The Works of John Marston, Volume 2

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J.R. Smith, 1856 - English drama
 

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Page 278 - Maquerelle, I tell thee, I have found an honest woman : faith, I perceive when all is done, there is of women, as of all other things, some good, most bad ; some saints, some sinners...
Page 4 - If any shall wonder why I print a Comedie, whose life rests much in the actors voice, let such know that it cannot avoide publishing ; let it therefore stand with good excuse that I have been my owne setter out.
Page 213 - Tis well held desperation, no zeal, Hopeless to strive with fate ; peace ; temporize. Hope, hope, that never forsak'st the wretched'st man, Yet bid'st me live, and lurk in this disguise. What? play I well the free-breath'd discontent ? , Why, man, we are all philosophical monarchs Or natural fools. Celso, the court 's afire ; The dutchess' sheets will smoke for 't ere it be long.
Page 221 - O ye dumb and raw-air'd nights, How vigilant my sleepless eyes have been, To watch the traitor ! record, thou spirit of truth, With what debasement I ha...
Page 256 - Medam*, medam, are you stirring, medam ? if you be stirring, medam, if I thought I should disturb ye — Enter PAGE. PAGE. My lady is up, forsooth. MAQ. A pretty boy, faith ; how old art thou ? PAGE. I think fourteen.
Page 300 - A miraculous and monstrous, but yet most true and certayne Discourse of a Woman, now to be seen in London, of the age of threescore yeares or thereabouts, in the midst of whose forehead there groweth out a crooked Home of four ynches long. Imprinted at London, by Thomas Orwin, and are to be sold by Edward White, dwelling at the little north dore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun, 1588.
Page 55 - Faunus is a rare understander of men — is a' not ? Faunus, this Granuffo is a right wise good lord, a man of excellent discourse and never speaks his signs to me, and men of profound reach instruct abundantly ; he begs suits with signs, gives thanks with signs, puts off his hat leisurely, maintains his beard learnedly, keeps his lust privately, makes a nodding leg courtly, and lives happily.
Page 225 - I would call her whore : but now "that antiquity leaves her as an old piece of "plastic || to work by, I only ask her how her rotten teeth fare every morning, and so leave her. She was the first that ever invented "perfumed smocks for the gentlewomen, and woollen shoes, for fear of creaking, for the visitant.
Page 5 - I shall ever rest so constant to my first affection, that let their ungentle combinings, discourteous whisperings, never so treacherously labour to undermine my unfenced reputation, I shall (as long as I have being) love the least of their graces, and only pity the greatest of their vices.
Page 270 - Think this: — this earth is the only grave and Golgotha wherein all things that live must rot; 'tis but the draught wherein the heavenly bodies discharge their corruption; the very muck-hill on which the sublunary orbs cast their excrements...