Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare: with NotesIncludes selections, in verse, from plays by dramatists other than Shakespeare. |
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... desire , Nor pierce any bright eye That wandereth lightly . Bethsabe . Come gentle Zephyr trick'd with those per- fumes That erst in Eden sweetned Adam's love , And stroke my bosom with the silken fan : This shade ( sun - proof ) is yet ...
... desire , Nor pierce any bright eye That wandereth lightly . Bethsabe . Come gentle Zephyr trick'd with those per- fumes That erst in Eden sweetned Adam's love , And stroke my bosom with the silken fan : This shade ( sun - proof ) is yet ...
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... wash in David's bower In water mix'd with purest almond flower , And bathe her beauty in the milk of kids ; Bright Bethsabe gives earth to my desires , Verdure Verdure to earth , and to that verdure flowers , 14 DAVID AND BETHSABE .
... wash in David's bower In water mix'd with purest almond flower , And bathe her beauty in the milk of kids ; Bright Bethsabe gives earth to my desires , Verdure Verdure to earth , and to that verdure flowers , 14 DAVID AND BETHSABE .
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... desire , lift10 upwards , and divine . So large of limbs , his joints so strongly knit , Such breadth of shoulders , as might mainly bear Old Atlas ' burthen . Twixt his manly pitch A pearl more worth than all the world is placed ...
... desire , lift10 upwards , and divine . So large of limbs , his joints so strongly knit , Such breadth of shoulders , as might mainly bear Old Atlas ' burthen . Twixt his manly pitch A pearl more worth than all the world is placed ...
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... desires my blood , And will be call'd the murtherer of a king , Take it . What , are you mov'd ? pity you me ? Then send for unrelenting Mortimer , And Isabel , whose eyes , being turn'd to steel , Will sooner sparkle fire than shed a ...
... desires my blood , And will be call'd the murtherer of a king , Take it . What , are you mov'd ? pity you me ? Then send for unrelenting Mortimer , And Isabel , whose eyes , being turn'd to steel , Will sooner sparkle fire than shed a ...
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... Characters : Aye , these are those that Faustus most desires . O what a world of profit and delight , Of power , of honour , and omnipotence , D f's Is promis'd to the studious artizan ! All things that DOCTOR FAUSTUS . 33.
... Characters : Aye , these are those that Faustus most desires . O what a world of profit and delight , Of power , of honour , and omnipotence , D f's Is promis'd to the studious artizan ! All things that DOCTOR FAUSTUS . 33.
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Alaham blessing blood Bonduca breath brother Cæsar Calica call'd Camena Carracus Clor Corb court curse dare dead dear death dost doth Duch Duke earth eyes fair father Faustus fear fortune Fran give grief hand happy hate hath hear heart heaven Hecate hell honour hope Jacin JOHN FLETCHER JOHN FORD JOHN MARSTON JOHN WEBSTER King kiss kneel lady live look lord lov'd Madam methinks Mont Moth mother ne'er Nennius never night noble Ovid pardon passion PHILIP MASSINGER pity poor pray prison Queen revenge Shakspeare shame shew sister sorrow soul speak spirit sweet sword Tamburlaine tears tell thee there's thine thing THOMAS HEYWOOD THOMAS MIDDLETON thou art thou hast thoughts thyself TRAGEDY twas unto Violanta virtue weep what's whilst wife WILLIAM ROWLEY Witch woman
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Page 231 - Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 36 - And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Page 38 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 371 - Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them...
Page 24 - I might ! but heavens and earth conspire To make me miserable ! Here receive my crown ; Receive it ? no, these innocent hands of mine Shall not be guilty of so foul a crime.
Page 205 - And I did vow never to part with it But to my second husband. Ant. You have parted with it now. Duch. Yes, to help your eye-sight. Ant. You have made me stark blind. Duch. How? Ant. There is a saucy and ambitious devil Is dancing in this circle.
Page 354 - And thou shalt find her honourable, boy ! Full of regard unto thy tender youth, For thine own modesty ; and for my sake, Apter to give, than thou wilt be to ask, ay ! or deserve. Bell. Sir ! you did take me up when I was nothing, And only yet am something by being yours...
Page 35 - Ah, my God, I would weep, but the Devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood instead of tears ! Yea, life and soul ! Oh, he stays my tongue ! I would lift up my hands, but see, they hold them, they hold them ! All.
Page 214 - Come, violent death, Serve for mandragora, to make me sleep: Go, tell my brothers, when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet.
Page 36 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!