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... desire you , sir , to give me leave To have free speech with you ; and it concerns me To look into the bottom of my place : A power I have ; but of what strength and naturé I am not yet instructed . Ang . " T is so with me : -Let us ...
... desire you , sir , to give me leave To have free speech with you ; and it concerns me To look into the bottom of my place : A power I have ; but of what strength and naturé I am not yet instructed . Ang . " T is so with me : -Let us ...
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... Desires access to you . Ang . Hath he a sister ? Prov . Ay , my good lord ; a very virtuous maid , And to be shortly of a ... desire should meet the blow of justice ; For which I would not plead , but that I 16 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
... Desires access to you . Ang . Hath he a sister ? Prov . Ay , my good lord ; a very virtuous maid , And to be shortly of a ... desire should meet the blow of justice ; For which I would not plead , but that I 16 MEASURE FOR MEASURE .
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... desire to raze the sanctuary ? O , fie , fie , fie ! What dost thou ? or what art thou , Angelo ? O , let her brother live : Thieves for their robbery have authority , When judges steal themselves . What ? do I love her , That I desire ...
... desire to raze the sanctuary ? O , fie , fie , fie ! What dost thou ? or what art thou , Angelo ? O , let her brother live : Thieves for their robbery have authority , When judges steal themselves . What ? do I love her , That I desire ...
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... Desires access to you . Ang . Teach her the way . O heavens ! [ Exit THOMAS , Why does my blood thus muster to my heart , Making both it unable for itself , And dispossessing all my other parts Of necessary fitness ? Enter ISABELLA ...
... Desires access to you . Ang . Teach her the way . O heavens ! [ Exit THOMAS , Why does my blood thus muster to my heart , Making both it unable for itself , And dispossessing all my other parts Of necessary fitness ? Enter ISABELLA ...
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... desire you to make your answer before him : If it be honest you have spoke , you have courage to maintain it : I am bound to call upon you ; and , I pray you , your name ? Lucio . Sir , my name is Lucio ; well known to the . duke . Duke ...
... desire you to make your answer before him : If it be honest you have spoke , you have courage to maintain it : I am bound to call upon you ; and , I pray you , your name ? Lucio . Sir , my name is Lucio ; well known to the . duke . Duke ...
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Abhor ABHORSON Apparitors Art thou Barnar believe beseech betimes brother caitiff carry'd Claud Claudio condemn'd death deputy diest dish dost thou doth duke's ELBOW END OF ACT Enter ESCALUS Enter ISABELLA Enter LUCIO Enter Provost Enter the Duke Escal Exeunt ISABELLA Exeunt the Duke Exit Provost Exit THOMAS fare father fault fear fellow FREDERICK Friar PETER gentle gentleman give grace gracious hang'd head hear heard heart heaven here's hither holy husband Isab Isabel justice kneel LEOPOLD Little Queen Lodowick Look lord Angelo maid Mari MARIANA marry master Froth MEASURE FOR MEASURE mercy noble offence Pompey poor pr'ythee pray prayers prison Prov SCENE shame signior Sirrah sister slander soul speak strange tapster thee thing thou art thou hast Tipstaves to-morrow tongue truely varlet Vienna villain warrant What's whipp'd wife woman word wrong'd
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Page 30 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 30 - Thou hast nor youth, nor age; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both : for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this, That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
Page 32 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 19 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 15 - We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 11 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil ; and when we drink we die.
Page 65 - Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me : Hold up your hands, say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 41 - He who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Page 19 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thunder.
Page 33 - Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance ; Die ; perish ! might but my bending down Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed...