 And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 134by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 pages
...those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous ; and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.... | |
 | English plays - 1815 - 450 pages
...unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of l,\ Shukspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 456 pages
...unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of by Shakspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition; in the fool that uses it." From my own Apartment,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : 8 for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; In our early playhouses, the pit.had neither floor nor benches. Hence the term of groundlings for... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...laugh too : though in the mean time, some necessary part of the play be ihen to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...themselves laugh, to set on some quantity rî barren spectators to laugh too ; though, ¿n th.mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that use« it Go, make you ready.... | |
 | Theater - 1823 - 432 pages
...had abundant reason for his precept in " Hamlet." Let •those that play your clowns speak no mort than is set down for them; for there be of them that...necessary question of the play be then to be considered." [To be concluded in our nc.r/.] LINES, ON FIRST HEARING MISS STEPHENS SING '•' AULD ROBIN CRAY."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...those, that play your clowus, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will "themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...some necessary question • of the play be then to be considcr'd : that's villainous ; and shews ft most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make... | |
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