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... Rowe , I have of course accepted many an emendation , in especial from Rowe , Theobald , and Capell . To Steevens and Malone and the Cambridge Editors of 1863 the debt of all succeeding editions is , in spite of the most independent ...
... Rowe , I have of course accepted many an emendation , in especial from Rowe , Theobald , and Capell . To Steevens and Malone and the Cambridge Editors of 1863 the debt of all succeeding editions is , in spite of the most independent ...
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... Haberdasher , and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio . SCENE : Padua , and Petruchio's Country House . 1 Dramatis Persona ] first list Rowe . 2 Curtis ] Capell . THE TAMING OF THE SHREW INDUCTION SCENE I. - Before.
... Haberdasher , and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio . SCENE : Padua , and Petruchio's Country House . 1 Dramatis Persona ] first list Rowe . 2 Curtis ] Capell . THE TAMING OF THE SHREW INDUCTION SCENE I. - Before.
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... Rowe ; omitted Ff , Q. " drieuen and fiesed of the deiuil into deserte places . " Under the separate word " feeze , " to screw , twist , turn , it ranges the sense of unravelling , which Johnson thought applicable here figura- tively as ...
... Rowe ; omitted Ff , Q. " drieuen and fiesed of the deiuil into deserte places . " Under the separate word " feeze , " to screw , twist , turn , it ranges the sense of unravelling , which Johnson thought applicable here figura- tively as ...
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... Rowe , Chop Capell conj . , Hack Anon . conj . 42. thou wert ] now were Dyce ( Collier MS . ) . We could at once put us in readiness , And. 30 35 40 • 31. stoics stocks ] The same pun , perhaps proverbial and , I think , found in ...
... Rowe , Chop Capell conj . , Hack Anon . conj . 42. thou wert ] now were Dyce ( Collier MS . ) . We could at once put us in readiness , And. 30 35 40 • 31. stoics stocks ] The same pun , perhaps proverbial and , I think , found in ...
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... Rowe . 58. stale ] laughing - stock , or even harlot . Some have found an allusion to stale mate at chess . 58. mates ] The unfavourable sense recurs in Ford's ' Tis Pity , пI . 9 , " what saucy mates are you , " etc. 66 So companion ...
... Rowe . 58. stale ] laughing - stock , or even harlot . Some have found an allusion to stale mate at chess . 58. mates ] The unfavourable sense recurs in Ford's ' Tis Pity , пI . 9 , " what saucy mates are you , " etc. 66 So companion ...
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Page 151 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 151 - ... lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience— Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband...
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