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" And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play... "
Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and Other Antiquities - Page 93
by Robert Deverell - 1813
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Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set the brother of death.'— World of Words, 1611. Hence this personage was introduced into the old mysteries...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...of Nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of the play be then to be considered : — that's villanous : and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. SHAKSPEARE. CHAP. XII. THE...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...imitated humanity SO abominably. Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And, let those that play your...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary questionf of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous; and shows...
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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 6

sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...and is the licence which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that be your clowns speak no more than is set down for them...of barren spectators to laugh too, though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villainous, and...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...imitated humanity so ahominahly. I Play. \ hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your...speak no more than is set down for them : for there he of them, that will themselves langh, to set on some quantity of harren spectators to langh too;...
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The Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index

1829 - 804 pages
...had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity 90 abominably. Tim should be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak...question of the play be then to be considered ; that's villanous, aud shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' /->»»i my awn Apartment,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...clowns, speak no more than is set down for Ilioin : for there be of them, that will themselves l ¡muh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some set it down : He shall with speed to England, I necessary question' of the play be then to be cpn¡e...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your...be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." Go, make you ready. [Exeunt Players. f preuure.]...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your...play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." Go, make you ready. [Exeunt Players. " preuure.]...
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A Descriptive Account of the Second Royal Gala Festival at Stratford-upon ...

1830 - 192 pages
...the following professional rebuke ? — "And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians).speaA no more than is set down for them; for there be of...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : — that's mllianous, and shews...
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