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The other humorously replies , “ For being a bawd , for being a bawd , ” i . e . the
true cause is the moft honourable . This is in cha . racter . Hoid . ] Pompey , as he
is going to prison , on seeing Lucio . cries , I fpy comfort ; I cry bail : ' & c . hoping ...
The other humorously replies , “ For being a bawd , for being a bawd , ” i . e . the
true cause is the moft honourable . This is in cha . racter . Hoid . ] Pompey , as he
is going to prison , on seeing Lucio . cries , I fpy comfort ; I cry bail : ' & c . hoping ...
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief . Clown . If it be too little for your thief , your
true man thinks it big enough . If it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little
enough : so every true man's apparel fits your thief . ] This is a very notable ...
Every true man's apparel fits your thief . Clown . If it be too little for your thief , your
true man thinks it big enough . If it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little
enough : so every true man's apparel fits your thief . ] This is a very notable ...
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If it be too big for your true man , your thief thinks it little enough ; so , & c . Ibid . }
As it stood in all the editions till Mr. Theobald's , the passage was methinks not
very difficult to be understood . The plain and humorous sense of the speech is
this ...
If it be too big for your true man , your thief thinks it little enough ; so , & c . Ibid . }
As it stood in all the editions till Mr. Theobald's , the passage was methinks not
very difficult to be understood . The plain and humorous sense of the speech is
this ...
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief : If it be * too little for your thief , your true
man thinks it big enough . “ If it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little “
enough , so every true man's apparel fits your thief . ” I must do Mr. Warburton the
...
Every true man's apparel fits your thief : If it be * too little for your thief , your true
man thinks it big enough . “ If it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little “
enough , so every true man's apparel fits your thief . ” I must do Mr. Warburton the
...
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That is , Truth has no gradations ; nothing which admits of encrease can be so
much what it is , as truth is truth . There may be a strange thing , and a thing more
strange , but if a proposition be true there can be none more true . JOHNS . L. 28 .
That is , Truth has no gradations ; nothing which admits of encrease can be so
much what it is , as truth is truth . There may be a strange thing , and a thing more
strange , but if a proposition be true there can be none more true . JOHNS . L. 28 .
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| Title | The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, Volume 2 The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1771 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Jul 2007 |
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