Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing: With Notes, Examination Papers, and Plan of PreparationMaynard, Merrill, & Company, 1893 - 148 pages |
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answer baldrick Balth Beat Beatrice's Bene Benedick and Beatrice Benedictus blank verse blood Bora Borachio brother character Claud constable Count Claudio cousin Cupid curst daugh daughter death Dogberry and Verges Don John doth ducats Dyce English language Enter DON PEDRO Enter LEONATO Exeunt Exit eyes faith fashion flout fool Friar gentleman give grace hand hang hath hear heart heigh-ho Hero Hero's honest honor husband John's kill lady lapwing Leon LEONATO's house look lord Marg Margaret marriage marry master Master constable means merry Mess Messina never niece night play pray thee prince and Claudio prince's SCENE scorn Shakespeare Signior Benedick Signior Leonato sing slander soul speak Steevens swear sweet syllables talk tell thank there's thing to-morrow to-night tongue troth true truly URSULA villain Watch watchmen wear wise words
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Page 53 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 59 - But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No.; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor I did not think I should live till I were married.
Page 89 - Of every hearer : For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why then we rack " the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours...
Page 69 - You have; I knew it would be your answer. Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity.