Merry wives of Windsor. Much ado about nothingPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1785 |
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... Master Constable , or , The Spaniard's Night - Walk , 1602 : -over all , " A goodly , long , thick , Abraham - coloured beard . " Again , in Soliman and Perseda , 1599 , Basilisco -where is the eldest son of Priam , " That Abraham ...
... Master Constable , or , The Spaniard's Night - Walk , 1602 : -over all , " A goodly , long , thick , Abraham - coloured beard . " Again , in Soliman and Perseda , 1599 , Basilisco -where is the eldest son of Priam , " That Abraham ...
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... Master Constable : " Via for fate ! Fortune , lo ! this is all . " STEEVENS . Markham uses this word as one of the vocal helps necessary for reviving a horse's spirits in galloping large rings when he grows slothful . Hence this cant ...
... Master Constable : " Via for fate ! Fortune , lo ! this is all . " STEEVENS . Markham uses this word as one of the vocal helps necessary for reviving a horse's spirits in galloping large rings when he grows slothful . Hence this cant ...
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... constable ? 261 1 Watch . Hugh Oatcake , sir , or George Seacoal ; for they can write and read . Dogb . Come hither , neighbour Seacoal : God hath bless'd you with a good name : to be ... master constable , - 56 At IH MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
... constable ? 261 1 Watch . Hugh Oatcake , sir , or George Seacoal ; for they can write and read . Dogb . Come hither , neighbour Seacoal : God hath bless'd you with a good name : to be ... master constable , - 56 At IH MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
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William Shakespeare. 2 Watch . Both which , master constable , - 268 Dogb . You have ; I knew it would be your an- swer . Well , for your favour , sir , why , give God thanks , and make no boast of it ; and for your ... master constable,- ...
William Shakespeare. 2 Watch . Both which , master constable , - 268 Dogb . You have ; I knew it would be your an- swer . Well , for your favour , sir , why , give God thanks , and make no boast of it ; and for your ... master constable,- ...
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... master constable : * We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the common- wealth . 1 Watch . And one Deformed is one of them ; I know him , he wears a lock . Conr . Masters , masters.- 2 Watch ...
... master constable : * We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the common- wealth . 1 Watch . And one Deformed is one of them ; I know him , he wears a lock . Conr . Masters , masters.- 2 Watch ...
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BARDOLPH beard Beat Beatrice Beaumont and Fletcher Bora Borachio brother Caius called Claud Claudio comedy coney-catching Conr cousin daughter devil doctor Dogb Don John Don Pedro doth Enter Exeunt Exit fairies Fent folio follow fool Friar gentleman give hath hear heart Henry IV Herne the hunter Hero honest Honest Whore honour horns Host humour husband JOHNSON knave knight lady latten Leon Leonato lord maid MALONE Marg Margaret marry master Brook master constable master doctor master Fenton master Slender means mistress Anne mistress Ford never old copies old quarto passage phrase Pist Pistol play pray prince quarto Quic SCENE Shakspere Shal Shallow shew signifies signior Benedick sir Hugh sir John Sir John Falstaff Slen Spanish Tragedy speak STEEVENS sweet tell thee THEOBALD there's troth WARBURTON wife Windsor Winter's Tale woman word
Popular passages
Page 45 - Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour ? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Page 73 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 27 - 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 47 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Page 73 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 74 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 57 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Page 10 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it speare did not wait to brave the united puissance of a Knight of the Shire and a country attorney.