Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the Possession of J. Payne Collier ...

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Whittaker and Company, 1853 - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 512 pages

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Page 422 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 129 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
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