Nero & Other PlaysHerbert Percy Horne, Havelock Ellis, Arthur Symons, Arthur Wilson Verity |
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Abra Arethusa art thou Aspero Ben Jonson better blood Bold Bright captain Coomes Count F death Dion Cassius dost doth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith father fear fool Fran Frank Galba give Gour hand hast hate hath hear heart Heaven Hort Hortensio humour husband Isle of Gulls kiss live look lord madam maid Mall marry Mast Master Goursey MILICHUS Mistress Barnes Mistress Goursey mother ne'er Nero never night NIMPHIDIUS Parliament of Bees Phil Philip play poet Pouts pray Proud quarto Scav SCENE Scud Scudmore shalt Sir Abraham Sir John sirrah sister soul speak stand Strange Suetonius swear 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 222 - 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 ...
Page 351 - In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak...
Page 278 - A log of wood is brought into the midst of the room : this is Dun, (the cart-horse,) and a cry is raised, that he is stuck in the mire. Two of the company 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 lift the log, and from...
Page 332 - I did determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody, because forty shillings I care not for; and above few or none will bestow on these matters especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet'.
Page 137 - I am sorry for it; I shall never see good manhood again, 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...
Page 174 - Give me thy hand, Nicholas : thou art a better man than I took thee for, and yet thou art not so good a man as I. Nich. You dwell by ill-neighbours, Richard; that makes ye praise yourself.
Page 131 - And, as thou say'st to me, to him I said, But in a greater huff and hotter blood : I tell ye, on youth's tiptoes then I stood. Says he (good faith, this was...
Page 427 - Hence, lewd impudent ! I know not what to term thee, man or woman ; For nature, shaming to acknowledge thee For either, hath produc'd thee to the world Without a sex : some say thou art a woman Others, a man ; and many, thou art both Woman and man . but I think rather, neither ; Or man and horse, as th' old Centaurs were feign 'd ' [a passage very inaccurately cited in Steevens's note apud the Var.
Page 154 - ... tis good sleeping in a whole skin; so a man might come home by Weeping-Cross;' no, by lady, a friend is not so soon gotten as lost; blessed are the peace-makers; they that strike with the sword, shall be beaten with the scabbard.