 Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard?  Laocoon; Or The Limits of Poetry and Painting - Page 242by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1836 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...heat. [Excunt. SCENE II. A Hall in the EARL of OLDsTER's Costle. Enter EDMUND, with a Letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...barb'rous Scythian, Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd, As thou, my sometime daughter. Bastardy. Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound ; wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, [«hincs For that I am sonie... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...heat. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Hall in the .Ear^o/'Gloster's Castle. Enter EDMUND, iaith a Letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound ; Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that 1 am some twelve or... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...heat 7. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Hall in the Earl of GLOSTEK'S Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a letter. EDM. Thou, nature, art my goddess " ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I 6 — let us HIT — ] So the old quarto. The folio, let us sit. JOHNSON. " — letus/«Y. " ie let... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...VOL. IX. K SCENE II. .4 Hall in the Earl of Gloster's Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a letter. « Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I .Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations 7 to deprive me,9 For that I am some twelve... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...Hall in the Earl ofGlostei's Castle. Enter EDMUND, with a Letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess8 ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom 9 ; and permit s — — of long-engrafted condition,] ie ot qualities of mind, confirmed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...heat*. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A hall in the Earl of Gloster's castle. Enter Edmund, with a letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague f of custom ; and permit The curiosity J of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd, As thou my sometime daughter. BASTARDY. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound: Wherefore should I Stand in the plague§ of custom; and permit The curiosity|| of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...heat.3 [Exeunt. SC£,VE II— A hall in the Earl of Gloster's castle. Enter Edmund, with a letter. Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague3 of custom ; and permit The curiosity* of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or... | |
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...natiye here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honor'd in the breach, than the observance. Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound ; wherefore should 1 Stand to the plague of custom. Refrain to-night ; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next... | |
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