A Select Collection of Old Plays: Mal-contentJ. Nichols, 1780 - English drama |
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... means , the place , By whom , and when , and where thou wert difgraced . And am I paid with flave ? hath To places private and prohibited , my intrufion Only to obferve the clofer pallages , Heaven knows with vows of revelation , Made ...
... means , the place , By whom , and when , and where thou wert difgraced . And am I paid with flave ? hath To places private and prohibited , my intrufion Only to obferve the clofer pallages , Heaven knows with vows of revelation , Made ...
Page 38
... means Ifing - glass . If I remember rightly , our firfting - glafs came from Muicovy , the fish from which it is made being found in the Boryphones . S. I am rather inclined to think , he means a kind of glass called flude , which is ...
... means Ifing - glass . If I remember rightly , our firfting - glafs came from Muicovy , the fish from which it is made being found in the Boryphones . S. I am rather inclined to think , he means a kind of glass called flude , which is ...
Page 46
... mean by reftauration ; but this it doth , it purifieth the blood , fmootheth the skin , enliveneth the eye , ftrengtheneth the veins , mundifieth the teeth , com- forteth the flomach , fortifieth the back , and quickeneth the wit ...
... mean by reftauration ; but this it doth , it purifieth the blood , fmootheth the skin , enliveneth the eye , ftrengtheneth the veins , mundifieth the teeth , com- forteth the flomach , fortifieth the back , and quickeneth the wit ...
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... mean to turn pure 48 Rochel churchman , I. Mendozo . Thou church - man ! why , why ? Malevole . Because I'll live lazily , rail upon authority , deny kings fupre- macy in things indifferent , and be a pope in mine own parish . Mendozo ...
... mean to turn pure 48 Rochel churchman , I. Mendozo . Thou church - man ! why , why ? Malevole . Because I'll live lazily , rail upon authority , deny kings fupre- macy in things indifferent , and be a pope in mine own parish . Mendozo ...
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... means is the better known to the flinkards , than it fhe had been five times carted . Biliofo . ' Fore God , an excellent policy . Paffarello . Are there revels to - night , my any Biliofs . lord ? Yes . Paffarello . Good , my lord ...
... means is the better known to the flinkards , than it fhe had been five times carted . Biliofo . ' Fore God , an excellent policy . Paffarello . Are there revels to - night , my any Biliofs . lord ? Yes . Paffarello . Good , my lord ...
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Page 249 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping pans and their chamber pots are pure gold; and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold; and for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather 'hem by the seashore to hang on their children's coats.
Page 250 - But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Page 47 - Men say ! let men say what they will : life a' woman ! they are ignorant of our * wants. The more in years, the more in perfection they grow; if they lose youth and beauty, they gain wisdom and discretion : but when our beauty fades, good night with us.
Page 51 - Instantly; before he casts a plot, Or further blaze my honour's much-known blot, Let's murder him. Men. I would do much for you : will ye marry me? Aur.
Page 281 - I. He was a knight, and I was fit to be a lady. 'Tis not lack of liking, but lack of living, that severs us. And you talk like yourself and a cittiner in this, i
Page 212 - I thought you would not ha' been knighted, as I am an honest woman, I would ha' dubbed you myself. I praise God I have wherewithal. But as for your daughter Ge. Ay, mother, I must be a lady to-morrow ; and by your leave, mother (I speak it not without my duty, but only in the right of my husband), I must take place of you, mother.
Page 324 - I'd be revenged and marry her. Lus. Pish ! the dowry of her blood and of her fortunes Are both too mean — good enough to be bad withal.
Page 17 - ... tis his position, whosoever in this earth can be contented is a slave and damned; therefore does he afflict all in that to which they are most affected.
Page 210 - God's making, and mayest peradventure to be saved as soon as I — does he come ? — And ever and anon she doubled in her song.
Page 208 - Moorfields without a cloak, with half a hat, without a band, a doublet with three buttons, without a girdle, a hose with one point, and no garter, with a cudgel under thine arm, borrowing and begging three-pence.