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Yes , truly : I speak not as desiring more ; But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Upon the sister - hood , the votarists of saint Clare . Lucio . [ Within ] Ho ! Peace
be in this place ! Isab . Who's that which calls ? Nun . It is a man's voice : Gentle ...
Yes , truly : I speak not as desiring more ; But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Upon the sister - hood , the votarists of saint Clare . Lucio . [ Within ] Ho ! Peace
be in this place ! Isab . Who's that which calls ? Nun . It is a man's voice : Gentle ...
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And have you nuns no farther privileges ? Nun . Are not these large enough ?
343 Isab . Yes , truly : I speak not as desiring more ; But rather wishing a more
strict restraint Jpon the sister - hood , the votarists of saint Clare , Lucio . [ Within ]
Ho !
And have you nuns no farther privileges ? Nun . Are not these large enough ?
343 Isab . Yes , truly : I speak not as desiring more ; But rather wishing a more
strict restraint Jpon the sister - hood , the votarists of saint Clare , Lucio . [ Within ]
Ho !
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47 Ang . Nay , I'll not warrant that ; for I can speak Against the thing I say . Answer
to this , I , now the voice of the recorded law , Pronounce a sentence on your
brother's life : Might there not be a charity in sin , To save this brother's life ? · Isab
.
47 Ang . Nay , I'll not warrant that ; for I can speak Against the thing I say . Answer
to this , I , now the voice of the recorded law , Pronounce a sentence on your
brother's life : Might there not be a charity in sin , To save this brother's life ? · Isab
.
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In very good time : -speak not you to him , ' till we call upon you . Lucío . Mum .
311 Escal . Come , sir ; did you set these women on to slander lord Angelo ? they
have confess'd you did . Duke . Tis false . · Escal . How ! know you where you are
...
In very good time : -speak not you to him , ' till we call upon you . Lucío . Mum .
311 Escal . Come , sir ; did you set these women on to slander lord Angelo ? they
have confess'd you did . Duke . Tis false . · Escal . How ! know you where you are
...
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Bring them to speak where I may be concealed , Yet hear them . ] Thus the
modern editions . The old copy , published by the players , gives the passage
thus : Bring them to hear me speak , where I may be comceal'd . I believe we
should read ...
Bring them to speak where I may be concealed , Yet hear them . ] Thus the
modern editions . The old copy , published by the players , gives the passage
thus : Bring them to hear me speak , where I may be comceal'd . I believe we
should read ...
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Page 55 - Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 15 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die.
Page 39 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 8 - Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 40 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That 's like my brother's fault : if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his. Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 112 - I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 37 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 20 - Stands at a guard 4 with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 37 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 24 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Measure for measure. Comedy of errors Volume 5 of The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 May 2007 |
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