A Select Collection of Old Plays, Volume 3R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., 1744 - English drama |
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... husband , nor he no worse wife . Do you hear , love , will you take your cloak and rapier , and walk abroad into fome whol- fome air ? I do much fear thy infection ; good counfel , I fee , fee , will do no good on thee ; but GREEN'S Tu ...
... husband , nor he no worse wife . Do you hear , love , will you take your cloak and rapier , and walk abroad into fome whol- fome air ? I do much fear thy infection ; good counfel , I fee , fee , will do no good on thee ; but GREEN'S Tu ...
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... husbands ? You think you lofe time , I am fure ; but hold your own a little , girls ; it fhall not be long e'er I'll provide for you : and for you , Gartred , I have be- thought myself already . Whirlpit the ufurer is late deceaft ; A ...
... husbands ? You think you lofe time , I am fure ; but hold your own a little , girls ; it fhall not be long e'er I'll provide for you : and for you , Gartred , I have be- thought myself already . Whirlpit the ufurer is late deceaft ; A ...
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... husband of o god , how blind Are parents in our loves ! fo they have wealth , They care not to what things they marry us , Bub . Pray look upon me , lady . Foice . So I do , fir . 1 Bub . Ay , but look upon me well , and tell me if ever ...
... husband of o god , how blind Are parents in our loves ! fo they have wealth , They care not to what things they marry us , Bub . Pray look upon me , lady . Foice . So I do , fir . 1 Bub . Ay , but look upon me well , and tell me if ever ...
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... husband . Tick . Ay , marry will you , you'll to play again , and lofe your money , and fall to fighting ; my very heart trembles to think on it ; how if you had been kill'd in the quarrel ? of my faith , I had been but a dead woman ...
... husband . Tick . Ay , marry will you , you'll to play again , and lofe your money , and fall to fighting ; my very heart trembles to think on it ; how if you had been kill'd in the quarrel ? of my faith , I had been but a dead woman ...
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... husband to me , Avoid all naughty company , and be true To me , and to my bed ? Spend . As true to thee , as fteel to adamant . [ Binds him to the poft . Widow . I'll bind you to your word , fee that you be , Or I'll conceal my bags : I ...
... husband to me , Avoid all naughty company , and be true To me , and to my bed ? Spend . As true to thee , as fteel to adamant . [ Binds him to the poft . Widow . I'll bind you to your word , fee that you be , Or I'll conceal my bags : I ...
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Page 141 - False colours last after the true be dead. Of all the roses grafted on her cheeks, Of all the graces dancing in her eyes, Of all the music set upon her tongue, Of all that was past woman's excellence In her white bosom, look, a painted board Circumscribes all!
Page 388 - ... him one hearty kiss, and you shall put us both into one coffin. Fetch a looking-glass, see if his breath will not stain it ; or pull out some feathers from my pillow, and lay them to his lips : will you lose him for a little painstaking ? Hor. Your kindest office is to pray for him. Cor. Alas ! I would not pray for him yet. He may live to lay me i' th' ground, and pray for me, if you'll let me come to him.
Page 400 - I'll discover Their superstitious howling. CORNELIA, ZINCHE, and three other ladies discovered winding MARCELLO'S corse. A Song. COR. This rosemary is wither'd ; pray, get fresh. I would have these herbs grow up in his grave, When I am dead and rotten. Reach the bays, I'll tie a garland here about his head ; 'Twill keep my boy from lightning.
Page 400 - Your reverend mother Is grown a very old woman in two hours. I found them winding of Marcello's corse ; And there is such a solemn melody, 'Tween doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies — Such as old...
Page 393 - See, see Flamineo, that kill'd his brother. Is dancing on the ropes there, and he carries A money-bag in each hand, to keep him even, For fear of breaking's neck : and there's a lawyer, In a gown whipt with velvet, stares and gapes When the money will fall. How the rogue cuts capers! It should have been in a halter. 'Tis there ; what's she?
Page 141 - Ser. The one of them, my lord, will fill you too full of wind, the other wet you too much.
Page 91 - Duke. Kinsmen and friends, take from your manly sides Your weapons to keep back the desperate boy From doing violence to the innocent dead. Hip. I prithee, dear Matheo Mat.
Page 388 - Let me come to him ; give me him as he is ; if he be turn'd to earth, let me but give him one hearty kiss, and you shall put us both into one coffin. Fetch a looking-glass, see if his breath will not stain it ; or pull out some feathers from my pillow, and lay them to his lips : will you lose him for a little painstaking ? Hor.
Page 175 - The stock of patience, then, cannot be poor. All it desires, it has, what monarch more? It is the greatest enemy to law That can be, for it doth embrace all wrongs, And so chains up lawyers
Page 357 - Instruct me, some good horse-leech, to speak treason ; For since you cannot take my life for deeds, Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue ! I will not weep ; No, I do scorn to call up one poor tear To fawn on your injustice : bear me hence Unto this house of — what's your mitigating title ? Mont.