Marlowe's Edward the SecondClarendon Press, 1879 - 176 pages |
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Marlowe's Edward the Second (1879) Christopher Marlowe,Osborne William Tancock No preview available - 2009 |
Marlowe's Edward the Second (1879) Christopher Marlowe,Osborne William Tancock No preview available - 2009 |
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Abbott Aeneid Archb Archbishop Arundel Baldock banish Barons Berkeley Bishop Bishop of Coventry brother castle Chronicle Compare Holinshed Compare Julius Cæsar Compare line Compare Richard Const crown death Despenser Drayton Dyce Earl of Lancaster Edmund England English Enter KING EDWARD Exeunt Fabyan Faery Queene father Faustus fear France friends Gaveston gone grace Gram Gurney hath head heart hence Henry Henry VI Hist Holinshed honour Hugh le Despenser idiom Isab Isabel Jew of Malta Julius Cæsar Killingworth King Lear King's Kyng Latin Leicester Levune lord Madam Marlowe Marlowe's Matrevis meaning murder noble note on line Ormulum Pembroke phrase play poet poet's Polyolbion prison realm reign Richard II says Scene Shakespeare Sir John soldiers speak Spen Spenser stay Stow Stubbs sweet sword Tamburlaine Tancock thee thou traitor uncle unto verb Villain Wagner Warwick word younger MORTIMER younger SPENSER
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Page 82 - Edw. Something still buzzeth in mine ears, And tells me, if I sleep, I never wake : This fear is that which makes me tremble thus; And therefore tell me, wherefore art thou come ? Light. To rid thee of thy life. — Matrevis, come ! Enter MATREVIS and GURNEY. K. Edw. I am too weak and feeble to resist. — Assist me, sweet God, and receive my soul ! Light.
Page 85 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.
Page 136 - To wast long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to...
Page 124 - And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Page 145 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 65 - But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day ? My nobles rule, I bear the name of king ; I wear the crown but am controll'd by them, By Mortimer, and my unconstant queen, Who spots my nuptial bed with infamy.
Page 170 - I saw not their execution, but met their quarters, mangled, and cut, and reeking, as they were brought from the gallows in baskets on the hurdle.
Page 86 - Sweet father, here unto thy murdered ghost I offer up this wicked traitor's head; And let these tears, distilling from mine eyes, Be witness of my grief and innocency. [Exeunt.] THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET...
Page 76 - ... tis good he die : But read it thus, and that's another sense ; Edwardum occidere nolite, timere bonum est, Kill not the king, 'tis good to fear the worst. Unpointed as it is, thus shall it go. That, being dead, if it chance to be found, Matrevis and the rest may bear the blame, And we be quit that caus'd it to be done.
Page 81 - I see my tragedy written in thy brows. Yet stay a while; forbear thy bloody hand, And let me see the stroke before it comes, That even then when I shall lose my life, My mind may be more steadfast on my God.