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" Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, . Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined... "
The bachelor's wife, a selection of curious and interesting extracts - Page 85
by John Galt - 1824
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 324 pages
...time ; -And descant on mine own deformity ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And therefore,—since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.* Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,6 By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother...
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Iskander; or, The hero of Epirus

Arthur Spenser - 1819 - 670 pages
...changed from love to revenge, determined to find a gratification of hatred, if not of love. CHAPTER VI. •Since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain -Oh, my love ! my wife ! Death that hath suck'd the honey from thy lips Hath had no power yet upon...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...peace, Hive no delight to pass away the time ; tnless to spy iny shadow in the sun, ind descant on mine own deformity ; And therefore, — since I cannot...a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — lam determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid,...
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The Literary chronicle and weekly review, Volume 2, Issues 33-83

1820 - 856 pages
...staid than thine to thee. Match loth, 1820. JR P, DEFORMITY. ' Deformity deformed,— unfinished : And therefore ; — since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days ;— 1 am determined to prove a villain.' EVERT rational being ought to be a philosopher. Every philosopher...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1839 - 608 pages
...with a soliloquy, in which, as in the former play,f he descants upon his personal deformities : — " And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 1 am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days." And he avows his underhand...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...shadow in the son, And descant on mine own deformity ; And therefore,— since I cannot prove a luver, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate,the idle pleasures of these days. Plots ..have I laid, inductious* dangerous, By drunken prophecies,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 526 pages
...colloquial sense, without any reference to musick. MALONE. To entertain these fair well-spoken days 9, — 1 am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures ' of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous 2, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...diligently inculcates, that the wickedness of Richard proTo entertain these fair well-spoken days9, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures l of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous a, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...peace, Have no delight to pass away the time; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, — since I cannot prove...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. 9 barbed tteetLi,] ie steeds caparisoned in a warlike manner. Borbed, however, may be no more than...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 442 pages
...peace, Have no delight to pass away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity ; And therefore, — since I cannot...villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductionsi dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother...
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