The Personal Shakespeare, Volume 7Doubleday, Page, 1904 |
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... Bene . God keepe your Ladiship still in that minde , so some Gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate scratcht face . Beat . Scratching could not make it worse , and ' twere such a face as yours were . Bene . Well , you are a rare ...
... Bene . God keepe your Ladiship still in that minde , so some Gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate scratcht face . Beat . Scratching could not make it worse , and ' twere such a face as yours were . Bene . Well , you are a rare ...
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... Bene . I noted her not , but I lookt on her . 160 Clau . Is she not a modest yong Ladie ? Bene . Doe you question me as an honest man should doe , for my simple true judgement ? or would you have me speake after my custome , as being a ...
... Bene . I noted her not , but I lookt on her . 160 Clau . Is she not a modest yong Ladie ? Bene . Doe you question me as an honest man should doe , for my simple true judgement ? or would you have me speake after my custome , as being a ...
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... Bene . I can see yet without spectacles , and I see no such matter : there's her cosin , and she were not possest with a furie , exceedes her as much in beautie , as the first of Maie doth the last of December : but I hope you have no ...
... Bene . I can see yet without spectacles , and I see no such matter : there's her cosin , and she were not possest with a furie , exceedes her as much in beautie , as the first of Maie doth the last of December : but I hope you have no ...
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... Bene . If I do , hang me in a bottle like a Cat , & shoot at me , and he hat hit's me , let him be clapt on the shoul- der , and cal'd Adam . f 250 Pedro . Well , as time shall trie : In time the savage Bull doth beare tne yoake . Bene ...
... Bene . If I do , hang me in a bottle like a Cat , & shoot at me , and he hat hit's me , let him be clapt on the shoul- der , and cal'd Adam . f 250 Pedro . Well , as time shall trie : In time the savage Bull doth beare tne yoake . Bene ...
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William Shakespeare. Bene . I have almost matter enough in me for such an Embassage , and so I commit you . 270 Clau . To the tuition of God . From my house , if I had it . Pedro . The sixt of July . Your loving friend , Benedick . Bene ...
William Shakespeare. Bene . I have almost matter enough in me for such an Embassage , and so I commit you . 270 Clau . To the tuition of God . From my house , if I had it . Pedro . The sixt of July . Your loving friend , Benedick . Bene ...
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Page 41 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 39 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 81 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered.
Page 5 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 68 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night : for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned ; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos.
Page 6 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts — Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 16 - The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds...
Page 65 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 41 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger ; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now...
Page 42 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England! and saint George ! [Exeunt.