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... husband , saying simply , ' It is my father , ' there needs no stage - direction to supply the relenting tones of ... husband's fortune , as he had supported her tottering infancy ; saves the high - flying Matheo from the gallows more ...
... husband , saying simply , ' It is my father , ' there needs no stage - direction to supply the relenting tones of ... husband's fortune , as he had supported her tottering infancy ; saves the high - flying Matheo from the gallows more ...
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... husband is delicately portrayed . The usual sub - plot in which Don John , the King's brother , conspires for the throne , is less inconsequent than most of Dekker's supplementary plots , and the whole comedy is managed with a higher ...
... husband is delicately portrayed . The usual sub - plot in which Don John , the King's brother , conspires for the throne , is less inconsequent than most of Dekker's supplementary plots , and the whole comedy is managed with a higher ...
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... husband ? Eyre . Peace , midriff , peace ! I know what I do . Peace ! Firk . Truly , master cormorant , you shall do God good service to let Ralph and his wife stay together . She's a young new - married woman ; if you take her husband ...
... husband ? Eyre . Peace , midriff , peace ! I know what I do . Peace ! Firk . Truly , master cormorant , you shall do God good service to let Ralph and his wife stay together . She's a young new - married woman ; if you take her husband ...
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... husband is a young man , and but newly entered , but let that pass . Eyre . Away with your pishery - pashery , your pols and your edipols ! Peace , midriff ; silence , Cicely Bum- trinket ! Let your head speak . Firk . Yea , and the ...
... husband is a young man , and but newly entered , but let that pass . Eyre . Away with your pishery - pashery , your pols and your edipols ! Peace , midriff ; silence , Cicely Bum- trinket ! Let your head speak . Firk . Yea , and the ...
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... husband safe again ; but he must go , His country's quarrel says it shall be so . Hodge . Th'art a gull , by my stirrup , if thou dost not go . I will not have thee strike thy gimlet into these weak vessels ; prick thine enemies , Ralph ...
... husband safe again ; but he must go , His country's quarrel says it shall be so . Hodge . Th'art a gull , by my stirrup , if thou dost not go . I will not have thee strike thy gimlet into these weak vessels ; prick thine enemies , Ralph ...
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Page 74 - Miniver-cap ; vanish, go, trip and go ; meddle with your partlets" and your pisherypashery, your flewes* and your whirligigs; go, rub,* out of mine alley ! Sim Eyre knows how to speak to a Pope, to Sultan Soliman, to Tamburlaine, an he were here, and shall I melt, shall I droop before my sovereign? No...
Page 36 - Hodge, heave up thine ears ; mistress, smug up 3 your looks ; on with your best apparel ; my master is chosen, my master is called, nay, condemned by the cry of the country to be sheriff of the city for this famous year now to come. And time now being, a great many men in black gowns were asked for their voices and their hands' 1 Serve me, and I'll serve thee. 2 Yes, I shall, dame ! and my master had all their fists about his ears presently, and they cried ' Ay, ay, ay, ay,' — and so I came away...
Page xliii - France : who resigned his place to another gentleman his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower Street, who served the Mayor and his household with shoes : the merriments that passed in Eyre's house, his coming to be Mayor of London, Lacy's getting his love, and other accidents, with two merry Three-men's-songs. Take all in good worth that is well intended, for nothing is purposed but mirth ; mirth lengtheneth long life, which, with all other blessings,...
Page 33 - Sheriff of London — as we are all mortal — you shall see, I will have some odd thing or other in a corner for you : I will not be your back-friend ; but let that pass. Hans, pray thee, tie my shoe. Hans. Yaw, ic sal, vro?
Page 183 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 144 - 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 xliv - THE PROLOGUE AS IT WAS PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY. As wretches in a storm (expecting day), With trembling hands and eyes cast up to heaven, Make prayers the anchor of their...
Page 40 - But O, I spy the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo; See where she sitteth: come away, my joy; Come away, I prithee: I do not like the cuckoo Should sing where my Peggy and I kiss and toy.