Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lostC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... Benedick , no ; for then were you a child . .1 Pedro . You have it full , Benedick : we may guefs by this what you are , being a man . Truly , the lady fathers herfelf : Be happy , lady ! for you are like an honourable father . Bene ...
... Benedick , no ; for then were you a child . .1 Pedro . You have it full , Benedick : we may guefs by this what you are , being a man . Truly , the lady fathers herfelf : Be happy , lady ! for you are like an honourable father . Bene ...
Page 232
... Benedick , -my dear friend Leo- nato hath invited you all . I tell him , we shall stay here at the leaft a month ... Benedick and Claudio . Claud . Benedick , didft thou note the daughter of fignior Leonato ? Bene . I noted her not ; but ...
... Benedick , -my dear friend Leo- nato hath invited you all . I tell him , we shall stay here at the leaft a month ... Benedick and Claudio . Claud . Benedick , didft thou note the daughter of fignior Leonato ? Bene . I noted her not ; but ...
Page 233
... Benedick afks whether he is ferious , or whether he only means to jeft , and tell them that Cupid is a good bare- fader , and Vulcan a rare carpenter . A man praifing a pretty lady i jeft , may fhew the quick fight of Cupid , but what ...
... Benedick afks whether he is ferious , or whether he only means to jeft , and tell them that Cupid is a good bare- fader , and Vulcan a rare carpenter . A man praifing a pretty lady i jeft , may fhew the quick fight of Cupid , but what ...
Page 235
... Benedick has juft mentioned . Be- nedick replies , My lord , he is like the old riddling tale , it is not jo , and ' twas not fo ; but ( now he mentions his own private with ) Ifay , God forbid that it should be fo ! Claudio then re ...
... Benedick has juft mentioned . Be- nedick replies , My lord , he is like the old riddling tale , it is not jo , and ' twas not fo ; but ( now he mentions his own private with ) Ifay , God forbid that it should be fo ! Claudio then re ...
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... Benedick bear it , pluck off the bull's - horns , and fet them in my forehead , and let me be vilely paint- ed ; and in fuch great letters as they write , Here is good berfe to bire , let them fignify under my fign , Here you may fee ...
... Benedick bear it , pluck off the bull's - horns , and fet them in my forehead , and let me be vilely paint- ed ; and in fuch great letters as they write , Here is good berfe to bire , let them fignify under my fign , Here you may fee ...
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Page 42 - 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 245 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 246 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Page 455 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 334 - These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 407 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 296 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 8 - 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. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Page 407 - Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.