The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labor's lostH:O. Bohn, 1857 |
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... break a custom . - Is he yet possess'd , 2 How much you would ? Shy . Ay , ay , three thousand ducats . Ant . And for three months . Shy . I had forgot , -three months ; you told me so . Well then , your bond ; and , let me see ; - hear ...
... break a custom . - Is he yet possess'd , 2 How much you would ? Shy . Ay , ay , three thousand ducats . Ant . And for three months . Shy . I had forgot , -three months ; you told me so . Well then , your bond ; and , let me see ; - hear ...
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... lend it rather to thine enemy ; Who if he break , thou mayst with better face 1 Coarse frock , or outward garment . Interest money bred from the principal . Exact the penalty . Shy . Why , look you 24 ACT I. MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... lend it rather to thine enemy ; Who if he break , thou mayst with better face 1 Coarse frock , or outward garment . Interest money bred from the principal . Exact the penalty . Shy . Why , look you 24 ACT I. MERCHANT OF VENICE .
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... suspect The thoughts of others ! Pray you , tell me this If he should break his day , what should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture ? A pound of man's flesh , taken from a man SCENE III . 25 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... suspect The thoughts of others ! Pray you , tell me this If he should break his day , what should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture ? A pound of man's flesh , taken from a man SCENE III . 25 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
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... break up this , it shall seem to signify . Lor . I know the hand : in faith , ' tis a fair hand⚫ And whiter than the paper it writ on , Is the fair hand that writ . Gra . Love - news , in faith . Laun . By your leave , sir . Lor ...
... break up this , it shall seem to signify . Lor . I know the hand : in faith , ' tis a fair hand⚫ And whiter than the paper it writ on , Is the fair hand that writ . Gra . Love - news , in faith . Laun . By your leave , sir . Lor ...
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... . Ha ! —what say'st thou ? -Why , the end is , he hath lost a ship . Salar . I would it might prove the end of his losses ! To knap is to break short . Salan . Let me say amen betimes , lest the ACT III . 55 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
... . Ha ! —what say'st thou ? -Why , the end is , he hath lost a ship . Salar . I would it might prove the end of his losses ! To knap is to break short . Salan . Let me say amen betimes , lest the ACT III . 55 MERCHANT OF VENICE .
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adieu Antonio Armado Athens Bassanio Biron blood bond Boyet casket Costard dear Demetrius dost doth ducats duke Dull Dumain Egeus Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fair lady fairy father fear flesh fool forsworn gentle give grace Gratiano hath hear heart heaven Helena Hermia Hippolyta Jaquenetta Jessica Kath King l'envoy lady Laun Launcelot lion Longaville look lord Lorenzo love's lovers Lysander madam master MERCHANT OF VENICE merry MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mistress moon Moth Nerissa never night o'er oath Oberon PHILOSTRATE play Pompey Portia praise pray thee princess Puck Pyramus Quince ring Rosaline Salan Salar SCENE SHAK Shylock Sir Nath sleep soul speak swear sweet tell Theseus thing Thisby thou art thou hast thousand ducats Titania tongue true unto Venice word
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Page 12 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 96 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 332 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 208 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night ' That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...
Page 21 - I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 141 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 142 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And...
Page 220 - Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 85 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them.
Page 103 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...