The dramatic works Volume 10

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...But as for Caesar, Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder. Agr. Both he loves. Eno. Theyarehisshards3,andhetheirbeetle. So,--Trumpets. This is to horse.--Adieu, noble Agrippa. Agr. Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell. 1 i. e. The phoenix. So again in Cymbeline:--"She is alone the Arabian bird, and I Have lost my wager." a A similar arrangement of words was much affected in the age of Shakespeare, even by the first writers. Thus in Daniel's 11th Sonnet:--"Yet will I weep, vow, pray to cruel shee; Flint, frost, disdaine, weares, melts, and yields we see." And Sir Philip Sidney's Excellent Sonnet of a Nimph, printed in England's Helicon, is a tissue of this kind. 3 t. c " They are the wings that raise this heavy lumpish insect from the ground." So in Macbeth," The shard-borne beetle." See vol. ix. p. 60, note 7. Enter Cesar, Antony, Lep1dus, and Octav1a. Ant. No further, sir. Cces. You take from me a great part of myself; Use me well in't. Sister, prove such a wife As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band4 Shall pass on thy approof.--Most noble Antony, Let not the piece of virtue, which is set Betwixt us, as the cement of our love, To keep it builded5, be the ram, to batter The fortress of it: for better might we Have loved without this mean, if on both parts This be not cherish'd. Ant. Make me not offended In your distrust. Cces. I have said. Ant. You shall not find, Though you be therein curious6, the least cause For what you seem to fear: So, the gods keep you, And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends! We will here part. Cces. Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well; The elements7 be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well. Octet. My noble brother!--Ant. The April's in he...