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" More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. "
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: An Offering for Christmas and the New Year - Page 104
edited by - 1842 - 320 pages
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The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1920 - 172 pages
...more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 10 Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more. Ami. My voice is ragged : I know I cannot please you. Jaq. I do not desire you...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,...
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...his only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck -melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ; M the motley fool, " who morals on the time," is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest....
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Letters from the South: Written During an Excursion in the Summer ..., Volume 1

James Kirke Paulding - 1817 - 270 pages
...contrary, without effort — you never hear the flapping of the eagle's wings. , • You, who I know can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs," have often been galled to see such fulsome praises lavished on poems without a single ray of genius,...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...only passion is thought ; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food Tor reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;* the motley fool, " who morals on the time," is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest. He...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1818 - 784 pages
...his only passion is thought; he sets no value upon any thing but as it serves as food for reflection. He can " suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;'' the motley fool, " who morals on the time/' is the greatest prize he meets with in the forest....
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Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach" breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As you Like it, Jaques says that he "can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs ;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs "out of a song." — And in Troilus and Cressida,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...breeds fleas as fast as a loach " breeds, not fleas, but loaches. In As You Like It, Jaques says that he " can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs;" but he does not mean that a weasel sucks eggs " out of a song."—And in Troilus and Cressida, where...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...more. Ami. It will make yon melancholy, monsieur Jaques. Jffq. I thank it. More, I pr'ythee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs : ËÒîãå, I pr'ythee, more. Ami. My voice is ragged J; I know, I cannot please you. Jaq. I do not...
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Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I pr'ythee, more. I can suck melancholy .out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I pr'ythee, more. Ami. My voice is ragged ; l I know, I cannot please you. Jaq. I do not desire...
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