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" To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. CX Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 322
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...my stain. Never believe, though in my nature reign'd All frailties that beseige all kinds of blood, That it could so preposterously be stain'd To leave...I call, Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all. Epilogue ROSALIND It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome...
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The Life and Death of King Richard II

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 540 pages
...kind and true is all my argument" (CV). [P. 6] Love becomes eternal love, devotion a religion of love: "For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all (CIX). You are my all the world . . . You are so strongly in my purpose bred That all the world besides...
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...creative spirit in the world acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase, who...
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...reigned All frailties that hestege all kinds of blood, i0 That it could so preposterously he statned, To leave for nothing all thy sum of good: For nothing...wide universe i call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou ari my alL i4 rose] oi itosei 2 motley fooL OED cites this as the first usage of the noun in this sense....
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 15

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 220 pages
...whole state of existence and to him it is inconceivable that he could ever 'leave for nothing all this sum of good' — For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Sonnet cix, from which these lines are quoted, presents the poet 'like one that travels' bringing 'water...
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Shame in Shakespeare

Ewan Fernie - Drama - 2002 - 292 pages
...eyes are slits and cringing, and we hiss. Scales glitter on our bodies as we fall. (Lowell 1974) 11 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view'. I quote Orwell from 'Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (Kermode 1969: 159). 12 The italicised line parodies...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 40

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...faithful) to one to whom one has said: 'I am not true.' In Shakespeare, for example, Sonnet 1 10 begins, 'Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view', and ends, 'Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best / Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.'...
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The Mutual Flame: On Shakespeare's Sonnets and The Phoenix and the Turtle

G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...sweet self grow'st' in Sonnet 126. With 'thou art that all-in-all that I love best' (151/159) compare: For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. (Sonnet 109) Lines start up in Shakespearian rhythm, such as 'Die perjur'd envy, for thy late offence'...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...whole state of existence and to him it is inconceivable that he could ever 'leave for nothing all this sum of good' — For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Sonnet cix, from which these lines are quoted, presents the poet 'like one that travels' bringing 'water...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare's times, texts, and stages

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...thee hast left behind, (ix, 3-6) sometimes the world shrinks to nothingness in comparison with him: For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all. (ax, i3-i4) Such statements bring 'the world' into the sonnetdrama, not as spectator, but as participator....
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