The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 4John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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... lady there , Be very civil , or look to your head ! She has ten nails , and you have but two eyes : If any foolish hot motions should chance To rise in the horizon , under your equinoc- tial there , Qualify it as well as you can , for I ...
... lady there , Be very civil , or look to your head ! She has ten nails , and you have but two eyes : If any foolish hot motions should chance To rise in the horizon , under your equinoc- tial there , Qualify it as well as you can , for I ...
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... lady . Gen. You've met a gentle confessor ; and , for once , ( So then you will rest satisfied ) I vouchsafe it . Lucio . Rest satisfied with a kiss ? Why , can a man Desire more from a woman ? is there any Pleasure beyond it ? may I ...
... lady . Gen. You've met a gentle confessor ; and , for once , ( So then you will rest satisfied ) I vouchsafe it . Lucio . Rest satisfied with a kiss ? Why , can a man Desire more from a woman ? is there any Pleasure beyond it ? may I ...
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... lady's condition , but his own , and therefore I should think it would be better to read , From me all my comforts The text is much best ; and though loosely expressed , means to represent Silvio lamenting his own condition . 3 Yet let ...
... lady's condition , but his own , and therefore I should think it would be better to read , From me all my comforts The text is much best ; and though loosely expressed , means to represent Silvio lamenting his own condition . 3 Yet let ...
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... lady myself , Clau . If he had hit you home , h ' had serv'd you right , sirrah , [ shews to me , You saucy rogue ! -- How poor my intent How naked now , and foolish ! Soto . Are you sure he has not hit me ? It gave a monstrous bounce ...
... lady myself , Clau . If he had hit you home , h ' had serv'd you right , sirrah , [ shews to me , You saucy rogue ! -- How poor my intent How naked now , and foolish ! Soto . Are you sure he has not hit me ? It gave a monstrous bounce ...
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... lady were married out o ' th ' way once , Or out of our custodies ! I wish they would take in more companies , [ shrewdly . For I am sure we feel her in our duties 1 Sold . Tis not her fault , I warrant you ; she's ready for't ; And ...
... lady were married out o ' th ' way once , Or out of our custodies ! I wish they would take in more companies , [ shrewdly . For I am sure we feel her in our duties 1 Sold . Tis not her fault , I warrant you ; she's ready for't ; And ...
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Page 509 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 420 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 356 - Then we will be coy no more, But thy deity adore : Troths at fifteen we will plight, And will tread a dance...
Page 405 - Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide ; And, mermaid-like...
Page 418 - O you heavenly charmers, What things you make of us ! For what we lack We laugh, for what we have are sorry ; still Are children in some kind.
Page 407 - Oh, who can find the bent of woman's fancy ? I am a fool, my reason is lost in me ! I have no choice, and I have lied so lewdly, That women ought to beat me.
Page 473 - Yet cousin, Even from the bottom of these miseries, From all that fortune can inflict upon us, I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings, If the gods please to hold here ; a brave patience, And the enjoying of our griefs together. Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish If I think this our prison. Pal. Certainly Tis a main goodness...
Page 461 - Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head. Second, that he do, on no default, Ever presume to sit above the salt. Third that he never change his trencher twice.
Page 562 - Peace and silence be the guide To the man, and to the bride ! If there be a joy yet new In marriage, let it fall on you, That all the world may wonder ! If we should stay, we should do worse, And turn our blessing to a curse, By keeping you asunder.
Page 412 - O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that heal'st with blood The earth when it is sick, and cur'st the world O' the plurisy of people ; I do take Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name To my design march boldly.