Mr. William Shakespeare, Original and Early Editions of Quartos and Folios: His Source Books and Those Containing Contemporary Notices

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Yale University Press, 1922 - 217 pagine
 

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Pagina 123 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die : I think there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain today instead of him. A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse !
Pagina 28 - Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome- him !
Pagina 138 - in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least, (at seuerall times), who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Pagina 144 - of Verona, his Errors, his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame & his Merchant of Venice: for Tragedy his Richard the 2. Richard the 3. Henry the 4. King lohn, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and luliet.
Pagina 189 - and after such Sports, a Comedy of Errors (like to Plautus his Menechmus), was played by the Players. So that night was begun, and continued to the end, in nothing but Confusion and Errors ; whereupon, it was ever afterwards called, The Night of Errors.
Pagina 138 - joyd braue Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least, (at seuerall times), who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Pagina 99 - Fauste, precor, gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra Ruminât,—and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan ! I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice ; Venetia, Venetia, Chi non ti vede non ti pretia. Old Mantuan, old Mantuan ! Who understandeth thee not, loves thee not.
Pagina 115 - First Witch ... : Her Husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger : But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, I'll do.
Pagina 88 - with a horn added. Moth. Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning. Hoi. Quis, quis, thou consonant? Moth. The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them ; or the fifth, if I. Hoi. I will repeat
Pagina 91 - First Clown : A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.

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