Shakespeare's Testamentary LanguageLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 56 pages |
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... ment , nor dispose anie thing by will , no not ad pias causas : The reason is most forcible , because they knowe not what they do ; for in making of testaments the in- tegrity or perfitnes of minde and not health of the body is ...
... ment , nor dispose anie thing by will , no not ad pias causas : The reason is most forcible , because they knowe not what they do ; for in making of testaments the in- tegrity or perfitnes of minde and not health of the body is ...
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... ment , nor dispose anie thing by will , no not ad pias causas : The reason is most forcible , because they knowe not what they do ; for in making of testaments the in- tegrity or perfitnes of minde and not health of the body is ...
... ment , nor dispose anie thing by will , no not ad pias causas : The reason is most forcible , because they knowe not what they do ; for in making of testaments the in- tegrity or perfitnes of minde and not health of the body is ...
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... ment of sickness , and he makes a sort of parody on the bequest of soul and body ; in other words , instead of bequeathing his soul he bequeathes a happy peace and his un- spotted fire of love , and instead of bequeath- ing his body he ...
... ment of sickness , and he makes a sort of parody on the bequest of soul and body ; in other words , instead of bequeathing his soul he bequeathes a happy peace and his un- spotted fire of love , and instead of bequeath- ing his body he ...
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... ment properly understoode , is one kinde of last will , even that wherein Executor is named . For by the naming of an Executor it differeth from the rest . - Swinburn , 3 . All . The will ! the testament ! Sec . Cit . They were villains ...
... ment properly understoode , is one kinde of last will , even that wherein Executor is named . For by the naming of an Executor it differeth from the rest . - Swinburn , 3 . All . The will ! the testament ! Sec . Cit . They were villains ...
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... ment . But the corne growing upon the glebe , and cer- taine other goods , may be bequeathed . Those thinges which after the death of the testator , descende to the heire of the deceased , and not to his executor , can not bee devised ...
... ment . But the corne growing upon the glebe , and cer- taine other goods , may be bequeathed . Those thinges which after the death of the testator , descende to the heire of the deceased , and not to his executor , can not bee devised ...
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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 Lowes Rushton Macbeth Madfolkes maie ment Merchant of Venice Old Authors Longmans 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 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.