 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 - 1878 - 502 pages
...Fai. Let them go. I '11 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. 1 Come away. [Exmnt. SCE.VE IV. Westminster. A room in the palace. inter KING HENRY, CLARENCE, PRINCE... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...himself.—Hamlet, v. 2. I have him already tempering [' manipulating,' ' preparing for use, like soft wax '] between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.—2 H. IV., iv. 3. Which I tender ['hold,' ' prize,' 'value,' 'esteem'] dearly.—As You L., v.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 222 pages
...sack.— n4 How now, Bardolph ? Enter BARDOLPH. _A 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 - 1880 - 226 pages
...sack.— 114 How now, Bardolph ? Enter BARDOLPH. 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1881 - 368 pages
...replies, " 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."( 2 ) Thither he accordingly repairs, and there, as we have seen, Pistol arrives post-haste with the... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 416 pages
...replies, " 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."* Thither he accordingly repairs, and there, as we have seen, Pistol arrives post haste with the news... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1881 - 366 pages
...replies, " 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."( 2 ) Thither he accordingly repairs, and there, as we have seen, Pistol arrives post-haste with the... | |
 | Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - 268 pages
...If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four dozen of such bearded hermits' stares as Master Shallow." " I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal him." " I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Henry in continual laughter... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1881 - 368 pages
...replies, " 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 withhim."( 2 ) Thither he accordingly repairs, and there, as we have seen, Pistol arrives post-haste... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 540 pages
...fashion : When you may temper her, i. 329 ; And temper him., with all the art I have, To, &c., vi. 34.5 ; I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly mil I seal with him, iv. 378 ; What wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering ? ix. 242 ; That tempers... | |
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