Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
SCUD. _legit_. "Whereas you write, my fortune and my birth, Made above yours, may be a real cause That I must leave you, know, thou worthiest man, Thou hast a soul whose plenteous wealth supplies All the lean wants blind chance hath dealt to thee. Yet could I think the gods fr...
BRO. Health and all joy unto this fair assembly. My brother, who last tide is gone for France, A branch of willow feathering his hat, Bad me salute you, lady, and present you Wi...
78. SCENE XI.CRI. Know'st it not? in and see: Antonio Hath given thee Armellina with a portion-- Two hundred crowns; and old Pandolfo bound By oath t' assure thee twenty pounds a year For th...
82. ACT IV.FRANC. My dearest Luce, were thy old sire as just As thou art truly constant, our firm love Had never met these oppositions. All my designs as yet, all practices That I have us'...
12. ACT I., SCENE 1.WIFE. Yes, such a wife as I, that have a man As if myself had made him: such a one As I may justly say, I am the rib Belonging to his breast. Widow and maid, Your lives compared...
3. ACT II., SCENE 1.NEV. Thus for my friend's sake have I taken orders, And with my reason and some hire beside Won the known priest, that was to celebrate This marriage, to let me assume his place...
81. ACT III.POL. I cannot credit it, nor think that she, Of all the noble youth of Sicily, Should make so strange a choice; that none but he, None but the son of my vow'd enemy, Must be her...
26. act i. sc. 1). See also the notes of Sir John Hawkins and Mr Steevensto "The First Part of King Henry IV.," act ii. sc. 2. Of this kind of charily we have yet some remains, particularly, as Dr Ducarel observes, "at Lambeth Palace, where thirty po...
2. SCENE II.PEN. Your honour says true: Their knavery will be discern'd by daylight; But thou may'st watch at night with bill in hand, And no man dares find fault with it.
80. ACT II.CLER. See, Philocles, yonder's that happy shade, That often veils the fair Leucothoë, And this her usual hour; she'll not be long: Then thou shalt tell me if so rare an object E...
79. ACT I.ROS. Yes, my lord, With every circumstance: the time, the place, And manner of his death; that 'tis believed, And told for news with as much confidence, As if 'twere writ in Gal...
83. ACT V.FRANK. Now they are sure, or never! poor Francisco, Thou mett'st thy match, when thou durst undertake To o'erreach me with tricks. Where's now your sumner? 'Fore heaven, I canno...
11. SCENE II._Enter two or three, setting three or four chairs and four or five stools. Loud music; in which time enter_ SIR JOHN WORLDLY, SIR INNOCENT, BELLAFRONT, LUCIDA, KATE, _my_ LADY N...
43. SCENE IX.FLA. 'Tis so. Witness your brother Eugenio, and the rotten carcase of Pandolfo. Had I a hundred hearts, I should want room to entertain his love and the other's hate.
34. SCENE VIII.PAN. Here's a strange man indeed, of skill profound! How right he knew my business, 'fore he saw me! And how thou scoff'st him, when we talk'd in private! 'Tis a brave instrumen...
8. SCENE II.STRANGE. 'Zoons! you may say as well I am the man, As doubt he lives. A plague of your belief! D'ye know this bloody ruff, which she has sent, Lest you should be incredulous, an...
20. SCENE IV.TEAR. Damn me, we will have more wine, sirrah, or we'll down into the cellar, and drown thee in a butt of Malmsey, and hew all the hogsheads in pieces.
6. SCENE III.ABRA. Bowl they that list, for I will bowl no more. Cupid, that little bowler, in my breast Rubs at my heart, and will not let me rest. [_Within: Rub, rub, fly, fly._[35] Ay, ay...
5. SCENE II.ABRA. Why, alas! I cannot help this, and I should be hanged: she'll be as drunk as a porter. I'll tell you, my lord, I have seen her so be-piss the rushes, as she has danced at...
23. SCENE III.MAID. Sir, 'tis most true, and in this shall you be Unlike to other citizens, that arrest To undo gentlemen: your clemency here, Perchance, saves two lives: one from the other's...
1. ACT I., SCENE 1.SCUD. _legit_. "Whereas you write, my fortune and my birth, Made above yours, may be a real cause That I must leave you, know, thou worthiest man, Thou hast a soul whose plenteo...
21. ACT IV., SCENE 1.BOLD. Madam, why? Can love beget loss? Do I covet you Unlawfully? Am I an unfit man To make a husband of? Send for a priest; First consummate the match, and then to bed Without...
13. ACT II., SCENE 1.SEL. This is wonderful, wonderful! this is thy sweet care and judgment in all things: this goodness is not usual in our wives. Well, Grace Seldom, that thou art fair is nothing,...
67. SCENE XIII.LEL. The hopeful issue of thy counsel, Cricca, Brightens this ev'ning, and makes it more excel The clearest day, than a grey morning doth The blindest midnight, raising my amoro...
24. ACT V., SCENE I.HUS. It cannot be: Had you a wife, and I were in your case, I would be hang'd even at the chamber-door, Where I attempted, but I'd lay her flat.
19. SCENE III.BOLD. Yet many of us, madam, are quickly undone sometime: but herein we have the advantage of men, though they can be abed sooner than we, it's a great while, when they are abed...
37. SCENE III.ALB. Signior Pandolfo, y' arrive in happiest hour: If the seven planets were your nearest kindred, And all the constellations your allies; Were the twelve houses and the inns o'...
10. ACT V., SCENE 1.BEL. Titles and state, d'ye call it? O content! Thou art both beauty, means, and all in marriage. Joy dwells not in the princes' palaces: They that envy 'em do not know their ca...
22. SCENE II.WELL. O God, sir, I think in my conscience he will eat steel shortly. I know not how his conversion will hold after this sleep; but, in an hour or two last night, he was grown s...
29. SCENE IIIRON. Sir, you must know my master's heavenly brain, Pregnant with mysteries of metaphysics, Grows to an embryo of rare contemplation Which, at full time brought forth, excels by...
16. SCENE IV.BOLD. Bawd! I defy you. Indeed, your lordship thinks you may make bawds Of whom you please. I'll take my oath upon a book, Since I met her in the necessary house i' th' morning,...
7. ACT IV., SCENE I.SCUD. I am not tied to that opinion,[44] They are like women, which do always shun Their lovers and pursuers, and do follow With most rank appetites them that do fly: All mischi...
53. SCENE IX.RON. Doubtless this whore hath some of her companions, That wrong me thus. But if I catch the villain, I'll bathe my hungry sword and sharp revenge In his heart-blood. Come down!
15. SCENE III.INGEN. Bid him come in. Lord! What deep dissemblers are these females all. How far unlike a friend this lady us'd me, And here how like one mad in love she writes.
14. SCENE II.HUS. Zounds! you're a whore; though I entreat him fair Before his face, in compliment or so, I not esteem him truly as this rush. There's no such thing as friendship in the worl...
27. ACT I, SCENE 1.ALB. Come, brave mercurials, sublim'd in cheating; My dear companions, fellow-soldiers I' th' watchful exercise of thievery: Shame not at your so large profession, No more than...
36. SCENE II.TRIN. How! transform things to men? I'll bring nine tailors, Refus'd last muster, shall give five marks apiece To shape three men of service out of all, And grant him th' remnan...
49. SCENE V.TRIN. Now am I grown a gentleman and a fine one, I know't by th' kissing of my hands so courtly. My courteous knees bend in so true a distance, As if my foot walk'd in a frame o...
31. SCENE V.ALB. Ronca, the bunch of planets new found out, Hanging at the end of my best perspicil, Send them to Galileo at Padua:[256] Let him bestow them where he please. But the stars,...
33. SCENE VII.ALB. Live by my courtesy; stand up and breathe. The dangerous and malignant influence is pass'd: But thank my charity, that put by the blows, The least of which threaten'd a doz...
18. SCENE II.INGEN. No earthly lord can pull her out of that, Till he have pluck'd my heart first out. My lord, Were't not inhospitable, I could wrong you here In my own house. I am so full...
65. SCENE XI.TRIN. True, and being drown'd, Nothing so griev'd me as to lose thy company: But, since I am safe return'd, for thy good service I'll help thee to a husband.
61. SCENE VII.ANT. Wretched Antonio! hast been preserv'd so strangely From foreign miseries, to be wrong'd at home? Barr'd from thy house by the scorn of thine own children? [TRINCALO _knocks...
73. SCENE VI.ANT. Eugenio, Flavia, Lelio, and Sulpitia, Marriages, once confirm'd and consummate, Admit of no repentance. Therefore 'tis fitting All parties with full freedom speak their ple...
76. SCENE IX.TRIN. And then such quarrelling! never a suit I wore to-day but hath been soundly basted: only this faithful country-case 'scaped fist-free; and, be it spoken in a good hour, wa...
57. SCENE III.PAN. Th' right eye's no liker to the left, than he To my good neighbour. Divine Albumazar! How I admire thy skill! Just so he look'd, And thus he walk'd: this is his face, his h...
54. act i. sc. 2.[314] The late ingenious Mr Robert Dodsley, whose modest merit is well known to those who were acquainted with him, had little skill in our ancient language, and therefore permi...
68. ACT V., SCENE I.ALB. How? not a single share of this great prize, That have deserv'd the whole? was't not my plot And pains, and you mere instruments and porters? Shall I have nothing?
46. SCENE II.PAN. I can cry no longer, My throat's sore; I am robb'd, I am robb'd, all's gone, Both my own treasure, and the things I borrow'd. Make thou an outcry, I have lost my voice: Cry...
63. SCENE IX.LEL. When I drove him hence, Spite of my blood, his reverend countenance Struck me t' a deep compassion. To clear all, I'll ask one question. Signior Antonio, What money took yo...
52. SCENE VIII.BEV. Furbo, no more, unless thy words were charms Of power to revive him. Antonio's dead; He's dead, and in his death hath buried All my delights: my ears are deaf to music That...
38. SCENE IV.TRIN. O, what a business 'tis to be transform'd! My master talks of four-and-twenty hours: But, if I mew these flags[290] of yeomanry, Gild in the sear,[291] and shine in bloom...
35. ACT II., SCENE I.TRIN. He that saith I am not in love, he lies _de cap-a-pie;_ for I am idle, choicely neat in my clothes, valiant, and extreme witty. My meditations are loaded with metaphors, s...
77. SCENE X.CRI. Offend not your good luck, y' are now more fortunate Than when you rose this morning: be merry, sir, Cheer up yourself; y' have what you wish'd, fear nothing.
56. SCENE II.CRI. What do I see? Is not this Trincalo, Transform'd t' Antonio? 'tis: and so perfectly That, did the right Antonio now confront him, I'd swear they both were true, or both wer...
41. SCENE VII.LEL. Eugenio, these words are wonders past belief. Is your old father of so poor a judgment, To think it in the power of man to turn One person to another?
51. SCENE VII.RON. My dear Antonio, Never so well as now I have the power Thus to embrace my friend, whom all th' Exchange Gave drown'd for three whole months. My dear Antonio!
45. ACT III, SCENE 1.PAN. 'T has been an heirloom[310] to our house four hundred years, And, should I leave it now, I fear good fortune Would fly from us, and follow it.
42. SCENE VIII.EUG. 'Tis true: And, as from nights of storms the glorious sun Breaks from the east, and chaseth thence the clouds That chok'd the air with horror, so her beauty Dispels sad dar...
62. SCENE VIII.LEL. Didst not thou inform me That Trincalo was turn'd to Antonio? Which I believing, like a cursed son, With most reproachful threats drove mine old father From his own doors;...
28. SCENE II.PAN. Cricca, I seek thy aid, not thy cross counsel; I am mad in love with Flavia, and must have her: Thou spend'st thy reasons to the contrary, Like arrows 'gainst an anvil: I l...
17. ACT III., SCENE 1.HUS. Pish! friend, there is no woman in the world Can hold out in the end, if youth, shape, wit, Met in one subject, do assault her aptly; For failing once, you must not faint,...
69. SCENE II.CRI. Now, Cricca, mask thy countenance in joy; Speak welcome language of good news, and move Thy master, whose desires are credulous, To believe what thou giv'st him. If thy des...
58. SCENE IV.ARM. Are you so hot? We'll cool you. Since your late drowning, your grey and reverend head Is smear'd with ooze, and stuck with cockle-shells: This is to wash it. [_Throws water...
30. SCENE IV.PAN. At this rare perspicil and autocousticon: For with these two I'll hear and see all secrets; Undo intelligencers. Pray, let my man see What's done in Rome; his eyes are just...
9. Part II.," 1600, sig. M 3--[52] Dekker, in his "Bellman of London," sig. H 2, explains _foist_ to be a pickpocket; and instances of the use of it in this sense, and as a rogue and cheater, may be found in...
59. SCENE V.LEL. This! his grave looks! In every lineament himself no liker. Had I not happily been advertised, What could have forc'd me think 'twere Trincalo? Doubtless th' astrologer hat...
47. SCENE III.ALB. Harpax, Furbo, and Ronca, come out: all's clear. Why, here's a noble prize, worth vent'ring for. Is not this braver than sneak all night in danger, Picking of locks, or hoo...
39. SCENE V.ALB. The chamber's fit: provide the plate and hangings, And other necessaries: give strict order The room be cleans'd, perfum'd, and hang'd; meanwhile, With astrolabe[294] and m...
48. SCENE IV.ALB. Stand forth, transformed Antonio, fully mued From brown soar feathers[314] of dull yeomanry, To th' glorious bloom of gentry: prune yourself sleek;[315] Swear boldly y' are...
60. SCENE VI.TRIN. When this transformed substance[331] of my carcase Did live imprison'd in a wanton hogshead, My name was Don Antonio, and that title Preserv'd my life, and chang'd my suit...
50. SCENE VI.TRIN. 'Tis true, 'tis true; but I sustain'd great losses By reason of the shipwreck. Here's five pieces; Will that content you? and to-morrow morning Come to my house and take t...
4. ACT III., SCENE I.SER. Troth, sir, the Captain is somewhat doubtful of strangers; and being, as most captains are, a little in debt, I know he will not speak with you, unless you send your name.
44. act iv. sc. 3--[307] Mr Steevens, in his note to "King Richard III.," act v. sc. 3, observes there was anciently a particular kind of candle, called a _watch_ because, being marked out into se...
74. SCENE VII._And that you freeze not for a bed-fellow, I marry you with patience!_ Traitorous villain! Is't not enough to wrong me and betray me, But 't must be done with scoffs? accursed T...
64. SCENE X.TRIN. This rascal Cricca, with his arguments Of malice, so disturbs my gentle thoughts, That I half doubt I am not what I seem: But that will soon be clear'd; if they receive me...
40. SCENE VI.PAN. Up quickly, Trincalo, to my child Sulpitia; Bid her lay out my fairest damask tablecloths, The fairest Holland sheets, all the silver plate, Two gossip's cups of gold, my g...
72. SCENE V.PAN. Wisely consider'd, Trincalo; 'tis a fair prologue To the comedy ensuing. Now I confess Albumazar had equal power to change And mend thy understanding with thy body. Let me...
71. SCENE IV.ANT. Thanks, dearest friend. To speak my danger pass'd were to discourse Of dead men at a feast. Such sad relations Become not marriages. Sir, I am here Return'd to do you servi...
66. SCENE XII.CRI. It cannot choose but take. I know his humour; And can at pleasure feather him with hopes, Making him fly what pitch I wish, and stoop,[342] When I show fowl.
75. SCENE VIII.TRIN. Welcome, old trusty Trincalo; good farmer, welcome! Give me thy hand; we must not part hereafter. Fie, what a trouble 'tis to be out of a man's self! If gentlemen have no...
55. ACT IV., SCENE I.ANT. Thus, by great favour of propitious stars, From fearful storms, shipwreck and raging billows, [And] merciless jaws of death, am I return'd To th' safe and quiet bosom of my...
70. SCENE III.[351How shall I recompense this astrologer, This great Albumazar, through whose learned hands Fortune hath prov'd[352] th' effect of my best wishes, And crown'd my hopes? Give him t...
32. SCENE VI.