The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 17J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... MASON . gipsy's lust . ] Gipsy is here used both in the original meaning for an Egyptian , and in its accidental sense for a bad woman . JOHNSON . Flourish . Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA , with their Trains 6 ACT I. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .
... MASON . gipsy's lust . ] Gipsy is here used both in the original meaning for an Egyptian , and in its accidental sense for a bad woman . JOHNSON . Flourish . Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA , with their Trains 6 ACT I. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .
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... MASON . " The writings of our common lawyers sometimes call that the processe , by which a man is called into the court and no more . " Minsheu's Dict . 1617 , in v . Processe . " To serve with processe . Vide to cite , to summon ...
... MASON . " The writings of our common lawyers sometimes call that the processe , by which a man is called into the court and no more . " Minsheu's Dict . 1617 , in v . Processe . " To serve with processe . Vide to cite , to summon ...
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... mason - work , in our author's time . So , in Spenser's Fairy Queen , B. II . c . ix : " It was a vault y - built for great dispence , " With many raunges rear'd along the wall . " MALone . What , in ancient masons ' or bricklayers ...
... mason - work , in our author's time . So , in Spenser's Fairy Queen , B. II . c . ix : " It was a vault y - built for great dispence , " With many raunges rear'd along the wall . " MALone . What , in ancient masons ' or bricklayers ...
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... MASON . 8 let me have a child at fifty , ] This is one of Shak- speare's natural touches . Few circumstances are more flattering to the fair sex , than breeding at an advanced period of life . STEEVENS . 9to whom Herod of Jewry may do ...
... MASON . 8 let me have a child at fifty , ] This is one of Shak- speare's natural touches . Few circumstances are more flattering to the fair sex , than breeding at an advanced period of life . STEEVENS . 9to whom Herod of Jewry may do ...
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... MASON . The words - lie still , appear to have been technically used by those who borrow their metaphors from husbandry . Thus Ascham , in his Toxophilus , edit . 1589 , p . 32 : 66 -as a grounde which is apt for corne , & c . if a man ...
... MASON . The words - lie still , appear to have been technically used by those who borrow their metaphors from husbandry . Thus Ascham , in his Toxophilus , edit . 1589 , p . 32 : 66 -as a grounde which is apt for corne , & c . if a man ...
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