Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
EUG. This is the hour which fair Artemia Promis'd to borrow from all company, And bless me only with it; to deny Her beauteous presence to all else, and shine On me, poor me! Within this garden here, This happy garden once, while I was happy,[3] And wanted not a free access un...
BRIS. Pox o' the ugly baboon! she has got a face like a Bartholomew Fair baby, and a mouth like the whale that swallowed a whole fleet. Her fingers are rolling-pins, and her arm...
8. ACT III., SCENE I.BREW. Gentlemen, you're welcome; that once well-pronounced has a thousand echoes. Let it suffice, I have spoke it to the full. Here's your affairs, here's your merchandise--this...
93. ACT III., SCENE 1.PIN. Tell my Lord Lysicles I will attend him in the walks. Where's this Ungrateful child whom the just gods have curs'd So much, they will not let her take the blessings they Do...
5. ACT V.MAT. I'll not refuse my uncle's courtesy, But go and see his house. I should before Have done that duty to him, but I thought My visits were not welcome, since he liv'd So close...
10. ACT V., SCENE I.KEEPER. No? Why, look ye, sir, you shall want neither meat, drink, money, nor anything that the house affords; or if anything abroad like ye, sir, here's money, send for what yo...
6. ACT I., SCENE I.O. FOS. The merchant's casualty: We always venture on uncertain odds, Although we bear hope's emblem, the anchor, With us. The wind brought it; let the wind blow 't Away again;...
9. ACT IV., SCENE I.SPEED. Experience must bear with folly; thou art all innocent, and thy name is Lambskin; grave sapience guides me, and I care not a pin for thy squibs and thy crackers. My old d...
94. ACT V., SCENE 1.SER. Sir, I have waited, as you commanded, near the house of the Egyptian lady: something is done that disturbs them all, divers run in and out, physicians are sent for: at last...
90. ACT I.PHY. Let it not trouble you: he never shuts his eyes Till all this other world opens theirs; nor Does he sleep then, but with distracted thoughts Labours his fancy, to present h...
2. ACT II.EARTH. I do not more rejoice in all my stores, My wealthy bags, fill'd garners, crowded chests, And all the envi'd heaps that I have glean'd With so long care and labour, than I...
7. ACT II., SCENE I.HOST. Welcome still, my merchants of _bona Speranza_; what's your traffic, bullies? What ware deal you in?--cards, dice, bowls, or pigeon-holes? Sort 'em yourselves: either pass...
1. ACT I.EUG. This is the hour which fair Artemia Promis'd to borrow from all company, And bless me only with it; to deny Her beauteous presence to all else, and shine On me, poor me! Wi...
4. ACT IV.EARTH. Out, villain! how could any fire come there But by thy negligence? I do not use To keep such fires as should at all endanger My house, much less my barn.
92. ACT II., SCENE 2.HER. It is a grace our family must boast of That you descend to visit those that style Themselves your creatures, made such by your goodness, Which we can only pay by frequent p...
3. ACT III.THEO. My master, touch'd with sorrow and remorse For that unhappy error of his life-- That fault (alas!) which by too true a name Is termed misery, determines now By deeds of te...
25. SCENE V.CHRIS. I'm not so happy: Kit's as hungry now As a besieged city, and as dry As a Dutch commentator. This vile world Ne'er thinks of qualities: good truth, I think 'T hath much t...
12. SCENE II.POT. Now help, good heaven! 'tis such an uncouth thing To be a widow out of term-time: I Do feel such aguish qualms and dumps, and fits, And shakings still an end! I lately was...
36. SCENE IV.MOTH. _Denuncio vobis gaudium magnum,_ _Robertus de Tinea electus est in sedem hospitalem,_ _Et assumit sibi nomen Galfridi_. Joy comes to our house: I, Robert Moth, am Chesen i...
15. SCENE V.HEAR. Our life, methinks, is but the same with others: To cosen and be cosen'd makes the age. The prey and feeder are that civil thing That sager heads call body politic. Here i...
16. ACT II., SCENE I.HAVE. 'Tis destin'd; I'll be valiant: I am sure I shall be beaten with more credit then Than now I do escape. Lieutenant, has't Bethought thyself as yet? Has't any way To make m...
26. SCENE VI._Sweet sir, I am most passionately yours,_ _To serve you all the ways I can: Priscilla._ Very well penn'd of a young chambermaid. I do conceive your meaning, sweet Priscilla. Yo...
20. SCENE V.CRE. With what a lie you'd flap me in the mouth! Thou hast the readiest invention To put off anything: thou hadst it from Thy mother, I'll be sworn: 't ne'er came from me.
18. SCENE III.HEAR. Can I lie hid nowhere securely from The throng and press of men? Must every place Become a theatre, where I seek shelter, And solitudes become markets, 'cause I'm there? G...
91. ACT II., SCENE 1.HER. Her father was of Greece a wealthy merchant, and his business enforcing him to leave his country, he married a lady of that place, where he lived, who, excellent in the mys...
29. SCENE III.AND. 'Tis one that brought his pigs to the wrong market. You keep your woman here so fine, that I Had like t' have made a proper business on't, Before I was aware. If anything D...
23. SCENE III.PRIS. Pray y', entertain yourself awhile, until I give my mistress notice of your presence. I'd leave a book with you, but that I see You are a gentleman: perhaps you'll find So...
52. Act iii. is one in the Scottish dialect. Hence a conjecture has beenhazarded, either that the author was a Scotchman, or that the song was introduced to please King James. If so, the play must have been written and represented before 1625; but t...
37. SCENE V.HEAR. No fitter place. They are good silly people; souls that will Be cheated without trouble. One eye is Put out with zeal, th' other with ignorance; And yet they think they're...
73. SCENE VII.CAS. Set down that heavy load with heavier hearts. Could virtuous valour, honourable thoughts, A noble scorn of fortune, pride and death, Myriads of vows and prayers sent to hea...
79. SCENE IV.CÆS. The coast is clear; our honour is the goal. In vain doth Tagus' yellow sand obey, Rhine's horned front and nimble Tigris running For wager with the wind, which skims his to...
30. SCENE IV.CHIR. O sir, the deed By which it came was not more close. D' y' think I would undo myself by twitting? 'Twere To bring the gallants all about mine ears, And make me mine own pa...
14. SCENE IV.SLICER. The university! 'T had been the only way T' have took him off his courage and his mettle: He had return'd, as slaves do from the galleys: A naked shorn thing, with a thi...
42. SCENE V.WEL. Sure, I have slept myself into an owl, and mistake night for day? Can light dawn, and none see the way to my house for a morning's draught? No groats due? Did all my mad la...
56. SCENE IV.EUL. The court a wardrobe is of living shapes: And ladies are the tissue-spangled suits, Which Nature wears on festival high days. The Court a spring: each madam is a rose. The...
39. SCENE II.CURD. I have fresh cheese and cream; I have fresh cheese and cream. Heigho! But one suitor yet? Must my sheets lie smooth till I am wrinkled? Nay, then, I see beauty is not a ca...
38. SCENE I._You maidens that do cleanse the door,_ _And make a looking-glass o' th' floor,_ _That every night prepare the ground,_ _For Oberon to dance a round,_ _And do expect Queen Mab f...
22. SCENE II.CRE. So now the mortgage is mine own outright; I swear by the faith of my body now, It is a pretty thing--o' my corporal oath, A very pretty thing. Besides the house, Orchards,...
27. ACT IV., SCENE I.CRE. Does he not so? Nor I. I'll light tobacco With my sum-totals; my debt-books shall sole[204] Pies at young Andrew's wedding; cry you mercy, I would say, gentlemen, the Great...
35. SCENE III.Thus I come in peace to thy soul, good son. _'Tis you must give it, father: I am ill,_ _I'm very ill; fit only now for heaven._ _My soul would fain be flying, were't not for_ _A...
43. SCENE VI.GUM. Have you any corns upon your feet or toes? any teeth to draw? O, for a flood now or a whole year of rain, that every step may be up to the ankles in water, and cover every...
31. SCENE V.1. _Whiles early light springs from the skies_ _A fairer from your bride doth rue;_ _A brighter day doth thence appear,_ _And makes a second morning there._ _Her blush doth shed...
48. SCENE XI.Any old pots or kettles to mend? Will you buy my ballads? or have you any corns on your feet-toes? Nay, I am Jack-of-all-trades now. Three is a perfect number, and so many I hav...
46. SCENE IX.HEATH. O, like cobbler's wax; she stuck to my fingers: I could hardly get her off, and had much ado to persuade her not to undo herself quite. She would have had me gone home an...
58. ACT II, SCENE I.CAS. Heavens favour Cridous, fair Albania's king: And Britael, deck'd with the Demetian crown: The same to famous Guerthed, whose command Embraces woody Ordovic's black hills. L...
72. SCENE VI.EUL. A mind content, O, 'tis a mind of pearl: A mint of golden thoughts, a heaven on earth! When eager longers meet full-butt their scope, And hopes are actuated beyond hope. So...
63. SCENE VI.LAN. That ceremonious fear, which bends the heart Of mortal creatures, and displays itself In outward signs of true obedience, As prayer, kneeling, sacrifice, and hymns, Require...
75. SCENE IX._Gang, ye lads and lasses,_ _Sa wimble and sa wight:_ _Fewl mickle teen betide ye,_ _If ye ligg in this plight._ _Be bonny, buxom, jolly,_ _Trip haydegues[325] belive;_ _And gif...
11. ACT I., SCENE I.SLICER. In my poor judgment, 'tis as good my lady Should venture to commit her eldest son To us as to the Inns-of-Court: He'll be Undone here, only with less ceremony.
32. act ii. sc. 4.[207] A term anciently used in salutation, or rather in drinking. See Selden's notes on the ninth song of Drayton's "Polyolbion," and [Steevens's] notes on "Macbeth," act i. sc....
55. SCENE III.CAS. Although the people's voice constrains me hold This regal staff, whose massy weight would bruise Your age and pleasures; yet this, nephews, know, Your trouble less, your ho...
62. SCENE V.COM. Health and good fortune on Cassibelane 'tend: My love to you and Britain waft me hither To make atonement, ere the Roman leader Bring fire and spoil, and ruin on your heads...
21. ACT III, SCENE I.MOTH. Harrow,[176] alas! I swelt[177] here as I go; Brenning[178] in fire of little Cupido. I no where hoart yfeel but on mine head. Huh, huh, huh, so; ycapred very wele. I am t...
67. ACT III., SCENE I.CÆS. Our landing cost us dearly, many lives Between the ships and shore being sacrific'd: Our men, with heavy armour clogg'd, and ignorant Of all the flats and shallows, were co...
13. SCENE III.HEAR. Besides you come too near, when you salute. Your breath may be discover'd; and you give Advantage unto him you thus accost To shake you by the hand: which often doth Endan...
28. SCENE II.So, so, here he is; how shall I do to know whe'r he be a gentleman, Or yeoman, or servingman. I think I'd best suppose him all, and beat him through Every degree; and so I shall...
57. SCENE V.[262] [Natives of Gallia Belgica, a province comprising the Duchy of Treves, part of Luxembourg, and the departments of the Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, and Vosges. Hazlitt's "Class...
74. SCENE VIII.AND. Shall justice and just Libra ne'er forsake Th' embroider'd belt? no sign of them on earth? Are gods dim-sighted grown, or do they sleep The morning, and carouse the afterno...
49. SCENE XII.CURDS. Ay, and called me his pretty lamb and his sweetbread; told me he would meet me here two hours ago, and promised me mountains; but bid me I should not tell you on't.
50. SCENE XIII.WEL. Ay, ay, 'tis the rich face that keeps us from poverty. If the tailor's countenance were in fashion now, and all that had fiery faces were counted comets, what a decay would...
41. SCENE IV.HEATH. And how do I look now? Like one that was begotten under a butcher's stall, I warrant, and born in a slaughter-house? I know there's never a Kill-cow i' th' city becomes a...
54. SCENE II.CÆS. Welcome thus far, partners of weal and woe, Welcome, brave bloods! Now may our weapons sleep, Since Ariovist in cock-boat basely flies;[265] Vast Germany stands trembling a...
47. SCENE X.DITTY. Well, if ever I carry love-letters again, may they make a love-letter of me; turn my skin to paper, my skull to an inkhorn, and make a pen of my nose; it will be excellen...
87. SCENE VI.CÆS. Thus we determine: that crown still shall stand: Reign as the total monarch of this isle, Till death unkings you. 'Twere, Androgeus, best You in our train kept honourable p...
76. ACT IV., SCENE I.CÆS. A story is't or fable that, stern Mars, Thy weight did Romulus' sleepy mother press? Since we, thy brood degenerous, stand at gaze, Charm'd in the circle of a foaming flood...
78. SCENE III.ROL. Rising from shore, conjecture might descry A thousand ships with painted prows to pave The briny fields of Neptune; their broad sails Did Nereus canopy, Titan's taper veil....
84. SCENE III._So the silver-feather'd swan,_ _Both by death and colour wan,_ _Loves to sing, before she die,_ _Leaving life so willingly._ _But how can I sing a note,_ _When dead hoarseness...
69. SCENE III.CAS. Now hot alarums die in fainter notes: Tempestuous night is gone: victorious joy-- As when pale Eos[306] cleaves the eastern fogs, And, blushing more and more, opes half her...
59. SCENE II.ROL. Then, with your leave, she us'd, upon receipt, No words, but silent joy purpl'd her face; And seeing your name, straight clapp'd it to her heart, To print there a new copy;...
68. SCENE II.NEN. Fight, Britons, fight! The day is ours. I'm cloy'd And glutted e'en with slaughter. There some fly, And flying die, and dying mangled lie. I twice broke through the ranks,...
88. SCENE VII._Come, fellow-bards, and sing with cheer;_ _Since dreadful alarums we shall no more hear._ _Come, lovely peace, our saint divine,_ _Olive and laurel do love for to twine._ _The...
83. SCENE II.CAS. No rampires keep him back: he presses forward, Though every stamp he treads seems to conjure The Fates from their infernal centre. None But he durst be so bold.
64. SCENE VII.BREN. 'Tis ancient Brennus calls, whose victories Europe and Asia felt, and still record. Dear Nennius, now's the time to steel thy courage; Canst thou behold thy mother captive...
86. SCENE V.AND. Thus civil war by me and factious broils Deface this goodly land: I am reveng'd; The cause (Eulinus) dead, my anger dies. He is our uncle, and in danger's mouth; Both claim...
60. SCENE III.LAN. That souls immortal are, I easily grant; Their future state distinguish'd--joy or pain, According to the merits of this life. But then, I rather think, being free from pris...
66. act v. sc. 7--"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself; Now these her princes are come home again, Come the t...
17. SCENE II.MOTH.[144] I was not what you mean; depardieu,[145] You snyb[146] mine old years, sans fail I wene[147] you bin A jangler[148] and a golierdis.[149]
81. SCENE VI._There doth she shine above,_ _Clear as great Delia's horned bow,_ _Bright as the queen of love,_ _To shoot down gentle beams below._ _Sabrina, dare_ _Not to compare_ _With her...
85. SCENE IV.CAS. O, that base fortune should great spirits damp, And fawn on muddy slaves! That envious fate Should ripen villany with a Syrian dew, And blast sweet virtue with a Syrian fla...
44. SCENE VII.BRIS. Yes, truly, I am one of the gentle craft, though I have got somewhat of the tailor's trade too; some hangers on--fellow-travellers, that I cannot be rid of, though, are st...
61. SCENE IV.VOL. We saw a paradise, whose bosom teems With silver ore, whose seas are paved with pearl, The meadows richly spread with Flora's tapestry; The fields even wonder at their harv...
45. SCENE VIII.HEATH. Yes, it is a very neat house; 'tis at the, sign of the Bull; 'tis newly covered with calves'-skins, and paved with knuckle-bones. Thou shalt not deny me; we'll be there t...
80. SCENE V.ROL. O my dear lady, hast thou slain thyself? So fairly pure, so kindly chaste, so---- [_Cries._ A Venus and Diana mix'd in one. She ate her meat with studs of pearl, she kiss'd...
40. SCENE III.DITTY. Come, new books, new books; newly printed and newly come forth! All sorts of ballads and pleasant books! _The Famous History of Tom Thumb_ and _Unfortunate Jack_,[239] _A...
82. ACT V., SCENE I.CÆS. Thus gain we ground; yet still our foes will fight, Whether they win or lose. With bloody drops Our path is printed: Thames his maiden cheeks Blush with vermillion. Nations...
77. SCENE II.EUL. Though Orpheus' harp, Arion's lute, the chimes Whose silver sound did Theban towers raise: Though sweet Urania with her ten-string'd lyre, Unto whose stroke the daily-rolli...
19. SCENE IV.AND. He was as like our Master Shape as could be; But that he had a patch upon his cheek And a black beard, I should have sworn 'twere he: It was somebody in his clothes, I'm sure.
71. SCENE V.BEL. Yes, noble Nennius, scatter'd on the shore, Thick lay the Latins, and the glutted stream Spews up her dead, whom death hath taught to swim, Though ignorant alive: their flo...
34. SCENE II.MEAN. They ne'er deserve the name of friends; they do Covet, not love. If any came from them, It was some vulture in a holy habit, Who did intend your carcase, not your safety....
33. ACT V., SCENE I.SIR T. Now that I have made even, girl, with heaven, Though I am past the worst, and I perceive My dinner only griev'd me; yet 'cause life's Frail and uncertain, let me counsel...
89. act iv. sc. 1--_The Lost Lady. A Tragy Comedy. Imprinted at London by Jo. Okes, for John Colby, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Signe of the Holy Lambe on Ludgate-hill. 1639. Folio._
53. ACT I., SCENE I.NEN. Methinks I hear Bellona's dreadful voice Redoubled from the concave shores of Gaul: Methinks I hear their neighing steads, the groans Of complimental souls taking their lea...
70. SCENE IV.CÆS. Heaven, sea and wind, and all the elements, Conspire to work us harm. Our ships, in Gaul Windbound, at length put forth and come in view, Are toss'd and torn; our navy on t...
65. SCENE VIII._Locrinus'_[296] _eldest son_ _Did drown the furious Hun,_ _But burnt himself with Elstred's love:_ _Leil_,[297] _rex pacificus;_ _Elud_,[298] _judicious,_ _Now heavenly bodies...
24. SCENE IV.