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Page 102 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture 5 stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Page 103 - I'll sup. Farewell. POINS. Farewell, my lord. [Exit.] PRINCE. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Page 31 - Pope came off clean with Homer ; but they say Broome went before, and kindly swept the way.
Page 59 - Now in the time of spruceness, our plays follow the niceness of our garments, single plots, quaint conceits, lecherous jests, dressed up in hanging sleeves, and those are fit for the times and the termers: such a kind of light-colour summer stuff, mingled with diverse colours, you shall find this published comedy...
Page 20 - He scoru'd those shifts. You, that have known him, know The common talk ; that from his lips did flow, And run at waste, did savour more of wit, Than any of his time, or since, have writ (But few excepted) in the stage's way : His scenes were acts, and every act a play.
Page 103 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 133 - XV. Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and Basil the Great, translated from the Greek, with an Introduction. FREDERICK M.
Page 133 - IV. Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice. MARGARET SHERWOOD, Ph.D. $0.50. V. Studies in Jonson's Comedy. ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE, Ph.D. $0.50. VI. A Glossary of the West Saxon Gospels, Latin-West Saxon and West Saxon-Latin. MATTIE ANSTICE HARRIS, Ph.D. $1.50. VII. Andreas : The Legend of St. Andrew, translated from the Old English, with an Introduction.
Page 40 - London : Printed by JY for ED and NE ; and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy^Lane. 1652.
Page 136 - XLIII. A Study of Tindale's Genesis, compared with the Genesis of Coverdale and of the Authorized Version. ELIZABETH WHITTLESEY CLEAVELAND, Ph.D. $2.00. XLIV. The Presentation of Time in the Elizabethan Drama. MABLE BULAND, Ph.D. $1.50. XLV. Cynthia's Revels, or the Fountain of Self-Love, by Ben Jonson, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary.