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Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads, songs ... - Page 52
by English poetry - 1839
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 874 pages
...gives an eivt ergy to Othello's passion, and makes a proper answer to Desdemona's question. ' , P. 408. She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd MAD, And did forsake her. , , Should it not rather be, BAD ? ie dishonestly forsook her. Ibid. • I 've much ado BUT to go hang...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting ...

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 866 pages
...gives an energy to Othello's passion, and makes a proper answer to Desdemona's question. P. 408. Sue was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd MAD, And did forsake her. Should it not rather be, BAD ? ie dishonestly forsook her. Ibid. • I 've much ado BUT to go hang...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...of those same sheets. l-'.mil. Come, come, you talk. Des, My mother had a maid call'd — Barbara ; She was in love ; and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad !,...forsake her : she had a song of — willow, An old thing 't was, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it : That song, to-night, Will not go from...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...one of those same sheets. Emil. Come, come, you talk. Des. My mother had a maid call'd—Barbara ; She was in love ; and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad, And did forsake her: she had a song of—^willow, • 13 VOi,. X. I An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing...
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Shakspeare's Genius Justified: Being Restorations and ..., Volume 10

Zachariah Jackson - 1819 - 504 pages
...deceive even a chaste ear. SCENE III. — page 472. DBSDEMOKA. My mother had a maid call'd — Barbara; She was in love ; and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad, And did forsake her. Dr. Johnson thinks that by the word mad, is meant wild, frantic, uncertain: and Mr. Ritson, that it...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...one of those same sheets. EMIL. Come, come, you talk. DES. My mother had a maid call'd — Barbara ; She was in love ; and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad, And did forsake her 4 : she had a song of — willow, An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing...
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Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists, Volume 2

Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 416 pages
...Desdemona : — " My mother had a maid, called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad. And did forsake her : she had a song of willow,...it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phoebe Wilkins, and that she may yet " rule the...
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Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists, Volume 2

Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...Desdemona : — " My mother had a maid, call'd Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad. And did forsake her : she had a song of willow, An old thing 'twas ; but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 490 pages
...talk. Des. My mother had a maid call'd— Barbara ; She was in love ; and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad,2 And did forsake her : she had a song of— willow, An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it : That song, to-night, Will not go from my mind...
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The Plays, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...one of those same sheets. Emil. Come, come, you talk. Des. My mother had a maid call'd — Barbara ; She was in love ; and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad*,...she had a song of — willow, An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it : That song, to-night, Will not go from my mind...
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