Shakespeare's Comedy of Measure for Measure: With Preface, Glossary, &cJ. M. Dent, 1905 - 143 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abhor Abhorson accuse Barnardine bawd believe beseech brother caitiff Claud Claudio comfort CONCUPISCIBLE condemn'd confess credent bulk CUCULLUS death Deputy desire diest dost thou doth Duke's Elbow Enter Angelo Enter Duke disguised Enter Isabella Escal evil Exeunt Exit Provost false father faults fear fellow Folio Friar Peter Gent gentle give Grace Hallowmas hanged hath head hear heaven hither honour husband Isab Isabel Juliet justice LAPWING LEIGER live Look Lord Angelo maid Mari Mariana Marry Master Froth Measure for Measure mercy Mistress Overdone offence Officers pardon Pompey poor pray prayers prison Prov Re-enter Provost Scene Shakespeare's shame sirrah sister slander soul speak stand strange tapster tell thank thee there's thing thou art thou hast TICK-TACK to-morrow true truth varlet Varrius vice Vienna virtue warrant What's wife woman word wrong'd
Popular passages
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...
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 39 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Page 2 - That, to the observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : 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, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
Page 59 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 40 - 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 78 - He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself, to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Page 19 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt...
Page 21 - We must not make a scarecrow 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.
Page 39 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.