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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... my young valour to the proof , How much I dare do for your sister's love . But , when that I consider how averse Your noble father , great Archidamus , VOL . II . * C 1 Is , and hath ever been , to my Libranan BO N D M A N. ...
... my young valour to the proof , How much I dare do for your sister's love . But , when that I consider how averse Your noble father , great Archidamus , VOL . II . * C 1 Is , and hath ever been , to my Libranan BO N D M A N. ...
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... dares not tell a lie . Grac . Indeed , You are no sooner out of sight , but she Does feel strange qualms ; then sends for her young doctor , Who ministers physic to her on her back , Her ladyship lying as she were entranced : ( I've ...
... dares not tell a lie . Grac . Indeed , You are no sooner out of sight , but she Does feel strange qualms ; then sends for her young doctor , Who ministers physic to her on her back , Her ladyship lying as she were entranced : ( I've ...
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... dare not Ascribe unto myself . Archid . Sir , empty men Are trumpets of their own deserts ; but you , That are not in opinion , but in proof , Really good , and full of glorious parts , Leave the report of what you are to fame ; Which ...
... dare not Ascribe unto myself . Archid . Sir , empty men Are trumpets of their own deserts ; but you , That are not in opinion , but in proof , Really good , and full of glorious parts , Leave the report of what you are to fame ; Which ...
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... dare you but imagine that your gold is Too dear a salary for such as hazard Their blood and lives in your defence ? For me , An ignorant girl , bear witness , heaven ! so far a I prize a soldier , that , to give THE BOND MEN . 25.
... dare you but imagine that your gold is Too dear a salary for such as hazard Their blood and lives in your defence ? For me , An ignorant girl , bear witness , heaven ! so far a I prize a soldier , that , to give THE BOND MEN . 25.
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... dare deserve them ; a rich feast Prepared by Victory , of immortal viands , Not for base men , but such as with their swords Dare force admittance , and will be her guests : And can you coldly suffer such rewards To be proposed to ...
... dare deserve them ; a rich feast Prepared by Victory , of immortal viands , Not for base men , but such as with their swords Dare force admittance , and will be her guests : And can you coldly suffer such rewards To be proposed to ...
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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,...