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Page xlviii
... Mistress Ford : " She kept an inne of right good lodgyng For all estates that thyder was comyng . " How far the whole character was an invention of Robert Copeland , the writer of the tract printed by his brother William , is unknown ...
... Mistress Ford : " She kept an inne of right good lodgyng For all estates that thyder was comyng . " How far the whole character was an invention of Robert Copeland , the writer of the tract printed by his brother William , is unknown ...
Page xlix
... Mistress Honeysuckle . I doubt that old hag , Gillian of Brentford , has bewitched me . " Halliwell quotes to the same effect from " a manuscript of the time of Charles I. " : " The Conjuringe of the Witch . Come away , come away , Thou ...
... Mistress Honeysuckle . I doubt that old hag , Gillian of Brentford , has bewitched me . " Halliwell quotes to the same effect from " a manuscript of the time of Charles I. " : " The Conjuringe of the Witch . Come away , come away , Thou ...
Page liv
... mistresses of households in a well - to - do class of life , have not much to discriminate between them . We naturally assume them to be both attractive , and since one has a marriageable daughter , they may be guessed at about " fair ...
... mistresses of households in a well - to - do class of life , have not much to discriminate between them . We naturally assume them to be both attractive , and since one has a marriageable daughter , they may be guessed at about " fair ...
Page lv
... mistresses ' order , and probably the spirit in which it was given , entirely lacking in delicacy . Anything like a pure passion was out of the question with this fat and selfish Falstaff . And the Queen was greatly pleased . Mrs. Ford ...
... mistresses ' order , and probably the spirit in which it was given , entirely lacking in delicacy . Anything like a pure passion was out of the question with this fat and selfish Falstaff . And the Queen was greatly pleased . Mrs. Ford ...
Page lvii
... . Nym mistook his man very thoroughly when he proposed to possess Page with jealousy and " incense him to deal with poison . " Mistress Anne is no doubt attractive - young , well- off , and fair to look upon , we would INTRODUCTION lvii.
... . Nym mistook his man very thoroughly when he proposed to possess Page with jealousy and " incense him to deal with poison . " Mistress Anne is no doubt attractive - young , well- off , and fair to look upon , we would INTRODUCTION lvii.
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Page 38 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 202 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page lxvii - The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a companion, when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff.
Page x - ... of Auncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym. By William Shakespeare. As it hath bene diuers times Acted by the right Honorable my lord Chamberlaines seruants. Both before her Maiestie, and else-where. London Printed by TC for Arthur Johnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the Crowne. 1602.