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Page 33 - Something still buzzeth in mine ears, And tells me, if I sleep I never wake ; This fear is that which makes me tremble thus. And therefore tell me, wherefore art thou come? Light. To rid thee of thy life ; Matrevis, come. Enter Matrevis and Gurney. Edw. I am too weak and feeble to resist : Assist me, sweet God, and receive my soul.
Page 245 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
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Page 39 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but...
Page 44 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Page 363 - Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears. A garland lay him by...
Page iv - Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good. Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them...
Page 24 - I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows ; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay...
Page 29 - But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? My nobles rule, I bear the name of king; I wear the crown, but am...
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| Title | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare. With Notes, Volume 1 Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare. With Notes, Charles Lamb |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Editor | Charles Lamb |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | E. Moxon, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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