Fletcher's "Women pleased" und seine quellen ...

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Vereinigte Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1904 - 67 pages

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Page 60 - My lige lady, generally," quod he, "Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As wel over hir housbond as hir love, And for to been in maistrie him above; This is your moste desyr, thogh ye me kille, Doth as yow list, I am heer at your wille.
Page 65 - oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf; Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous, by cause of me, Or in som oother place may wel be. Now chese yourselven wheither that yow liketh.
Page 65 - This knight avyseth him and sore syketh," But atte laste he seyde in this manere, ' My lady and my love, and wyf so dere, I put me in your wyse governance; Cheseth your-self, which may be most plesance, And most honour to yow and me also.
Page 59 - To preserve an honest name, And so to give it up to fame ; These are toys. In good or ill, They desire to have their will : Yet, when they have it, they abuse it, For they know not how to use it.
Page 59 - Tis not to be chaste, nor fair, (Such gifts malice may impair,) Richly trimmed, to walk or ride, Or to wanton unespied; To preserve an honest name, And so to give it up to fame, These are toys. In good or ill They desire to have their will: Yet, when they have it, they abuse it...
Page 65 - oon of thise thinges tweye, To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe humble wyf, And never yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take your aventure of the repair That shal be to your hous, by-cause of me, Or in som other place, may wel be. Now chees your-selven, whether that yow lyketh.
Page 18 - October 1610, A Discovery of the Bermudas, otherwise called the Isle of Devils; by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and Captain Newport, with divers others. He is not equally successful in showing that Shakespeare used The True Declaration of the Colony of Virginia, SR 8th November 1610, in which the reference to The Tempest as a " Tragical Comedy " seems to me to show that the play was already on the stage.
Page 50 - The beast is an unseemly and a lewd beast, And got at Rome by the Pope's coach-horses ; His mother was the mare of Ignorance.
Page 61 - Somme seyde wommen loven best richesse, Somme seyde honour, somme seyde jolynesse, Somme riche array, somme seyden lust abedde, And oftetyme to be wydwe and wedde. Somme seyde that oure hertes been moost esed Whan that we been yflatered and yplesed. He gooth ful ny the sothe, I wol nat lye. A man shal wynne us best with flaterye; And with attendance, and with bisynesse, Been we ylymed, bothe moore and lesse.
Page 5 - Más importancia tiene y más éxito logró la Historia de Grisel y Mirabella con la disputa de Torrellas y Bracayda, la qual compuso Juan de Flores a su amiga...

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