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Page 51
Love is merely a madness , and , I tell you , deserves as well a dark house and a
whip , as mad men do : and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured ,
is , that the lunacy is so ordinary , that the whippers are in love too : yet I profess ...
Love is merely a madness , and , I tell you , deserves as well a dark house and a
whip , as mad men do : and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured ,
is , that the lunacy is so ordinary , that the whippers are in love too : yet I profess ...
Page 112
Listen to me ; and if you speak me fair , I'll tell you news indifferent good for either
. Here is a Gentleman whom by chance I met , Upon agreement from us to his
liking , Will undertake to woo curst Catharine ; Yea , and to marry her , if her
dowry ...
Listen to me ; and if you speak me fair , I'll tell you news indifferent good for either
. Here is a Gentleman whom by chance I met , Upon agreement from us to his
liking , Will undertake to woo curst Catharine ; Yea , and to marry her , if her
dowry ...
Page 284
Some mollification for your Giant , sweet Lady . * Oli . Tell me your mind . Vio . I
am a messenger . Oli . Sure , you have some hideous matter to deliver , when the
courtesy of it is so fearful . Speak your office . Vio . It alone concerns your ear .
Some mollification for your Giant , sweet Lady . * Oli . Tell me your mind . Vio . I
am a messenger . Oli . Sure , you have some hideous matter to deliver , when the
courtesy of it is so fearful . Speak your office . Vio . It alone concerns your ear .
Page 299
Once more , Ces sario , Get thee to yond fame sovereign cruelty : Tell her , my
love , more noble than the world , Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ; The parts ,
that fortune hath bestow'd upon her , Tell her , I hold as giddily as fortune : But ' tis
...
Once more , Ces sario , Get thee to yond fame sovereign cruelty : Tell her , my
love , more noble than the world , Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ; The parts ,
that fortune hath bestow'd upon her , Tell her , I hold as giddily as fortune : But ' tis
...
Page 333
I am fhent for fpeaking to you . Mal . Good fool , help me to some light , and some
paper ; I tell thee , I am as well in my wits , as any man in Illyria . Clo . Well - a -
day , that you were , Sir ! Mal . By this hand , I am : good fool , some ink , paper
and ...
I am fhent for fpeaking to you . Mal . Good fool , help me to some light , and some
paper ; I tell thee , I am as well in my wits , as any man in Illyria . Clo . Well - a -
day , that you were , Sir ! Mal . By this hand , I am : good fool , some ink , paper
and ...
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Page 33 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...
Page 306 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 32 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 25 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 63 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 21 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.