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So is running away , when fear proposes the safety : But the composition , that
your valour and fear makes in you , is a virtue of a good wing , and I like the wear
well . Par . I am so full of businesses , I cannot answer thee acutely : I will return ...
So is running away , when fear proposes the safety : But the composition , that
your valour and fear makes in you , is a virtue of a good wing , and I like the wear
well . Par . I am so full of businesses , I cannot answer thee acutely : I will return ...
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If men could be contented to be what they are , there were no fear in marriage ;
for young Charbon the puritan , and old Poysam the papist , howsoe ' er their
hearts are severed in religion , their heads are both one , they may joll horns
together ...
If men could be contented to be what they are , there were no fear in marriage ;
for young Charbon the puritan , and old Poysam the papist , howsoe ' er their
hearts are severed in religion , their heads are both one , they may joll horns
together ...
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I find my tongue is too fool - hardy ; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it ,
and of his creatures , not daring the reports of my tongue . i Lord , This is the first
truth that e ' er thine own tongue was guilty of . [ Aside . Par . What the devil
should ...
I find my tongue is too fool - hardy ; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it ,
and of his creatures , not daring the reports of my tongue . i Lord , This is the first
truth that e ' er thine own tongue was guilty of . [ Aside . Par . What the devil
should ...
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Who knows himself a braggart , Let him fear this : for it will come to pass , That
every braggart shall be found an ass . Rust. * The fourth part of a crown . • The
opinion . + Respecting me . * The yellow starch then used for bands and ruffles
ALL ...
Who knows himself a braggart , Let him fear this : for it will come to pass , That
every braggart shall be found an ass . Rust. * The fourth part of a crown . • The
opinion . + Respecting me . * The yellow starch then used for bands and ruffles
ALL ...
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My fore - past proofs , howe ' er the matter fall , Shall tax my fears of little vanity ,
Having vainly fear ' d too little . — Away with him ;We ' ll sift this matter further .
Ber . If you shall prove This ring was ever hers , you shall as easy Prove that I ...
My fore - past proofs , howe ' er the matter fall , Shall tax my fears of little vanity ,
Having vainly fear ' d too little . — Away with him ;We ' ll sift this matter further .
Ber . If you shall prove This ring was ever hers , you shall as easy Prove that I ...
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Page 432 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 391 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will, not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 162 - What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever ; when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
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Page 326 - As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, God save him...