The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8T. Bensley, 1804 |
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... Tell me , my daugh- ters , ( Since now we will devest us , both of rule , Interest of territory , cares of state , ) Which of you , shall we say , doth love us most ? That we our largest bounty may extend Where merit doth most challenge ...
... Tell me , my daugh- ters , ( Since now we will devest us , both of rule , Interest of territory , cares of state , ) Which of you , shall we say , doth love us most ? That we our largest bounty may extend Where merit doth most challenge ...
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... tell thee , thou dost evil . Lear . Hear me , recreant ! On thine allegiance hear me ! - Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow , ( Which we durst never yet , ) and , with strain'd pride , To come betwixt our sentence and our ...
... tell thee , thou dost evil . Lear . Hear me , recreant ! On thine allegiance hear me ! - Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow , ( Which we durst never yet , ) and , with strain'd pride , To come betwixt our sentence and our ...
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... tell you all her wealth . -For you , great king , [ To France . I would not from your love make such a stray , To match you where I hate ; therefore beseech you To avert your liking a more worthier way , Than on a wretch whom nature is ...
... tell you all her wealth . -For you , great king , [ To France . I would not from your love make such a stray , To match you where I hate ; therefore beseech you To avert your liking a more worthier way , Than on a wretch whom nature is ...
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... tell my daughter I would speak with her . - Go you , call hither my fool.- Re - enter Steward . Ó , you sir , you sir , come you hither : Who am I , sir ? Stew . My lady's father . Lear . My lady's father ! my lord's knave : you ...
... tell my daughter I would speak with her . - Go you , call hither my fool.- Re - enter Steward . Ó , you sir , you sir , come you hither : Who am I , sir ? Stew . My lady's father . Lear . My lady's father ! my lord's knave : you ...
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... tell him , so much the rent of his land comes to ; he will not believe a fool . Lear . A bitter fool ! [ To Kent . Fool . Dost thou know the difference , my boy , between a bitter fool and a sweet fool ? Lear . No , lad ; teach me ...
... tell him , so much the rent of his land comes to ; he will not believe a fool . Lear . A bitter fool ! [ To Kent . Fool . Dost thou know the difference , my boy , between a bitter fool and a sweet fool ? Lear . No , lad ; teach me ...
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a-while art thou Benvolio better blood Brabantio Capulet Cassio Cordelia Corn Cyprus daugh daughter dead dear death Desdemona dost thou doth Duke Edmund Emil Emilia Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewel father fear fellow fool Fortinbras foul friar Gent gentleman give Glo'ster Goneril Guil Guildenstern Hamlet hath hear heart heaven hither honest honour Horatio Iago is't Juliet Kent king KING LEAR knave lady Laer Laertes Lear look lord madam Mantua marry matter Mercutio Michael Cassio Moor night noble Nurse o'er Ophelia Osrick Othello play poison'd Polonius poor Pr'ythee pray Queen Roderigo Romeo SCENE sometimes soul speak sweet sword tell TEMP thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast to-night Tybalt villain wife wilt
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Page 67 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 71 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 72 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 67 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 127 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.
Page 74 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd. raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 63 - I'll observe his looks ; I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil ; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me.
Page 88 - tis not so above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.
Page 66 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Page 71 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.