The Shakspere reading book, being seventeen of Shakspere's plays abridged for the use of schools and public readings by H.C. Bowen |
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... mother . Tom Snout , the tinker . 40 Snout . Here , Peter Quince . Quin . You , Pyramus ' father : myself , Thisby's ... mother's son . Bot . grant you , friends , if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits , they would have ...
... mother . Tom Snout , the tinker . 40 Snout . Here , Peter Quince . Quin . You , Pyramus ' father : myself , Thisby's ... mother's son . Bot . grant you , friends , if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits , they would have ...
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... mother was a votaress of my order : And , in the spicéd Indian air , by night , Full often hath she gossip'd by my side . But she , being mortal , of that boy did die ; And for her sake do I rear up her boy , And for her sake I will not ...
... mother was a votaress of my order : And , in the spicéd Indian air , by night , Full often hath she gossip'd by my side . But she , being mortal , of that boy did die ; And for her sake do I rear up her boy , And for her sake I will not ...
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... mother's son , and rehearse your parts . Pyramus , you begin : when you have spoken your speech , enter into that brake : and so every one according to his cue . Enter PUCK behind . Puck . What hempen home - spuns have we swaggering ...
... mother's son , and rehearse your parts . Pyramus , you begin : when you have spoken your speech , enter into that brake : and so every one according to his cue . Enter PUCK behind . Puck . What hempen home - spuns have we swaggering ...
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... mother , and to Master Peascod , your father . 170 Tita . Come , wait upon him ; lead him to my bower . [ Exeunt . Another part of the wood . Enter OBERON . Obe . I wonder if Titania be awak'd ; Then , what it was that next came in her ...
... mother , and to Master Peascod , your father . 170 Tita . Come , wait upon him ; lead him to my bower . [ Exeunt . Another part of the wood . Enter OBERON . Obe . I wonder if Titania be awak'd ; Then , what it was that next came in her ...
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... mothers made . Cap . And too soon marr'd are those so early made . 80 But woo her , gentle Paris , get her heart , My will to her consent is but a part ; An she agree , within her scope of choice Lies my consent and fair according voice ...
... mothers made . Cap . And too soon marr'd are those so early made . 80 But woo her , gentle Paris , get her heart , My will to her consent is but a part ; An she agree , within her scope of choice Lies my consent and fair according voice ...
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The Shakspere Reading Book, Being Seventeen of Shakspere's Plays Abridged ... William Shakespeare No preview available - 2015 |
The Shakspere Reading Book, Being Seventeen of Shakspere's Plays Abridged ... William Shakespeare No preview available - 2015 |
The Shakspere Reading Book, Being Seventeen Of Shakspere's Plays Abridged ... William Shakespeare No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 46 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 85 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them...
Page 33 - O gentle Romeo ! If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 151 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 72 - And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 28 - a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice : Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear : at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 6 - Fetch me that flower ; the herb I shew'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Page 162 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 28 - O, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 3 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours...