The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measureC. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, B. Dod, G. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, S. Crowder and Company, W. Johnson, C. Corbet, T. Lownds, and T. Caslon, 1762 |
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... defire to give ; and much lefs take , What I fhall die to want : but this is trifling ; And all the more it feeks to hide itself , The bigger bulk it fhews . Hence bafhful cunning ; And prompt me , plain and holy innocence . I am your ...
... defire to give ; and much lefs take , What I fhall die to want : but this is trifling ; And all the more it feeks to hide itself , The bigger bulk it fhews . Hence bafhful cunning ; And prompt me , plain and holy innocence . I am your ...
Page 73
... defires , Like to a ftep - dame , or a dowager , Long withering out a young man's revenue . Hip . Four days will quickly fteep themselves in night ; Four nights will quickly dream away the time : And then the moon , like to a filver bow ...
... defires , Like to a ftep - dame , or a dowager , Long withering out a young man's revenue . Hip . Four days will quickly fteep themselves in night ; Four nights will quickly dream away the time : And then the moon , like to a filver bow ...
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... defires ; Know of your youth , examine well your blood , Whether , if you yield not to your father's choice , You can endure the livery of a nun ; For aye to be in fhady cloifter mew'd , wo To live a barren fifter all your life ...
... defires ; Know of your youth , examine well your blood , Whether , if you yield not to your father's choice , You can endure the livery of a nun ; For aye to be in fhady cloifter mew'd , wo To live a barren fifter all your life ...
Page 76
... defire we follow you . Manent Lyfander and Hermia . [ Exeunt : Ly . How now , my love ? why is your cheek fo pale ? ̧- How chance , the roles there do fade fo fast ? Her . Belike , for want of rain ; which I could well Beteem Beteem ...
... defire we follow you . Manent Lyfander and Hermia . [ Exeunt : Ly . How now , my love ? why is your cheek fo pale ? ̧- How chance , the roles there do fade fo fast ? Her . Belike , for want of rain ; which I could well Beteem Beteem ...
Page 83
... defire you , to con them by to - morrow night ; and meet in the palace - wood , a mile without the town , by moon - light , there we will rehearfe ; for if we meet in the city , our devices know we fhall be dog'd with company , and In ...
... defire you , to con them by to - morrow night ; and meet in the palace - wood , a mile without the town , by moon - light , there we will rehearfe ; for if we meet in the city , our devices know we fhall be dog'd with company , and In ...
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Page 319 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 299 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not...
Page 41 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Page 27 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, .Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 34 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 27 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 60 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 320 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Page 321 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.