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William Lowes Rushton. WILL OR TESTAMENT . Ant . You will compel me , then ... bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our ... testator listeth , or.
William Lowes Rushton. WILL OR TESTAMENT . Ant . You will compel me , then ... bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our ... testator listeth , or.
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William Lowes Rushton. given by testament to whom the testator listeth , or ... has been suggested that Shakespeare may have drawn his own Will , and that ... bequeath to personal property ,. * Shakespeare a Lawyer . ( See Appendix ...
William Lowes Rushton. given by testament to whom the testator listeth , or ... has been suggested that Shakespeare may have drawn his own Will , and that ... bequeath to personal property ,. * Shakespeare a Lawyer . ( See Appendix ...
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... Will , together with the word bequeath , which is not now applied to real estate ; moreover , the word devise , in connection with the word bequeath ... testator dooth bequeath such landes to such person to have and to holde to him and to his ...
... Will , together with the word bequeath , which is not now applied to real estate ; moreover , the word devise , in connection with the word bequeath ... testator dooth bequeath such landes to such person to have and to holde to him and to his ...
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... had made expresse mention of his heires . - Swin- burn , 191 . The goodes of the church can not be ... bequeathed . Those thinges which after the death of the testator , descende to the heire of the deceased , and not to his executor ...
... had made expresse mention of his heires . - Swin- burn , 191 . The goodes of the church can not be ... bequeathed . Those thinges which after the death of the testator , descende to the heire of the deceased , and not to his executor ...
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... had it . Much ... testator maie dispose or devise by his testa- ment . Concerning the former of these , it shall not be a misse to speake first of the bequeathing or devising of landes , tenements or hereditaments . Secondlie , of bequeath ...
... had it . Much ... testator maie dispose or devise by his testa- ment . Concerning the former of these , it shall not be a misse to speake first of the bequeathing or devising of landes , tenements or hereditaments . Secondlie , of bequeath ...
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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.