The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labour's lostEstes and Lauriat, 1883 - English drama |
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... In old times the cup of an infected person was thought to be con- tagious . A quibble upon dollar and dolour . It occurs again in The Tempest , Act ii . sc . 1 . H. Enter Bawd . 1 Gent . How now ? Which 24 ACT I. MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... In old times the cup of an infected person was thought to be con- tagious . A quibble upon dollar and dolour . It occurs again in The Tempest , Act ii . sc . 1 . H. Enter Bawd . 1 Gent . How now ? Which 24 ACT I. MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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... thought it meet to hide our love , Till time had made them for us . But it chances , The stealth of our most mutual entertainment With character too gross is writ on Juliet . Lucio . With child , perhaps ? Claud . Unhappily , even so ...
... thought it meet to hide our love , Till time had made them for us . But it chances , The stealth of our most mutual entertainment With character too gross is writ on Juliet . Lucio . With child , perhaps ? Claud . Unhappily , even so ...
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... thought : That is , enter on her novitiae or probation . 10 Prone seems to be here used in the sense of apt . Cotgrave says , - Prone , ready , nimble , quick , easily moving . " And elsewhere we meet with the phrases , " so prone and ...
... thought : That is , enter on her novitiae or probation . 10 Prone seems to be here used in the sense of apt . Cotgrave says , - Prone , ready , nimble , quick , easily moving . " And elsewhere we meet with the phrases , " so prone and ...
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... thought could not be satisfactorily explained , Ascham says of one who , having learned to shoot well , neglects to practise with the bow , - " He shall become , of a fayre archer , a starke squyrter and drib- ber . " - In the next line ...
... thought could not be satisfactorily explained , Ascham says of one who , having learned to shoot well , neglects to practise with the bow , - " He shall become , of a fayre archer , a starke squyrter and drib- ber . " - In the next line ...
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... thought , by your readiness in the office , you had continued in it some time : You say , seven years together ? Elb . And a half , sir . Escal . Alas ! it hath been great pains to you . They do you wrong to put you so oft upon't : Are ...
... thought , by your readiness in the office , you had continued in it some time : You say , seven years together ? Elb . And a half , sir . Escal . Alas ! it hath been great pains to you . They do you wrong to put you so oft upon't : Are ...
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Page 71 - 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...
Page 458 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 267 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 283 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 51 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 275 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 336 - Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth its sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...
Page 459 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 328 - Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Hip.
Page 87 - Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again Bring again; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, Sealed in vain.