 Contemn not your condition for the proof Of bare opinion only : to what end Reach all these moral texts ? Pen. To place before ye A perfect mirror, wherein you may see How weary I am of a lingering life, Who count the best a misery.  Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Page 317by John Ford - 1827Full view - About this book
 | John Ford - 1906 - 244 pages
...wherein you may see How weary I am of a lingering life, Who count the best a misery. Cal. Indeed You have no little cause ; yet none so great As to distrust...fold of lead, And some untrod-on corner in the earth. — 40 Not to detain your expectation, princess, I have an humble suit. Cal. Speak ; I enjoy it. Pen.... | |
 | John Ford - 1915 - 448 pages
...little cause : yet none so great 30 As to distrust a remedy. Pen. That remedy Must be a winding sheet, a fold of lead, And some untrod-on corner in the earth. Not to detaine your expectation, princesse, I have an humble suit. Cal. Speake ; I enjoy it. 35 Pen. Vouchsafe,... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1927 - 432 pages
...may see How weary I am of a lingring life, 1550 Who count the best a misery. Calan. Indeed You haue no little cause ; yet none so great As to distrust a remedy. Pen. That remedy Must be a winding sheet, a fold of lead, And some vntrod-on corner in the earth. 1555 Not to detaine your expectation,... | |
 | John Webster - English literature - 1927 - 340 pages
...euphemism «tl (there), for "the other world". 343. fould: wrapping. Cf. Ford, Broken Heart, HI. 5: That remedy Must be a winding-sheet, a fold of lead, And some untrod-on corner in the earth. 344. would not let mee kisse her: because her lips were still poisonous from the picture; or at all... | |
 | John Ford - Literary Collections - 1986 - 392 pages
...misery. CALANTHA. Indeed You have no little cause; yet none so great 30 As to distrust a remedy. PENTHEA. That remedy Must be a winding-sheet, a fold of lead,...the earth. Not to detain your expectation, princess, 9 My glass of life: the hourglass measuring my life. 12 short: soon to come. 20 sensuality: pleasure... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...death, not life—Penthea insists, like Shakespeare's Angelo, that there is no door out but death: "That remedy / Must be a winding-sheet, a fold of lead, / And some untrod-on corner in the earth" (3.5.31-33). Calantha listens patiently, allowing Penthea the catharsis of speech but always keeping... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 pages
...lingering life, Who count the best a misery. Cal. Indeed You have no little cause ; yet none so great A* to distrust a remedy. Pen. That remedy Must be a winding-sheet, a fold of lead, Ami some untrod-on corner in the earth. — Not to detain your expectation, princess, I h;ive an humble... | |
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