Taming of the Shrew: A ComedyPrivately printed, 1887 - 75 pages |
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... sweet , ' belongs also to the old drama ; but in this instance it is remarkable that , while the leading idea is adopted , the mode of expressing it is quite different . " Richard Grant White says : " The plot , the personages , and the ...
... sweet , ' belongs also to the old drama ; but in this instance it is remarkable that , while the leading idea is adopted , the mode of expressing it is quite different . " Richard Grant White says : " The plot , the personages , and the ...
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... sweet wood to make the lodging sweet : Procure me music ready when he wakes , To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound ; And if he chance to speak , be ready straight , And , with a low submissive reverence , Say , -What is it your honor ...
... sweet wood to make the lodging sweet : Procure me music ready when he wakes , To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound ; And if he chance to speak , be ready straight , And , with a low submissive reverence , Say , -What is it your honor ...
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... sweet savours , and I feel soft things : - Upon my life , I am a lord , indeed ; And not a tinker , nor Christopher Sly.- . Well , bring our lady hither to our sight ; And , once again , a pot o ' the smallest ale . Hun . Will ' t ...
... sweet savours , and I feel soft things : - Upon my life , I am a lord , indeed ; And not a tinker , nor Christopher Sly.- . Well , bring our lady hither to our sight ; And , once again , a pot o ' the smallest ale . Hun . Will ' t ...
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... sweets of sweet philosophy . , good master , while we do admire virtue , and this moral discipline , s be no stoics , nor no stocks , I pray . profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; - tief , sir , study what you most affect . Luc ...
... sweets of sweet philosophy . , good master , while we do admire virtue , and this moral discipline , s be no stoics , nor no stocks , I pray . profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; - tief , sir , study what you most affect . Luc ...
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... sweet Bianca , if I can by neans light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she hts , I will wish him to her father . for . So will I , signior Gremio ; but a word , I pray . ugh the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle , v ...
... sweet Bianca , if I can by neans light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she hts , I will wish him to her father . for . So will I , signior Gremio ; but a word , I pray . ugh the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle , v ...
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acted apparel AUGUSTIN DALY Bian Bion BIONDELLO bride comedy comes curst Curt Curtis Daly's Theatre daughter doth dream duty Edwin Booth English peasants Enter GRUMIO Enter KATHARINE Enter PETRUCHIO entreat Exeunt Exit fair father fool Garrick gentleman gown hath hear heard hither honor horse HORTENSIO HUNTSMAN husband Induction Kath kiss Kitty Clive knock lady Licio look lord LUCENTIO and BIANCA lute Madam maid marry master mistress moon Nath ne'er never Padua PEDANT piece Pisa play players pray Re-enter ready right Vincentio scene servant Shakespeare Shakspere's Shrew Signior Baptista signior Gremio signior Lucentio Sirrah Slie stay suitor sweet Kate Taming tell thee Thomas Hardy thou canst thou hast thou liest Tranio unto Verona villain Warwickshire wench What's wife wilt win my love
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Page 75 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 75 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...
Page 75 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Page 50 - I will be master of what is mine own : She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing...