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" I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins ; who's in, who's out... "
The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 106
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...Lear's words to Cordelia: 'Come, let's away to prison . . .' '. . . so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out.' — V, iii,...
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Kierkegaard: A Biography

Alastair Hannay - 2003 - 518 pages
...passage, quoted in the German translation by Ernst Ortlepp, is: ... so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out, And take upon's...
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Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say

Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 178 pages
...dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take...
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Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

Belden C. Lane - 2002 - 334 pages
...Cordelia, Lear uttered a last eloquent cry for prosaic mystery: So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take...
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In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy

Zenón Luis Martínez - 2002 - 308 pages
...dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live. And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's...
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Shame in Shakespeare

Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 292 pages
...dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, And take upon's...
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Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters

Paul Robinson - 2002 - 358 pages
...dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; . . . (V, iii, 8—14) The reminder, moreover, is anything but accidental: for years Verdi...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 13

Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's...
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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

David Schalkwyk - 2002 - 284 pages
...dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk ol court news, and we'll talk with them too Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, And take upon...
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Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier

Boris Fishman - 2003 - 289 pages
...tells Cordelia about all the things they can do together in prison: they will live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news, and they'll talk with them too — who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, and take...
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