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allusion Antigonus Autolycus bear Ben Jonson beseech blood Bohemia bosom Camillo changeling child CLEOMENES Clown colour court Cymb dare daughter death deed Delius Delphos Dict Dion dost Dyce Exeunt eyes father fear Florizel flowers follow frequent in Shakespeare Gent gentleman give grace gracious grief Haml hand hast hath hear heart heavens Hermione Hermione's honest honour husband innocence jealousy king king of Bohemia kiss lady Leon Leontes look lord Macb matter mean metaphor MICHAEL MACMILLAN mistress nature never noble o'er oracle Othello oxlips Pandosto Paul Paulina Perdita play Polixenes pray Presidency College prince prison Prithee queen reference SCENE Schmidt seems sense sheep-shearing Shep shepherd Sicilia Skeat sorrow speak Staunton swear sweet tell thee There's thing thou art thought true truth wife Winter's Tale word
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Page 106 - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.
Page 54 - Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? Per. For I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. Pol. Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art 90
Page 51 - [Sings] Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day. Your sad tires in a mile-a. [Exit. SCENE III. The Shepherd's cottage. Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA. Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing
Page 6 - question you 60 Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys : You were pretty lordings then ? Pol. We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was no more behind But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord The verier wag o
Page 49 - Gallows and knock are too powerful on the highway : beating and hanging are terrors to me : for the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it. A prize ! a prize ! Enter Clown. Clo. Let me see : every 'leven wether tods ; every tod yields pound and odd shilling ; fifteen hundred shorn, what comes the wool to
Page 53 - and CAMILLO disguised. Shep. Fie, daughter ! when my old wife lived, upon This day she was both pantler, butler, cook, Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all; Would sing her song and dance her turn ; now here At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle ; Ou his shoulder, and his ; her face o
Page 158 - At Pentecost When all our pageants of delight were play'd, Our youth got me to play the woman's part, And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown.' The Morris dance, too, was formerly a common accompaniment to the Whitsun ales, a practice which is still kept up in many parts of the country
Page 8 - What, hast smutch'd thy nose ? They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain, We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain : And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf Are all call'd neat.—Still virginalling Upon his palm !—How now, you wanton calf ! Art thou my calf
Page 87 - Sec. Gent. What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried hence the child ? Third Gent. Like an old tale still, which will have matter to rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear open. He was torn to pieces with a bear : this avouches the shepherd's son ; who has not only his innocence, which seems
Page 9 - Most dear'st! my collop ! Can thy dam ?—may't be ?— Affection ! thy intention stabs the centre : Thou dost make possible things not so held, Communicatest with dreams ;—how can this be ?— 140 With what's unreal thou coactive art, And fellow'st nothing : then 'tis very credent Thou mayst co-join with something ; and thou dost,