The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volumes 10-11J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 49
... common proverbial expression , for being an idle spectator . Among Ray's proverbial sentences , is this . " A good candle - holder proves a good gamester . " STEEVENS . The proverb to which Romeo réfers , is rather that alluded to in ...
... common proverbial expression , for being an idle spectator . Among Ray's proverbial sentences , is this . " A good candle - holder proves a good gamester . " STEEVENS . The proverb to which Romeo réfers , is rather that alluded to in ...
Page 51
... common name , as Mr. Douce observes , for a cart - horse ) out of the mire , seems to have been a game . In an old collection of Satyres , Epigrams , & c . I find it enumerated among other pastimes : " At shove - groate , venter point ...
... common name , as Mr. Douce observes , for a cart - horse ) out of the mire , seems to have been a game . In an old collection of Satyres , Epigrams , & c . I find it enumerated among other pastimes : " At shove - groate , venter point ...
Page 57
... Common Pleas ; which the king willingly granted , it being the first SUIT he had in his life . " Indeed our poet has very rarely turned his satire against lawyers and law proceedings , the common topick of later writers : for , to ...
... Common Pleas ; which the king willingly granted , it being the first SUIT he had in his life . " Indeed our poet has very rarely turned his satire against lawyers and law proceedings , the common topick of later writers : for , to ...
Page 59
... common super- stition ; and seems to have had its rise from the horrid disease called the Plica Polonica . WARBURTON . 7 So , in Heywood's Iron Age , 1632 : " And when I shook these locks , now knotted all , " As bak'd in blood ...
... common super- stition ; and seems to have had its rise from the horrid disease called the Plica Polonica . WARBURTON . 7 So , in Heywood's Iron Age , 1632 : " And when I shook these locks , now knotted all , " As bak'd in blood ...
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... common even in the time of Charles I. See Vol . IV . p . 92 , n . 2. MALONE . They continued common much longer in many publick socie- ties , particularly in colleges and inns of court ; and are still retained at Lincoln's - Inn ...
... common even in the time of Charles I. See Vol . IV . p . 92 , n . 2. MALONE . They continued common much longer in many publick socie- ties , particularly in colleges and inns of court ; and are still retained at Lincoln's - Inn ...
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agayne ancient copies Antipholus art thou beauty Ben Jonson Benvolio brest called Capulet comedy dead death dedly dost doth Dromio DUKE eche edition editors emendation Enter Ephesus Euen euery Exeunt eyes fair frend Friar fryer geue gleek greefe hand hart hath haue hear heart heaven hence howre husband JOHNSON kiss lady lord loue Love's Labour's Lost lyfe MALONE Mantua married master means Mercutio mistress Montague mynde night nurce NURSE old copy Paris passage payd payne play poem Pope pray prince quarto quoth Rape of Lucrece rest Romeo Romeus and Juliet scene second folio Shakspeare sorow speak speech STEEVENS stryfe sweet teares tell thee theyr thine thing thou art thou hast thought tomb Tybalt Verona vnto WARBURTON wherefore whilst wife wilt woordes word wyfe yong