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... vertues and endowments . If your Honour shall vouchsafe to accept this Worke , I , with my Booke , am ready prest and bound to be " Your truly devoted , " WILLIAM SHEARES . " Marston's wit is much commended by Wood , but one of the few ...
... vertues and endowments . If your Honour shall vouchsafe to accept this Worke , I , with my Booke , am ready prest and bound to be " Your truly devoted , " WILLIAM SHEARES . " Marston's wit is much commended by Wood , but one of the few ...
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... vertue . Alb . What's all this periphrasis , ha ? Feli . The substance of a supple - chapt flatterer . Alb . O ! doth he play Forobosco the Parasite ? Good , i - faith . Sirrah , you must seeme now as glib and straight , in outward ...
... vertue . Alb . What's all this periphrasis , ha ? Feli . The substance of a supple - chapt flatterer . Alb . O ! doth he play Forobosco the Parasite ? Good , i - faith . Sirrah , you must seeme now as glib and straight , in outward ...
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... vertue , fore it comes to growth , Least it should seed , and so orerun her sonne , Dull pore - blind error . Give me water , boy . There is no poison in't I hope , they say That lukes in massie plate : and yet the earth Is so infected ...
... vertue , fore it comes to growth , Least it should seed , and so orerun her sonne , Dull pore - blind error . Give me water , boy . There is no poison in't I hope , they say That lukes in massie plate : and yet the earth Is so infected ...
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... vertue , O untimely losse ! Come hither , friend . Pree thee , doe not weepe . Why , I am glad hee's deade ; he shall not see His fathers vanquisht by his enemie . Even in princely honour ; nay , pree thee , speake ! How dy'd the ...
... vertue , O untimely losse ! Come hither , friend . Pree thee , doe not weepe . Why , I am glad hee's deade ; he shall not see His fathers vanquisht by his enemie . Even in princely honour ; nay , pree thee , speake ! How dy'd the ...
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... Vertue doth not waste , With each slight flame of crackling vanitie . A modest eye forceth affection , Whilest outward gainesse light lookes but entice . Fairer then natures faire is fowlest vice . She that loves art to get her cheeke ...
... Vertue doth not waste , With each slight flame of crackling vanitie . A modest eye forceth affection , Whilest outward gainesse light lookes but entice . Fairer then natures faire is fowlest vice . She that loves art to get her cheeke ...
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Page 71 - Who winks, and shuts his apprehension up From common sense of what men were, and are, Who would not know what men must be; let such Hurry amain from our black visag'd shows : We shall affright their eyes.
Page 130 - I ha' but played a part Like to some boy that acts a tragedy, Speaks burly words and raves out passion; But when he thinks upon his infant weakness, He droops his eye. I spake more than a god, Yet am less than a man.
Page xiii - He had many quarrells with Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him, wrote his Poetaster on him; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage, in his youth given to venerie.
Page 127 - Screch't out so lowd that he brought back her soule, Calde her againe, that her bright eyes gan ope, And starde upon him. He, audatious foole, Dar'd kisse her hand, wisht her soft rest, lov'd bride ; She fumbled out, thanks good, and so she dide.
Page 32 - I'll muster forces, an unvanquish'd power ; Cornets of horse shall press th' ungrateful earth, This hollow wombed mass shall inly groan, And murmur to sustain the weight of arms : Ghastly amazement, with upstarted hair, Shall hurry on before, and usher us, Whilst trumpets clamour with a sound of death.
Page xi - I ask't Phisitions what their counsell was For a mad dogge, or for a mankind asse ? They told me, though there were confections store Of poppie-seede and soveraigne hellebore.
Page 250 - I wasted lamp-oil, baited my flesh, Shrunk up my veins: and still my spaniel slept. And still I held converse with Zabarell, Aquinas, Scotus, and the musty saw Of antick Donate: still my spaniel slept. Still on went I; first, an sit anima; Then, an it were mortal.
Page 248 - And you have a propensitude to him, he shall be for you. I was solicited to graunt him leave to play the lady in commedies presented by children ; but I knew his voice was to smale, and his stature to loe.
Page xxii - Mr. Halliwell, at the close of his Preface to the Works of Marston, (vol. ip xxii,) says, " The dramas now collected together are reprinted absolutely from the early editions, which were placed in the hands of our printers, who thus had the advantage of following them without the intervention of a transcriber. They are given as nearly as possible in their original state, the only modernizations attempted consisting in the alternations of the letters i and^', and u and v, the retention of which