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Bless our poor virginity from underminers , and blowers up ! - Is there no military
policy , how virgins might blow up men ? Par . Virginity , being blown down , man
will quicklier be blown up : marry , in blowing him down again , with the breach ...
Bless our poor virginity from underminers , and blowers up ! - Is there no military
policy , how virgins might blow up men ? Par . Virginity , being blown down , man
will quicklier be blown up : marry , in blowing him down again , with the breach ...
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... bow ' d his eminent top to their low ranks , Making them proud of his humility ,
In their poor praise he humbled : Such a man Might be copy to these younger
times ; Which , follow ' d well , would demonstrate them now But goers backward .
... bow ' d his eminent top to their low ranks , Making them proud of his humility ,
In their poor praise he humbled : Such a man Might be copy to these younger
times ; Which , follow ' d well , would demonstrate them now But goers backward .
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... to you , Madam , I am a poor fellow . Count . Well , Sir . . Clo . No , Madam , ' tis
not so well , that I am poor ; though many of the rich are damned : But , if I may
have your ladyship ' s good will to go to the world , t Isbel ' the woman and I ...
... to you , Madam , I am a poor fellow . Count . Well , Sir . . Clo . No , Madam , ' tis
not so well , that I am poor ; though many of the rich are damned : But , if I may
have your ladyship ' s good will to go to the world , t Isbel ' the woman and I ...
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... was no goddess , that had put such difference betwixt their two estates ; Love ,
no god , that would not extend his might , only where qualities were level ; Diana ,
no queen of virgins , that would suffer her poor knightI surprised , * The nearest ...
... was no goddess , that had put such difference betwixt their two estates ; Love ,
no god , that would not extend his might , only where qualities were level ; Diana ,
no queen of virgins , that would suffer her poor knightI surprised , * The nearest ...
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Then , I confess , Here on my knee , before high heaven and you , That before
you , and next unto high heaven , I love your son :My friends were poor , but
honest ; so ' s my love . Be not offended ; for it hurts not him , That he is loved of
me : I ...
Then , I confess , Here on my knee , before high heaven and you , That before
you , and next unto high heaven , I love your son :My friends were poor , but
honest ; so ' s my love . Be not offended ; for it hurts not him , That he is loved of
me : 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...
Page 243 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender...
Page 161 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art ~\\ hich does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature.
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...
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| Title | Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc, Volume 2 Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | William Hazlitt |
| Publisher | Routledge, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2008 |
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