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... give the praise To their self - love , presuming to out - do The writer , or ( for need ) the actors too . But such the author's silence best befits , Who bids them be in love with their own wits . From him , to clearer judgments , we ...
... give the praise To their self - love , presuming to out - do The writer , or ( for need ) the actors too . But such the author's silence best befits , Who bids them be in love with their own wits . From him , to clearer judgments , we ...
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... give over child- bearing , bring forth two such monsters , being not the births of nine or ten months , but of many years . And whereas other mothers bring forth children weak , and not able to help themselves , she bringeth forth tall ...
... give over child- bearing , bring forth two such monsters , being not the births of nine or ten months , but of many years . And whereas other mothers bring forth children weak , and not able to help themselves , she bringeth forth tall ...
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... , 8 [ Daw . ] And but idols , & c . ] The 4to , by mistake , gives this short speech also to Oxford . It is much in Dawbeney's manner . Our Great Ones , should give countenance and courage To 12 ACT I. PERKIN WARBECK .
... , 8 [ Daw . ] And but idols , & c . ] The 4to , by mistake , gives this short speech also to Oxford . It is much in Dawbeney's manner . Our Great Ones , should give countenance and courage To 12 ACT I. PERKIN WARBECK .
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In Two Volumes John Ford William Gifford. Our Great Ones , should give countenance and courage To trim duke Perkin ; you will all confess Our bounties have unthriftily been scatter'd Amongst unthankful men . Daw . Unthankful beasts ...
In Two Volumes John Ford William Gifford. Our Great Ones , should give countenance and courage To trim duke Perkin ; you will all confess Our bounties have unthriftily been scatter'd Amongst unthankful men . Daw . Unthankful beasts ...
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... gives his epitaph , ( by which it appears that he possessed and resigned several high stations in the church , ) concludes thus- " Here let him rest , as an example for all unjust prelates to ad- mire , and for few or none to imitate ...
... gives his epitaph , ( by which it appears that he possessed and resigned several high stations in the church , ) concludes thus- " Here let him rest , as an example for all unjust prelates to ad- mire , and for few or none to imitate ...
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Page 424 - Cause I am poor, deform'd, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent together By some more strong in mischiefs than myself; Must I for that be made a common sink For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into ? Some call me Witch, And being ignorant, of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one : urging That my bad tongue (by their bad usage made so) Forespeaks their cattle, doth bewitch their corn, Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse : This they enforce...
Page 100 - We'll lead them on courageously ; I read A triumph over tyranny upon Their several foreheads. Faint not in the moment Of victory ! our ends, and Warwick's head, Innocent Warwick's head, (for we are prologue But to his tragedy) conclude the wonder Of Henry's fears ;7 and then the glorious race Of fourteen kings, Plantagenets, determines In this last issue male...
Page 492 - ... powder-mine beneath the world, Up would I blow it all, to find out thee, Though I lay ruin'd in it. Not yet come ! I must then fall to my old prayer : Sanctibicetur nomen tuum.
Page 80 - Gordon was left by her husband, whom in all fortunes she entirely loved ; adding the virtues of a wife to the virtues of her sex.
Page 424 - Saw. Gather a few rotten sticks to warm me. Banks. Down with them when I bid thee, quickly ; I'll make thy bones rattle in thy skin else.
Page 65 - That flowed so liberally. Two empires firmly You're lord of, — Scotland and Duke Richard's heart : My claim to mine inheritance shall sooner Fail than my life to serve you, best of kings ; And, witness Edward's blood in me ! I am More loth to part with such a great example Of virtue than all other mere respects.
Page 428 - I am shunn'd And hated like a sickness; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets, weasels, and I wot not what, That have appear'd, and suck'd, some say, their blood; But by what means they came acquainted with them, I am now ignorant.
Page 424 - ... than myself, Must I for that be made a common sink, For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into ? Some call me Witch, And being ignorant of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one ; urging, That my bad tongue (by their bad usage made so) Forespeaks their cattle,* doth bewitch their corn, Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse. This they enforce upon me ; and in part Make me to credit it; and here comes one Of my chief adversaries.
Page 476 - I'll have it now. Sate. I am dried up With cursing and with madness; and have yet No blood to moisten these sweet lips of thine. Stand on thy hind-legs up — kiss me, my Tommy, And rub away some wrinkles on my brow, By making my old ribs to shrug for joy Of thy fine tricks.
Page 439 - In you, sir. Awake, you seem to dream, and in your sleep You utter sudden and distracted accents, Like one at enmity with peace.