The Old Dramatists: Conjectural ReadingsThacker, Spink, 1898 - 215 pages |
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... ii . 1. 240 , iv . 1. 70 More Dissemblers Beside Women , ii . 1. 57 The Black Book , vol . viii . p . 14 ... .. Satiromastix , vol . i . p . 221 ... ... : 176 178 178 ... ... ... 190 ... ... The Honest Whore , vol . ii . p .
... ii . 1. 240 , iv . 1. 70 More Dissemblers Beside Women , ii . 1. 57 The Black Book , vol . viii . p . 14 ... .. Satiromastix , vol . i . p . 221 ... ... : 176 178 178 ... ... ... 190 ... ... The Honest Whore , vol . ii . p .
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... whore , ' ' whored , ' etc. , were of old more correctly spelt without the w , as , e.g. , in The Maid in the Mill , iii . 1. 14 . p . 66 . The Mad Lover , iii . 4. vol . vi . p . 172 : - ' Live till the mothers find you , read your ...
... whore , ' ' whored , ' etc. , were of old more correctly spelt without the w , as , e.g. , in The Maid in the Mill , iii . 1. 14 . p . 66 . The Mad Lover , iii . 4. vol . vi . p . 172 : - ' Live till the mothers find you , read your ...
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... 3. 134 : - ' Enough to make a whore forswear her trade , And to make whores , a bawd . ' I fancy to make ' was caught from the line above , and that for it we should read forsake . Timon of Athens , iv . 3. 143 , 144- 28 The Old Dramatists.
... 3. 134 : - ' Enough to make a whore forswear her trade , And to make whores , a bawd . ' I fancy to make ' was caught from the line above , and that for it we should read forsake . Timon of Athens , iv . 3. 143 , 144- 28 The Old Dramatists.
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... whore , allure him , burn him up ; Let your close fire predominate his smoke , And be no turncoats : yet may your pains , six months , Be quite contrary : and thatch your poor thin roofs With burdens of the dead ; -some that were hang'd ...
... whore , allure him , burn him up ; Let your close fire predominate his smoke , And be no turncoats : yet may your pains , six months , Be quite contrary : and thatch your poor thin roofs With burdens of the dead ; -some that were hang'd ...
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... Whore , ii . 5. vol . i . p . 145 : — O young man , castaway , By the religious number of mine order , I day and night have wak'd my aged eyes Above my strength , to weep on thy behalf . But Heaven is angry , and be thou resolv'd Thou ...
... Whore , ii . 5. vol . i . p . 145 : — O young man , castaway , By the religious number of mine order , I day and night have wak'd my aged eyes Above my strength , to weep on thy behalf . But Heaven is angry , and be thou resolv'd Thou ...
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All's Antony and Cleopatra believe Chab Chabot City Wit comma Compare conjecture corruption course Covent-Garden Weeded coverture cruel death Dict doth doubt Dumb Knight Dyce English Moor explains eyes fair Fairholt fancy fear folios give follows Gifford remarks Hamlet hath Hazlitt Hazlitt's alteration heart Hollander honesty honour Humorous Courtier insert Jove Julius Cæsar King Lady Lady's Trial Lear look lord Love-sick Court Love's Love's Sacrifice Lover's Melancholy lust Mad Couple Match at Midnight means metre misprint Mistress never night nonsense old copies give Old editions passage perhaps Pericles pity play poison punctuation quarto Queen and Concubine Reuengers Tragedie says Gifford Second Maiden's Tragedy seems sense Shakespeare shalt sound speech spelt substitute suggest Sun's Darling suppose sure thee Thorney thou art thought Timon of Athens tion triumphs Troilus and Cressida whore Witch of Edmonton woman
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