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... DEATH OF ROBERT , EARL OF HUNTINGDON 192 THOMAS HEYWOOD . THE RAPE OF LUCRECE 195 • LOVE'S MISTRESS ; OR , THE QUEEN'S MASQUE FIRST PART OF KING EDWARD IV . 197 198 THE SILVER AGE 198 THE FAIR MAID OF THE EXCHANGE 198 A CHALLENGE FOR ...
... DEATH OF ROBERT , EARL OF HUNTINGDON 192 THOMAS HEYWOOD . THE RAPE OF LUCRECE 195 • LOVE'S MISTRESS ; OR , THE QUEEN'S MASQUE FIRST PART OF KING EDWARD IV . 197 198 THE SILVER AGE 198 THE FAIR MAID OF THE EXCHANGE 198 A CHALLENGE FOR ...
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... DEATH THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES 223 224 225 225 226 227 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT . THE SIEGE OF RHODES 228 THE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS 229 THE LAW AGAINST LOVERS 231 THE MAN'S THE MASTER . 232 THE CRUEL BROTHER 233 GERVASE MARKHAM AND ...
... DEATH THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES 223 224 225 225 226 227 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT . THE SIEGE OF RHODES 228 THE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS 229 THE LAW AGAINST LOVERS 231 THE MAN'S THE MASTER . 232 THE CRUEL BROTHER 233 GERVASE MARKHAM AND ...
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... death of Skelton . However that may be , the claim of this comedy to be considered the first in our language is indis- putable . It must have preceded Gammer Gurton's Needle by at least fifteen years ; and , being at that period so well ...
... death of Skelton . However that may be , the claim of this comedy to be considered the first in our language is indis- putable . It must have preceded Gammer Gurton's Needle by at least fifteen years ; and , being at that period so well ...
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... death - bed . His stories , ' ob- serves Chalmers , ' must have been diverting , indeed , if they soothed the recollections of such a woman . ' 6 Upon the death of Queen Mary he suffered the reverse which attended most of her personal ...
... death - bed . His stories , ' ob- serves Chalmers , ' must have been diverting , indeed , if they soothed the recollections of such a woman . ' 6 Upon the death of Queen Mary he suffered the reverse which attended most of her personal ...
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... death makes equal the high and low . Be merry , friends ! ] WE IDLENESS . HAT heart can think , or tongue express , The harm that groweth of idleness ? This idleness in some of us Is seen to seem a thing but slight ; But if that sum the ...
... death makes equal the high and low . Be merry , friends ! ] WE IDLENESS . HAT heart can think , or tongue express , The harm that groweth of idleness ? This idleness in some of us Is seen to seem a thing but slight ; But if that sum the ...
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Ascribed to Fletcher ballad Bartholomew Fair beauty Ben Jonson birds blessed boys breath bright charm chaste comedy Cuckoo Cupid dance death dost doth DRAMATISTS drink Dyce edition eyes fair fairy fear fire flowers fool friends give golden grace green Hark hast hath head heart heaven Hecate heigh Here's Heywood hither honour Hymen JASPER MAYNE king kiss lady laugh live love's lovers lullaby lusty maid merrily merry Middleton ne'er never NICHOLAS UDALL night nonny nymph pain Patient Grissell PHILIP MASSINGER pity play poet pretty purse queen Rosalind round Samela Satyr Shakespeare shepherds shew shine sigh sing sleep song sorrow soul spring sweet tears tell thee thine thing Thomas Heywood THOMAS MIDDLETON Thou art Trilla unto verses wanton weep Whilst William Cartwright WILLIAM HABINGTON WILLIAM ROWLEY willow wind wine Witch youth
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Page 105 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 212 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 89 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 94 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 89 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 81 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 102 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 81 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who...
Page 98 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 87 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.