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... fair truth be graced , Since forged invention former times defaced . " " " As late as 1618 , Nathaniel Field , in his Amends for Ladies , referred to " the fat Knight , hight Oldcastle , and not to Falstaff , as he who " truly told what ...
... fair truth be graced , Since forged invention former times defaced . " " " As late as 1618 , Nathaniel Field , in his Amends for Ladies , referred to " the fat Knight , hight Oldcastle , and not to Falstaff , as he who " truly told what ...
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... fair girls ' hands ; rebels , not shrews , are tamed . Let us look for a moment at the change from Shakspere's early historical plays . It is one from spring to summer . Like Chaucer , he has been , as it were , to Dante's land , to ...
... fair girls ' hands ; rebels , not shrews , are tamed . Let us look for a moment at the change from Shakspere's early historical plays . It is one from spring to summer . Like Chaucer , he has been , as it were , to Dante's land , to ...
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... fair hot wench in flame - coloured taffeta , I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day . Fal . Indeed , you come near me now , Hal ; for we that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars ...
... fair hot wench in flame - coloured taffeta , I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day . Fal . Indeed , you come near me now , Hal ; for we that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars ...
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... fair as - at hand , quoth the chamberlain ; for thou variest no more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from labouring ; thou layest the plot how . Enter Chamberlain . Cham . Good morrow , Master Gadshill . It holds ...
... fair as - at hand , quoth the chamberlain ; for thou variest no more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from labouring ; thou layest the plot how . Enter Chamberlain . Cham . Good morrow , Master Gadshill . It holds ...
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... fair death for all this , if I ' scape hanging for killing that rogue . I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two and twenty years , and yet I am be- witched with the rogue's company . If the ras- cal have not given me ...
... fair death for all this , if I ' scape hanging for killing that rogue . I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two and twenty years , and yet I am be- witched with the rogue's company . If the ras- cal have not given me ...
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Page 39 - I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun ; Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.
Page 71 - With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 39 - I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will [Exit.
Page 83 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 44 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly?
Page 73 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure'd. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 170 - 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 107 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer? Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Page 72 - Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
Page 114 - Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.