The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes, Volume 2 |
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Hail to you , provost ! so , I think you are . Proc . I am the provost : What's your will
, good friar ? Duke . Bound by my charity , and my bless'd order , I come to visit
the afflicted spirits voi . II . 8 See 2 Kings , x . 27 . E Here in the prison : do me the
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Hail to you , provost ! so , I think you are . Proc . I am the provost : What's your will
, good friar ? Duke . Bound by my charity , and my bless'd order , I come to visit
the afflicted spirits voi . II . 8 See 2 Kings , x . 27 . E Here in the prison : do me the
...
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Re - enior Provost . Provost , a word with you . Pror . What's your will , father ?
Duke . That now you are come , you will be gone : Leave me a while with the
maid ; my mind promises with my habit , no loss shall touch her by my company .
Prot .
Re - enior Provost . Provost , a word with you . Pror . What's your will , father ?
Duke . That now you are come , you will be gone : Leave me a while with the
maid ; my mind promises with my habit , no loss shall touch her by my company .
Prot .
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Provost goes out . ' This is a gentle provost : Seldom , when The steeled gaoler is
the friend of men.How now ? What noise ? That spirit's possess'd with haste ,
That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes . Provost returns , speaking
to ...
Provost goes out . ' This is a gentle provost : Seldom , when The steeled gaoler is
the friend of men.How now ? What noise ? That spirit's possess'd with haste ,
That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes . Provost returns , speaking
to ...
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Exit Provost . Now will I write letters to Angelo , The provost , he shall bear them ,
-whose contents Shall witness to him , I am near at home ; And that , by great
injunctions , I am bound To enter publickly : him I'll desire To meet me at the ...
Exit Provost . Now will I write letters to Angelo , The provost , he shall bear them ,
-whose contents Shall witness to him , I am near at home ; And that , by great
injunctions , I am bound To enter publickly : him I'll desire To meet me at the ...
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Ang . Hark ! how the villain would close now , after his treasonable abuses . Escal
. Such a fellow is not to be talk'd withal : Away with him to prison : - Where is the
provost ? — Away with him to prison ; lay bolts enough upon him : let him speak ...
Ang . Hark ! how the villain would close now , after his treasonable abuses . Escal
. Such a fellow is not to be talk'd withal : Away with him to prison : - Where is the
provost ? — Away with him to prison ; lay bolts enough upon him : let him speak ...
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Page 49 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
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Page 397 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
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Page 398 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes, Volume 2 The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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