The Duke's Servants: A RomanceGay, 1899 - 306 pages |
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Abbey amusement asked Basilicon beauty Buckingham Checkersthorpe cheeks companion cried Cripplegate dame daughter Derbyshire door doubt Duke Duke of Buckingham Duke's exclaimed eyes face father fear felt Fortune Gilbert de Vaux girl glance hand happy heard heart hesitated honour humour hurried Job Grapplefee Job's John Felton John Stow Kirkdale kiss knew Knuckledown La Rochelle laugh leave Leicestershire lips listen Little Britain London looked lord lover Lovetext Mabel Martin's le Grand Master Lincoln merry mind Mistress mother Nat's Nelly never once passion perhaps Pewfellow plague play player replied returned Roger Bryan Rosalind Ruth Ruth's seemed seen servant sighed silence Sir Gilbert smile speak spoke step stood Stow strange street sudden thee thou thought Timothy Jupp took turned uncon village voice waiting wench Westminster Hall whispered wife wish woman words young youth
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Page 276 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower. Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one...
Page 1 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 47 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 160 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 224 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.
Page 153 - Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by, made by himself, Of many several flowers, bred in the...
Page 153 - em, he would weep As if he meant to make 'em grow again. Seeing such pretty helpless innocence Dwell in his face, I asked him all his story. He told me that his parents gentle died, Leaving him to the mercy of the fields, Which gave him roots, and of the crystal springs, Which did not stop their courses, and the sun, Which still, he thanked him, yielded him his light.
Page 153 - ... his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by, made by himself, Of many several flowers, bred in the bay, Stuck in that mystic order, that the rareness Delighted me : But ever when he turn'd His tender eyes upon 'em, he would weep, As if he meant to make 'em grow again. Seeing such pretty helpless innocence Dwell in his face, I ask'd him all his story.
Page 153 - Did signify ; and how all order'd thus Express'd his grief : and to my thoughts did read The prettiest lecture of his country art That could be wish'd, so that, methought, I could Have studied it. I gladly entertain'd him, Who was as glad to follow ; and have got The trustiest, loving'st, and the gentlest boy That ever master kept : him will I send To wait on you, and bear our hidden love.
Page 103 - Go, hang yourselves all ! you are idle, shallow things : I am not of your element : you shall know more hereafter. [Exit. Sir To. Is't possible ? Fab. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.