The Comedies of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Harper and brothers, 1895 - English drama (Comedy) |
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... thing . Beat . Nay , if they lead to any ill , I will leave them . at the next turning . [ Exeunt . Music for the dance . John . Sure my brother is amorous on Hero , and hath withdrawn her father to break with him about it . The ladies ...
... thing . Beat . Nay , if they lead to any ill , I will leave them . at the next turning . [ Exeunt . Music for the dance . John . Sure my brother is amorous on Hero , and hath withdrawn her father to break with him about it . The ladies ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... thing of a jealous complexion . Pedro . I'faith , lady , I think your blazon to be true , though , I'll be sworn , if he be so , his conceit is false . Here , Claudio , I have wooed in thy name , and fair Hero is won ; I have broke with ...
... thing of a jealous complexion . Pedro . I'faith , lady , I think your blazon to be true , though , I'll be sworn , if he be so , his conceit is false . Here , Claudio , I have wooed in thy name , and fair Hero is won ; I have broke with ...
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... things I told you of ? Beat . I cry you mercy , uncle . By your grace's pardon . [ Exit BEATRICE . Prince . By my troth , a pleasant - spirited lady . Leon . There's little of the melancholy element in her , my lord ; she is never sad ...
... things I told you of ? Beat . I cry you mercy , uncle . By your grace's pardon . [ Exit BEATRICE . Prince . By my troth , a pleasant - spirited lady . Leon . There's little of the melancholy element in her , my lord ; she is never sad ...
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... things answer mind . Prince . Come , you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but I warrant thee , Claudio , the time shall not go dully by us ; I will , in the interim , undertake one of Hercules ' labors ; which is , to bring ...
... things answer mind . Prince . Come , you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but I warrant thee , Claudio , the time shall not go dully by us ; I will , in the interim , undertake one of Hercules ' labors ; which is , to bring ...
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ANTIPHOLUS Ariel Audrey bear Beat Beatrice Boatswain Bora BORACHIO brother CALIBAN Ceres chain Claud Claudio Clown Comedy of Errors cousin daugh daughter dear didst discase Dogb Dost thou doth Dromio Duke Duke of Milan Enter Ephesus Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fetch fool foul Friar Ganymede gentle give gold Gonzalo grace hand hath hear heart Hero hither honour hour husband king lady Leon Leonato live look lord Marg marry master Master constable merry Milan mistress monster Naples never Orlando Pedro Phebe PLATE Prince prithee Pros PROSPERO quoth Rosalind SCENE Signior Benedick sing speak spirit Stephano strange swear sweet Sycorax tell thank there's thine thou art thou hast thou shalt tongue Trin Trinculo troth true villain Watch wife word
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Page 71 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 225 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 88 - Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school : and then, the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier ; Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 16 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 213 - A strange fish ! 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. Legged like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm o...
Page 81 - twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 88 - His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion, — Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 228 - O, it is monstrous, monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper : it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i...
Page 238 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they, being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 202 - You taught me language ; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language ! Pros.