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Page xix
... head , but all the " Lucy " passages are lost ; a very serious deficit in our interest in the play , but quite possibly a purposed omission in the supposed shorter version . It is probably personal , and certainly not necessary to the ...
... head , but all the " Lucy " passages are lost ; a very serious deficit in our interest in the play , but quite possibly a purposed omission in the supposed shorter version . It is probably personal , and certainly not necessary to the ...
Page xxi
... venies For a dish of stewed prunes , and I with my ward Defending my head , he hot my shin . " This is a more intelligible fencing metaphor , but the Folio makes Slender appear , as is intended , a greater fool INTRODUCTION xxi.
... venies For a dish of stewed prunes , and I with my ward Defending my head , he hot my shin . " This is a more intelligible fencing metaphor , but the Folio makes Slender appear , as is intended , a greater fool INTRODUCTION xxi.
Page xxii
... head " in the Quarto . Pope considered the words " in my head " had been erroneously omitted . At II . i . 71 , Mrs. Page says in the Quarto , " O most notori- ous villaine ! Why what a bladder of iniquitie is this . " Fal- staff ...
... head " in the Quarto . Pope considered the words " in my head " had been erroneously omitted . At II . i . 71 , Mrs. Page says in the Quarto , " O most notori- ous villaine ! Why what a bladder of iniquitie is this . " Fal- staff ...
Page xl
... head ( s ) ( and ) one olde mannes fries cote for the Italian players at Wynsor . " They also hired a scythe for Saturn . These entries belong to 1574. And in 1578 the children . of Windsor have a play on the 6th January ( p . 110 ) ...
... head ( s ) ( and ) one olde mannes fries cote for the Italian players at Wynsor . " They also hired a scythe for Saturn . These entries belong to 1574. And in 1578 the children . of Windsor have a play on the 6th January ( p . 110 ) ...
Page lviii
... head and adds insult to injury by parading the outrage , which per- haps sometimes escapes notice . He was one of the keeper's party beaten by Sir John . Perhaps this is obvious . Slender is in some respects the Silence of the previous ...
... head and adds insult to injury by parading the outrage , which per- haps sometimes escapes notice . He was one of the keeper's party beaten by Sir John . Perhaps this is obvious . Slender is in some respects the Silence of the previous ...
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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.