Pseudo-Shakespearian Plays, Volumes 1-5Karl Warnke, Ludwig Proescholdt M. Niemeyer, 1883 |
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Page xxix - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page xxix - Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 71 - The late, And much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole Historie, aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince : As also, The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter Mariana. As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare. Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster row, &c. 1609.
Page vii - As it was sundry times publiquely acted in the Honourable Citie of London, by the right Honourable the Lord Strange his Seruants.
Page 91 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Page 45 - And if you stand so nicely at your fame, Let me repent the credit I have lost. I have neglected matters of import That would have stated me above thy state, Forslowed advantages, and spurned at time : Ay, Fortune's right hand Mosbie hath forsook To take a wanton giglot by the left.
Page 57 - I pray thee speak still that we may meet by the sound, for I shall fall into some ditch or other, unless my feet see better than my eyes.
Page xxviii - Sara owes that duty to her lord. He that doth clip or counterfeit your stamp Shall die, my lord: and will your sacred self Commit high treason against the King of Heaven, To stamp his image in forbidden metal, Forgetting your allegiance and your oath ? In violating marriage...
Page 27 - He say, his greatnes may beare out the shame, But not his kingdome can buy out the sinne; He say, it is my duety to perswade, 365 But not her honestie to giue consent.
Page xxviii - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.