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The Controversy of our Author's Acquaintance with the Latine Tongue has been partly canvass ? d upon his having writ this Play . “ It is in great Measure taken ( fays Mr. Rowe ) “ from the Menachmi of Plautus .
The Controversy of our Author's Acquaintance with the Latine Tongue has been partly canvass ? d upon his having writ this Play . “ It is in great Measure taken ( fays Mr. Rowe ) “ from the Menachmi of Plautus .
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“ He appears ( says be ) also to kave “ been conversant in Plautus , from whom he has taken the Plot of One " of his Plays ” . The Comedy of Errors is the Play meant here . But tho ' , perhaps , I may believe our Author better ...
“ He appears ( says be ) also to kave “ been conversant in Plautus , from whom he has taken the Plot of One " of his Plays ” . The Comedy of Errors is the Play meant here . But tho ' , perhaps , I may believe our Author better ...
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I am pofsefs'd with an adulterate blot ; My blood is mingled with the crime of luft : For if we two be one , and thou play false , I do digest the poison of thy fleih , Being ítrumpeted by thy contagion .
I am pofsefs'd with an adulterate blot ; My blood is mingled with the crime of luft : For if we two be one , and thou play false , I do digest the poison of thy fleih , Being ítrumpeted by thy contagion .
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... Dromio , play the porter well . Ant . Am I in earth , in heaven , or in hell ? Sleeping or waking , mad or well advis'd ? Known unto these , and to my self disguis'd ? I'll say as they say , and persever fo ; And in this mist at all ...
... Dromio , play the porter well . Ant . Am I in earth , in heaven , or in hell ? Sleeping or waking , mad or well advis'd ? Known unto these , and to my self disguis'd ? I'll say as they say , and persever fo ; And in this mist at all ...
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If a Conundrum be restor'd , in setting it right , who can help it ? There are enough befides in our Author , and Ben Jonson , to countenance that current Vice of the Times when this Play appear'd .
If a Conundrum be restor'd , in setting it right , who can help it ? There are enough befides in our Author , and Ben Jonson , to countenance that current Vice of the Times when this Play appear'd .
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| Title | The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes, Volume 3 The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Mr. Theobald (Lewis) |
| Publisher | A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1733 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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