Machiavelli and the Elizabethan drama. Weimar 1897 |
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accusation Alençon Alphonsus appeared Aretine Atheist Barabas Belphegor Caesar Borgia called cant Cataline citation cited Machiavelli conscience denounced devil Disc Discorsi Discourses dissembler doth Dram drama dramatists Duke Dyce edition Elizabethan England English fear Fior Florence Florentine Florentine's fool friends Gent Gentillet Greene Greene's Gros Grosart Guise Harvey hate hath hell Henry Henry VI Ibid idea Italian Italy Jew of Malta Jonson kill King literature Lord Lorenzo Mach Machavil Machia Machiavel Macht Marlowe Marlowe's Marston maxims mentioned Meyer mind murder Nashe never Niccolò Machiavelli Nicholas Machiavel Old Nick passage Patericke play plot Plutarch poison politician popular Prince doit Principe prologue referred to Machiavelli religion revenge Richard Richard III Robert Daborne says Selimus Shak Shakspere Shakspere's shows Tacitus Tamburlaine thee thou thought Tragedy translation tyrant unto velli vertue Vide villain word
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Page 81 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help. Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 60 - I'll play the orator as well as Nestor ; Deceive more slily than Ulysses could ; And, like a Sinon, take another Troy : I can add colours to the chameleon ; Change shapes with Proteus for advantages ; And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Page 39 - I am of those that hate me most: Though some speak openly against my books, Yet...
Page 48 - I learn'd in Florence how to kiss my hand, Heave up my shoulders when they call me dog, And duck as low as any bare-foot friar...
Page 81 - Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Page 41 - As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls : Sometimes I go about and poison wells...
Page 39 - Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead, Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps ; And, now the Guise* is dead, is come from France, To view this land, and frolic with his friends. To some perhaps my name is odious ; But such as love me, guard me from their tongues, And let them know that I am Machiavel, And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words.
Page 39 - But whither am I bound? I come not, I, To read a lecture here in Britain, But to present the tragedy of a Jew, 30 Who smiles to see how full his bags are crammed, Which money was not got without my means.
Page 55 - Till, being interrupted by my friends, Suscepi that provinciam as they term it; And to conclude, I am Protector now. Now is all sure : the queen and Mortimer Shall rule the realm, the king; and none rule us.
Page 79 - As namely, to the Ghost of Macheuill^ of Tully, of Quid, of Roscius, of Pace the Duke of Norfolks lester; and lastly, to the Ghost of Robert Greene^ telling him, what a coyle there is with pamphleting on him after his death.