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
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 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.... | |
| Arts - 1874 - 916 pages
...secondary; just like Hamlet's clowns, who ' set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh,' ' though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered.' And, besides, have the poets whom yon profess to honour been so particularly accurate in all these... | |
| 1830 - 192 pages
...clowns (ie low comedians).speaA 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 meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : — that's mllianous, and shews... | |
| 1831 - 704 pages
...those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down lor them: for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...too; though in the mean time, some necessary question nf the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...clowns, speak no more than is set down lor them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, lu .set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some nccessarv question8 of the play be then to be considered: that's vitlanons ; and shows a most pitiful... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 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 villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. * Termagant was said... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...clowns, speak no more than in set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves lan«h, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question || of the pl-.iy be then to be considered: that's villanous ; and... | |
| Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 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 spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and... | |
| Periodicals - 1836 - 676 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 vile, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' It is of this ambition... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 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.... | |
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