Shakespeare's Testamentary LanguageLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 56 pages |
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... speak : Let's talk of graves , of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth , Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our ...
... speak : Let's talk of graves , of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth , Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our ...
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... speak of things which , by the custom of some places and counties , had belonged to a house certain descents , and that Helena speaks of a ring the county wears , 1 That downward hath succeeded in his house From son death of the owner ...
... speak of things which , by the custom of some places and counties , had belonged to a house certain descents , and that Helena speaks of a ring the county wears , 1 That downward hath succeeded in his house From son death of the owner ...
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... Speak I like Herne the hunter ? Why , now is Cupid a child of conscience : he makes restitution . As I am a true spirit , welcome ! Shakespeare may , in this passage , play upon the word woodman , using it in the sense of a forester or ...
... Speak I like Herne the hunter ? Why , now is Cupid a child of conscience : he makes restitution . As I am a true spirit , welcome ! Shakespeare may , in this passage , play upon the word woodman , using it in the sense of a forester or ...
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... the same to the witnesses , he may say unto them : This is my last will and testament , or herein is contained my wil : and this is sufficient . -Swinburn , 23 . Swinburn , speaking afterwards of testa- ments made by flatterie.
... the same to the witnesses , he may say unto them : This is my last will and testament , or herein is contained my wil : and this is sufficient . -Swinburn , 23 . Swinburn , speaking afterwards of testa- ments made by flatterie.
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... speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow , But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral ... speaking afterwards of testa- ...
... speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow , But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral ... speaking afterwards of testa- ...
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AIGBURTH APPENDIX bequest of soul Berlin Society Campbell's cautele under heaven chattels child civill lawe cleave commit common law Cowell custom death differeth disposing divers doth executor Faerie Queene former furor or insanitie generall hath heir heir-looms Henrie Swinburn Henry Herne the hunter honour Illustrated by Old insanitie of minde inventoried Julius Cæsar label Laertes lands Launce legacie legatarie Lex Scripta London Lord Campbell Macbeth Madfolkes maie ment Merchant of Venice Old Authors passage personal property praise province of Yorke real property Richard II Romeo and Juliet sense Shakespeare a Lawyer Shakespeare Illustrated Shakespeare's Legal Maxims SHAKESPEARE'S TESTAMENTARY LANGUAGE sick in body signification single bond souldier speak Sprachen Swin Swinburn tenements Testament and Last testator dooth testator having bequeathed testator saie thee thing thou tuition tutor Twelfth Night unthrifte unto whereof wife WILLIAM LOWES RUSHTON word bequeath word devise
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Page 26 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 32 - Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 10 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 43 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...
Page 3 - Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men ; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad : 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O, what would come of it ! 4 Cit.
Page 3 - Have patience, gentle friends; I must not read it : It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men, And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O ! what would come of it ? 4 Cit.