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... noble stomach To mark you thus concerned about a vassal . LADY LUCY . Merely as one may watch a struggling fly Drowning in clammy milk , or muddy beer , Scarce caring if he scapes or perishes , Yet indolently sorry for his plight , And ...
... noble stomach To mark you thus concerned about a vassal . LADY LUCY . Merely as one may watch a struggling fly Drowning in clammy milk , or muddy beer , Scarce caring if he scapes or perishes , Yet indolently sorry for his plight , And ...
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... noble and approved good master , For whom the eloquent divinity Untwines the serpents from his golden rod , And Pallas stills the hooting of her owl . Unsanguined hangs the birch where first I saw it , Nor have I known it taken down ...
... noble and approved good master , For whom the eloquent divinity Untwines the serpents from his golden rod , And Pallas stills the hooting of her owl . Unsanguined hangs the birch where first I saw it , Nor have I known it taken down ...
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... noble note . SECOND SCHOLAR . Without his cheering comradeship and counsel The lions in our path roar horribly . SIXTH SCHOLAR . O are there any lions in the wood ? THIRD SCHOLAR . Our master spoke no word of any such . Of foxes hath he ...
... noble note . SECOND SCHOLAR . Without his cheering comradeship and counsel The lions in our path roar horribly . SIXTH SCHOLAR . O are there any lions in the wood ? THIRD SCHOLAR . Our master spoke no word of any such . Of foxes hath he ...
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... noble Sir . Long have I groaned o'er William's evil courses , And mourned to know my household fed by rapine , And mine own stomach's pure integrity Polluted by his depredations . How oft when spit hath turned , or caldron bubbled , Mid ...
... noble Sir . Long have I groaned o'er William's evil courses , And mourned to know my household fed by rapine , And mine own stomach's pure integrity Polluted by his depredations . How oft when spit hath turned , or caldron bubbled , Mid ...
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... You do unclose the path you stopped last Christmas : Next , that although the noble Earl of Leicester Your sentence doth annul , yet , by his favour , Two parts revoked , you amplify the third , And 104 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
... You do unclose the path you stopped last Christmas : Next , that although the noble Earl of Leicester Your sentence doth annul , yet , by his favour , Two parts revoked , you amplify the third , And 104 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
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ANN SHAKESPEARE Anna beam bear-baiting Bill the crier boys carry entrails Charlcote CONSTABLE county's champion badger-skinner Court crossbows deem deem'st deer devil doth Earl of Leicester erst Exit FATHER fiddling Jerry fosters ten tom-cats FOURTH SCHOLAR Grey the horses had'st haply Hast thou hath heaven hoar witch honour hounds Hugh the broken Hush incubi Jim the attorney's LADY LUCY Lawrence who stole Lord madcap tinker maliceth Master Clerk Master Shakespeare miller's son Mistress Shakespeare MOLES moon ne'er neath nought POACHER post till self-adjudged pride or modesty ratcatchers save SECOND SCHOLAR self-adjudged Unmeet SIR THOMAS LUCY SIXTH SCHOLAR sly Christophero Bearwarden snakes thou did'st sooth Sorrel the huntsman spear spirit spotted snakes thou stag stag and doe stoat stole my sweetheart Stratford theatre thee There's Hugh thine THIRD SCHOLAR thou did'st divulge tongue Unmeet to carry unto venison villain Warwickshire Wild Huntsman William Shakespeare witch who fosters
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Page 65 - 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 - According to this authority the future great dramatist was "much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him oft whipped and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native county to his great advancement...
Page 54 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 86 - ... shepherd Have shared it among all, what ravages Of devastation he had spared the world! Trojaque nunc stares, Priamique arx alta maneres. What Paris might not do, Sir Thomas may: And being, like him, confronted with the charms Of three most beauteous competitors, Banishment, flagellation, durrance 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,...
Page 40 - I will eternise him, Blazoning his beauty forth, his name concealing To set the wide world wondering who he was, And sharp debate shall drain the inky stands Of sage and scholar labouring to divine If worth it was of his, or wit of mine.
Page 94 - My zeal, and haply countermine the workings Of burrowing Intrigue, my credit sapping, Perform in person. Take immediate leave Of mates and kindred, and away with me. SHAKESPEARE. Sir Thomas, I will stand your friend at Court: On two conditions, one that presently You do unclose the path you stopped last Christmas : Next, that although the noble Earl of Leicester Your sentence doth annul, yet, by his favour, Two parts revoked, you amplify the third, And banish me from Stratford for ten years. LEICESTER....
Page 87 - 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 deep, Who at my word shall seize thy knight and thee, And set bemocked upon the public stage, Stuff for the humorous world's derision. THE CONSTABLE. What did I tell...
Page 82 - A good youth were he, were he not a poet, And were we not too nearly of an age, As to the Court is plainly visible.
Page 97 - Whom deaths of lovers slain most treacherouslyImpel to hurl the Dons to Devildom; Dicer and cut-purse, page, groom, beggar, minstrel; Courtesans, fortune-tellers, desperadoes; Armourers and devisers of strange engines; And knights too corpulent to fight or fly. And other matter shall thou find, arrays Of marching hosts, pent cities, trenched leaguers, Sallies, alarms, encounters, skirmishes, Duels and deaths, and, chief of all, examples Most noble, in whose brightness thou may'st sit, And as an eagle...
Page 80 - The letter of the law at all, indulgenceTrust me, Sir Thomas, such slight condescensions Would make thee, in thy sphere, as England's Queen, Whose throne is builded on her people's hearts. Now, did I tell this populace I took Thy deer for public cause, they would acclaim me, Shakespeare, the Robin Hood of Warwickshire. I shall not tell them, 'twere but half the truth. I am the people's poet, not their tribune. Sport pointed me the way with beechen spear, And Youth, too young to know what conscience...