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Though this play have the title of The Life and Death of King Fobn , yet the action
of it begins at the thirty - fourth year of his life ; and takes in only fome tranfactions
of his reign to the time of his demise , being an interval of about seventeen ...
Though this play have the title of The Life and Death of King Fobn , yet the action
of it begins at the thirty - fourth year of his life ; and takes in only fome tranfactions
of his reign to the time of his demise , being an interval of about seventeen ...
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Upon his death - bed he by will bequeath'd His lands to me ; and took it , on his
death , That this , my mother's son , was none of his ; And , if he were , he came
into the world Full fourteen weeks before the course of time . Then , good my
liege ...
Upon his death - bed he by will bequeath'd His lands to me ; and took it , on his
death , That this , my mother's son , was none of his ; And , if he were , he came
into the world Full fourteen weeks before the course of time . Then , good my
liege ...
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Your face hath got five hundred pounds a year ; Yet sell your face for fivepence ,
and ' tis dear . Madam , I'll follow you unto the death . ' Eli . Nay , I would have you
go before me thi . ther . BAST . Our country manners give our betters way .
Your face hath got five hundred pounds a year ; Yet sell your face for fivepence ,
and ' tis dear . Madam , I'll follow you unto the death . ' Eli . Nay , I would have you
go before me thi . ther . BAST . Our country manners give our betters way .
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Arth . God shall forgive you Cæur - de - lion's death , The rather , that you give his
offspring life , Shadowing their right under your wings of war : death of Richard ,
who loft his life at the fiege of Chaluz , long after he had been ransomed out of ...
Arth . God shall forgive you Cæur - de - lion's death , The rather , that you give his
offspring life , Shadowing their right under your wings of war : death of Richard ,
who loft his life at the fiege of Chaluz , long after he had been ransomed out of ...
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9 You are the hare- ) So , in The Spanish Tragedy : “ He hunted well that was a
lion's death ; “ Not he that in a garment wore his skin : “ So hares may pull dead
lions by the beard . " See p . 6 , n . 4. Steevens . The proverb alluded to is , “
Mortuo ...
9 You are the hare- ) So , in The Spanish Tragedy : “ He hunted well that was a
lion's death ; “ Not he that in a garment wore his skin : “ So hares may pull dead
lions by the beard . " See p . 6 , n . 4. Steevens . The proverb alluded to is , “
Mortuo ...
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Page 126 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 112 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 76 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 120 - I knit my handkerchief about your brows, (The best I had ; a princess wrought it me,) And I did never ask it you again ; And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time ; Saying, What lack you ? and, Where lies your grief?
Page 361 - To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Page 392 - Took it in snuff; and still he smil'd and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 391 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 490 - GLENDOWER I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
Page 589 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit : To die is to be a counterfeit ; for he. is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man...
Page 570 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I Volume 8 of The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England) |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | George Steevens |
| Contributors | Henry Baldwin, Charles Dilly, Joseph Johnson, Thomas Vernor, Thomas Longman, B. Law and Son |
| Publisher | H. Baldwin, 1793 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2007 |
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