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" I COME no more to make you laugh ; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow. Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 173
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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Philip II: A Dramatic Romance

John Elford - 1880 - 290 pages
...with numerous errors and dull without a single absurdity. — Pref. to Vicar of Wakefield. PREFACE. I come no more to make you laugh ; things now, That...eye to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, hero May if they think it well let fall a tear, The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money...
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Histories

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 982 pages
...to Wolsey GRIFFITH. Gentleman-usher to Queen Katharine. SCENE: London; Westmintter; Kimbolton. THE PROLOGUE. I COME no more to make you laugh : things...Their money out of hope they may believe, May here tiud truth too. Those that come to see (860) Three Gentlemen. DOCTOR BUTTS, Physician to the King....
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Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Eighth

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 228 pages
...hated living," adds the last graceful "finishing to her character. [From Knight's Comments on the " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." This is the commencement of the most remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakespeare's...
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King Henry VIII.: With Notes, Examination Papers, and Plan of Preparation

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 188 pages
...Attendants. Spirits. SCENE. — Chiefly in LONDON and WESTMINSTER ; once at KIMBOLTON. KING HENRY VIII. PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh ; things...to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here 5 May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money...
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Shakespeare's Henry viii, with notes, examination papers, and plan of ...

William Shakespeare - 1884 - 124 pages
...shows; Women attending upon the Queen, Scribes, Officers, Guards, and Attendants. KING HENRY VIII. PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh: things...to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here 6 The play may pass, it' they be still and willing, I '11 undertake may see away their shilling Richly...
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Shakespeare's Works, Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1884 - 442 pages
...living," adds the last graceful finishing to her character. [From Jfnight's Comments on the P!ay.*~\ " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." This is the commencement of the most remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakspere's...
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New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Volume 3; Volume 144

Henry Halford Vaughan - 1886 - 614 pages
...combat, and been beheaded by Jasper in the midland counties of England. KING HENRY VIII. PROLOGUE. Things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. ' Full of state and woe,' means ' full of the tragic changes ' which befall kings and ministers of...
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New Readings and New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Volume 1

Henry Halford Vaughan - English drama - 1886 - 670 pages
...they will talk sorrowfully of tragical events in high places.' So in the prologue to Henry VIII. : ' I come no more to make you laugh. Things now, ' That...working, full of state and woe, ' Such noble scenes as make the eye to flow, ' We now present.' ' State ' and ' woe ' are in both passages used almost as...
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The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...this play reflects and the prologue intimates the mental change in the so-called " Unhappy Period." " I come no more to make you laugh. Things now That...brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe." And that mood is continued through four acts of the Play, but the fifth act manifests a festive spirit....
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History of King Henry the Eighth

William Shakespeare - 1891 - 236 pages
...living," adds the last graceful finishing to her character. [From Knighfs Comments on the Play.*"] " I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present." This is the commencement of the most remarkable Prologue of the few which are attached to Shakspere's...
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