Elizabethan Dramatists: Marlows̓ "Dr. Faustus", Jonsons̓ "Every Man in His Humour", Beaumont and Fletchers̓ "Philaster"George Ansel Watrous T.Y. Crowell & Company, 1903 - 293 pages |
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Page 54
... Believe me , Master Doctor , this merriment hath much pleased me . Faust . My gracious lord , I am glad it contents you so well . But it may be , madam , you take no delight in this . I have heard that great - bellied women do long for ...
... Believe me , Master Doctor , this merriment hath much pleased me . Faust . My gracious lord , I am glad it contents you so well . But it may be , madam , you take no delight in this . I have heard that great - bellied women do long for ...
Page 55
... Believe me , Master Doctor , they be the best grapes that e'er I tasted in my life before . Faust . I am glad they content you so , madam . Duke . Come , madam , let us in , where you must well reward this learned man for the great ...
... Believe me , Master Doctor , they be the best grapes that e'er I tasted in my life before . Faust . I am glad they content you so , madam . Duke . Come , madam , let us in , where you must well reward this learned man for the great ...
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... Believe me , master Stephen , rarely well . Step . In sadness , I think it would : I have a reason- able good leg . Brai . You have an excellent good leg , master Stephen ; but I cannot stay to praise it longer now , and I am very sorry ...
... Believe me , master Stephen , rarely well . Step . In sadness , I think it would : I have a reason- able good leg . Brai . You have an excellent good leg , master Stephen ; but I cannot stay to praise it longer now , and I am very sorry ...
Page 94
... believe it . Mat . Well , come , sir . Bob . Why , you do not manage your weapon with any facility or grace to invite me . I have no spirit to play with you ; your dearth of judgment renders you tedious . Mat . But one venue , sir . Bob ...
... believe it . Mat . Well , come , sir . Bob . Why , you do not manage your weapon with any facility or grace to invite me . I have no spirit to play with you ; your dearth of judgment renders you tedious . Mat . But one venue , sir . Bob ...
Page 99
... believe it ; so should I , Like one of these penurious quack - salvers , But set the bills up to mine own disgrace , And try experiments upon myself ; Lend scorn and envy opportunity To stab my reputation and good name— Enter MASTER ...
... believe it ; so should I , Like one of these penurious quack - salvers , But set the bills up to mine own disgrace , And try experiments upon myself ; Lend scorn and envy opportunity To stab my reputation and good name— Enter MASTER ...
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ARETHUSA art thou bastinado BELLARIO BEN JONSON blood Bobadill Brai Brainworm brave Brid brother captain Cash Clem CLEREMONT Clown Cob's Dame dear devil Dion Doctor Faustus doth Downright Exeunt Exit fair faith Faustus fear fellow fetch FRANCIS BEAUMONT GALATEA gentleman give gods grace hath hear heart Heaven hell honour Horse-C humour Jonson justice Clement King Kitely Know KNOWELL lady live look lord Lucifer madam Marry Master Doctor master Mathew master Stephen MEGRA Meph Mephistophilis mistress ne'er never noble Old Jewry PHARAMOND pray prince princess rapier Reënter Robin SCENE Schol servant sirrah sister soldier soul speak spirit Step swear sweet sword Tamburlaine tell thee there's Thomas thou art thou hast thou shalt thought Thra THRASILINE unto warrant Wellbred What's wife worship
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Page 68 - Ah Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine. My Ben ! Or come again, Or send to us Thy wit's great overplus ; But teach us yet Wisely to husband it, Lest we that talent spend ; And having once brought to an end That precious stock, — the store Of such a wit the world should have no more.
Page ix - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 14 - Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides; Sometimes like women or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...
Page 64 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page xvi - ... and can. I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away, Nobody knew whither, till An astrologer's old quill To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
Page 59 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where it flies ! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Page 28 - Fourthly, that he shall be in his chamber or house invisible. Lastly, that he shall appear to the said John Faustus, at all times, in what form or shape soever he please. I, John Faustus, of Wittenberg, Doctor, by these presents, do give both body and soul to Lucifer prince of the east, and his minister...
Page 56 - Faustus, since our conference about fair ladies, which was the beautifulest in all the world, we have determined with ourselves that Helen of Greece was the admirablest lady that ever lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us that...
Page 60 - What ails Faustus ? Faust. Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, then had I lived still ! but now I die eternally.
Page 275 - Your memory shall be as foul behind you, As you are living; all your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble ; No chronicle shall speak you, though your own, But for the shame of men. No monument, Though high and big as Pelion, shall be able To cover this base murder : make it rich With brass, with purest gold and shining jasper, Like the...