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... rich , Fair - spoken , promising , noble , ardent blood , Enter MALEVOLE in some Freeze Gown , while Fair , witty , flattering ; Ulysses absent , BILIOSO reads his Patent . Mal . I cannot sleep ; my eyes ill - neighbouring lids Will ...
... rich , Fair - spoken , promising , noble , ardent blood , Enter MALEVOLE in some Freeze Gown , while Fair , witty , flattering ; Ulysses absent , BILIOSO reads his Patent . Mal . I cannot sleep ; my eyes ill - neighbouring lids Will ...
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... rich knave ,. Produce faint reformation . The duke , the too soft duke , lies as a block , For which two tugging factions seem to saw , But still the iron through the ribs they draw . Mal . I tell thee , Celso , I have ever found Thy ...
... rich knave ,. Produce faint reformation . The duke , the too soft duke , lies as a block , For which two tugging factions seem to saw , But still the iron through the ribs they draw . Mal . I tell thee , Celso , I have ever found Thy ...
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Walter Scott. Mal . Nay , make me some rich knave , and I'll old crotchets , and most sweet closes ; it shall be ACT IV . 57 Busk - points . The busk. the sea , single him , kill him , hurl him in the main , and proclaim thou sawest ...
Walter Scott. Mal . Nay , make me some rich knave , and I'll old crotchets , and most sweet closes ; it shall be ACT IV . 57 Busk - points . The busk. the sea , single him , kill him , hurl him in the main , and proclaim thou sawest ...
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... rich Genoan lady , and in- stantly go travel . Men . Travel when thou art married ! Mal . Ay , ' tis your young lord's fashion to do so , though he was so lazy , being a bachelor , that he would never travel so far as the university ...
... rich Genoan lady , and in- stantly go travel . Men . Travel when thou art married ! Mal . Ay , ' tis your young lord's fashion to do so , though he was so lazy , being a bachelor , that he would never travel so far as the university ...
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... rich in dirt and titles , sooner won With the most vile , than the most virtuous . Found true to none : if one amongst whole hun- dreds Chance to be chaste , she is so proud withall , Wayward and rude , that one of unchaste life Is ...
... rich in dirt and titles , sooner won With the most vile , than the most virtuous . Found true to none : if one amongst whole hun- dreds Chance to be chaste , she is so proud withall , Wayward and rude , that one of unchaste life Is ...
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Antonio blood brother Clare Colax Cric cuckold devil dost doth Duke Eastward Hoe Eiron Enter Epire Exeunt Exit eyes faith falling band father fear fool gentlemen give gleek gold Gost hand hath hear heart heaven honest Honest Whore honour hope husband i'faith i'the is't Jarvis Joice keep kiss knave lady live look looking-glass lord madam maid maidenhead marriage married master mistress Moll ne'er Neph never night on't Phan play Plot pr'ythee pray Rash rogue Scar SCENE shew Sir Boun Sir Pet sirrah sister Small-sh soul Spanish Tragedy speak Spen Staines sweet Tactus tell thee there's thing thou art thou shalt Throate tongue Trin Trincalo troth Tu quoque twas twill unto villain Ware wench Wendoll what's whore widow wife Wild woman word Zounds
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Page 417 - ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA EPSILON ZETA ETA THETA IOTA KAPPA LAMBDA MU NU XI OMICRON PI RHO SIGMA TAU UPSILON PHI CHI PSI OMEGA...
Page 431 - Bastard without a father to acknowledge it ; true it is that my plays are not exposed to the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others *) : one reason is, that many of them by shifting and change of companies, have been negligently lost. Others of them are still retained in the hands of some actors, who think it against their peculiar profit to have them come in print, and a third that it never was any great ambition in me to be in this kind voluminously read.
Page 117 - Here's an eye Able to tempt a great man — to serve God ; A pretty hanging lip, that has forgot now to dissemble. Methinks this mouth should make a swearer tremble, A drunkard clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. Here's a cheek keeps her colour let the wind go whistle ; Spout, rain, we fear thee not : be hot or cold, All's one with us...
Page 59 - Fortune, the great commandress of the world) Hath divers ways to advance her followers : To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour ; Some wit, some wealth, and some wit without wealth ; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth, But good smock-faces ; or some qualities, By nature without judgment, with the which They live in sensual acceptation, And make shew only, without touch of substance...
Page 197 - The learned Greek, rich in fit epithets, Blest in the lovely marriage of pure words ; The Chaldee wise, the Arabian physical, The Roman eloquent, and Tuscan grave, The braving Spanish, and the smooth-tongued French— Tragedy and Comedy.
Page 451 - That hath redeemed our souls, mark not my face Nor hack me with your sword : but let me go Perfect and undeformed to my tomb. I am not worthy that I should prevail In the least suit; no, not to speak to you, Nor look on you; nor to be in your presence. Yet, as an abject, this one suit I crave; This granted, I am ready for my grave.
Page 456 - Who, though with much ado to get belief, Examining of the general circumstance, Seeing your sorrow and your penitence, And hearing therewithal the great desire You have to see him, ere you left the world, He gave to us his faith to follow us, And sure he will be here immediately.
Page 199 - Roses and bays, pack hence ! this crown and robe, My brows and body circles and invests. How gallantly it fits me! sure the slave Measured my head that wrought this coronet They lie, that say complexions cannot change ; My blood's ennobled, and I am transform'd Unto the sacred temper of a king.
Page 438 - I am possess'd of many fair revenues, Sufficient to maintain a gentleman; Touching my mind, I am studied in all arts, The riches of my thoughts; and of my time Have been a good proficient ; ", but, the chief Of all the sweet felicities on earth, I have a fair, a chaste, and loving wife, — Perfection all, all truth, all ornament.
Page 103 - tis true, an old man's twice a child ; Mine cannot speak ; one of his single words Would quite have freed my youngest dearest son From death or durance, and have made him walk With a bold foot upon the thorny law, Whose prickles should bow under him ; but 'tis not, And therefore wedlock- faith shall be forgot : I'll kill him in his forehead ; hate, there feed ; That wound is deepest, though it never bleed.