None , but such remedy as , to save a head , To cleave a heart in twain . CLAUDIO . ISABELLA . Yes , brother , you may xlv.
... best appointment make with speed ; To - morrow you set on . CLAUDIO . Is there no remedy ? ISABELLA . None , but such remedy as , to save a head , To cleave a heart in twain . CLAUDIO . ISABELLA . Yes , brother , you may xlv.
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ABHORSON Barnardine bawd believe beseech betimes better brother caitiff child Claudio comfort condemn'd confess death Deputy diest dost thou doth Duke disguised Duke's ELBOW Enter Angelo Enter Duke Enter Isabella Enter Lucio ESCALUS evil Exeunt Exit Provost father faults fear fellow Friar Peter FRIAR THOMAS gentle give grace hanged hath head hear heart heaven hither holy honour husband Isabel Juliet justice live Look Lord Angelo LUCIO.(Aside to Isabella maid MARIANA Marry Master Froth MEASURE FOR MEASURE mercy MISTRESS OVERDONE offence Officers pardon POMPEY poor pray prison Re-enter Provost SCENE scurvy SECOND GENTLEMAN Servant shame Signior sirrah sister slander soul speak strange tapster tell thank thee there's thief thing thou art thou hast to-morrow tongue true truth varlet Varrius vice Vienna virtue warrant What's whipt wife woman word worship wrong'd YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Popular passages
Page xxxii - Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page xx - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page xliv - If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms.
Page xxx - Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy.
Page xlvi - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling:— 'tis too horrible!
Page xxxi - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page xci - They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page lvii - He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself, to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Page xliii - ... sleep, Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths; yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
Page xviii - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt...