A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 2Septimus Prowett, 1825 - English drama |
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... boy ? Cocke , I say , why canst not hear's ? Gammer . Beate hym not , Hodge , but helpe the boy , and come you two together . VOL . 11 . C * THE FIRST ACTE . THE FIFTH SCEANE . GAMMER SC . IV.J 17 GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE .
... boy ? Cocke , I say , why canst not hear's ? Gammer . Beate hym not , Hodge , but helpe the boy , and come you two together . VOL . 11 . C * THE FIRST ACTE . THE FIFTH SCEANE . GAMMER SC . IV.J 17 GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE .
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... hear and answer what you say , " With my school dagger ' bout your costard , sir . " * Either piled or bald . ] See note on King Henry VI . Part I. Shaksp . 1778 , vol . 6. p . 192. S. Geve my gammer again * her washical thou stole away ...
... hear and answer what you say , " With my school dagger ' bout your costard , sir . " * Either piled or bald . ] See note on King Henry VI . Part I. Shaksp . 1778 , vol . 6. p . 192. S. Geve my gammer again * her washical thou stole away ...
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... ( hear'st thou ) out of my fingers endes . But he that hard it told me , who thou of late didst name , Diccon , whom al men knowes , it was the very same . Bayly . This is the case ; you lost your nedle about the dores ; And she answeres ...
... ( hear'st thou ) out of my fingers endes . But he that hard it told me , who thou of late didst name , Diccon , whom al men knowes , it was the very same . Bayly . This is the case ; you lost your nedle about the dores ; And she answeres ...
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... hear and see , " So imitating his ridiculous tricks , 66 They speak and write all like meer lunaticks . " Blount , who republished six of his Plays , speaks of him in a different manner , he says , " Our nation are " in his debt for a ...
... hear and see , " So imitating his ridiculous tricks , 66 They speak and write all like meer lunaticks . " Blount , who republished six of his Plays , speaks of him in a different manner , he says , " Our nation are " in his debt for a ...
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... hear that which I am not asham'd to tell ? Hephestion . Might my words crave pardon , and my counsel credit , I would both discharge the duty of a 19 wherein you resemble the lapwing , who crieth most where her nest is not . ] This ...
... hear that which I am not asham'd to tell ? Hephestion . Might my words crave pardon , and my counsel credit , I would both discharge the duty of a 19 wherein you resemble the lapwing , who crieth most where her nest is not . ] This ...
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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.