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... thou dost intend Never so little shew of love to her , Thou shalt aby it . Mids . , iii , 2 . But he that kill'd him shall abuy therefore . Harringt . , Ariost . , xvi , 54 . Generally used with dear , or dearly . Lest to thy peril thou ...
... thou dost intend Never so little shew of love to her , Thou shalt aby it . Mids . , iii , 2 . But he that kill'd him shall abuy therefore . Harringt . , Ariost . , xvi , 54 . Generally used with dear , or dearly . Lest to thy peril thou ...
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... thou my jolly peacocks trayne Shall be acoy'd and brooke so foule a stayne ? Drayton's Shepherd's Garland , 1593 . + Thou foolish swaine that thus art overjoyed , How soon may heere thy courage be accoyed ? If he be one come new fro ...
... thou my jolly peacocks trayne Shall be acoy'd and brooke so foule a stayne ? Drayton's Shepherd's Garland , 1593 . + Thou foolish swaine that thus art overjoyed , How soon may heere thy courage be accoyed ? If he be one come new fro ...
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... thou didst see me where I did kill him , and hide him ; and thinking thou wouldst betray me , I thought to kill thee ; but I am glad ( said he ) that it was but a dream . Lupton's Thousand Notable Things . ADULTERATE is used for ...
... thou didst see me where I did kill him , and hide him ; and thinking thou wouldst betray me , I thought to kill thee ; but I am glad ( said he ) that it was but a dream . Lupton's Thousand Notable Things . ADULTERATE is used for ...
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... thou shouldst fall . Unnatural Brother , 1697 . At all , quoth Rufus , lay you what you dare , I'll throw at all , and ' twere a peck of gold ; No life lies on't , then coyn I'll never spare ; Why Rufus , that's the cause of all that's ...
... thou shouldst fall . Unnatural Brother , 1697 . At all , quoth Rufus , lay you what you dare , I'll throw at all , and ' twere a peck of gold ; No life lies on't , then coyn I'll never spare ; Why Rufus , that's the cause of all that's ...
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... Thou well of life , whose streames were purple blood That flowed here , to cleanse the foule amisse Of sinful man . Fairf . Tasso , iii , 8 . Soul , for foule , is a mere error of the press in the reprint of 1749 . In the edition of ...
... Thou well of life , whose streames were purple blood That flowed here , to cleanse the foule amisse Of sinful man . Fairf . Tasso , iii , 8 . Soul , for foule , is a mere error of the press in the reprint of 1749 . In the edition of ...
Common terms and phrases
alluded allusion ballad Bartas Ben Jonson called Cartwright's Chapm Chaucer cittern colour common corruption Cotgrave Cymb derived devil Dictionarie doth Drayt Drayton drink Du Bartas Du Cange Eastward Hoe Engl Euphues eyes fair Fairf following passage fool Francion French Gism give gleek Haml hand hath head Hence Heywood's Holinsh Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus Honest Whore horse Howell's Familiar Letters Hudibras Ibid Johnson Jons kind king lady Latin Lear lord Love's Cure Love's L. L. low Latin means meant merry Minshew Mirr night Nomenclator Optick origin Othello Passenger of Benvenuto perhaps phrase play Poems Polyolb probably proverb Rich Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes Spens Spenser Steevens Suppl supposed sweet Tale Tasso Taylor's Terence in English term thee thing thou tion Todd unto viii Withals word
Popular passages
Page 249 - Their virtues else — be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo — Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault: the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 235 - Be content; Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift: His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
Page 6 - If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not.
Page 392 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 233 - ... who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear ; But mice and rats, and such small deer,* Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Page 408 - Dunsinane," and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! If this which he avouches does appear, There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. I 'gin to be aweary of the sun And wish the estate o
Page 99 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Page 235 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 351 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Page 238 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her...