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Page vii
... ladies and in defence of these foure positions following - 1 , Knights in Ladies service have no free - will . 2 , Beauty is the mainteiner of valour . 3 , Faire Lady was never false . 4 , Perfect lovers are onely wise . " 1612. The ...
... ladies and in defence of these foure positions following - 1 , Knights in Ladies service have no free - will . 2 , Beauty is the mainteiner of valour . 3 , Faire Lady was never false . 4 , Perfect lovers are onely wise . " 1612. The ...
Page viii
... Lady's Trial , acted at the Cockpit.1 1639. Massinger died . It is probable that at about this period Ford left London to live at his native place , Ilsington . 1640. Election of the Long Parliament . 1641. Actors lament their " sad and ...
... Lady's Trial , acted at the Cockpit.1 1639. Massinger died . It is probable that at about this period Ford left London to live at his native place , Ilsington . 1640. Election of the Long Parliament . 1641. Actors lament their " sad and ...
Page ix
... lady , Penelope , Countess of Devon- shire , to whom it was dedicated , is the earliest witness to Ford's interest in the problems of romantic passion . Born in the north - west of Devonshire , and issuing from an old - established nest ...
... lady , Penelope , Countess of Devon- shire , to whom it was dedicated , is the earliest witness to Ford's interest in the problems of romantic passion . Born in the north - west of Devonshire , and issuing from an old - established nest ...
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... Lady's Trial con- tains most that is beautiful in language and character ; The Fancies Chaste and Noble has a little that is characteristic , set in a weak and absurd story ; The Sun's Darling , a " moral masque , " of which Dekker ...
... Lady's Trial con- tains most that is beautiful in language and character ; The Fancies Chaste and Noble has a little that is characteristic , set in a weak and absurd story ; The Sun's Darling , a " moral masque , " of which Dekker ...
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... Lady Periwinkle here never sucked : suck thy master , and bring forth moon - calves , fop , do ! This is good ... ladies . Ford . Cor . So do thy knavery and desperate beggary . SCENE 11. ] THE LOVER'S MELANCHOLY . , 17.
... Lady Periwinkle here never sucked : suck thy master , and bring forth moon - calves , fop , do ! This is good ... ladies . Ford . Cor . So do thy knavery and desperate beggary . SCENE 11. ] THE LOVER'S MELANCHOLY . , 17.
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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 xvi - twas my father's last bequest. \Places a ring on the finger of ITHOCLES. Thus I new-many him whose wife I am ; Death shall not separate us. O, my lords, I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another Of death ! and death ! and death ! still I danced forward ; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows, Yet live to court new pleasures, and outlive them :...
Page 97 - Friar. Dispute no more in this, for know, young man, These are no school-points ; nice philosophy May tolerate unlikely arguments, But heaven admits no jest ! wits that presumed On wit too much, by striving how to prove There was no God, with foolish grounds of art, Discover'd first the nearest way to hell; And fill'd the world with devilish atheism.
Page iv - Souls of Poets, dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Page 98 - Twixt my perpetual happiness and me ? Say that we had one father; say one womb — Curse to my joys ! — gave both us life and birth ; Are we not therefore each to other bound So much the more by nature ? by the links Of blood, of reason ? nay, if you will have't, Even of religion, to be ever one, One soul, one flesh, one love, one heart, one all ? Friar.
Page 227 - Ith. Death waits to waft me to the Stygian banks, And free me from this chaos of my bondage ; And till thou wilt forgive, I must endure. Pen. Who is the saint you serve ? Ith.
Page vi - I do not know where to find, in "any play, a catastrophe so grand, so solemn, and so surprising, as in this. This is indeed, according to Milton, to describe high passions and high actions. The fortitude of the Spartan boy, who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died, without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit, and exenteration" of the inmost mind, which Calantha, with a holy violence against lier nature, keeps closely covered, till the last duties...
Page 10 - Whom art had never taught clefs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning...
Page 458 - I expect No less than what severity calls justice, And politicians safety; let such beg As feed on alms, but if there can be mercy In a protested enemy, then may it Descend to these poor creatures, whose engagements, To th...