A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 2Septimus Prowett, 1825 - English drama |
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... friend Matthew Merry Greek . The evidence to prove that it was written by Nicholas Udall is very conclusive , and it serves also to show the age of his work . The play contains , in A. III . S. 3. a long letter from Ralph Roister ...
... friend Matthew Merry Greek . The evidence to prove that it was written by Nicholas Udall is very conclusive , and it serves also to show the age of his work . The play contains , in A. III . S. 3. a long letter from Ralph Roister ...
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... friend , hide it I cold not doubtles : Ye know your harm , see ye be wise about your owne busines , ye well . So fare Chat . Nay , soft Diccon , and drynke : what , Doll , I say , Bringe here a cup of the best ale , let's see , come ...
... friend , hide it I cold not doubtles : Ye know your harm , see ye be wise about your owne busines , ye well . So fare Chat . Nay , soft Diccon , and drynke : what , Doll , I say , Bringe here a cup of the best ale , let's see , come ...
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... friend doctor Rat . your Gammer . A good Mr. doctor , cha troubled , cha troubled you , chwot wel that . Doctor Rat . How do ye , woman ? be ye lustie , or be ye not wel at ease ? Gammer . 75 By gys master cham not sick , but yet chave ...
... friend doctor Rat . your Gammer . A good Mr. doctor , cha troubled , cha troubled you , chwot wel that . Doctor Rat . How do ye , woman ? be ye lustie , or be ye not wel at ease ? Gammer . 75 By gys master cham not sick , but yet chave ...
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... friend Diccon , whether walke ye this pace ? Diccon . By my truth even to you , to learne how the world goeth . Hard ye no more of the other matter , say me now by your troth ? Chat . O yes , Diccon : here the old hoore , and Hodge that ...
... friend Diccon , whether walke ye this pace ? Diccon . By my truth even to you , to learne how the world goeth . Hard ye no more of the other matter , say me now by your troth ? Chat . O yes , Diccon : here the old hoore , and Hodge that ...
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... friend of mine , for good - wil gave me warning , And bad me wel loke to my ruste , and al my capons pennes ; For if I toke not better heede , a knave wold have my hennes . Then I , to save my goods , toke so much pains as him to watch ...
... friend of mine , for good - wil gave me warning , And bad me wel loke to my ruste , and al my capons pennes ; For if I toke not better heede , a knave wold have my hennes . Then I , to save my goods , toke so much pains as him to watch ...
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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.