Old English Plays; Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153871921
Paperback|9781153871921
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...often studying to be compendious, call my smiter. Dares. What are you also learned, sir? Top. Learned? I am all Mars and Ars. Sam. Nay, you are all mass and ass. Top. Mock you me? You shall both suffer, yet with such weapons, as you shall make choice of the weapon wherewith you shall perish. Am I all a mass or lump? is there no proportion in me? Am I all ass? is there no wit in me? Epi, prepare them to the slaughter. Sam. 1 pray, sir hear us speak; we call you masse, which your learning doth well understand, is all man, for mas maris is a man. Then as (as you know) is a weight, and we for your virtues account you a weight. Top. The Latin hath saved your lives, the which a world of silver could not have ransomed. I understand you, and pardon you. Dares. Well, Sir Tophas, we bid you farewell, and at our next meeting we will be ready to do you service. Top. Samias, I thank you: Dares, I thank you; but, especially, 1 thank you both. Sam. Wisely. Come, next time we'll have some pretty gentlewomen with us to walk, for without doubt with them he will be very dainty. Dares. Come, let us see what our masters do, it is high time. Exeunt. Top. Now will I march into the field, where if t cannot encounter with my foul enemies, I will withdraw myself to the river, and there fortify for fish; for there resteth no minute free from fight. Exit. Scene IV. Tellus, Floscula, and Dipsas. Tel. Behold, Floscula, we have met with the woman by chance, that we sought for by travel. I will break my mind to her without ceremony or circumstance, lest we lose that time in advice, that should be spent in execution. Flos. Use your discretion: I will in this case neither give counsel nor consent, for there cannot be a thing more monstrous than to force affection by sorcery, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153871921 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153871920 |
| Weight | 1.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 In |
| List Price | $26.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 404 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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