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... second 4to follows the first , except that it places a full point after " Sauill , " making that word a prefix . The third and all the later 4tos read thus ; Sav . Sir , your father's old friends hold it THE SCORNFUL LADY. ...
... second 4to follows the first , except that it places a full point after " Sauill , " making that word a prefix . The third and all the later 4tos read thus ; Sav . Sir , your father's old friends hold it THE SCORNFUL LADY. ...
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... words occupy a line , which , having been left out in the third 4to by an oversight of the compositor , was not restored in any of the subsequent old eds . The modern editors also omit these words ! d for ] So the two earliest 4tos ...
... words occupy a line , which , having been left out in the third 4to by an oversight of the compositor , was not restored in any of the subsequent old eds . The modern editors also omit these words ! d for ] So the two earliest 4tos ...
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... words . " WEBER , -incorrectly again : folio 1679 does not transpose the words . C " 7 hard ] " Mr. Seward [ in the Postscript to vol . i . of ed . 1750 ] prescribes the insertion of the word hard , which probably has been dropped at ...
... words . " WEBER , -incorrectly again : folio 1679 does not transpose the words . C " 7 hard ] " Mr. Seward [ in the Postscript to vol . i . of ed . 1750 ] prescribes the insertion of the word hard , which probably has been dropped at ...
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... words were these : to know whether you were a formerly - denied suitor , disguised in this message ; for e Sir ] A title formerly given to clergymen . f a cross ? There's a tester . ] Welford puns on the word cross , which meant a piece ...
... words were these : to know whether you were a formerly - denied suitor , disguised in this message ; for e Sir ] A title formerly given to clergymen . f a cross ? There's a tester . ] Welford puns on the word cross , which meant a piece ...
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... word " necessary " is concluded all that be helps to man ; woman was made the first , and therefore here the chiefest . Y. Love . Believe me , ' tis a learned one : and by these words , " the obedience of my people , " you , steward ...
... word " necessary " is concluded all that be helps to man ; woman was made the first , and therefore here the chiefest . Y. Love . Believe me , ' tis a learned one : and by these words , " the obedience of my people , " you , steward ...
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1778 and Weber Abig Amiens Anna brave Captain Champ Cler Cleremont Clora dare Dinant dost drink Dubois Duch earliest 4tos Editors of 1778 Enter Exeunt Exit faith Father fear fellow fool Frank Fred Gent gentleman gentlewoman give hast hath hear heart Heaven honest honour Jacomo Julio kiss La-P La-Writ Lady LAMIRA leave Lelia LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER live Long lord Love LOVELESS madam Maria marry Mason master constable means Merc mistress modern editors Mont Montague Mother MS.-Both the folios MS.-Omitted never old eds Piso pray Prithee Samp SCENE SCORNFUL LADY second folio Serv servant Seward shee shew Silvio speak speech sure sweet sword Sympson tell thank thee Theobald There's thing thou art twill Verdone Viola Weber printed wench whore woman word worth
Popular passages
Page 454 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 112 - Itwas the object of the couple condemned to this division, to catch the others, who advanced from the two extremities : in which case a change of situation took place, and hell was filled by the couple who were excluded by pre-occupation from the other places; in this * catching...
Page 258 - TELL me, dearest, what is love? 'Tis a lightning from above; 'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire, Tis a boy they call Desire. Tis a grave, Gapes to have Those poor fools that long to prove.
Page 12 - Were these two arms encompass'd with the hands Of bachelors, to lead me to the church ; Were my feet in the door ; were " I John " said ; — If John should boast a favour done by me, I would not wed that year.
Page 259 - Tis a grave, Gapes to have Those poor fools that long to prove. Tell me more, are women true ? Yes, some are, and some as you. Some are willing, some are strange, Since you men first taught to change. And till troth Be in both, All shall love, to love anew.