The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately pr. from the text of mr. Steevens's last ed., with a selection of the most important notes [collected by J. Nichols]. |
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... rich blood of kings is fet on fire ! O , now doth death line his dead chaps with steel ; The fwords of foldiers are his teeth , his fangs ; And now he feafts , mouthing the flesh of men , 7 In undetermin'd differences of kings.- Why ...
... rich blood of kings is fet on fire ! O , now doth death line his dead chaps with steel ; The fwords of foldiers are his teeth , his fangs ; And now he feafts , mouthing the flesh of men , 7 In undetermin'd differences of kings.- Why ...
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... rich In titles , honours , and promotions , As the in beauty , education , blood , Holds hand with any princefs of the world . K. Phi . What fay't thou , boy ? look in the lady's face . Lew . I do , my lord ; and in her eye I find A ...
... rich In titles , honours , and promotions , As the in beauty , education , blood , Holds hand with any princefs of the world . K. Phi . What fay't thou , boy ? look in the lady's face . Lew . I do , my lord ; and in her eye I find A ...
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... rich fair town We make him lord of . - Call the lady Constance ; Some fpeedy meffenger bid her repair To our folemnity : —I trust we fhall , If not fill up the measure of her will , Yet in fome measure fatisfy her fo , That we shall ...
... rich fair town We make him lord of . - Call the lady Constance ; Some fpeedy meffenger bid her repair To our folemnity : —I trust we fhall , If not fill up the measure of her will , Yet in fome measure fatisfy her fo , That we shall ...
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... rich ; And being rich , my virtue then shall be , To fay , there is no vice , but beggary : Since kings break faith upon commodity , Gain , be my lord ; for I will worship thee ! 3 Commodity is Intercft . STEEVEN 3 [ Exit , 4 A broker ...
... rich ; And being rich , my virtue then shall be , To fay , there is no vice , but beggary : Since kings break faith upon commodity , Gain , be my lord ; for I will worship thee ! 3 Commodity is Intercft . STEEVEN 3 [ Exit , 4 A broker ...
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... rich before , 3 To gild refined gold , to paint the lily , To throw a perfume on the violet , To smooth the ice , or add another hue Unto the rainbow , or with taper - light To feek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish , Is wafteful ...
... rich before , 3 To gild refined gold , to paint the lily , To throw a perfume on the violet , To smooth the ice , or add another hue Unto the rainbow , or with taper - light To feek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish , Is wafteful ...
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Page 438 - 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 361 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.
Page 116 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 627 - 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 today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Page 361 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 547 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the...
Page 253 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box...
Page 439 - 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 deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?