Shakespeare's Comedy of The Winter's TaleHarper & brothers, publishers, 1880 - 218 pages |
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1st folio Abbott Gr Antigonus Archidamus Autolycus bear-baiting beauty Beseech blood Bohemia Camillo character Clarke Cleomenes Clown Coll colour comfort conjectured Cymb Cymbeline dare daugh daughter death Delphos dildo Dion discase Dorcas dost ellipsis Emilia Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel Florizel flowers folio follows Gaoler Gentleman Gervinus give grace gracious Greene's Halliwell Hanmer hast hath hear heart heavens Hermione Hermione's honest honour innocent jealousy king King of Bohemia lady later folios Lear Leontes look lord Macb Malone Mamillius mean Mopsa nature never noble oracle Othello Pandosto passage passion Paulina Perdita play Polixenes Pray prince prithee queen remarks repent Rich royal SCENE Schmidt Servant Shakespeare Shakspere Shakspere's Shepherd Sicilia Sonn sorrow speak Steevens quotes swear sweet tell Temp thee thing thou art thought true truth wife Winter's Tale woman word
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Page 91 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 105 - t. [Exit. Per. Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Page 143 - O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 95 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Page 94 - Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o...
Page 95 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength — a malady Most incident to maids...
Page 181 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Page 87 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
Page 81 - I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Page 14 - What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.