A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 2Septimus Prowett, 1825 - English drama |
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... Doctor RAT , the Curate . Mayster BAILYE . DOLL , Dame Chat's Mayde . SCAPETHRYFT , Mayster Bailye's servante . MUTES . 1 Diccon , the Bedlam . ] Diccon is the ancient abbreviation of Richard . See Mr. Steevens's Note on Richard III . A ...
... Doctor RAT , the Curate . Mayster BAILYE . DOLL , Dame Chat's Mayde . SCAPETHRYFT , Mayster Bailye's servante . MUTES . 1 Diccon , the Bedlam . ] Diccon is the ancient abbreviation of Richard . See Mr. Steevens's Note on Richard III . A ...
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... Doctor Rat bye the that thou were gone . A. 3. S. 3 . Thou shalt fynd lyeng an inche of whyte tallow candell Lyght it , and brynge it tite away . A. 1. , S. 4 . * Saint Sithe . ] Perhaps a corruption of Saint Swithen . S. 17 home ] Mr ...
... Doctor Rat bye the that thou were gone . A. 3. S. 3 . Thou shalt fynd lyeng an inche of whyte tallow candell Lyght it , and brynge it tite away . A. 1. , S. 4 . * Saint Sithe . ] Perhaps a corruption of Saint Swithen . S. 17 home ] Mr ...
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... doctor Rat our curat have found it in the straw , Or this dame Chat your neighbour have stollen it God hee knoweth , But by the morrow at this time , we shal learn how the matter goeth . Hodge . Canst not learn to night man , seest not ...
... doctor Rat our curat have found it in the straw , Or this dame Chat your neighbour have stollen it God hee knoweth , But by the morrow at this time , we shal learn how the matter goeth . Hodge . Canst not learn to night man , seest not ...
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... Doctor Rat be here , the sooner wese ha an ende . And here gammer , Dyccon's devill ( as iche remember well ) Of Cat and Chat , and doctor Rat , a felloneus tale dyd tell , 67 He will shrive her for all this gere , and geve her penaunce ...
... Doctor Rat be here , the sooner wese ha an ende . And here gammer , Dyccon's devill ( as iche remember well ) Of Cat and Chat , and doctor Rat , a felloneus tale dyd tell , 67 He will shrive her for all this gere , and geve her penaunce ...
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... doctor Rat , hye the that thou were gone , And pray hym come speke with me , cham not well at ease , Shalt have him at his chamber , or els at mother Bee's , Els seeke him at Hobfylcher's shop ; for , as charde it reported , There is ...
... doctor Rat , hye the that thou were gone , And pray hym come speke with me , cham not well at ease , Shalt have him at his chamber , or els at mother Bee's , Els seeke him at Hobfylcher's shop ; for , as charde it reported , There is ...
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Alexander Anaxarchus Antony Apelles Aristotle arms Baldock Bayly behold blood Cæsar Campaspe cham Chorus chould chyll Cicero Clytus Cocke cometh command Cornelia dame Chat death devil Diccon Diogenes Doctor Rat doth earl earth Edmund Edward England Enter Euphues Exeunt eyes fair father fear fortune friends Gammer Gurton's Gammer Gurton's Needle Gaveston Gismunda gods Gog's grace Granichus grief Gurney hand hast hath head heart heaven Hephestion Hodge honour Isabel Julio king knave Lady Lancaster Lightborn live look lord Lucrece Lust's Dominion Madam majesty Manes Marlow master master doctor Matrevis mind Mortimer junior neele never noble Parmenio Pembroke Pompey prince Psyllus Queen Renuchio Rome SCEN Shakspeare shame shew soldiers sorrow soul Spencer Steevens Steevens's Note sweet sword Tancred tears tell thee thine thing thou art thou shalt thought Timoclea unto Warwick wold word
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Page 340 - Tis not a black coat and a little band, A velvet caped cloak, faced before with serge, And smelling to a nosegay all the day, Or holding of a napkin in your hand, Or saying a long grace at a table's end, Or making low legs to a nobleman, Or looking downward with your eyelids close, And saying, " Truly, an't may please your honour...
Page 403 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.
Page 334 - This which I urge is of a burning zeal To mend the king and do our country good. Know you not Gaveston hath store of gold, Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends As he will front the mightiest of us all?
Page 383 - But, hapless Edward, thou art fondly* led; They pass* not for thy frowns as late they did, But seek to make a new-elected king; Which fills my mind with strange despairing thoughts, Which thoughts are martyred with endless torments, And in this torment comfort find I none, But that I feel the crown upon my head ; And therefore let me wear it yet awhile.
Page 398 - LIGHT. To murder you, my most gracious lord ! Far is it from my heart to do you harm. The queen sent me to see how you were us'd, For she relents at this your misery : And what eyes can refrain from shedding tears, To see a king in this most piteous state ? EDW. Weep'st thou already ? list awhile to me, And then thy heart, were it as Gurney's is, Or as Matrevis', hewn from the Caucasus, Yet will it melt, ere I have done my tale.
Page 324 - He claps his cheeks, and hangs about his neck, Smiles in his face, and whispers in his ears; And, when I come, he frowns, as who should say, "Go whither thou wilt, seeing I have Gaveston.
Page 384 - I might ! but heavens and earth conspire To make me miserable ! Here receive my crown ; Receive it ? no, these innocent hands of mine Shall not be guilty of so foul a crime.
Page 405 - The troublesome Raigne and lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.