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Page xxxv - For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest cares to frown ; Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain?
Page 40 - Sweet wife, as ever there was any good will or friendship between thee and me, see this bearer (my host) satisfied of his debt; I owe him ten pound, and but for him I had perished in the streets. Forget and forgive my wrongs done unto thee, and Almighty God have mercy on my soul. Farewell till we meet in heaven, for on earth thou shalt never see me more. This is 2 of September 1592. Written by thy dying husband, ROBERT GREENE...
Page l - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page viii - What, are you in choler ? I will give you pills To cool your stomach. Seest thou these seals ? Now, by my father's soul, Which was a yeoman, when he was alive, Eat them,* or eat my dagger's point, proud squire.
Page xliv - Stop shallow water, still running, it will rage ; tread on a worme, and it will turne : then blame not schollers who are vexed with sharpe and bitter lines, if they reprove thy too much liberty of reproofe.
Page 90 - Come forth you wits that vaunt the pomp of speech, And strive to thunder from a stage-man's throat : View Menaphon a note beyond your reach ; Whose sight will make your drumming...
Page xxxviii - I charge thee, by the love of our youth and by my soul's rest, that thou wilt see this man paid; for if he and his wife had not succoured me I had died in the streets.
Page 243 - Shadows: and by his last letters gaue straight charge, that I should not onely haue the care for his sake of the impression thereof, but also in his absence to bestowe it on some man of Honor, whose worthye vertues might bee a patronage to his worke...
Page xvii - All this you may have there. Miles. You are for me, friend, and I am for you. But I pray you, may I not have an office there ? Dev.