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And this, too, perfectly agrees with the power attributed to the superior spirits of quelling the demons by those indications of their quality which were not to be perceived by mortals: _per occultissimæ signa præsentiæ, quæ angelicis sensibus etiam malignorum spirituum, potiu...
_Theoph._ 'Tis wondrous strange! The marches of great princes, Like to the motions of prodigious meteors, Are step by step observed; and loud-tongued Fame The harbinger to prepa...
16. ACT III. SCENE I._Sanaz._ Leave the horses with my grooms; but be you careful, With your best diligence and speed, to find out The prince, and humbly, in my name, entreat I may exchange some pri...
9. SCENE II.[47_Anton._ Then with her dies The abstract of all sweetness that's in woman! Set me down, friend, that, ere the iron hand Of death close up mine eyes, they may at once Take my las...
23. SCENE II._Archid._ So careless we have been, my noble lords, In the disposing of our own affairs, And ignorant in the art of government, That now we need a stranger to instruct us. Yet w...
37. SCENE III._Timol._ 'Tis wonderous strange! nor can it fall within The reach of my belief, a slave should be The owner of a temperance which this age Can hardly parallel in freeborn lords,...
18. SCENE II._Char._ Treason! 'Tis a word My innocence understands not. Were my breast Transparent, and my thoughts to be discern'd, Not one spot shall be found to taint the candour Of my al...
10. SCENE II._Max._ But that I fear 'twould be held flattery, The bonds consider'd in which we stand tied, As love and empire, I should say, till now I ne'er had seen a lady I thought worthy...
21. SCENE III._Sanaz._ And can it be, your bounties should fall down In showers on my ingratitude, or the wrongs Your greatness should revenge, teach you to pity? What retribution can I make,...
38. ACT I. SCENE I._Ador._ A suit; yet of a nature not to prove The quarry[134] that you hawk for: if your words Are not like Indian wares, and every scruple To be weigh'd and rated, one poor syll...
11. ACT I. SCENE I._Char._ Again most welcome. Yet, give me leave to wish (and pray you excuse me, For I must use the freedom I was born with) The great duke's pleasure had commanded you To my poo...
53. SCENE II._Rob._ Had our division been greater, madam, Your clemency, the wrong being done to you, In pardon of it, like the rod of concord, Must make a perfect union.--Once more, With a...
47. SCENE III._Cam._ Good friends, they are too Munificent in their love and favour to me. Out of my cabinet return such jewels As this directs you:--[_To_ CLARINDA.]--for your pains; and you...
33. SCENE III._Mar._ I know I am pursued; nor would I fly, Although the ports were open, and a convoy Ready to bring me off: the baseness of These villains, from the pride of all my hopes, Ha...
24. ACT II. SCENE I._Archid._ I shrink not in the shoulders; though I'm old I'm tough, steel to the back; I have not wasted My stock of strength in featherbeds: here's an arm too; There's stuff in...
6. ACT III. SCENE I._Sap._ She's a witch, A sorceress, Theophilus; my son Is charm'd by her enchanting eyes; and, like An image made of wax, her beams of beauty Melt him to nothing: all my hopes in...
5. SCENE III._Dor._ My trusty Angelo, with that curious eye Of thine, which ever waits upon my business, I prithee watch those my still-negligent servants, That they perform my will, in what...
41. SCENE II._Syl._ But the time will come, be comforted, when I will Put off this vizor of unkindness to her, And show an amorous and yielding face: And, until then, though Hercules himself...
15. SCENE III._Sanaz._ I cannot apprehend, yet I have argued All ways I can imagine, for what reasons The great duke does employ me hither; and, What does increase the miracle, I must render...
50. SCENE III._Aurel._ A seat here for the duke. It is our glory To overcome with courtesies, not rigour; The lordly Roman, who held it the height Of human happiness to have kings and queens...
13. ACT II. SCENE I._Fior._ Were we less perfect, Yet, being as we are, an absolute princess, We of necessity must be chaste, wise, fair, By our prerogative!--yet all these fail To move where I wou...
39. SCENE II._Clar._ For your mirth's sake Let him alone; he has been all this morning In practice with a peruked gentleman-usher, To teach him his true amble, and his postures, [SYLLI _walk...
12. SCENE II._Coz._ What needs this form? We are not grown so proud As to disdain familiar conference With such as are to counsel and direct us. This kind of adoration show'd not well In the...
20. SCENE II._He, whom you pleased to favour, is cast down Past hope of rising, by the great duke's frown, If, by your gracious means, he cannot have A pardon;--and that got, he lives your s...
29. SCENE III._Grac._ Do you grumble? you were ever A brainless ass; but if this hold, I'll teach you To come aloft and do tricks like an ape. Your morning's lesson: if you miss----
45. ACT III. SCENE I._Ast._ I have no commission To expostulate the act. These letters speak The king my master's love to you, and his Vow'd service to the duchess, on whose person I am to give atte...
32. SCENE II._Timol._ Thus far we are return'd victorious; crown'd With wreaths triumphant, (famine, blood, and death, Banish'd your peaceful confines,) and bring home Security and peace. 'T...
26. SCENE III._Mar._ Pish! for that We'll talk anon: another rouse[112]! we lose time; [_Drinks._ When our low blood's wound up a little higher, I'll offer my design; nay, we are cold yet; Th...
7. SCENE II._Artem._ Sapritius, though your son deserve no pity, We grieve his sickness: his contempt of us We cast behind us, and look back upon His service done to Cæsar, that weighs down...
35. ACT V. SCENE I._Cleo._ It needs not, sir; I prize him to his worth, Nay, love him truly; yet would not live slaved To his jealous humours: since, by the hopes of heaven, As I am free from viol...
4. SCENE II._Theoph._ As thought: I prithee tell me, good Macrinus, How health and our fair princess lay together This night, for you can tell; courtiers have flies[35], That buzz all news...
52. ACT V. SCENE I._Cam._ I believe it; You ransomed him, and supplied his wants--imagine That is already spoken; and what vows Of service he made to me, is apparent; His joy of me, and wonder too...
17. ACT IV. SCENE I._Char._ Daughter, I have observed, since the prince left us, (Whose absence I mourn with you,) and the visit Count Sanazarro gave us, you have nourish'd Sad and retired thoughts...
49. SCENE II._Bert._ 'Tis here determined, (great examples, arm'd With arguments, produced to make it good,) That neither tyrants, nor the wrested laws, The people's frantic rage, sad exile,...
28. SCENE II._Timand._ They are at our gates: my heart! affrights and horrors Increase each minute. No way left to save us, No flattering hope to comfort us, or means, But miracle, to redeem...
36. SCENE II._Mar._ My better angel Assumes this shape to comfort me, and wisely; Since, from the choice of all celestial figures, He could not take a visible form so full Of glorious sweetn...
44. SCENE V._Gonz._ We have them yet, though they cost us dear. This was Charged home, and bravely follow'd. Be to yourselves [_To_ JACOMO _and_ RODERIGO. True mirrors to each other's worth...
8. ACT IV. SCENE I._Sap._ O you, that are half gods, lengthen that life Their deities lend us; turn o'er all the volumes Of your mysterious Æsculapian science, T' increase the number of this young...
51. SCENE IV._Syl._ Hearing how far you doted on my person, Is come himself a suitor, with the awl Of his authority to bore my nose, And take you from me--Oh, oh, oh!
22. ACT I. SCENE I._Timag._ Why should you droop, Leosthenes, or despair My sister's favour? What, before, you purchased By courtship and fair language, in these wars (For from her soul you know s...
30. SCENE IV._Timag._ I am so far from envy, I am proud You have outstripp'd me in the race of honour. O 'twas a glorious day, and bravely won! Your bold performance gave such lustre to Timo...
14. SCENE II._Pet._ Let us take, then, Our morning draught. Such as eat store of beef, Mutton, and capons, may preserve their healths With that thin composition call'd small beer, As, 'tis s...
34. SCENE IV._Asot._ I think so:--nor the land Where apes and monkeys grow, like crabs and walnuts, On the same tree. Not all the catalogue Of conjurers or wise women bound together Could ha...
42. SCENE III._Pier._ If you, sir, Delay the assault, and the city be given up To your discretion, you in honour cannot Use the extremity of war,--but, in Compassion to them, you to us prove...
27. ACT III. SCENE I._Mar._ Why, think you that I plot against myself[115]? Fear nothing, you are safe: these thick-skinn'd slaves, I use as instruments to serve my ends, Pierce not my deep designs;...
40. ACT II. SCENE I._Ful._ 'Tis far From me, sir, to add fuel to your anger, That, in your ill opinion of him, burns Too hot already; else, I should affirm It was a gross neglect.
3. ACT II. SCENE I._Dor._ Thy voice sends forth such music, that I never Was ravish'd with a more celestial sound. Were every servant in the world like thee, So full of goodness, angels would come...
25. SCENE II._Asot._ Are they so, sir! 'Slight, if I had them at this bay that flout me, And say I look like a sheep and an ass, I'd make them Feel that I am a lion.
31. ACT IV. SCENE I._Timand._ Yes, sir; and as often As I speak of you, lends attentive ear To all that I deliver; nor seems tired, Though I dwell long on the relation of Your sufferings for her, h...
19. ACT V. SCENE I._Sanaz._ 'Tis proved in me: the curse of human frailty, Adding to our afflictions, makes us know What's good; and yet our violent passions force us To follow what is ill. Reason...
43. SCENE IV._Fer._ No aids from Sicily! Hath hope forsook us; And that vain comfort to affliction, pity, By our vow'd friend denied us? we can nor live Nor die with honour: like beasts in a...
48. ACT IV. SCENE I._Pier._ Hunger had Done that, before we came; nor was the soldier Compell'd to seek for prey: the famish'd wretches, In hope of mercy, as a sacrifice offer'd All that was worth...
46. SCENE II._Ador._ He undergoes my challenge, and contemns it, And threatens me with the late edict made 'Gainst duellists,--the altar cowards fly to. But I, that am engaged, and nourish i...
1. Act II. sc. 2.And this, too, perfectly agrees with the power attributed to the superior spirits of quelling the demons by those indications of their quality which were not to be perceived by...