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won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming - virtuous queen : 0 ,
Hamlet , what a falling - off was there ! From me , whose love was of that dignity ,
That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage ; and to
decline ...
won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming - virtuous queen : 0 ,
Hamlet , what a falling - off was there ! From me , whose love was of that dignity ,
That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage ; and to
decline ...
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... There was he gaming ; there o ' ertook in his rouse ; There falling out at tennis ;
or , perchance , I saw him enter such a house of sale , ( Videlicet , a brothel , ) or
so forth . - See you now ; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth : And thus
...
... There was he gaming ; there o ' ertook in his rouse ; There falling out at tennis ;
or , perchance , I saw him enter such a house of sale , ( Videlicet , a brothel , ) or
so forth . - See you now ; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth : And thus
...
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Oph . He took me by the wrist , and held me hard ; Then goes he to the length of
all his arm ; And , with his other hand thus , o ' er his brow , He falls to such
perusal of my face , As he would draw it . Long stay ' d he so ; At last , — a little
shaking ...
Oph . He took me by the wrist , and held me hard ; Then goes he to the length of
all his arm ; And , with his other hand thus , o ' er his brow , He falls to such
perusal of my face , As he would draw it . Long stay ' d he so ; At last , — a little
shaking ...
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Striking too short at Greeks ; his antique sword , Rebellious to his arm , lies where
it falls . Repugnant to command : unequal match ' d , Pyrrhus at Priam drives ; in
rage strikes wide ; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved ...
Striking too short at Greeks ; his antique sword , Rebellious to his arm , lies where
it falls . Repugnant to command : unequal match ' d , Pyrrhus at Priam drives ; in
rage strikes wide ; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved ...
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... And fall a cursing , like a very drab , A scullion ! Fie upon ' t ! foh ! About , my
brains ! I have heard , That guilty creatures , sitting at a play , Have by the very
cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul , that presently They have
proclaim ...
... And fall a cursing , like a very drab , A scullion ! Fie upon ' t ! foh ! About , my
brains ! I have heard , That guilty creatures , sitting at a play , Have by the very
cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul , that presently They have
proclaim ...
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Page 131 - Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 76 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 65 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 60 - No traveller returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
Page 65 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians...
Page 28 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 64 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 57 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age ; wretched in both ! If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall, — I will do such things, — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 173 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Page 55 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.]. Volumes 11-12 of The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.], William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Q D |
| Publisher | Bradbury, Evans, and Company, 1867 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
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