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. 1841 Excerpt: ...Make way there!--Csesar! Enter Cesar, Gallus, Paocctlkius, Mecjenas, Seleucus, and Attendants. Cat, Which is the queen Of Egypt? Dot. Tis the emperor, madam. (cleopatra kneel. Cos. Arise, You shall not kneel: --I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt. 1 Shakspeare uses O for an orb or circle. Thus in King Henry V.: -------can we ...
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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. 1841 Excerpt: ...Make way there!--Csesar! Enter Cesar, Gallus, Paocctlkius, Mecjenas, Seleucus, and Attendants. Cat, Which is the queen Of Egypt? Dot. Tis the emperor, madam. (cleopatra kneel. Cos. Arise, You shall not kneel: --I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt. 1 Shakspeare uses O for an orb or circle. Thus in King Henry V.: -------can we cram Within this wooden O the very casques.' a So in Julius Ctenar: --Why, man, he doth bestride the world Like a Colossus.' 3 Dr. Percy thinks that ' this is an allusion to some of the old crests in heraldry, where a raided arm on a wreath was mounted on the helmet.' To crest is to surmount. 4 Plates means silver money: --'What's the price of this slave, 300 crowns.' Belike he has some new trick for a purse, And if he has, he's worth 800 plates.' In heraldry, the roundUts in an escutcheon, if or, or yellow, are called besants; (ar%ent, or whit?, platrs, which are round flat pieces of silver money, perhaps without any stamp or impress. It is remarkable after all that the commentators have said against Ben Jonson, Cleo, Sin, the gods Will have it thus; my master and my lord I must obey. Cos. Take to you no hard thoughts: The record of what injuries you did us, Though written in our flesh, we shall As things but done by chance. Cleo. 'Sole sir o' the I cannot project8 mine own cause so well To make it clear: but do confess, I have Been laden with like frailties, which before Have often sham'd our sex. Com. Cleopatra, know, We will extenuate rather than enforce: If vou apply yourself to our intents, (Which towards you are most gentle, ) you shall find A benefit m this change: but if you seek To lay on me a cruelty, by taking Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself Of my good purposes, and put your children To that destruction which Til guard th
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