A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 2Septimus Prowett, 1825 - English drama |
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... lost . When Diccon the bedlam had hard by report , That good Gammer Gurton was robde in thys sorte , He quyetly perswaded with her in that stound , Daine Chat her deare gossyp this needle had found . Yet knew shee no more of this matter ...
... lost . When Diccon the bedlam had hard by report , That good Gammer Gurton was robde in thys sorte , He quyetly perswaded with her in that stound , Daine Chat her deare gossyp this needle had found . Yet knew shee no more of this matter ...
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... lost a trump . Syghing and sobbing , they weepe and they wayle . I marvel in my mynd , what the devil they ayle . The olde trot syts groning , with alas , and alas3 , And Tib wringes her hands , and takes on in worse case . With poore ...
... lost a trump . Syghing and sobbing , they weepe and they wayle . I marvel in my mynd , what the devil they ayle . The olde trot syts groning , with alas , and alas3 , And Tib wringes her hands , and takes on in worse case . With poore ...
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... Lost , B. 8. 1. 349 . * His halse aker . ] I believe we should read halse anchor , or anker , as it was anciently spelt ; a naval phrase . The halse or halser was a particular kind of cable . Shakspeare , in his Antony and Cleopatra ...
... Lost , B. 8. 1. 349 . * His halse aker . ] I believe we should read halse anchor , or anker , as it was anciently spelt ; a naval phrase . The halse or halser was a particular kind of cable . Shakspeare , in his Antony and Cleopatra ...
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... lost her neele ? Tib . Her neele . Hodge . Her neele ? 12 She is sayth but dead . * For bursting . ] i . e . breaking . See note on King Heney IV . Part 2d . edit 1778. vol . 5 , p . 537. S. " 6 From the following passage , in a letter ...
... lost her neele ? Tib . Her neele . Hodge . Her neele ? 12 She is sayth but dead . * For bursting . ] i . e . breaking . See note on King Heney IV . Part 2d . edit 1778. vol . 5 , p . 537. S. " 6 From the following passage , in a letter ...
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... lost th'arte out of her bellie . The devill , or els his dame , they ought her sure a shame , How a murryon came this chaunce , ( say , Tib ) unto our dame ? Tib . My gammer sat her down on her pes * , and bad me reach thy breches , And ...
... lost th'arte out of her bellie . The devill , or els his dame , they ought her sure a shame , How a murryon came this chaunce , ( say , Tib ) unto our dame ? Tib . My gammer sat her down on her pes * , and bad me reach thy breches , And ...
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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.
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