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... stay . For cares of kynges , that rule as you have ruled , For publique wealth , and not for private joye , Do waste mannes lyfe , and hasten crooked age , With furrowed face , and with enfeebled lymmes , To draw on creepyng death a ...
... stay . For cares of kynges , that rule as you have ruled , For publique wealth , and not for private joye , Do waste mannes lyfe , and hasten crooked age , With furrowed face , and with enfeebled lymmes , To draw on creepyng death a ...
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... stay The growing mischiefes , while they yet are greene ; If this helpe not , then woe unto themselves , The prince ... stayed with wise foresight in time Shall hazarde both your kingdomes and your lives : Send to your father eke , he ...
... stay The growing mischiefes , while they yet are greene ; If this helpe not , then woe unto themselves , The prince ... stayed with wise foresight in time Shall hazarde both your kingdomes and your lives : Send to your father eke , he ...
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... stay your plaint ; Great is the matter , and a wofull case ; But timely knowledge may bring timely helpe . Send for them both unto your presence here ; The reverence of your honour , age , and state , Your grave advice , the awe of ...
... stay your plaint ; Great is the matter , and a wofull case ; But timely knowledge may bring timely helpe . Send for them both unto your presence here ; The reverence of your honour , age , and state , Your grave advice , the awe of ...
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... stay Falles out so long : Porrex unto our court , By order of our letters , is returned ; And Eubulus receaved from us byhest , At his arrivall heere , to geve him charge Before our presence straight to make repaire , And yet we have no ...
... stay Falles out so long : Porrex unto our court , By order of our letters , is returned ; And Eubulus receaved from us byhest , At his arrivall heere , to geve him charge Before our presence straight to make repaire , And yet we have no ...
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... stay their furies rage the while , And eke gaine time , whose onely helpe sufficeth Withouten warre to vanquish rebelles power . In the meane while , make you in redyness Such band of horsemen as ye may prepare : Horsemen , you kno ...
... stay their furies rage the while , And eke gaine time , whose onely helpe sufficeth Withouten warre to vanquish rebelles power . In the meane while , make you in redyness Such band of horsemen as ye may prepare : Horsemen , you kno ...
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Abig Alex Amor Apel Aristippus Barabas Ben Jonson Bonam brest Campaspe cham Chat court Crom crowns Damon death Diccon Dionisius Dond doth Dr Rat Duke edit Enter Eubulus Euphues Exeunt Exit faith farewell father fear Ferrex Friar Gammer Gaveston gentlemen Gorboduc grace Grimme Grut hand hart hath hear heart heaven Hodge honour Itha Ithamore Jacke king knave lady Leucoth live lord lord Cobham Lucy madam Manes master master constable Morel Mortimer neele never night noble PALLATINE pardon Pert Phil Philocles Pithias Poly POLYMETES Porrex pray prince Psyl Queen Shal shew Sir John sir John Oldcastle Sir Rad sonne soul speak stay Steph sweet tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou shalt Thwack Timoclea unto William Davenant wold word wyll
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Page 263 - I filled the jails with bankrupts in a year, And with young orphans planted hospitals, And every moon made some or other mad, And now and then one hang himself for grief, Pinning upon his breast a long great scroll How I with interest tormented him.
Page 191 - Something still buzzeth in mine ears, And tells me if I sleep I never wake; This fear is that which makes me tremble thus. And therefore tell me, wherefore art thou come ? Light.
Page 544 - False colours last after the true be dead. Of all the roses grafted on her cheeks, Of all the graces dancing in her eyes, Of all the music set upon her tongue, Of all that was past woman's excellence, In her white bosom ; look, a painted board Circumscribes all...
Page 167 - This which I urge is of a burning zeal To mend the king and do our country good. Know you not Gaveston hath store of gold, Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends As he will front the mightiest of us all?
Page 186 - I might ! but heavens and earth conspire To make me miserable. Here, receive my crown. Receive it ? no, these innocent hands of mine Shall not be guilty of so foul a crime...
Page 178 - Treacherous Warwick ! traitorous Mortimer ! If I be England's king, in lakes of gore Your headless trunks, your bodies will I trail, That you may drink your fill, and quaff in blood, And stain my royal standard with the same...
Page 178 - By earth, the common mother of us all, By heaven, and all the moving orbs thereof, By this right hand, and by my father's sword, And all the honours 'longing to my crown, I will have heads, and lives for him, as many As I have manors, castles, towns, and towers!
Page 263 - As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls : Sometimes I go about, and poison wells; And now and then, to cherish Christian thieves, I am content to lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in my gallery, See 'm go pinioned along by my door.
Page 167 - He's gone, and for his absence thus I mourn. Did never sorrow go so near my heart As doth the want of my sweet Gaveston ; And could my crown's revenue bring him back, I would freely give it to his enemies, And think I gain'd, having bought so dear a friend.
Page 190 - To murder you, my most gracious lord ! Far is it from my heart to do you harm. The queen sent me to see how you were...