The Modern British Drama: Operas and farcesWilliam Miller, 1811 - English drama |
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... shift How to regain my sever'd company , Compell'd me to awake the courteous Echo , To give me answer from her mossy couch . Comus . What chance , good lady , hath bereft you thus ? Lady . Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . Comus ...
... shift How to regain my sever'd company , Compell'd me to awake the courteous Echo , To give me answer from her mossy couch . Comus . What chance , good lady , hath bereft you thus ? Lady . Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . Comus ...
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... SHIFT , Servant to OCTAVIAN . SLY , servant to LEANDER . LUCIA . CLARA . WOMEN . SCENE I. Enter OCTAVIAN and SHIFT . Oct. THIS is unhappy news ! I did not expect my father in two months , and yet you say he is returned already . Shift ...
... SHIFT , Servant to OCTAVIAN . SLY , servant to LEANDER . LUCIA . CLARA . WOMEN . SCENE I. Enter OCTAVIAN and SHIFT . Oct. THIS is unhappy news ! I did not expect my father in two months , and yet you say he is returned already . Shift ...
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... Shift . See where he comes - Monsieur Scapin ! Enter SCAPIN . Sca . Worthy sir ! Shift . I have been giving my master a brief account of thy most noble qualities : I told him thou wert as valiant as a ridden cuckold , sincere as whores ...
... Shift . See where he comes - Monsieur Scapin ! Enter SCAPIN . Sca . Worthy sir ! Shift . I have been giving my master a brief account of thy most noble qualities : I told him thou wert as valiant as a ridden cuckold , sincere as whores ...
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... Shift , I'll thresh him to death ; I will be three years a cudgelling him ! Shift . I wonder he had forgot me so long . Thrifty . Oh , ho ! yonder the rascal is , that brave governor ! he tutored my son finely ! Sca . Sir , I am ...
... Shift , I'll thresh him to death ; I will be three years a cudgelling him ! Shift . I wonder he had forgot me so long . Thrifty . Oh , ho ! yonder the rascal is , that brave governor ! he tutored my son finely ! Sca . Sir , I am ...
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... Shift . Pray , take a little care , and lay your Shift . I must confess thou art a brave fellow , plot so that I may not act the bully always : I and our affairs begin to be in a better posture - would not be beaten like a bully . but ...
... Shift . Pray , take a little care , and lay your Shift . I must confess thou art a brave fellow , plot so that I may not act the bully always : I and our affairs begin to be in a better posture - would not be beaten like a bully . but ...
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