Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama: Norwich Whitsun plays: Creation and FallGinn, 1897 - English drama |
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Page i - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 480 - ... her chyldren three, Twoo naught and one godlye. Early sharpe that wyll be thorne, Soone yll that wyll be naught: To be naught better unborne ; Better unfed than naughtily taught.
Page xx - Quo uiso, deponant turribula que gestauerunt in eodem sepulchro, sumantque linteum et extendant contra clerum, ac, ueluti ostendentes quod surrexerit Dominus et iam non sit illo inuolutus, hanc canant antiphonam : Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro, [Qui pro nobis pependit in ligno]. Superponantque linteum altari. Finita antiphona, Prior congaudens pro triumpho Regis nostri, quod, deuicta morte, surrexit, incipiat hymnum: Te, Deum, laudamus. • Quo incepto, una pulsantur omnia signa...