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" Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone so large, and nerve so incompliant, When you call Desdemona, enter... "
The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Bibliography, Criticism, and the Arts: Dec ... - Page 21
1839 - 336 pages
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Historical and critical matter The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...stage. " Our women are defective, and so siz'd, " You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'dr " For, to speak truth, men act, that are between " Forty...incompliant, " When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT. — " We shall purge every thing that is unclean, " Lascivious, scurrilous, impious, or obscene; "...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...stage. " Our women are defective, and so siz'd, " You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd : " For, to speak truth, men act, that are between " Forty...incompliant, " When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT.— r. " We shall purge every thing that is unclean, " Lascivious, scurrilous, impious, or obscene ; "...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 4

1824 - 462 pages
...: Our women aro defective,' and so slz'd You'd think they were some of the guard dlstrtlis'd ; Fur (to speak truth) men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone KO uirtfe, and nerve so incomplyant, When you call TJfstlMona, enter Giant. The anecdote of Charles...
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The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, Volume 1

Theater - 1821 - 436 pages
...to introduce the first actress on our stage, has humorously touched on this gross absurdity : — " Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think...between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With brow so large, and nerve so uncompliant, When you call Desdemona — enter Giant." Yet, at this time,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...stage. " Our women are defective, and so siz'd, " You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd : " For, to speak truth, men act, that are between " Forty...incompliant, ' When you call Desdemona, enter Giant. — ' We shall purge every thing that is unclean, ' Lascivious, scurrilous, impious, or obscene ; '...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 572 pages
...stage. ' Our women are defective, and so siz'd, ' You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd : ' For, to speak truth, men act, that are between ' Forty...so large, and nerve so incompliant, " When you call Desdembna, enter Giant. — " We shall purge every thing that is unclean, " Lascivious, scurrilous,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...stage. " Our women are defective, and so siz'd, " You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd : " For, to speak truth, men act, that are between " Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; 4 A Royal Harbour of Loyal Poesie, by Thomas Jordan, no date, but printed. I believe, in 1662. Jordan...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 5

Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 334 pages
...Othello, to introduce the first actress on our stage, has humorously touched on this gross absurdity. " Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think...between Forty and fifty, wenches of 'fifteen ; With brows so large, and nerve so uncompliant, When yon call Desdemonu—— enter Giant. Yet at the time...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 5

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 338 pages
...Othello, to introduce the first actress on our stage, has humorously touched on this gross absurdity. " Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think...between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With brows so large, and nerve so uncompliant, When you call Desdemona—-enter Giant. Yet at the time the...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...the stage. Our women are defective, and so siz'd, You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd : For, to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty...incompliant, When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT. — We shall purge every thing that is unclean, Lascivious, scurrilous, impious, or obscene; And when...
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