 I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more...  The Metropolitan - Page 711836Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808
...world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And, therefore, thou may'st think my 'haviour light : But, trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true, Than those that have more cunning to be strange. I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was 'ware, My true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...to be used here : " Measure my strangeness by my unripe years." Again, in Romeo and Juliet : " 1 '11 prove more true " Than those that have more cunning to be strange." But I doubt whether the word was intended to bear that sense here. Malone. Johnson's explanation of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811
...world, In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my haviour light r But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.8 I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou over-heard'st, ere I was ware,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812
...world. In truth., fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my haviour light ;. But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange. I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou over-heard'st, ere I was 'ware, My true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812
...world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my haviour light ; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange. I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou over-heard'st, ere I was 'ware, My true... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1813
...the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.1 I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou over-heard'st, ere I was ware,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1813
...Venus and Adonis : '* Measure my strangeness with my unripe years." Again, in Romeo and Juliet : " I'll prove more true, " Than those that have more cunning to be strange" To tend is to attend upon. MALONE. i underwrite — ] To subscribe, in Shakspeare, is to obey. JOHNSON.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814
...world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my 'haviour light : But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange. I should have been mure strange, l must confess, But that thou over-heard 'st, ere I was ware, My true... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815
...Jul. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond : And therefore thou may'st think my haviour light ; •$ But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true, Than those that have more cunning to be strange. — coying to ic sti ange.] For raying the modern editions have cunning. JOHN. Canning is the reading... | |
 | Charles Inigo Jones - 1816 - 100 pages
...world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou may'st think my 'haviour light ; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange. I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was 'ware, My true... | |
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