The Aldus Shakespeare, Volume 33

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Bigelow Smith, 1909

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Page 76 - Thus much of this, will make Black, white; foul, fair; wrong, right; Base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant. Ha, you gods ! why this ? What this, you gods ? Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides ; Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd ; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench...
Page 112 - It will be seen to-morrow : my long sickness Of health, and living, now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.
Page ix - Give salutation to my sportive blood ? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, , Which in their wills count bad what I think good ? No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own: I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel ; By their rank thoughts my deeds must not b(i shown ; Unless this general evil they maintain, All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
Page 114 - Come not to me again ; but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who, once a day with his embossed froth, The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Page 98 - The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Page 95 - O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright defiler Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever young, fresh...

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