The Shakspere reading book, being seventeen of Shakspere's plays abridged for the use of schools and public readings by H.C. Bowen |
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... fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns , He would himself have been a soldier . This bald unjointed chat of his , my lord , I answer'd indirectly , as I said : And I beseech you , let not his report Come current ...
... fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns , He would himself have been a soldier . This bald unjointed chat of his , my lord , I answer'd indirectly , as I said : And I beseech you , let not his report Come current ...
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... fellow of the north , Percy , and he of Wales , -what a plague call you him ? Poins . O , Glendower . 280 Fal . Owen , Owen , the same and his son - in - law Mortimer , and old Northumberland , and that sprightly Scot of Scots , Douglas ...
... fellow of the north , Percy , and he of Wales , -what a plague call you him ? Poins . O , Glendower . 280 Fal . Owen , Owen , the same and his son - in - law Mortimer , and old Northumberland , and that sprightly Scot of Scots , Douglas ...
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... fellow met me on the way , and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets , and press'd the dead bodies . No eye hath ... fellows are these that come after ? Fal . Mine , Hal , mine . Prince . I did never see such pitiful rascals . 99 Fal ...
... fellow met me on the way , and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets , and press'd the dead bodies . No eye hath ... fellows are these that come after ? Fal . Mine , Hal , mine . Prince . I did never see such pitiful rascals . 99 Fal ...
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... fellow , brother John . 270 [ A retreat is sounded . The trumpet sounds retreat ; the day is ours . Come , brother , let us to the highest of the field , To see what friends are living , who are dead . [ Exeunt Prince of Wales and ...
... fellow , brother John . 270 [ A retreat is sounded . The trumpet sounds retreat ; the day is ours . Come , brother , let us to the highest of the field , To see what friends are living , who are dead . [ Exeunt Prince of Wales and ...
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... fellows in arms , Let us to France ; like horse - leeches , my boys . France . The KING's Palace . 240 [ Exeunt . Flourish . Enter the FRENCH KING , the DAUPHIN , the DUKE OF BURGUNDY , and the CONSTABLE . Fr. King . Thus come the ...
... fellows in arms , Let us to France ; like horse - leeches , my boys . France . The KING's Palace . 240 [ Exeunt . Flourish . Enter the FRENCH KING , the DAUPHIN , the DUKE OF BURGUNDY , and the CONSTABLE . Fr. King . Thus come the ...
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Page 322 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 297 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 241 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 333 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 212 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 334 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 307 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 333 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.
Page 300 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Page 240 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.