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... kind is nature . Hamlet has almost the same sentiment : " A little more than kin , and less than kind . " In several other places of this play , the same word , in the like sense , occurs . Again , in Julius Cæsar , act i , scene 3 ...
... kind is nature . Hamlet has almost the same sentiment : " A little more than kin , and less than kind . " In several other places of this play , the same word , in the like sense , occurs . Again , in Julius Cæsar , act i , scene 3 ...
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... kind them gave ; But that they may preserve the common peace , ( The cause that first began and still mainteines , The lyneall course of kinges inheritance , ) For me , for myne , for you , and for the state , Whereof both I and you ...
... kind them gave ; But that they may preserve the common peace , ( The cause that first began and still mainteines , The lyneall course of kinges inheritance , ) For me , for myne , for you , and for the state , Whereof both I and you ...
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... of this worthy gentleman ; sentences gathered out of all kind of poetts , re- ferred to certaine methodicall heades , profitable And layes it up in willing prisonment ; Sweete hony 48 [ ANONYMOUS . THE RETURNE FROM PERNASSUS .
... of this worthy gentleman ; sentences gathered out of all kind of poetts , re- ferred to certaine methodicall heades , profitable And layes it up in willing prisonment ; Sweete hony 48 [ ANONYMOUS . THE RETURNE FROM PERNASSUS .
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... kind natured men ; for , as the Italian pro- verbe speaketh wel , chi ha haura . Acad . Why here is a gallant young drover of livings . Ster . I beseech you , sir , speak English ; for that is naturall to me and to my sonne , and all ...
... kind natured men ; for , as the Italian pro- verbe speaketh wel , chi ha haura . Acad . Why here is a gallant young drover of livings . Ster . I beseech you , sir , speak English ; for that is naturall to me and to my sonne , and all ...
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... kind , To keepe our woefull name within their rinde : Weel watch our flock , and yet weele sleepe withall ; Weel tune our sorrowes to the waters fall ; The woods and rockes with our shrill songs wccle blesse ; Let them prove kind ...
... kind , To keepe our woefull name within their rinde : Weel watch our flock , and yet weele sleepe withall ; Weel tune our sorrowes to the waters fall ; The woods and rockes with our shrill songs wccle blesse ; Let them prove kind ...
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Abig Alex Amor Apel Aristippus Barabas Ben Jonson Bonam brest Campaspe cham Chat court Crom crowns Damon death Diccon Dionisius Dond doth Dr Rat Duke edit Enter Eubulus Euphues Exeunt Exit faith farewell father fear Ferrex Friar Gammer Gaveston gentlemen Gorboduc grace Grimme Grut hand hart hath hear heart heaven Hodge honour Itha Ithamore Jacke king knave lady Leucoth live lord lord Cobham Lucy madam Manes master master constable Morel Mortimer neele never night noble PALLATINE pardon Pert Phil Philocles Pithias Poly POLYMETES Porrex pray prince Psyl Queen Shal shew Sir John sir John Oldcastle Sir Rad sonne soul speak stay Steph sweet tell thee there's thine thing thou art thou shalt Thwack Timoclea unto William Davenant wold word wyll
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Page 263 - I filled the jails with bankrupts in a year, And with young orphans planted hospitals, And every moon made some or other mad, And now and then one hang himself for grief, Pinning upon his breast a long great scroll How I with interest tormented him.
Page 191 - Something still buzzeth in mine ears, And tells me if I sleep I never wake; This fear is that which makes me tremble thus. And therefore tell me, wherefore art thou come ? Light.
Page 544 - False colours last after the true be dead. Of all the roses grafted on her cheeks, Of all the graces dancing in her eyes, Of all the music set upon her tongue, Of all that was past woman's excellence, In her white bosom ; look, a painted board Circumscribes all...
Page 167 - This which I urge is of a burning zeal To mend the king and do our country good. Know you not Gaveston hath store of gold, Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends As he will front the mightiest of us all?
Page 186 - I might ! but heavens and earth conspire To make me miserable. Here, receive my crown. Receive it ? no, these innocent hands of mine Shall not be guilty of so foul a crime...
Page 178 - Treacherous Warwick ! traitorous Mortimer ! If I be England's king, in lakes of gore Your headless trunks, your bodies will I trail, That you may drink your fill, and quaff in blood, And stain my royal standard with the same...
Page 178 - By earth, the common mother of us all, By heaven, and all the moving orbs thereof, By this right hand, and by my father's sword, And all the honours 'longing to my crown, I will have heads, and lives for him, as many As I have manors, castles, towns, and towers!
Page 263 - As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls : Sometimes I go about, and poison wells; And now and then, to cherish Christian thieves, I am content to lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in my gallery, See 'm go pinioned along by my door.
Page 167 - He's gone, and for his absence thus I mourn. Did never sorrow go so near my heart As doth the want of my sweet Gaveston ; And could my crown's revenue bring him back, I would freely give it to his enemies, And think I gain'd, having bought so dear a friend.
Page 190 - To murder you, my most gracious lord ! Far is it from my heart to do you harm. The queen sent me to see how you were...