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" I might say, element ; but the word is over-worn. [Exit, Via. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well, craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; • And, like the... "
The Works: Of Shakespear. In which the Beauties Observed by Pope, Warburton ... - Page 116
by William Shakespeare - 1771
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Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction ..., Volume 32

Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1908 - 134 pages
...Parliamentary career before taking office. 8. Explain the following quotations : — (a) (He must) like the haggard, check at every feather that comes before his eye. (lt) They have propertied me . . . and do all they can to face me out of my wits. (c) How long have...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 870 pages
...kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, 71 And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice 50. "commodity"; parcel.— CHH 56. "these"; ie these coins which Viola has given him. — IG 62. "Cressida...
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The Elizabethan People

Henry Thew Stephenson - England - 1910 - 552 pages
...that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their moods on whom he jests, The quality of persons and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye." Until the hawk had learned to fly properly at the game she was constantly " reclaimed," that is, drawn...
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A New Shakespearean Dictionary, Volume 6

Richard John Cunliffe - 1910 - 374 pages
...forsakes the quarry and flies at a chance bird : With what wing the stanie! checks at it!— Tw II 5 124. Like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye — III 1 71. (3) Intr. for refi., to shy at, stick at: If he be now retnrn'd, As checking at his voyage...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 1164 pages
...kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The Quality of persons, and the time, 70 m Shakespeare labor as a wise man's art: For folly that he wisely shows is fit ; But wise men, folly-faU'n, quite...
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The New Grant White Shakespeare: Twelfth night ; The winter's tale ; King John

William Shakespeare - 1912 - 542 pages
...that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard, check at every...feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice 70 As full of labour as a wise man's art : For folly, that he wisely shews, is fit ; But wise men's...
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The Fools of Shakespeare: An Interpretation of Their Wit, Wisdom and ...

Frederick B. Warde - Fools and jesters in literature - 1913 - 280 pages
...that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every...comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art ; For folly that he wisely shows is fit, But wise men, folly-fallen, quite...
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ..., Volume 4

German literature - 1913 - 588 pages
...well craves a kind of wit; He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of the persons, and the time ; And like the haggard, check at every...comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art: For folly that he wisely shows is fit, But wise men's folly fall'n quite...
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The Study of Shakespeare

Henry Thew Stephenson - 1915 - 338 pages
...well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their moods on whom he jests, The quality of the persons and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye." Until the hawk had learned to fly properly at the game she was constantly reclaimed, that is, drawn...
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An Introduction to the Reading of Shakespeare

Frederick Samuel Boas - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - 1920 - 72 pages
...falconry or bowls. Thus in Twelfth Night (III. i. 72-3) Viola says that a professional Fool should like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. Her meaning was plain to those who had often seen an untrained hawk strike at any bird that crossed...
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