The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1811 - English drama |
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... wench ? Dula . Come , ladies , will you help ? Evad . I am soon undone . Dula . And as soon done : Good store of clothes will trouble you at both . Evad . Art thou drunk , Dula ? Dula . Why , here's none but we . Evad . Thou think'st ...
... wench ? Dula . Come , ladies , will you help ? Evad . I am soon undone . Dula . And as soon done : Good store of clothes will trouble you at both . Evad . Art thou drunk , Dula ? Dula . Why , here's none but we . Evad . Thou think'st ...
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... wench , thou may'st be taken . Evad . Ladies , good - night : I'll do the rest myself . Dula . Nay , let your lord do some . Asp . Lay a garland on my hearse , Of the dismal yew . Evad . That's one of your sad songs , madam . Asp ...
... wench , thou may'st be taken . Evad . Ladies , good - night : I'll do the rest myself . Dula . Nay , let your lord do some . Asp . Lay a garland on my hearse , Of the dismal yew . Evad . That's one of your sad songs , madam . Asp ...
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... wench do , if she were As- Here she would stand , till some more pitying god [ wench ! Turn'd her to marble ? ' Tis enough , my Shew me the piece of needlework you wrought . Ant . Of Ariadne , madam ? Asp . Yes , that piece . This ...
... wench do , if she were As- Here she would stand , till some more pitying god [ wench ! Turn'd her to marble ? ' Tis enough , my Shew me the piece of needlework you wrought . Ant . Of Ariadne , madam ? Asp . Yes , that piece . This ...
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... wench ; we'll have a snap at her one of these nights , as she goes from him . 1. Content . How quickly he had done with her ! I see , kings can do no more that way than other mortal people . 2. How fast he is ! I cannot hear him breathe ...
... wench ; we'll have a snap at her one of these nights , as she goes from him . 1. Content . How quickly he had done with her ! I see , kings can do no more that way than other mortal people . 2. How fast he is ! I cannot hear him breathe ...
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... wench is free . If your more serious business do not call you , Let me hold quarter with you ; we'll talk an Out quickly . [ hour Meg . What would your , grace talk of ? Pha . Of some such pretty subject as yourself . I'll go no further ...
... wench is free . If your more serious business do not call you , Let me hold quarter with you ; we'll talk an Out quickly . [ hour Meg . What would your , grace talk of ? Pha . Of some such pretty subject as yourself . I'll go no further ...
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Page 381 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page lxxxix - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page xxvii - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page xcii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page xlii - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page x - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page xlix - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page xxv - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page x - Shakespeare's or Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.
Page 357 - Lowly do I bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits ; and but lend Belief to that the Satyr tells, Fairer by the famous wells To this present day ne'er grew, Never better, nor more true. Here be grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrels...