The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4G. Bell, 1875 |
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... Merry Wives of Windsor , Falstaff says : - " They would melt me out of my fat drop by drop , and liquor fishermen's boots with me . " 20 As in a castle was a proverbial phrase for security . Steevens has adduced several examples of its ...
... Merry Wives of Windsor , Falstaff says : - " They would melt me out of my fat drop by drop , and liquor fishermen's boots with me . " 20 As in a castle was a proverbial phrase for security . Steevens has adduced several examples of its ...
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... Merry Wives of Windsor , The Taming of the Shrew , and Winter's Tale . 5 Gorbellied is big - paunched , corpulent . 6 Chuffs . A term of reproach usually applied to avaricious old citizens . It is of uncertain derivation . Cotgrave ...
... Merry Wives of Windsor , The Taming of the Shrew , and Winter's Tale . 5 Gorbellied is big - paunched , corpulent . 6 Chuffs . A term of reproach usually applied to avaricious old citizens . It is of uncertain derivation . Cotgrave ...
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... him with his lady's fan . See note on The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act ii . Sc . 2 , p . 220 . Shakespeare either mistook the name of Hotspur's wife ( which Lady . O my good lord , why are you 44 ACT II . FIRST PART OF.
... him with his lady's fan . See note on The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act ii . Sc . 2 , p . 220 . Shakespeare either mistook the name of Hotspur's wife ( which Lady . O my good lord , why are you 44 ACT II . FIRST PART OF.
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... merry meetings , as it was near his own residence ; a mansion called Cold Harbour ( near All Hallows Church , Upper Thames - street ) , was granted to Henry Prince of Wales . 11 Henry IV . 1410. - Rymer , vol . viii . p . 628. In the ...
... merry meetings , as it was near his own residence ; a mansion called Cold Harbour ( near All Hallows Church , Upper Thames - street ) , was granted to Henry Prince of Wales . 11 Henry IV . 1410. - Rymer , vol . viii . p . 628. In the ...
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... merry ? Poins . As merry as crickets , my lad . But hark ye ; What cunning match have you made with this jest of the drawer ? come , what's the issue ? P. Hen . I am now of all humours , that have show'd themselves humours , since the ...
... merry ? Poins . As merry as crickets , my lad . But hark ye ; What cunning match have you made with this jest of the drawer ? come , what's the issue ? P. Hen . I am now of all humours , that have show'd themselves humours , since the ...
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ancient art thou Bard Bardolph Ben Jonson blood brother called captain Constable of France Cotgrave cousin crown devil dost doth Douglas Duke Earl Eastcheap England English Enter Exeunt Exit faith Falstaff father fear folio France French friends give Glend Glendower grace Harfleur Harry hath hear heart heaven Holinshed honour horse Host Hotspur humour Kate Kath King Henry King Henry IV king's knave Lady liege look lord majesty master means merry Mortimer never night noble Northumberland numbers old copies passage peace Percy Pist Pistol play Poins pr'ythee pray PRINCE JOHN prince of Wales quarto rogue sack says SCENE Shakespeare Shal Shallow Sir John Sir John Falstaff soldiers speak Steevens sweet sword tell thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought unto Westmoreland word
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Page 372 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 327 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit; and upon this charge Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!
Page 199 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 23 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 202 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; The which observ'd . a man may prophesy, With a near aim , of the main chance of things As yet not come to life , which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 199 - With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 281 - On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object : Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest, in little place, a million ; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces...
Page 168 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 198 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 281 - FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...