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Page xii
... book , An excellent and pleasant conceited comedie , " etc. ( as before ) . This John Busbye was concerned , as Collier pointed out , two years before , in the publication of the undoubtedly surreptitious and corrupt Henry V. The date ...
... book , An excellent and pleasant conceited comedie , " etc. ( as before ) . This John Busbye was concerned , as Collier pointed out , two years before , in the publication of the undoubtedly surreptitious and corrupt Henry V. The date ...
Page xliv
... books . With regard to the horse - stealing , which is what would be of most interest to " mine Host , " we must remember that it may actually have occurred . We are not told of the Count's being the guest of any one . " His lodging ...
... books . With regard to the horse - stealing , which is what would be of most interest to " mine Host , " we must remember that it may actually have occurred . We are not told of the Count's being the guest of any one . " His lodging ...
Page lviii
... book , recall- ing his more entertaining predecessor . Wheatley says Slender was the most popular character after Falstaff . He then proceeds to quote some verses from Halliwell , coarse and blundering , about Simple . Dr. Caius , the ...
... book , recall- ing his more entertaining predecessor . Wheatley says Slender was the most popular character after Falstaff . He then proceeds to quote some verses from Halliwell , coarse and blundering , about Simple . Dr. Caius , the ...
Page lix
... etc. This doctor does not speak in broken English . See Hazlitt's Shakespeare's Jest Books , 1864 , P. 339 . It is not in the least likely this fool - tale hangs on to the Merry Wives . doctor at Windsor probably INTRODUCTION lix.
... etc. This doctor does not speak in broken English . See Hazlitt's Shakespeare's Jest Books , 1864 , P. 339 . It is not in the least likely this fool - tale hangs on to the Merry Wives . doctor at Windsor probably INTRODUCTION lix.
Page lxxvii
... Book ( Bullen's Middleton , viii . 37 ) , 1604 : " Your Welsh hue and cry . . . the only net to catch thieves . " And Beaumont and Fletcher , Thiery and Theodoret , v . ( ante 1616 ) : " Did you doubt we could steal . . . Did not I ...
... Book ( Bullen's Middleton , viii . 37 ) , 1604 : " Your Welsh hue and cry . . . the only net to catch thieves . " And Beaumont and Fletcher , Thiery and Theodoret , v . ( ante 1616 ) : " Did you doubt we could steal . . . Did not I ...
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Page 38 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 202 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page lxvii - The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a companion, when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff.
Page x - ... of Auncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym. By William Shakespeare. As it hath bene diuers times Acted by the right Honorable my lord Chamberlaines seruants. Both before her Maiestie, and else-where. London Printed by TC for Arthur Johnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the Crowne. 1602.