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... early date ; verbal jests have still an irresistible fascination for the young poet , who after- wards could amuse his hearers with something better than this cheap jugglery . The source is undoubtedly the Menaechmi of Plautus , with.
... early date ; verbal jests have still an irresistible fascination for the young poet , who after- wards could amuse his hearers with something better than this cheap jugglery . The source is undoubtedly the Menaechmi of Plautus , with.
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... comes it now , my husband , O ! how comes it , That thou art thus estranged from thyself ? Thyself I call it , being strange to me , 129 That , undividable , incorporate , Am better than thy SCENE II ] THE COMEDY OF ERRORS 21.
... comes it now , my husband , O ! how comes it , That thou art thus estranged from thyself ? Thyself I call it , being strange to me , 129 That , undividable , incorporate , Am better than thy SCENE II ] THE COMEDY OF ERRORS 21.
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William Shakespeare. That , undividable , incorporate , Am better than thy dear self's better part . Ah ! do not tear away thyself from me , For know , my love , as easy mayst thou fall A drop of water in the breaking gulf , And take ...
William Shakespeare. That , undividable , incorporate , Am better than thy dear self's better part . Ah ! do not tear away thyself from me , For know , my love , as easy mayst thou fall A drop of water in the breaking gulf , And take ...
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... Better cheer may you have , but not with better heart . But soft ! my door is lock'd . Go bid them let us in . DROMIO OF EPHESUS . Maud , Bridget , Marian , Cicely , Gillian , Ginn ! DROMIO OF SYRACUSE . [ Within . ] Mome , malt - horse ...
... Better cheer may you have , but not with better heart . But soft ! my door is lock'd . Go bid them let us in . DROMIO OF EPHESUS . Maud , Bridget , Marian , Cicely , Gillian , Ginn ! DROMIO OF SYRACUSE . [ Within . ] Mome , malt - horse ...
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... better part ; No ; 60 Mine eye's clear eye , my dear heart's dearer heart ; My food , my fortune , and my sweet hope's aim , My sole earth's heaven , and my heaven's claim . 64 LUCIANA . All this my sister is , or else should be ...
... better part ; No ; 60 Mine eye's clear eye , my dear heart's dearer heart ; My food , my fortune , and my sweet hope's aim , My sole earth's heaven , and my heaven's claim . 64 LUCIANA . All this my sister is , or else should be ...
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Page 99 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 330 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 362 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,...
Page 362 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall . we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 339 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 386 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 267 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 241 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 396 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 388 - a pound of flesh." Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.