The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ...H. Frowde, 1910 |
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... means to die : Let Love , being light , be drowned if she sink ! Here Shakespeare is not far from anticipating the tone of Romeo and Juliet . The bright embroidery of incident stands out from the dark ground of the misfortunes of Ægeon ...
... means to die : Let Love , being light , be drowned if she sink ! Here Shakespeare is not far from anticipating the tone of Romeo and Juliet . The bright embroidery of incident stands out from the dark ground of the misfortunes of Ægeon ...
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... means was none : The sailors sought for safety by our boat , And left the ship , then sinking - ripe , to us : My wife , more careful for the latter - born , Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast , Such as seafaring men provide for ...
... means was none : The sailors sought for safety by our boat , And left the ship , then sinking - ripe , to us : My wife , more careful for the latter - born , Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast , Such as seafaring men provide for ...
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... mean . [ Exit . ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE . A trusty villain , sir , that very oft , When I am dull with care and melancholy , Lightens my humour with his merry jests . 20 What , will you walk with me about the town SCENE I ] THE COMEDY OF ...
... mean . [ Exit . ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE . A trusty villain , sir , that very oft , When I am dull with care and melancholy , Lightens my humour with his merry jests . 20 What , will you walk with me about the town SCENE I ] THE COMEDY OF ...
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... mean you , sir ? for God's sake , hold your hands ! Nay , an you will not , sir , I'll take my heels . [ Exit . ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE . Upon my life , by some device or other The villain is o'er - raught of all my money . They say this ...
... mean you , sir ? for God's sake , hold your hands ! Nay , an you will not , sir , I'll take my heels . [ Exit . ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE . Upon my life , by some device or other The villain is o'er - raught of all my money . They say this ...
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... mean not cuckold - mad ; but , sure , he is stark mad . When I desir'd him to come home to dinner , He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold : 6 ' Tis dinner time , ' quoth I ; C " 6 " 6 60 my gold ! ' quoth he : Your meat doth burn ...
... mean not cuckold - mad ; but , sure , he is stark mad . When I desir'd him to come home to dinner , He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold : 6 ' Tis dinner time , ' quoth I ; C " 6 " 6 60 my gold ! ' quoth he : Your meat doth burn ...
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ADRIANA ÆGEON ANGELO ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE ANTONIO ARMADO BALTHAZAR BASSANIO BEATRICE BENEDICK BEROWNE BORACHIO BOTTOM BOYET CHIG CLAUDIO comedy COSTARD daughter dear DEMETRIUS DOGBERRY DON JOHN DON PEDRO doth DROMIO OF EPHESUS DROMIO OF SYRACUSE ducats DUKE DUMAINE Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairy faith father fool gentle give GOBBO grace GRATIANO hath hear heart HELENA HERMIA Hero HIPPOLYTA HOLOFERNES honour husband JAQUENETTA JESSICA KATHARINE KING lady LAUNCELOT LEONATO LONGAVILLE look lord LORENZO Love's Labour's Lost lovers LUCIANA LYSANDER madam MARGARET Marry master MERCHANT merry mistress MOTH NERISSA never night oath OBERON PHILOSTRATE play Pompey PORTIA pray thee prince PRINCESS PUCK Pyramus QUINCE ROSALINE SALANIO SALARINO SCENE Shakespeare SHYLOCK Signior soul speak swear sweet tell THESEUS THISBE thou art thou hast TITANIA tongue true UNIV unto URSULA Venice villain wife word
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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.