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Madam , come ; This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my
heart : 8 in grace whereof , No jocund health , o that Denmark drinks to - day , But
the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ; And the king's rousel the heaven shall ...
Madam , come ; This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my
heart : 8 in grace whereof , No jocund health , o that Denmark drinks to - day , But
the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ; And the king's rousel the heaven shall ...
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I would not hear your enemy say so ; Nor shall you do mine ear that violence , To
make it truster of your own report Against yourself : I know , you are no truant . But
what is your affair in Elsinore ? We ' ll teach you to drink deep , ere you depart .
I would not hear your enemy say so ; Nor shall you do mine ear that violence , To
make it truster of your own report Against yourself : I know , you are no truant . But
what is your affair in Elsinore ? We ' ll teach you to drink deep , ere you depart .
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Though beaver properly signified that part of the helmet which was let down , to
enable the wearer to drink , Shakspeare always uses the word as denoting that
part of the helmet which , when raised up , exposed the face of the wearer : and ...
Though beaver properly signified that part of the helmet which was let down , to
enable the wearer to drink , Shakspeare always uses the word as denoting that
part of the helmet which , when raised up , exposed the face of the wearer : and ...
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133 , for the scene of drunkenness introduced into the court of James I , by the
King of Denmark , in 1606 . Roger Ascham in one of his Letters , mentions being
present at an entertainment where the Emperor of Germany seemed in drinking ...
133 , for the scene of drunkenness introduced into the court of James I , by the
King of Denmark , in 1606 . Roger Ascham in one of his Letters , mentions being
present at an entertainment where the Emperor of Germany seemed in drinking ...
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Ay , or drinking , fencing , swearing , * quarrelling , well said : very well said . ]
Thus also , the weak and tedious Shallow says to Bardolph , in The Second Part
of King Henry IV , Act III , sc . ü : “ It is well said , sir ; and it is well said indeed too .
Ay , or drinking , fencing , swearing , * quarrelling , well said : very well said . ]
Thus also , the weak and tedious Shallow says to Bardolph , in The Second Part
of King Henry IV , Act III , sc . ü : “ It is well said , sir ; and it is well said indeed too .
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Page 31 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 25 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 207 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 191 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 142 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 31 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly— heaven and earth Must I remember? why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month, Let me not think on 't; frailty thy name is woman! A little month or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body Like Niobe all tears, why she, even she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason...
Page 143 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them :' for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 55 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness...
Page 138 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 207 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 15 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Publisher | C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2007 |
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