Nero & Other PlaysVizetelly, 1888 - 488 pages |
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1st Rom Abra Arethusa Aspero Ben Jonson better blood Bold Bright Coomes Count F death Dion Cassius dost doth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father fear fool Fran Frank Galba give Gour hast hate hath hear heart Heaven honour Hort Hortensio humour husband Isle of Gulls kiss lady live look lord madam maid Mall marry Mast Master Goursey MILICHUS Mistress Goursey mother ne'er Nero never night NIMPHIDIUS Parliament of Bees Phil Philip play poet poor Pouts pray Proud quarto Ralph Smith Scav SCENE Scud Scudmore shalt Sir Abraham Sir John Sir Ralph sirrah soul speak Strange Suetonius sweet sword Tacitus tell thee there's thou art Tigellinus troth true twill unto Welltried wench whore wife woman Zounds
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Page 228 - advance, either with or without ropes, to draw him out. After repeated attempts, they find themselves unable to do it, and call for more assistance. The game continues till all the company take part in it, when Dun is extricated of course ; and the merriment arises from the awkward and affected efforts of the rustics to
Page 156 - off the ground ; transforming them, as frost transforms and transfigures the bare branches of the trees. The very sound of his rhymes is a delight in itself, as in those lines which tell how "of the sudden, listening, you shall hear A noise of horns and hunting, which shall bring
Page 267 - O no, she laughs at me and scorns my suit : For she is wilder and more hard withal, Than beast or bird, or tree, or stony wall. Kate. Ha ! God-a-mercy, old Hieronimo. 1 Abra. Yet she might love me for my lovely eyes.
Page 103 - if it be once gone ; this poking fight of rapier and dagger will come up then ; then a man, a tall ' man, and a good sword-and-buckler man, will be spitted like a cat or a coney ; then a boy will be as good as a man, unless the Lord show mercy unto us ; well, I had as lief be
Page 174 - When of the sudden, listening, you shall hear A noise of horns and hunting, which shall bring Actaeon to Diana in the spring, Where all shall see her naked skin ; and there
Page 269 - off garters blue ! Which signify Sir Abram's love was true ; Off, cypress black ! for thou befits not me ; Thou art not cypress of the cypress-tree, Befitting lovers. Out, green shoe-strings, out ! Wither in pocket, since my Luce doth pout. Gush, eyes ; thump, hand ; swell, heart ; buttons, fly open ! Thanks, gentle doublet, else my heart had broken.
Page 265 - Now, if you love me, do not wrong me so. I see you labour with some serious thing, And think (like fairy's treasure) to reveal it, Will cause it vanish ; and yet to conceal it, Will burst your breast : 'tis so delicious, And so much greater than
Page 265 - virtue enough To frame a spacious world of virtuous women, Hadst thou been the beginning of thy sex, 1 think the devil in the serpent's skin Had wanted cunning to o'ercome thy goodness, And all had lived and died in innocency—- The white original creation ! [Knocking within. Who's there ? come in. Enter NEVILL.