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Shakspeare , your Wincot ale hath much renown'd , That fox'd a beggar so ( by chance was found Sleeping ) that there needed not many a word To make him to believe he was a lord : But you affirm ( and in it seems most eager ) , " Twill ...
Shakspeare , your Wincot ale hath much renown'd , That fox'd a beggar so ( by chance was found Sleeping ) that there needed not many a word To make him to believe he was a lord : But you affirm ( and in it seems most eager ) , " Twill ...
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Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great , " Twould burst at this : Captain , I'll be no more ; But I will eat and drink , and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live . Who knows himself a braggart ...
Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great , " Twould burst at this : Captain , I'll be no more ; But I will eat and drink , and sleep as soft As captain shall : simply the thing I am Shall make me live . Who knows himself a braggart ...
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OLIVER'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DANGER WHEN SLEEPING . Under an oak , whose boughs were moss'd with age , And high top bald with dry antiquity , A wretched ragged man , o'ergrown with hair , Lay sleeping on his back : about his neck A green ...
OLIVER'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DANGER WHEN SLEEPING . Under an oak , whose boughs were moss'd with age , And high top bald with dry antiquity , A wretched ragged man , o'ergrown with hair , Lay sleeping on his back : about his neck A green ...
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... Thou art not noble ; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st , Are nurs'd by baseness : thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep , * Impressions .
... Thou art not noble ; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st , Are nurs'd by baseness : thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep , * Impressions .
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... which do call thee sire , The mere effusion of thy proper loins , Do curse the gout , serpigo , † and the rheum , For ending thee no sooner : Thou hast nor youth , nor age : But , as it were , an after - dinner's sleep , Dreaming on ...
... which do call thee sire , The mere effusion of thy proper loins , Do curse the gout , serpigo , † and the rheum , For ending thee no sooner : Thou hast nor youth , nor age : But , as it were , an after - dinner's sleep , Dreaming on ...
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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