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" And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them :' for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ... - Page 143
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 6

Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the. players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on, some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently...speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently...speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and ...

Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...resorts to it. It is a part of that same spirit against which Hamlet warns the players, when he says: 'And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to selon some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic, Volume 10

English literature - 1837 - 336 pages
...practice is indirectly impeached by' Shakspeare in Hamlet's address to the players, in which he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic: Containing Original Papers ..., Volume 10

1837 - 348 pages
...practice is indirectly impeached by Shakspeare in Hamlet's address to the players, in which he says, "And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently...it altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak.no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set...
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Punch, Volume 128

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1905 - 516 pages
...cunning." — Hamlet. The Daily Mail: — "To sour your happiness I must report." — Cymbeline. " Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them." — Hamlet, Mr. George Alexander (while searching for a double) : — " There is none like him, none."...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently...speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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