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" No night is now with hymn or carol blest : Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in... "
Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's Dream - Page 14
by William Shakespeare - 1879 - 147 pages
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Illustrations of Shakespeare and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on ...

Francis Douce - Clowns in literature - 1839 - 678 pages
...car ung dyable ne peut dormir." SCENE 2. Page 45. TITA. Therefore the moon, tlie governess of food*, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound. Thus in Newton's Direction for the health of magistrates and student es, 1574,12mo, we are told that...
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An Introduction to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...winter here; Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, No night is now with hymn or carol blest. Pale in her anger, washes all the air,* That rheumatic diseases do abound. And thorough this distempemture, we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts And on old Hiems' chin and icy crown,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 pages
...human mortals want their winter here : No night is now with hymn or carol blest ; Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes...in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyem's chin, and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring,...
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The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1842 - 562 pages
...human mortals want their winter here ; No night is now with hymn or carol blest. Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes...thorough this distemperature, we see The seasons alter : hoary -headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hiems' chin and icy crown,...
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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes...icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted...
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Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis

Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science and Chair of the Department of English Bruce Clarke - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 226 pages
...travesty in which the parental figures as well as the seasons "change / Their wonted liveries." Titania. The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the...icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter change Their wonted...
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The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649

David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...the play when Titania tells us that, as a result of Oberon's quarrel with her, Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes...thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter . . . (2.1.103-7) Matters become even more confused when we know that Titania was another name for...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...mortals want their winter cheer; No night is now with hymn or carol blest: — Therefore the moon, to go, but never to return: — О son, the night...wedding-day Hath Death lain with thy wife: — see chin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the...
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Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men: The Origins and Evolution of Saint ...

Phyllis Siefker - History - 1997 - 232 pages
...a beard; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock[.] And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons...frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose[.] ...The spring, the summer The childing autumn, angry winter change Their wonted liveries; and the maz£d...
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Shakespeare in Theory: The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater

Stephen Bretzius - Drama - 1997 - 180 pages
...(Kate's "It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads" [5.2.139]) further underwrites Titania's "And thorough this distemperature, we see / The seasons...frosts / Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose" (2.1.106-8). 8. The moral Pandarus draws, that the play has now subsumed the sexual difference around...
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