 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1866
...An elder than herself; so wears she to him ; So sways she level in her husband's heart : For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, ' Or thy affection cannot hold the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867
...take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.—Act 2, Sc. 4. Vio. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867
...take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, won,' Than women's are. По. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 128 pages
...take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. Viola. I think it well, my lord. Duke, Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1869 - 447 pages
...take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. Via. I think it well, my lord. For women are as roses ; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 458 pages
...take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. Act ii. Sc. 4. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i'... | |
 | THOMAS DE QUINCEY - 1870
...take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. Viola. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1875
...take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart : For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. Vio. I think it well, my lord. Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself,... | |
 | Humanities - 1872
...An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart ; For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn. Than women's are." There surely spoke the poet's own personal experience. You don't fancy he jumped to his knowledge of... | |
 | 1872
...take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more...wavering, sooner lost and worn. Than women's are. Character of an Old Song. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in... | |
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What years i' faith? VIOLA About your years my Lord. DUKE Too old by heaven: let still the woman take An elder than herself, so wears she to him; So sways she level in her husband's heart: For boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more... 
