The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence |
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... Room in Cleon's House . Enter CLEON , CORISCA , and GRACCU LO . Coris . Nay , good chuck . Cleon . I've said it ; stay at home : I cannot brook your gadding ; you're a fair one , Beauty invites temptations , and short heels Are soon ...
... Room in Cleon's House . Enter CLEON , CORISCA , and GRACCU LO . Coris . Nay , good chuck . Cleon . I've said it ; stay at home : I cannot brook your gadding ; you're a fair one , Beauty invites temptations , and short heels Are soon ...
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... rooms With cassia and amber , where they are To feast and revel ; while , like servile grooms , You wait upon their trenchers : feed their eyes With massy plate , until your cupboards crack With the weight that they sustain ; set forth ...
... rooms With cassia and amber , where they are To feast and revel ; while , like servile grooms , You wait upon their trenchers : feed their eyes With massy plate , until your cupboards crack With the weight that they sustain ; set forth ...
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... impart may break our fetters , If you dare second me . Cimb . We'll not fail . Grac . A cart - rope Shall not bind me at home . Mar. Think on't , and prosper . [ Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE I. The Same . A Room 32 THE BOND MAN .
... impart may break our fetters , If you dare second me . Cimb . We'll not fail . Grac . A cart - rope Shall not bind me at home . Mar. Think on't , and prosper . [ Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE I. The Same . A Room 32 THE BOND MAN .
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Philip Massinger William Gifford. ACT II . SCENE I. The Same . A Room in Archidamus's House . Enter ARCHIDAMUS , TIMAGORAS , LEOSTHENES , with gorgets ; and MARULLO . Archid . So , so , ' tis well : how do I look ? Mar. Most sprightfully ...
Philip Massinger William Gifford. ACT II . SCENE I. The Same . A Room in Archidamus's House . Enter ARCHIDAMUS , TIMAGORAS , LEOSTHENES , with gorgets ; and MARULLO . Archid . So , so , ' tis well : how do I look ? Mar. Most sprightfully ...
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... Room in Cleon's House . i Enter Asorus , driving in GRACCUĻO . Asot . You slave ! you dog ! down , cur . Grac . Hold , good young master , For pity's sake ! Asot . Now am I in my kingdom :Who says I am not valiant ? I begin To frown ...
... Room in Cleon's House . i Enter Asorus , driving in GRACCUĻO . Asot . You slave ! you dog ! down , cur . Grac . Hold , good young master , For pity's sake ! Asot . Now am I in my kingdom :Who says I am not valiant ? I begin To frown ...
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Page 354 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 345 - We show no arts of Lydian panderism, Corinthian poisons, Persian flatteries, But mulcted so in the conclusion, that Even those spectators that were so inclined, Go home changed men.
Page 15 - Honours and great employments are great burthens, And must require an Atlas to support them. He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself...
Page 435 - I been born In a poor sordid cottage, not nursed up With expectation to command a court, I might, like such of your condition, sweetest, Have ta'en a safe and middle course, and not, As I am now, against my choice...
Page 76 - Humanity then lodged in the hearts of men, and thankful masters carefully provided for creatures wanting reason. The noble horse, that in his fiery youth from his wide nostrils neighed courage to his rider and brake through groves of opposed pikes, bearing his lord safe to triumphant victory, old or wounded, was set at liberty and freed from service. The Athenian mules, that from the quarry drew marble...
Page 38 - And spoil him of his birthright"? 'tis not well. But being to part, I will not chide, I will not ; Nor with one syllable 'or tear, express How deeply I am wounded with the arrows Of your distrust : but when that you shall hear, At your return, how I have borne myself, 1 Oatf,] ie oun.
Page 344 - To endure the frosts of danger, nay, of death, To be thought worthy the triumphal wreath By glorious undertakings, may deserve Reward or favour from the commonwealth ; Actors may put in for as large a share • As all the sects of the philosophers : They with cold precepts...
Page 481 - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish...
Page 432 - For princes never more make known their wisdom Than when they cherish goodness where they find it : They being men, and not gods, Contarino, They can give wealth and titles, but no virtues : That is without their power. When they advance, Not out of judgment, but deceiving fancy, An undeserving man, howe'er set off With all the trim of greatness, state, and power, And of a creature even grown terrible To him from whom he took...
Page 345 - As such as are born dumb. When we present An heir that does conspire against the life Of his dear parent, numbering every hour He lives as tedious to him, if there be Among the auditors one whose conscience tells him He is of the same mould, — WE CANNOT HELP IT. Or, bringing on the stage a loose adulteress, That does maintain the riotous expense Of him that feeds her greedy lust, yet suffers The lawful pledges of a former bed To starve the while for hunger ; if a matron, However great in fortune,...