Merry wives of Windsor ; Troilus and CressidaF. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 - Theater |
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... adventures of Falstaff in this play seem to have been taken from the story of The Lovers of Pisa , in an old piece , called Tarleton's Newes out of Purgatorie . Mr. Capell pretended to much knowledge of this sort ; and I am sorry B 2.
... adventures of Falstaff in this play seem to have been taken from the story of The Lovers of Pisa , in an old piece , called Tarleton's Newes out of Purgatorie . Mr. Capell pretended to much knowledge of this sort ; and I am sorry B 2.
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... called on the title page , the Welch Knight ; and yet there are some persons who still affect to believe , that all our author's plays were originally published by himself . FARMER . Dr. Farmer's opinion is well supported by " An ...
... called on the title page , the Welch Knight ; and yet there are some persons who still affect to believe , that all our author's plays were originally published by himself . FARMER . Dr. Farmer's opinion is well supported by " An ...
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... called Sir . Upon which it may be observed , that anciently it was the common designation both of one in holy orders and a knight . Fuller , somewhere in his Church History , says , that anciently there were in England more sirs than ...
... called Sir . Upon which it may be observed , that anciently it was the common designation both of one in holy orders and a knight . Fuller , somewhere in his Church History , says , that anciently there were in England more sirs than ...
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... called Sirs † , and of old have been writ so ; whence , I suppose , such of the laity as received the noble order of knighthood being called Sirs too , for distinction sake had Knight writ after them ; which had been superfluous , if ...
... called Sirs † , and of old have been writ so ; whence , I suppose , such of the laity as received the noble order of knighthood being called Sirs too , for distinction sake had Knight writ after them ; which had been superfluous , if ...
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... called the bencher's phrase . STEEVENS . Shakspeare seems to frolick here in his heraldry , with a design not to be easily understood . In Leland's Collectanea , vol . i . part ii . p . 615 , the arms of Geffrey de Lucy are " de goules ...
... called the bencher's phrase . STEEVENS . Shakspeare seems to frolick here in his heraldry , with a design not to be easily understood . In Leland's Collectanea , vol . i . part ii . p . 615 , the arms of Geffrey de Lucy are " de goules ...
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Achilles Æneas AGAM Agamemnon Ajax ancient Ben Jonson CAIUS Calchas called comedy CRES Cressida devil Diomed doth edit editor Enter eringoes Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies Falstaff folio fool give Grecian Greeks Hanmer hath heart heaven HECT Hector Helen honour horse HOST humour husband JOHNSON Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear knight lady lord Lydgate MALONE master Brook master doctor means Menelaus mistress Ford Neoptolemus Nestor old copy old quarto Pandarus Paris passage PATR Patroclus phrase PIST play pray Priam prince quarto Queen QUICK quoth reading scene sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's SHAL Shallow signifies Sir Hugh sir John SLEN Slender speak speech STEEVENS suppose sweet sword tell thee THEOBALD THER Thersites thing thou thought Troilus Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy true TYRWHITT ULYSS WARBURTON wife Windsor woman word