A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 2Septimus Prowett, 1825 - English drama |
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... force us both , Upon my breech to lay thine hand , and there to take thine oth . Hodge . I Hodge breechelesse , Sweare to Diccon rechelesse By the crosse that I shall kysse , To kepe his counsaile close , And alwayes me to dispose To ...
... force us both , Upon my breech to lay thine hand , and there to take thine oth . Hodge . I Hodge breechelesse , Sweare to Diccon rechelesse By the crosse that I shall kysse , To kepe his counsaile close , And alwayes me to dispose To ...
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... on Merchant of Venice , p . 118. vol . III . ) See also Dr. Morell's Account of it , p . 417 : of his Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , 8vo . 1737 . force , but whose hearts can not yield by death 96 [ ACT I. ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE .
... on Merchant of Venice , p . 118. vol . III . ) See also Dr. Morell's Account of it , p . 417 : of his Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , 8vo . 1737 . force , but whose hearts can not yield by death 96 [ ACT I. ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE .
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In Twelve Volumes Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist John Payne Collier. force , but whose hearts can not yield by death . Come , Campaspe , and the rest , let us not be ashamed to cast our eyes on him , on whom we fear'd not ...
In Twelve Volumes Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist John Payne Collier. force , but whose hearts can not yield by death . Come , Campaspe , and the rest , let us not be ashamed to cast our eyes on him , on whom we fear'd not ...
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... force ; but to consent to love by fear , you cannot . Alexander Why , what is that which Alexander may not conquer as he list ? Hephestion . Why , that which you say the gods cannot resist , love . Alexander . I am a conqueror , she a ...
... force ; but to consent to love by fear , you cannot . Alexander Why , what is that which Alexander may not conquer as he list ? Hephestion . Why , that which you say the gods cannot resist , love . Alexander . I am a conqueror , she a ...
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... force hath known . The marble seas my wonders hath descry'd , Which elder age throughout the world hath blown . To me , the king of gods and men doth yield , As witness can the Greekish maid9 , whom I Made like a cow go glowing through ...
... force hath known . The marble seas my wonders hath descry'd , Which elder age throughout the world hath blown . To me , the king of gods and men doth yield , As witness can the Greekish maid9 , whom I Made like a cow go glowing through ...
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Page 129 - At cards for kisses — Cupid paid ; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows...
Page 317 - 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 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.