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... Spirit of the Moon . Scene , Stratford - on - Avon and its neighbourhood . Time , March , 1585 . - N. B. The comedy here attributed to Shakespeare is not his " Taming of the Shrew , " but the old piece entitled " The Taming of a Shrew ...
... Spirit of the Moon . Scene , Stratford - on - Avon and its neighbourhood . Time , March , 1585 . - N. B. The comedy here attributed to Shakespeare is not his " Taming of the Shrew , " but the old piece entitled " The Taming of a Shrew ...
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... Spirit of other sort , and him the man To caper idly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute . Clear is his brow , open his countenance , Lively the sparkle of his hazel eye , Liquid his speech , nor doth the woodland ...
... Spirit of other sort , and him the man To caper idly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute . Clear is his brow , open his countenance , Lively the sparkle of his hazel eye , Liquid his speech , nor doth the woodland ...
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... spirit , and a merry goblin , And errand have assigned him at stage doors To knock in likeness of a comedy , And , winning entrance there , for me he'll win it . But if he miss , I none the less will follow , And stand at doors of ...
... spirit , and a merry goblin , And errand have assigned him at stage doors To knock in likeness of a comedy , And , winning entrance there , for me he'll win it . But if he miss , I none the less will follow , And stand at doors of ...
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... spirits liker to itself , And travel make me happy in the tongues , Without which I were often miserable . Wherefore , as oft a dwarf precedes a champion , A quaint capricious farce , not gross but homely , PEDAGOGUE AND POACHER 39.
... spirits liker to itself , And travel make me happy in the tongues , Without which I were often miserable . Wherefore , as oft a dwarf precedes a champion , A quaint capricious farce , not gross but homely , PEDAGOGUE AND POACHER 39.
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... fallen : Nor refuge could'st thou find in any bosom Save one , where dwelt what I am bold to call A gentle spirit , who did bend to soothe The anguished soul with breathings of soft pity ; Which 48 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
... fallen : Nor refuge could'st thou find in any bosom Save one , where dwelt what I am bold to call A gentle spirit , who did bend to soothe The anguished soul with breathings of soft pity ; Which 48 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
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Anna ATTENDANTS AND USHERS aught banished beam of royal Blazoning boys Charlcote comedy CONSTABLE crossbows deem devil Dicer discourse doth Earl of Leicester earth Enter ANN SHAKESPEARE errand erst Exit fain favour FORESTERS FOURTH SCHOLAR gentle grace had'st haply HARVARD COLLEGE hath hearken heart heaven honour horse hounds Hush imprisonment innocence LADY LUCY Ladyship light Lord magistrate maliceth manacles Master Clerk Master Shakespeare may'st Mistress Shakespeare MOLES moon MOTHER ne'er neath night noble nought path PEDAGOGUE AND POACHER poaching Poet porridge Ratcatcher scape SCENE SECOND SCHOLAR seek sentence Shake shines Shrew SIR THOMAS LUCY SIXTH SCHOLAR slandered soothe soul speare speech spirit stand steal stoat Stratford theatre thee thine things THIRD SCHOLAR thou did'st Thou dost thou hast Thou knowest thyself tongue unto venison villain Warwickshire weep wert Wherefore whipping WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PEDAGOGUE woman wood Would'st thou youth
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Page 75 - My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred : And I myself see not the bottom of it. [Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS. Ther. 'Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it ! I had rather be a tick in a sheep, than such a valiant ignorance.
Page 5 - Lucy, who had him OFT whipt, and SOMETIMES imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native country, to his great advancement.
Page 4 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."!
Page 103 - Light, where eclipse were fitter. Yet, methinks, It hath not this time lit upon a dunghill, But on the goodliest man in thy court, whom Authentic signatures of Jove and Venus Do so commend, he greatly overlooks Thy little brief authority. No wonder He claimed the freedom of thy park. [To Shakespeare.] This argues A generous strain in thee, and lordly instincts. Deer-killing came in with the Conqueror. Hast any record of thy lineage? SHAKESPEARE. An ancestor of mine, so please your Lordship, In our...
Page 97 - Thou, Sir Thomas, Thinking to shame me in thy lady's sight, Sham'st but thyself in mine. Thou may'st not touch My spirit that can suffer and be strong. LADY LUCY. SIR THOMAS LUCY. Relieve our presence of the knave's pollution. THE CONSTABLE. Sir Thomas, I "m afeard to touch the man. Thou heardest ? he hath a familiar spirit, Perchance an impish sootikin, but haply Tail-switching Lucifer, Hell's emperor. SHAKESPEARE. Aye, man, I hold in fee ten thousand spirits, And more can summon from the vasty...
Page 31 - SCHOLAR. I cook a hedgehog. FIRST SCHOLAR. But most do we applaud 'the vast reform Made in our classical curriculum. Your worship liketh Master Ovid well, Yet have not thrust his Latin down our throats, But given us the pith of him in English. SECOND SCHOLAR. And how the hours have flown in listening tales Of dwarfs and giants, magic swords and rings, Paladins, princely captives, mermaids, ghosts Freighted with airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Saracens, dragons, necromancers, fairies That on...
Page 96 - Banishment, flagellation, durance vile, And not, like him, corrupted with a bribe, Or violently in my proper person Enamoured of their most divine embraces, I do award the apple unto all. That is to say, Shakespeare shall first be whipped, Imprisoned then till healed, then for three years Exiled to distant shires, there to propound, With carriage apt and speech mellifluous, Strange doctrines unto country gentlemen. ANN SHAKESPEARE. Shall I have license to attend my lord, And piteously beweep his...
Page 86 - ll hear what the defendant has to say, And if his speech do aggravate his guilt, Will mark the advantage. Come, thou serpent, if Thou hast justification, hiss it forth ! SHAKESPEARE. Sir Thomas, I plead guilty. SIR THOMAS LUCY. Hast thou aught Meet to be urged in mitigation ? SHAKESPEARE. Much, would the magistrate so deem it, but 'T were faggot to the furnace of his wrath.
Page 106 - T is nobly spoken, And know the Earl of Leicester for thy friend Not less than her great Majesty, and able To ope yet wider worlds to thee. The quarrel Twixt Spain and England draweth to a head, And soon the world shall ring with it, and then The Hollander and we in union vanquish, Or separate perish. This we know, and soon The verdant level and the slow canal Shall bristle with our pikes, throb with our drums, Stream with our banners, and reverberate The thunder of our cannon. I shall fill The regent's...
Page 71 - Sic volo, sic jubeo, stat pro ratione voluntas. Majestic proclamation ! Held this not, The pillared firmament were rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. But it holdeth. My foe is at my feet, there shall he lie, Though all the angels swore his alibi. \_A knocking at the door. Tap! tap! tap! tap! What 1 summoned forth already To the judicial seat! In! menial! Enter LADY LUCY. LADY LUCY. Sir Thomas, have you thought about the sentence ? I know you wont to carry your awards To Court all cut...