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... stead me , As bring me to the sight of Isabella , A novice of this place , and the fair sister To her unhappy brother Claudio ? VOL . 11 . * On his defence . C Isab . Why her unhappy brother ? let me ask SCENE V. ] 13 FOR MEASURE .
... stead me , As bring me to the sight of Isabella , A novice of this place , and the fair sister To her unhappy brother Claudio ? VOL . 11 . * On his defence . C Isab . Why her unhappy brother ? let me ask SCENE V. ] 13 FOR MEASURE .
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... fair prayer To soften Angelo : and that's my pith Of business ' twixt you and your poor brother . Isab . Doth he so seek his life ? Lucio . Has censur'd him Already ; and , as I hear , the provost hath A warrant for his execution . Isab ...
... fair prayer To soften Angelo : and that's my pith Of business ' twixt you and your poor brother . Isab . Doth he so seek his life ? Lucio . Has censur'd him Already ; and , as I hear , the provost hath A warrant for his execution . Isab ...
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... fair maid : It is the law , not I , condemns your brother : Were he my kinsman , brother , or my son , It should be thus with him ; -he must die to - morrow . Isab . To - morrow ? O , that's sudden ! Spare him , spare him : He's not ...
... fair maid : It is the law , not I , condemns your brother : Were he my kinsman , brother , or my son , It should be thus with him ; -he must die to - morrow . Isab . To - morrow ? O , that's sudden ! Spare him , spare him : He's not ...
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... fair one , of the sin you carry ? Juliet . I do ; and bear the shame most patiently . Duke . I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience , And try your penitence , if it be sound , Or hollowly put on . Juliet . I'll gladly ...
... fair one , of the sin you carry ? Juliet . I do ; and bear the shame most patiently . Duke . I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience , And try your penitence , if it be sound , Or hollowly put on . Juliet . I'll gladly ...
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... fair maid ? Isab . I am come to know your pleasure . Ang . That you may know it , would much better please me , Than to demand what ' tis . Your brother cannot live . Isab . Even so ? -Heaven keep your honour ! [ Retiring . Ang . Yet ...
... fair maid ? Isab . I am come to know your pleasure . Ang . That you may know it , would much better please me , Than to demand what ' tis . Your brother cannot live . Isab . Even so ? -Heaven keep your honour ! [ Retiring . Ang . Yet ...
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Page 327 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who...
Page 54 - So disguise shall, by the disguised, Pay with falsehood false exacting, And perform an old contracting. [Exit. ACT IV. SCENE I. — A Room in Mariana'* House. MARIANA discovered sitting; a Boy singing. SONG. Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 4 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd...
Page 327 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 119 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more ; Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into, Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 54 - Take, oh, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears. But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee.
Page 259 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 224 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 26 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 38 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.