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" But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,... "
The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ... - Page 312
1852
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 608 pages
...and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the same. Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure, as know. Enter...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved ..., Volume 13

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 340 pages
...and so close, So far from sounding and discovery. As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the same. Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow. We would as willingly give cure, as know. Enter...
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...close, So far from sounding and discovery, ar.s As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure as know. Enter ROMEO,...
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Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakespeare

Alexander Dyce - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1843 - 350 pages
...act i. sc. 1. SCENE 1.— C. p. 380 ; K. p. 290. "As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, .Or dedicate his beauty to the same." Mr. Collier, who has taken the trouble to chronicle a great many wretched conjectures, does...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 450 pages
...so close , So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm , Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air , Or dedicate his beauty to the same. Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure , as know. Enter...
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Constancy, and Contrition, Volume 1

Constancy - 1844 - 936 pages
...and so close, So far from sounding and discovery. As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. ROMEO AND JULIET. THE mind of Julian was distracted at the thoughts of having abandoned her for whom...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 13

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 338 pages
...and so close, So far from sounding and discovery. As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air. Or dedicate his beauty to the same. Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure, as know. Enter...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 81

1845 - 678 pages
...Montague speaks, according to the common text, of ' — the bud, bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.' But all the old editions which contain the line, read ' same' for ' sun ; ' and Mr Collier, without...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...Counsellor, Is to himself so secret and so close, As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his...are no sooner put where they are, than we feel at °nce their beauty and their effect ; and acknowledge our obligations to that exuberant genius which...
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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1846 - 514 pages
...death to him. Young, •sensitive, delicate, he was like " A bud bit by an envious worm, Ere he could spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun " — and unable to endure the miscreant cry and idiot laugh, withdrew to sigh his last breath in foreign climes....
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