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" And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then... "
Tatler & Guardian - Page 84
1831 - 244 pages
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them :^ for there be of them, that will themselves [2] The groundlings. — The meaner people then...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently •with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for ahem :8 for there be of them, that will themselves [2] The groundlings. — The meaner people then...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to let on tome quantity of harren spectators...
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Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and Other Antiquities, Volume 2

Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 pages
...journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. Ham. Oh, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...in the time of Shakspeare, and we here see that he had abundant reason for his precept in Hamlet : " Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them, that will of themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...humanity so abominably. I Play. I hope, we have reformed that indiObrently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves langh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface ..., Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the- modesty of nature : for be reformed altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : 8 for there be of them, that will themselves laugh,...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; In our early playhouses, the pit.had neither floor nor benches. Hence the term of groundlings for...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...humanity so abominably. I Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...
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Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...humanity so abominably. 1 PLAY. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently d with us. HAM. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : (24) for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...
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