The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes, Volume 2 |
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Page 13
We have strict statutes , and most biting laws , ( The needful bits and curbs for headstrong steeds ) Which for these fourteen years we have let sleep ; Even like an o'er - grown lion in a cave , That goes not out to prey ...
We have strict statutes , and most biting laws , ( The needful bits and curbs for headstrong steeds ) Which for these fourteen years we have let sleep ; Even like an o'er - grown lion in a cave , That goes not out to prey ...
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... Are nurs'd by baseness : Thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death , which is no more .
... Are nurs'd by baseness : Thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : Thy best of rest is sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death , which is no more .
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As fast lock'd up in sleep , as guiltless labour When it lies starkly4 in the traveller's bones : He will not wake . Prov . Who can do good on him ? Well , go , prepare yourself . But hark , what noise ? [ Knocking within .
As fast lock'd up in sleep , as guiltless labour When it lies starkly4 in the traveller's bones : He will not wake . Prov . Who can do good on him ? Well , go , prepare yourself . But hark , what noise ? [ Knocking within .
Page 71
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully , but as a drunken sleep : careless , reckless , and fearless of what's past , present , or to come ; insensible of mortality , and desperately mortal . Duke . He wants advice . Prov .
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully , but as a drunken sleep : careless , reckless , and fearless of what's past , present , or to come ; insensible of mortality , and desperately mortal . Duke . He wants advice . Prov .
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Pray , master Barnardine , awake till you are executed , and sleep afterwards . Abhor . Go in to him , and fetch him out . Clo . He is coming , sir , he is coming ; I hear his straw rustle . Enter BARNARDINE . Abhor .
Pray , master Barnardine , awake till you are executed , and sleep afterwards . Abhor . Go in to him , and fetch him out . Clo . He is coming , sir , he is coming ; I hear his straw rustle . Enter BARNARDINE . Abhor .
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