The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately pr. from the text of mr. Steevens's last ed., with a selection of the most important notes [collected by J. Nichols]. |
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... please you , madam , that he bid Helen come to you ; of her I am to speak . Count . Sirrah , tell my gentlewoman , I would speak with her ; Helen I mean . Clo . Was this fair face the caufe , quoth foe , Why the Grecians facked Troy ...
... please you , madam , that he bid Helen come to you ; of her I am to speak . Count . Sirrah , tell my gentlewoman , I would speak with her ; Helen I mean . Clo . Was this fair face the caufe , quoth foe , Why the Grecians facked Troy ...
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... please ! -marry , to each , but one ! 4 Laf . I'd give bay Curtal , and his furniture , My mouth no more were broken " than these boys ' , And writ as little beard . King . Perufe them well : Not one of thofe , but had a noble father ...
... please ! -marry , to each , but one ! 4 Laf . I'd give bay Curtal , and his furniture , My mouth no more were broken " than these boys ' , And writ as little beard . King . Perufe them well : Not one of thofe , but had a noble father ...
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... please . Hel . My with receive , Which great love grant ! and fo I take my leave . Laf . Do all they deny her ? An they were fons of mine , I'd have them whipp'd ; or I would fend them to the Turk , to make eunuchs of . Hel . Be not ...
... please . Hel . My with receive , Which great love grant ! and fo I take my leave . Laf . Do all they deny her ? An they were fons of mine , I'd have them whipp'd ; or I would fend them to the Turk , to make eunuchs of . Hel . Be not ...
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... please to have it grow : Check thy contempt : Obey our will which travails in thy good : Believe not thy difdain , but prefently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right , Which both thy duty owes , and our power claims ; Or I will ...
... please to have it grow : Check thy contempt : Obey our will which travails in thy good : Believe not thy difdain , but prefently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right , Which both thy duty owes , and our power claims ; Or I will ...
Page 73
... our author wrote : That leads him to these paces . i . e . fuch irregular fteps , to courfes of debauchery , to not loving his wife . VOL . III . E THEOBALD . Hel . Hel . I humbly thank you : Please it this THAT ENDS WELL . 73.
... our author wrote : That leads him to these paces . i . e . fuch irregular fteps , to courfes of debauchery , to not loving his wife . VOL . III . E THEOBALD . Hel . Hel . I humbly thank you : Please it this THAT ENDS WELL . 73.
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Page 533 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 492 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 483 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 498 - So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. MACB. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not.
Page 230 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 473 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 470 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance : nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it ; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed* As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 321 - This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 467 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill : cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 476 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...