The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, : with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 3 |
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he will fence with his own shadow : if I should marry him , I should marry twenty
husbands . If he would despise me , I would forgive him ; for if he love me to
madness , I shall never requite him . Ner . What say you then to Faulconbridge ,
the ...
he will fence with his own shadow : if I should marry him , I should marry twenty
husbands . If he would despise me , I would forgive him ; for if he love me to
madness , I shall never requite him . Ner . What say you then to Faulconbridge ,
the ...
Page 122
My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry her Stand forth , Lysander ; -
and , my gracious duke , This hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child . Thou , thou ,
Lysander , thou hast given her rhymes , And interchanged love - tokens with my ...
My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry her Stand forth , Lysander ; -
and , my gracious duke , This hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child . Thou , thou ,
Lysander , thou hast given her rhymes , And interchanged love - tokens with my ...
Page 127
... therefore , hear me , Hermia . I have a widow aunt , a dowager Of great
revenue , and she hath no child : From Athens is her house remote seven
leagues ; And she respects me as her only son . There , gentle Hermia , may I
marry And to ...
... therefore , hear me , Hermia . I have a widow aunt , a dowager Of great
revenue , and she hath no child : From Athens is her house remote seven
leagues ; And she respects me as her only son . There , gentle Hermia , may I
marry And to ...
Page 267
Marry , master schoolmaster , he that is likest to a hogshead . Hol . Of piercing a
hogshead ! a good lustre of conceit in a turf of earth : fire enough for a flint ; pearl
enough for a swine : ' tis pretty : it is well . Jaq . Good master parson , be so good
...
Marry , master schoolmaster , he that is likest to a hogshead . Hol . Of piercing a
hogshead ! a good lustre of conceit in a turf of earth : fire enough for a flint ; pearl
enough for a swine : ' tis pretty : it is well . Jaq . Good master parson , be so good
...
Page 333
When daisies pied , and violets blue , And lady - smocks all silver - white , And
cuckoo - buds , of yellow hue , Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo
then , on every tree , Mocks married men , for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo ...
When daisies pied , and violets blue , And lady - smocks all silver - white , And
cuckoo - buds , of yellow hue , Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo
then , on every tree , Mocks married men , for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo ...
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Page 12 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 127 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold!
Page 332 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 105 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 126 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 333 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Page 101 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 85 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them: shall I say to you, Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
Page 220 - Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 208 - Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night ' That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...