A Select Collection of Old Plays: Gammer Gurton's needle; Alexander and Campaspe; Tancred and Gismunda; Cornelia; Edward IISeptimus Prowett, 23, Old Bond Street., 1825 - English drama |
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... face , threw downe his sheelde and ranne awaie as cowardly a warriour as he was a wyse oratour . " The old Version of the singing Psalms also begins in this manner : The man is blest that hath not bent To wicked rede his ear . To brawle ...
... face , threw downe his sheelde and ranne awaie as cowardly a warriour as he was a wyse oratour . " The old Version of the singing Psalms also begins in this manner : The man is blest that hath not bent To wicked rede his ear . To brawle ...
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... face , and come wrap'd in a calf's skin , and cry , ho , ho , & c . " Again , " I'll put me on my great carnation 66 nose , and wrap me in a rowsing calf's skin suit , and come like " some hobgoblin , or some devil ascended from the ...
... face , and come wrap'd in a calf's skin , and cry , ho , ho , & c . " Again , " I'll put me on my great carnation 66 nose , and wrap me in a rowsing calf's skin suit , and come like " some hobgoblin , or some devil ascended from the ...
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... face , by a neyghbour of yours ; She stooped me downe , and up she toke up a needle or a pyn , I durst be sworne it was even yours , by all my mother's kyn . Gammer . It was my neele , Diccon , ich wot ; for here even by this poste Ich ...
... face , by a neyghbour of yours ; She stooped me downe , and up she toke up a needle or a pyn , I durst be sworne it was even yours , by all my mother's kyn . Gammer . It was my neele , Diccon , ich wot ; for here even by this poste Ich ...
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... face frier Rush had , the devil had such another . bonable ] I suppose he means to say banable , from to ban , to curse ; a rogue that ought to be execrated . S. " " 57 Loke even what face frier Rush had , ] Fryar Rush is mentioned in ...
... face frier Rush had , the devil had such another . bonable ] I suppose he means to say banable , from to ban , to curse ; a rogue that ought to be execrated . S. " " 57 Loke even what face frier Rush had , ] Fryar Rush is mentioned in ...
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... face , and call me horse . " Cut is there- fore probably used in the same sense as horse , to which it seems to have been synonymous . Several instances of the use of this term are collected by Mr. Steevens , in his edition of ...
... face , and call me horse . " Cut is there- fore probably used in the same sense as horse , to which it seems to have been synonymous . Several instances of the use of this term are collected by Mr. Steevens , in his edition of ...
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Alexander Anaxarchus Antony Apelles Aristotle arms Baldock Bayly behold blood Cæsar Campaspe cham Chorus chould chyll Cicero Clytus Cocke cometh command Cornelia dame Chat death devil Diccon Diogenes Doctor Rat doth earl earth Edmund Edward England Enter Euphues Exeunt eyes fair father fear fortune friends Gammer Gurton's Gammer Gurton's Needle Gaveston Gismunda gods Gog's grace Granichus grief Gurney hand hast hath head heart heaven hell Hephestion Hodge honour Isabel Julio king knave Lady Lancaster Lightborn live lord Lucrece Lust's Dominion Madam majesty Manes Marlow master master doctor Matrevis mind Mortimer junior neele never noble Parmenio Pembroke Pompey prince Psyllus Queen Renuchio Rome SCEN Shakspeare shame shew soldiers sorrow soul Spencer Steevens Steevens's Note sweet sword Tancred tears tell thee thine thing thou art thou shalt thought Timoclea unto Warwick wold word
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Page 386 - 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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Page 400 - LIGHT. To murder you, my most gracious lord ! Far is it from my heart to do you harm. The queen sent me to see how you were us'd, For she relents at this your misery : And what eyes can refrain from shedding tears, To see a king in this most piteous state ? EDW. Weep'st thou already ? list awhile to me, And then thy heart, were it as Gurney's is, Or as Matrevis', hewn from the Caucasus, Yet will it melt, ere I have done my tale.
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