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... presently turn o'er this Book , and there I have , at one view , all that Perfeus , Montaigne , Seneca's Trage- dies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian , Pliny , Plutarch's lives , and the reft , have ever thought , upon this fubject : and ...
... presently turn o'er this Book , and there I have , at one view , all that Perfeus , Montaigne , Seneca's Trage- dies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian , Pliny , Plutarch's lives , and the reft , have ever thought , upon this fubject : and ...
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... not come yet ; but he'l be here presently , he's but two doors off . BAYES . Come then , Gentlemen , let's go out and take a pipe of Tobacco . Finis Actus primi . [ Exeunt . ( a ) Drake Sen. Draw up our Men ; ACT . L 45 THE REHEARSAL.
... not come yet ; but he'l be here presently , he's but two doors off . BAYES . Come then , Gentlemen , let's go out and take a pipe of Tobacco . Finis Actus primi . [ Exeunt . ( a ) Drake Sen. Draw up our Men ; ACT . L 45 THE REHEARSAL.
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... presently , at a certain Note that I have made , in Effaut flat , and fall a Dancing . Do you hear , dead men ? remember your Note in Effaut flat . Play on . [ To the Mufick . Now , now , now . O Lord , O Lord ! The Mufick play his Note ...
... presently , at a certain Note that I have made , in Effaut flat , and fall a Dancing . Do you hear , dead men ? remember your Note in Effaut flat . Play on . [ To the Mufick . Now , now , now . O Lord , O Lord ! The Mufick play his Note ...
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... presently . BAYES . Go , go then ; I'l follow you . Pray dance out the Dance , and I'l be with you in a moment . Remember you four that you dance like Horsemen . [ Exit BAYES . They dance the Dance , but can make nothing of it . 1 Sol ...
... presently . BAYES . Go , go then ; I'l follow you . Pray dance out the Dance , and I'l be with you in a moment . Remember you four that you dance like Horsemen . [ Exit BAYES . They dance the Dance , but can make nothing of it . 1 Sol ...
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... presently t'other's upon him flap , with a Repartee ; then he at him again , dash with a new conceipt and fo eternally , eternally , I gad , till they go quite off the Stage . [ Goes to call the Players . SMI . What a plague , does this ...
... presently t'other's upon him flap , with a Repartee ; then he at him again , dash with a new conceipt and fo eternally , eternally , I gad , till they go quite off the Stage . [ Goes to call the Players . SMI . What a plague , does this ...
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