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... thank you for your company ; but , good faith , I had as lief have been myself alone . Orlan . And so had I ; but yet , for fashion's sake , I thank you too for your society . Jaq . God b ' wi ' you : let's meet as little as we can ...
... thank you for your company ; but , good faith , I had as lief have been myself alone . Orlan . And so had I ; but yet , for fashion's sake , I thank you too for your society . Jaq . God b ' wi ' you : let's meet as little as we can ...
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... thank thee for thy love to me , which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite . I had myself notice of my brother's purpose herein , and have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it ; but he is resolute . I tell thee ...
... thank thee for thy love to me , which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite . I had myself notice of my brother's purpose herein , and have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it ; but he is resolute . I tell thee ...
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... thank him and encourage him : My father's rough and envious 21 disposition Sticks me at heart . — Sir , you have well deserved : If you do keep your promises in love But justly , as you have exceeded promise , Your mistress shall be ...
... thank him and encourage him : My father's rough and envious 21 disposition Sticks me at heart . — Sir , you have well deserved : If you do keep your promises in love But justly , as you have exceeded promise , Your mistress shall be ...
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... thank you , sir : and , pray you , tell me this , - Which of the two was daughter of the Duke , That here were at the wrestling ? - Le Beau . Neither his daughter , if we judge by manners ; But yet , indeed , the shorter is his daughter ...
... thank you , sir : and , pray you , tell me this , - Which of the two was daughter of the Duke , That here were at the wrestling ? - Le Beau . Neither his daughter , if we judge by manners ; But yet , indeed , the shorter is his daughter ...
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... thank any man , I'll thank you : but that they call compliment is like the encounter of two dog - apes ; 2 and when a man thanks me heartily , methinks I 1 In Latin , nomina facere means to enter an account , because not only the sums ...
... thank any man , I'll thank you : but that they call compliment is like the encounter of two dog - apes ; 2 and when a man thanks me heartily , methinks I 1 In Latin , nomina facere means to enter an account , because not only the sums ...
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Adam AMIENS Audrey banished Batrachite bear beard Beau Ben Jonson better brother Celia Collier's second folio CORIN correction Court cousin daughter diest doth Duke F Dyce eminent sense Enter ORLANDO Enter ROSALIND Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father Fool Forest of Arden Fortune Ganymede gentle give graces Hanmer hath heart Heigh-ho Hero and Leander hither honour humour Jaques Julius Cæsar know Shakespeare Lettsom live look lord lover marry matter means melancholy mind mistress Monsieur motley Fool nature never old text Oliver original reads Phebe phrase play Poet Poet's poetry pr'ythee pray priser pupils Rosader SCENE Shakespearians shepherd SILVIUS Sir Roland song speak sweet Tale of Gamelyn tell thee thing thou art thought Thrasonical Touch Touchstone verses wherein withal woman word wrestling young youth
Popular passages
Page 55 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 76 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 5 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Page 157 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Page 71 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 110 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 60 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 96 - poetical ' is : is it honest in deed and word ? is it a true thing ? Touch.
Page 79 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the Court, it is tedious.