Thomas Middleton, Volume 2 |
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1st Suit 2nd Play 2nd Suit blood Bran Chough Coll's Const Dapper do't dost Duch Enter Exeunt Exit faith Fane father fear for't fortune Fran gentleman give Graz hang Hark heart Heaven Hecate Heng HENGIST honest honour hope HORSUS husband i'faith in't is't King of Kent Lady Ager Laxton look Lord Nol madam marry Martia Martino master methinks mistress Moll ne'er never on't peace Phil poor pray prithee Queenborough Re-enter roaring Roaring Girl SCENE servant shame Sir Alex Sir Davy sirrah sister soul speak sure sweet thank thee there's things thou thou'rt TILTYARD to't Trap Trim Trimtram troth twas twill Vort VORTIGER W. C. WARD wench what's whore widow wife woman worship wrong
Popular passages
Page iv - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 190 - They are foul anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy music. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 190 - The names, and some of the properties which the other author has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot co-exist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the witches of Middleton are fine creations. Their power too is, in some measure, over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, ' like a thick scurf
Page 189 - Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may! Titty, Tiffin, Keep it stiff in; Firedrake, Puckey, Make it lucky; Liard, Robin, You must bob in. Round, around, around, about, about! All ill come running in, all good keep out!
Page 190 - These are creatures to whom man or woman plotting some dire mischief might resort for occasional consultation. Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These Witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.
Page 167 - mongst troops of spirits : No ring of bells to our ears sounds, No howls of wolves, no yelps of hounds ; No, not the noise of water's breach, Or cannon's throat our height can reach.
Page iv - Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Page 126 - The nips of Fairies upon maids' white hips Are not more perfect azure. Hec. Tend it carefully. Send Stadlin to me with a brazen dish, That I may fall to work upon these serpents, And squeeze 'em ready for the second hour. Why, when?
Page 125 - ... or sorcery, whereby any person shall be killed, destroyed, wasted, consumed, pined, or lamed in his or her body, or any part thereof...
Page 133 - em utterly now ? could you do that ? Hec. No, time must do't : we cannot disjoin wedlock ; 'Tis of heaven's fastening. Well may we raise jars, Jealousies, strifes, and heart-burning disagreements, Like a thick scurf o'er life, as did our master Upon that patient miracle ; '» but the work itself Our power cannot disjoint.