 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...best, but echoes right ; Or blind affeftion, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance : Or crafty malice might pretend this...Should praise a matron ; what could hurt her more ? But thou art proof against them ; and, indeed, Above the ill-fortune of them, or the need : I, therefore,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...best, but echoes right{ Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where ilseem'd to raise :-+ These are as some infamous bawd, or whore* Should praise a matron , what could... | |
 | Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to rain, where it seem'd to raise: These are, as some infamous bawd, or whore, Should praise a matron;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...best, but echoes right: Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise: These are, as some infamous bawd, or whore, Should praise a matron; what could hurt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise : These are, as some infimous bawd, or whore, Should praise a matron ; -.vhat could... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgelh all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this...Should praise a matron. What could hurt her more? But thou art proof against them, and indeed Above th' ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, ajid urgeth all by chance^ Or crafty malice might pretend this...Should praise a matron ; what could hurt her more > But thou art proof against them ; and, indeed, Above the ill fortune of them, or the r.eed : I, therefore,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this...Should praise a matron ; what could hurt her more? But thou art proof against them, and, indeed, Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this...Should praise a matron ; what could hurt her more ? But thou art proof against them ; and, indeed, Above the ill fortune of them, or the need: I, therefore,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this...Should praise a matron. What could hurt her more ? But thou art proof against them, and indeed Above th' ill fortune of them, or the need.' I therefore will... | |
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Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right... 
