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Page 119 - THE | Second part of Henrie | the fourth, continuing to his death, | and coronation of Henrie \ the fift. | With the humours of sir lohn Fal- | stqffe, and swaggering \ Pistoll. | As it hath been sundrie times publikely \ acted by the right honourable, the Lord | Chamberlaine his seruants. | Written by William Shakespeare. \ LONDON | Printed by VS for Andrew Wise, and | William Aspley. | 1600.
Page 47 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 13 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 10 - How cam'st thou hither, tell me ? and wherefore ? The orchard walls are high, and hard to climb ; And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Page 304 - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Page 67 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 139 - Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, found after his death in his Cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to Philautus sonnes noursed up with their father in England, Fetcht from the Canaries by TL, gent., Imprinted by T.
Page 145 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 76 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 273 - Major Cuffle ; — a man of great account amongst them, and a notorious Papist : slain by the hands of Major Harrison, that godly and gallant gentleman...
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| Title | Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 16 Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare, Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) Issue 32 of Publications (Shakespeare Society (Great Britain))) |
| Author | John Payne Collier |
| Contributor | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | Shakespeare Society, 1853 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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