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Page 17
Stand you both forth now : stroke your chins , and swear by your beards that I am
a knave . Cel . By our beards , if we had them , thou art . Touch . By my knavery , if
I had it , then I were : but if you swear by that that is not , you are not forsworn ...
Stand you both forth now : stroke your chins , and swear by your beards that I am
a knave . Cel . By our beards , if we had them , thou art . Touch . By my knavery , if
I had it , then I were : but if you swear by that that is not , you are not forsworn ...
Page 79
Holla was a term of the menage , by which the rider restrained and stopp'd his
horse . So , in our author's Venus and Adonis : “ What recketh he his rider's angry
stir , “ His flattering holla , or his stand I say ? " The word is again used in Othello
...
Holla was a term of the menage , by which the rider restrained and stopp'd his
horse . So , in our author's Venus and Adonis : “ What recketh he his rider's angry
stir , “ His flattering holla , or his stand I say ? " The word is again used in Othello
...
Page 199
I ' ll fee thee to stand up . Laf . Then here's a man Stands , that has brought his
pardon . I would you Had kneel'd , my lord , to ask me mercy ; and That , at my
bidding , you could so stand up . King . I would I had ; so I had broke thy pate ,
And ...
I ' ll fee thee to stand up . Laf . Then here's a man Stands , that has brought his
pardon . I would you Had kneel'd , my lord , to ask me mercy ; and That , at my
bidding , you could so stand up . King . I would I had ; so I had broke thy pate ,
And ...
Page 291
Foh , pr'ythee , stand away ; A paper from fortune's close - stool to give to a
nobleman ! Look , here he comes himself . Enter LAFEU . Here is a pur of
fortune's , sir , or of fortune's cat , ( but not a musk - cat ) that has fallen into the
unclean ...
Foh , pr'ythee , stand away ; A paper from fortune's close - stool to give to a
nobleman ! Look , here he comes himself . Enter LAFEU . Here is a pur of
fortune's , sir , or of fortune's cat , ( but not a musk - cat ) that has fallen into the
unclean ...
Page 296
Or the meaning may be , that hatred still continues to sleep at ease , while love is
weeping ; and so the present reading may stand . Fohnson . I cannot
comprehend this passage as it stands , and have no oubt but we should read -
Our old love ...
Or the meaning may be , that hatred still continues to sleep at ease , while love is
weeping ; and so the present reading may stand . Fohnson . I cannot
comprehend this passage as it stands , and have no oubt but we should read -
Our old love ...
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Page 33 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
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| Title | Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes, Volume 1 Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes, William Shakespeare |
| Authors | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | proprietors, 1820 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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