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2nd edition according addition apparent appointed assignment assurance attorney bill bond BOOK brought CADE called Clerk common condition contained court covenants custom death deed displayed doth double dower entered expression FALSTAFF father fee-simple fine freehold frequent give grant Hamlet hand hast hath heart heir Henry VIII hold homage husband indenture inheritance Inst issue Jocasta King king's knowledge lands law terms lawyer LEAR lease leave letters Litt live lord manner master means merchant nature never obligation original parties passage patent person plea poor possession pray present Prince privilege purchase recovery refer reversion Richard Roll Scene seal Second Part Henry seems seize sense Shakespeare signify single Sonnet soul statute statute staple suit tenant tenements thing thou thousand Troilus true usually whereof wife Wood's writ write
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Page 44 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 29 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 50 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 32 - I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away.
Page 30 - Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store...
Page 38 - Kiel, against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of Our said Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 30 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 24 - Homage," says the Treatise of Tenures, " is the most honorable service, and most humble service of reverence, that a frank tenant may do to his lord : for when the tenant shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord. and shall say thus: I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto...
Page 24 - I become your man from this day forward [of life and limb, and of earthly worship,] and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king ; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
Page 48 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare a Lawyer |
| Author | William Lowes Rushton |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 50 pages |
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