 to keep these old definitions carefully in mind. I shall employ the word tempering in the sense of softening, as Falstaff uses it when he says of Shallow :— "I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.  Nature - Page 12edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 410 pages
...Fal. Let them go. I'll through Glostershire; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. [Exeunt. 130 SCENE IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber. Enter the KING, THOMAS DUKE OFCLARENCE,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Exiles - 1906 - 172 pages
...sake, yet you may persuade her against him. 64. temper} mould, like wax ; S Henry IV. IV. iii. 122, " I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb ; and shortly will I seal with him." Faerie Queene, v. vi. 26. For the idea cf. Proteus' "complaining names," I. ii. 128. His advice here,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 284 pages
...Let them go. I 'll through Gloucestershire ; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber Enter the KING, the PRINCES THOMAS... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1908 - 368 pages
...Let them go. I '11 through Gloucestershire; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. [Exeunt. 114 tUl sack commences it\ The word "commence" was academically used of taking... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 232 pages
...Let them go. I '11 through Gloucestershire; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. SCENE IV [Exeunt. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber. Enter the King, the Princes Thomas... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 812 pages
...Fal. Let them go. 111 through Gloucestershire; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. [Exeun\ SCENE IV Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber. Enter the King, the Princes Thomas... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - Law in literature - 1911 - 556 pages
...follows: "Fal. . . . I'll through Glostershlre; and there will I visit master Rohert Shallow, esquire; I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb and shortly will I seal with him." (Act IV, Scene III.) Pandarus tells Troilus and Cressida, after the details of their pre-contract of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1911 - 414 pages
...Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire ; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire: I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. [Exeunt. BAEDOLPH. The army is discharged all and gone. SCENE IV.—Westminster. The Jerusalem... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 212 pages
...; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire. I have him already tempering be- 140 tween my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. SCENE IV. [Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.] Enter the King, the Princes Thomas of Clarence... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - Law in literature - 1913 - 592 pages
...follows: "Fat. . . . I'll through Glostershlre; and there will I visit master Robert Shallow, esquire; I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb and shortly will I seal with him." (Act IV, Scene III.) Pandarus tells Troilus and Cressida, after the details of their pre-contract of... | |
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