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Page 70
Every true man ' s apparel fits your thief : If it be too little for your thief , your true
man thinks it big enough ; if it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little
enough : so every true man ' s apparel fits your thief . Re - enter Provost . Prov .
Every true man ' s apparel fits your thief : If it be too little for your thief , your true
man thinks it big enough ; if it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little
enough : so every true man ' s apparel fits your thief . Re - enter Provost . Prov .
Page 89
It is not truer he is Angelo , Than this is all as true as it is strange : Nay , it is ten
times true ; for truth is truth To the end of reckoning . Duke . Away with her : - Poor
soul , She speaks this in the infirmity of sense . Isab . O prince , I conjure thee , as
...
It is not truer he is Angelo , Than this is all as true as it is strange : Nay , it is ten
times true ; for truth is truth To the end of reckoning . Duke . Away with her : - Poor
soul , She speaks this in the infirmity of sense . Isab . O prince , I conjure thee , as
...
Page 152
You , my lord , best know , ( Who least will seem to do so , ) my past life Hath
been as continent , as chaste , as true , As I am now unhappy ; which is more
Than history can pattern , though devis ' d , And play ' d , to take spectators : For
behold ...
You , my lord , best know , ( Who least will seem to do so , ) my past life Hath
been as continent , as chaste , as true , As I am now unhappy ; which is more
Than history can pattern , though devis ' d , And play ' d , to take spectators : For
behold ...
Page 182
Pray now , buy some : I love a ballad in print , a ' - life ; for then we are sure they
are true . Aut . Here ' s one to a very doleful tune , How a usurer ' s wife was
brought to bed of twenty money - bags at a burden ; and how she longed to eat
adders ...
Pray now , buy some : I love a ballad in print , a ' - life ; for then we are sure they
are true . Aut . Here ' s one to a very doleful tune , How a usurer ' s wife was
brought to bed of twenty money - bags at a burden ; and how she longed to eat
adders ...
Page 204
... That heirless it hath made my kingdom ; and Destroy ' d the sweet ' st
companion , that e ' er man Bred his hopes out of . Paul . True , too true , my lord :
If , one by one , you wedded all the world , Or , from the all that are , took
something good ...
... That heirless it hath made my kingdom ; and Destroy ' d the sweet ' st
companion , that e ' er man Bred his hopes out of . Paul . True , too true , my lord :
If , one by one , you wedded all the world , Or , from the all that are , took
something good ...
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Angelo answer Attendants Bawd bear better blood bring brother Camillo child Claudio comes Corn daughter dear death dost doth Duke Enter Escal Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fault fear fellow Fool fortune friar Gent give Gloster gone grace hand hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hence highness hold honour I'll Isab justice keep Kent kind king lady Lear leave Leon live look lord Lucio madam maid marry master means nature never night noble Officers pardon Paul poor pray present prince prison Prov Provost queen SCENE seems Serv servant Shep sister speak stand stay Stew strange tell thank thee there's thine thing thou art thought true What's wife
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Page 162 - I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
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| Title | The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed, Volume 9 The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 27 Dec 2006 |
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