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The Counte knewe her well , and had alredie seen her , although she was faire , yet knowing her not to be of a stocke , convenable to his nobilitie , disdainfullie said unto the king , Will you then ( sir ) give me , a Phisicion to wife ...
The Counte knewe her well , and had alredie seen her , although she was faire , yet knowing her not to be of a stocke , convenable to his nobilitie , disdainfullie said unto the king , Will you then ( sir ) give me , a Phisicion to wife ...
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And although she knewe him well enough , yet she demaunded of the good wife of the house what he was : who answered that he was a straunge gentleman , called the Counte Beltramo of Rossiglione , a curteous knighte , and welbeloved in ...
And although she knewe him well enough , yet she demaunded of the good wife of the house what he was : who answered that he was a straunge gentleman , called the Counte Beltramo of Rossiglione , a curteous knighte , and welbeloved in ...
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cured by the device of his friends ; false to his promises to the girl whose seducer he believed himself to be , he is rescued from meshes of his own deceit and from his sovereign's displeasure by the timely interposition of his wife .
cured by the device of his friends ; false to his promises to the girl whose seducer he believed himself to be , he is rescued from meshes of his own deceit and from his sovereign's displeasure by the timely interposition of his wife .
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I am out o ' friends , madam ; and I hope to have friends for my wife's sake . Count . Such friends are thine enemies , knave . Clo . You ' re shallow , madam , in great friends ; for the knaves come to do that for me , which I am a ...
I am out o ' friends , madam ; and I hope to have friends for my wife's sake . Count . Such friends are thine enemies , knave . Clo . You ' re shallow , madam , in great friends ; for the knaves come to do that for me , which I am a ...
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Why , then , young Bertram , take her ; she's thy wife 112 Ber . My wife , my liege ! I shall beseech your highness , In such a business give me leave to use The help of mine own eyes . King . Know'st thou not , Bertram , What she has ...
Why , then , young Bertram , take her ; she's thy wife 112 Ber . My wife , my liege ! I shall beseech your highness , In such a business give me leave to use The help of mine own eyes . King . Know'st thou not , Bertram , What she has ...
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Page 192 - Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made 4.
Page 126 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 120 - tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament Which pardon me, I do not mean to read And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins...
Page 199 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Page 119 - Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome; Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff; Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 399 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have...
Page 180 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 118 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 377 - Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes : it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery : it makes him, and it mars him ; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him ; makes him stand to, and not stand to : in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. Macd. I believe, drink gave thee the lie last night. Port....
Page 121 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.