Merry wives of Windsor. Much ado about nothingPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1785 |
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... seems not to have known , that by any real passion of tenderness , the selfish craft , the careless jollity , and the lazy luxury of Falstaff must have suffered so much abatement , that little of his former cast would have remained ...
... seems not to have known , that by any real passion of tenderness , the selfish craft , the careless jollity , and the lazy luxury of Falstaff must have suffered so much abatement , that little of his former cast would have remained ...
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... seem to scorch me up like a burning - glass ! Here's another letter to her : she bears the purse she is a region in Guiana , all gold and bounty . I will be cheater to them both , and they shall be exchequers to me ; they shall be my ...
... seem to scorch me up like a burning - glass ! Here's another letter to her : she bears the purse she is a region in Guiana , all gold and bounty . I will be cheater to them both , and they shall be exchequers to me ; they shall be my ...
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... seems to me well - favour'd . I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's cof- fer ; and there's my harvest - home . 503 Ford . I would you knew Ford , sir ; that you might avoid him , if you saw him . Fal . Hang him , mechanical ...
... seems to me well - favour'd . I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's cof- fer ; and there's my harvest - home . 503 Ford . I would you knew Ford , sir ; that you might avoid him , if you saw him . Fal . Hang him , mechanical ...
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... seem'd but tameness , civility , and patience , to this distemper he is in now I am glad the fat knight is not here . Mrs. Ford . Why , does he talk of him ? 109 Mrs. Page . Of none but him ; and swears , he was carried out , the last ...
... seem'd but tameness , civility , and patience , to this distemper he is in now I am glad the fat knight is not here . Mrs. Ford . Why , does he talk of him ? 109 Mrs. Page . Of none but him ; and swears , he was carried out , the last ...
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... seem to have been taken from the story of the Lovers of Pisa , in an old piece , called " Tarleton's News out of Purgatorie . " Mr. Warton observes , in a note to the last Oxford edition , that the play was probably not written , as we ...
... seem to have been taken from the story of the Lovers of Pisa , in an old piece , called " Tarleton's News out of Purgatorie . " Mr. Warton observes , in a note to the last Oxford edition , that the play was probably not written , as we ...
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Page 45 - Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour ? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Page 73 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 27 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 47 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Page 73 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 74 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 57 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Page 10 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it speare did not wait to brave the united puissance of a Knight of the Shire and a country attorney.